I'm a visual artist with more than twenty-five years experience working with curators, galleries, museums and collectors to deliver exhibitions and commissions in both the public and private realm that address some of the key issues of our times
Born in Bristol, UK in 1973, I studied sculpture at The Nottingham Trent University, UK and Escuela de Belles Arte, Barcelona, Spain from 1993-96. An extended period of travel followed, as I trained in sustainable farming and building practices in Europe and North Africa, culminating in a solo journey overland to India where I spent time living in the Himalayas. I currently live and work between rural Devon in the UK and Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada
My work explores some of the relationships between human and more-than-human consciousness, ecology and evolutionary processes by bringing traditional handmade approaches to making into counterpoint with cutting-edge technologies. I often collaborate with researchers in the fields of science, academia and culture, brought together by a shared desire to make the connections between the unseen seen
I place emphasis on the act of making not as a means to make things, but driven by a commitment to the role of the hand as a tool for thinking and learning. Each work exists as way-marker within an ongoing intuitive process of enquiry that is intentionally allowed to reveal itself. Inverting the prevailing materialist hierarchy that casts consciousness as a miraculous emergent property of physics, chemistry and biology, I'm working to see how I can explore the nature of consciousness from the perspective that it is the primary condition of reality
The sculpture, drawing, film and performance that result are a personal and intuitive reflection on the entanglement of our own nature with wider life ecologies - bridges between the worlds of science and spirituality, rooted in the understanding that reality extends beyond the measurable