| BORN: | - | - |
| UK 1964 | - | - |
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| LIVES/WORKS: | - | - |
| London UK | - | - |
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| EDUCATION: | - | - |
| 2002-2004 | MA Sculpture | Royal College of Art |
| 1996-2001 | BA Fine Art (1st) | University College for the Creative Arts |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS: | - | - |
| 2007 | All at Sea | Platts Eyot, London |
| 2005 | Parterre | Atrium Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Issue | M2 Gallery, London |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: | ||
| 2008 | TBC | Art Omi, New York |
| 2008 | The Animal Gaze (curated by Rosemarie McGoldrick) | London Metropolitan University, London |
| 2008 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy, London |
| 2008 | Gothic (curated by Richard Ducker) | Fieldgate Gallery, London |
| 2007 | Dunkelheit (curated by Annabelle Moreau) | Flora Fairbairn Projects, St Pancras Crypt, London |
| 2007 | Flora Fairbairn Projects, St Pancras Crypt, LondonThrough the Looking Glass (curated by ARTed) | Building 1000, Royal Albert Docks, London |
| 2006 | This & That (two-person show with Susan Stockwell) | Shenghua Art Centre, Nanjing, China |
| 2005 | Peculiar Encounters (curated by Sarah Dwyer and Laura Green) | ecArtspace, London |
| 2005 | Siege (curated by Angela Huntbach) | Sidney Street, London |
| 2005 | MA & Postgraduate | Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset |
| 2004 | Galleon and Other Stories | Saatchi Gallery, London |
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| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: | - | |
| 2008 | Art Omi International Artists Residency, New York, USA | |
| 2006 | Shenghua International Artists Residency, Nanjing, China | |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY: | - | |
| 2007 (Jun) | Emma Lilley Times Newspaper, London Special Features | |
| 2006 (Jan) | Michael Piggott Map Magazine, Nanjing, China Foreign news editor | |
| 2005 (Nov) | Alice O’Keefe The Observer Newspaper, London Arts and Media Correspondent | |
| 2004 (Jul) | Front Row BBC Radio 4 Discussion/review Janet Street Porter and Mark Lawson | |
| 2004 (Jul) | London News BBC 1 Television Interview | |
| 2004 (Jul) | Richard Dorment The Daily Telegraph, London Art Critic | |
| 2004 (Jul) | Jonathan Jones The Guardian Newspaper, London Art Critic | |
| 2004 (Jul) | Dalliah Alberg Times Newspaper, London Art Critic | |
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| COLLECTIONS: | - | - |
| Saatchi Collection, UK | ||
| Shenghua Art Centre, Nanjing, China | ||
| Art Omi Collection, New York, USA | ||
| University College for the Creative Arts, UK | ||
| Various private collections in UK, Middle East and USA | ||
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| ARTIST STATEMENT: | - | |
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My work questions the very nature of beauty:
beauty can be about a problem; it can be something that repels
you, such as pigeon feathers, or makes you question the status
quo. Central to my method is collaboration: using a material en
masse that cannot be bought involves galvanising hundreds of
pigeon fanciers into sending me the thousands of feathers each
work demands. They need to care enough about my project to
collect up their birds’ moultings – merely a waste product to
them – and commit them to the post, to an artist they’ve never
heard of, to make a work they may never see. But as I shape the
thousands of feathers back into a single form, the effort
dissolves – it’s as if the birds have finally ‘come home’. |
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