Paper Works, RWA Biennial 2025
Paper Works at the Royal West of England Academy is a survey exhibition featuring some of the finest contemporary art created on and with paper in recent years.
With 170 artists showcased, the exhibition offers a vibrant overview of contemporary practice. Whilst the majority of the works are by South West based artists, the selection is diverse, presenting pieces from a broad spectrum of makers
I’m thrilled to have been included. My Sennen / EPC / chine collé photopolymer etching, originally created for my Experimental Print Club, was displayed in a fantastic spot in the main gallery.
Clifton Contemporary Winter Show
Great to be starting off 2025 with a really special group show at Clifton Contemporary right here in Bristol.
Beautifully curated by gallery director Sarah Brown, the show presents some of the best artists working in the region today.
Varnishing day, RWA Candidates Exhibition 2024
It was an honour to be selected as a candidate to become an academician in 2024. The successful candidates go on to become academicians for life and gain the right to exhibit work at the annual open as well as join a thriving group of career artists, mostly based in Bristol and the South West.
The candidate’s exhibition is a significant part of the selection process; each artist is invited to hang three works in the Kenny Gallery, and on the varnishing day the candidates gather in the gallery to field questions from academicians, whilst standing in close proximity to their work.
I have to say I really enjoyed the day, and the exhibition too. Having done quite a lot of ‘front of house work’ at shows and fairs over the past two decades I’ve become entirely used to talking about the work and what it means to me, as well as sharing ideas and thoughts around production and framing as well of course.
Spinnaker / cerulean aegis, recently installed in a stylish Victorian home here in Bristol
It was a real pleasure to be asked to make a new Spinnaker piece by a collector here in Bristol. They wanted to place the work above a wood burning stove, so after much consideration and consultation, I commissioned the piece from Genesis Imaging who produced the drawing as a CNC milled Chromaluxe edition.
Clifton Contemporary / December 2021
Clifton Contemporary is curated by Sarah Brown who has been promoting and supporting my work for several years now. For this latest group exhibition, she’s hung eight of my pieces throughout both of the gallery's main spaces, alongside some great works by Sir Terry Frost, RA and Albert Irvin OBE RA, to name just two. There are some beautiful smaller paintings by Ellie Preston and some sublime bronzes by Julian Cox to enjoy too.
Lino / venetian, commission for a house in Bristol
I wanted to post a few images of my Lino studies, as I’ve recently delivered a 100cm diameter ‘venetian’ edition to a collector here in Bristol, and was really pleased to receive some images of the newly installed work, a week or two back.
I drew the study after an inspirational trip to Venice, and Murano, to see some of the amazing glassworks that the Veneto is so famous for and perhaps, in particular, the work of Lino Tagliapietra, to my mind one of the most inspirational makers of the C20th.
Commission for a house in Bristol
There's often a serendipitous aspect to the work I make, that can manifest in really unexpected ways. So it was with this lovely opportunity to produce three bespoke works for a spectacular home here in Bristol.
I was invited round to view the project, maybe halfway into what was clearly a major refurbishment, involving a significant new build extension that was being grafted onto the body of a substantial Edwardian home.
The client wanted to discuss ideas for three new artworks that would be specifically tailored to fit particular rooms really well.
The minute I walked into the double height atrium at the front of the house, I knew that there would be a fabulous opportunity to create an ultra tall piece that would span both levels, creating views from both the glazed upper walkway, and the entrance hall on the ground floor.
Psyche D / EvH, commission for a house in Bristol
I drew Psyche D / EvH (event horizon) in 2017, as part of my Current at Catto show. It’s a wildly complex drawing, that freewheeled out of control as it went on.
In its initial incarnation, it was conceived as a kind of giant psychedelic Krispy Kreme doughnut, with a petal like structure containing a wholly fluid series of line drawings, that bubble and move like a 60’s oil light show, in a kind of camomile pink colour.
Looking back from this distance it was either insane or brilliantly exuberant. I’m not sure which.
The Other Art Fair, June 2015
Fabulous to be included in the line up for The Other Art Fair’s inaugural event outside London, at the Arnolfini, here in Bristol.
With curation and selection by Paul Hobson / director of Modern Art Oxford, Cherie Federico / Aesthetica Magazine, Helen Legg / director of Spike Island and Bristol’s own Sickboy, the fair looks set to be full of local talent…
Kinetic, Bristol Gallery
In 2011 The Bristol Gallery invited me to put on a substantial solo show in their space on Bristol’s historic harbourside. A great opportunity to hang a large exhibition in my home town.
Revelation at Paintworks
Curated by Deborah Harrison, Revelation was the first large group show I was involved with at Paintworks, a fabulous ex industrial space, here in Bristol.