BORN: - - England, 1977 - - - - - LIVES/WORKS: - - Berlin, Germany - - - - - EDUCATION: - - 1996 – 1999 BA (HON’s) - Fine Art - First Class Loughborough University School of Art & Design 2001 - 2004 MA - Fine Art Royal Academy Schools. London - - - SOLO EXHIBITIONS: - - 2008 Wohnmaschine ---- 2006 ‘The Hobby’ Wohnmaschine - - - SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2009 New London School (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) Galerie Schuster, Berlin, 2009 2008 Prague Triennial National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Prague 2007 The Future Can Wait, Ellis Rumley Projects Atlantis Gallery, London 2007 ‘Malkunst 2’ Contemporary Painting in Berlin Fondazione Mudima, Milano 2007 ‘The Dream Of Putrefaction” The Metropole Galleries, Folkstone 2006 ‘Icons’ Chung King Project, Los Angeles, CA 2005 ‘Introspective Men’ Madder 139,  Barbican, London 2005 Wohnmaschine Tucholskystrasse, Berlin 2005 ‘Faux Realism Part 2’ The Rockwell Gallery, London 2005 Group exhibition, ‘Faux Realism Part 1’ The Royal Academy Hornsey Pumphouse Gallery 2004 ‘The Arrivals’ The Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London - - - AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: - 2004 The ‘Gordon luton Award for Fine Art’ Painter-Stainers - - - BIBLIOGRAPHY: - - - - COLLECTIONS: - - - - ARTIST STATEMENT: - Situated between an embrace of vulgarity in contemporary culture, and a yearning for a lost mode of figuration in painting, my work establishes a place of intersection between the sublime possibilities of painting, and the closed, crude nature of pornography. I choose subjects of such seemingly opposing values so as to create a tension between appearance and sign; to deliberately distort the viewer’s gaze so it translates from subjective to objective and to simultaneously implicate the viewer so that he or she also becomes both object and subject, thereby creating a game of ‘who is watching whom?’.