BORN: - - BRITAIN, 1973 - - - - - LIVES/WORKS: - - LONDON BRITAIN - - - - - EDUCATION: - - 2008-10 MFA in Fine Art Practice Goldsmiths University of London 1993-97 BA Honours Degree in North American Studies Manchester University - - - SOLO EXHIBITIONS: - - 2008 ‘Clown Crash’ Apartment gallery, Manchester 2007 ‘Raw State’ Vox Pop gallery, Manchester 2007 ‘Dirty, Shiny’ Manchester Design Centre - - - SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2009 Police and Violence Sassoon Gallery, London 2009 Kiss of a lifetime Vain Gallery Newcastle 2009 The Future Can Wait Gallery Shuster, Berlin 2009 Pause & Eject Rag Factory London 2009 Section 6 Cotal Street Gallery London 2008 The Future Can Wait Truman Brewery, London 2008 ‘The Past is History part 2’ Changing Role Gallery, Naples 2008 ‘The Past is History part 1’ Changing Role Gallery, Rome 2007 ‘The Future Can Wait’ Ellis Rumley Projects, Atlantis Gallery, London 2007 ‘Manky Bastards’ The Fridge Gallery, Glasgow - - - AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: - 2009 Best of Manchester, Urbis 2005-8 Manchester Design Centre Residency - - - BIBLIOGRAPHY: - 2009 Strange Trees 2008, May Viatico 2007, October The Art Newspaper 2007, October ‘Aesthetica’ - - - COLLECTIONS: - - Malcolm McLaren, London Helmut Schuster, Frankfurt, Berlin Private Collections in Italy, United Kingdom & United States - - ARTIST STATEMENT: - My intentions here are to investigate discourses in sexuality, the self, insanity, the grotesque and death. My work is a reflection of the broken self, the re-invention of self, and the expression of repressed anger. My experience within the Graffiti art movement was one of ritualized anarchy and rebellion, which provided an outlet for powerful, destructive emotions. Clowns have traditionally had a license to push boundaries and express human paradox in a social arena, which is why I have chosen to explore the clown alter-ego in performance.