BORN: - -
LIVERPOOL, UK, 1979 - -
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LIVES/WORKS: - -
LONDON, UK - -
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EDUCATION: - -
2004/06 MA Printmaking Royal College of Art
2000/03 BA Fine Art Printmaking Winchester School of Art
1998/00 Foundation in Art and Design Liverpool Community College
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS: - -
2007 The Monster From Hell Crimes Town Gallery, London
2007 Shithead Kitten Rescue Wahine Store, Los Angeles, USA
2007 Nightmares and Illuminations Raw Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2007 James Unsworth Vegas Gallery, London
2005 Bosch Cite International des Artes, Paris
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Walpurgisnacht Crimes Town Gallery, London
2008 Supergraphic Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
2007 Daniel Johnston Vegas Gallery, London
2007 The Future Can Wait, Ellis Rumley Projects Atlantis Gallery, London
2007 Ritual Abuse The Old Boys Hall, London
2007 When We Pretend Were Dead Nog Gallery, London
2007 Group Show Hua Li Ge Gallery, Beijing
2007 Planet Le Gun Permanent Gallery, Brighton
2006 Obsession Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
2006 Generation Royal College of Art, London
2006 Platform For Art Charing Cross, Earls Court and South Kensington Tube Stations, London
2006 MAN Group Drawing Exhibition Royal College of Art, London
2006 Lets Riot Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London
2006 British International Miniature Print Exhibition Touring
2005 Life Is A Cabaret Phoenix 369 Gallery, Edinburgh
2005 Redundancy Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
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AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: -
2006 Tim Mara Award, Generation, Royal College of Art
2006 Arches John Purcell Paper Award at the RE Student Elections
2006 Awarded membership to The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers
2006 Joseph Webb A.R.E Commemorative Fund Award Presented by The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, Awarded to an Outstanding Etcher Under the Age of 35
2006/07 October-March: Artist in Residence, Croydon College
2005 April-July: Cite International des Artes, Paris
2003 February-May: Brno Technological University, Czech Republic
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: -
The Independent
The Times Educational Supplement
Time Out, London
Dazed and Confused
Amelia’s Magazine
Disorder Magazine
Le Gun
The Rebel Magazine
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COLLECTIONS: - -
Walker Art Gallery (National Museums Liverpool), Liverpool
The UBS Art Collection, London
The Royal College of Art, Print Archive
The Sarfaty Merchant Collection
Private collections internationally
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ARTIST STATEMENT: -
I want to communicate grotesque humour and an instant appreciation of weather you like what you see or not, I don’t want to mystify.
I produce prints on materials that have allusions to historic craft techniques or an inherent sense of faded glamour.
I reference historic popular print, folk culture and comic books that are a continuation of this.
Contemporary references include the tabloid press and my own documentation of transgressive behavior.
I am currently transcribing Hogarth paintings updating Hogarth’s social commentary to address current concerns.
Within these images I question current ideas of taste, beauty, attraction, highness and lowness.