Biography
2001-2005 Fellow, The Royal Academy Schools, London
1999 MA, Fine Art Printmaking, Camberwell College of Art, London
19996 BA(Hons), First, Loughborough College of Art & Design
Lecturer in Fine Art at University of Northampton. Vsiting Lecturer at Cambridge School of Art, University of Brighton and Winchester School of Art.
My practice, at its heart, questions the relationship between two visual languages; the calligraphic and the photographic. My recent Fellowship at The Royal Academy of Arts facilitated an exploration between traditional and new technologies within the field of contemporary printmaking. I began to focus on the combination between these two languages and their modes of representation, the one resonant with contemporary culture of the fine art digital print; the other the expressive, responsive, 'traditional' drawn line.
In my most current work graphite drawings sit directly on top of digital prints, each layer seeming to have, its own individual sense of space and time, the top layer asserting the real, physical mark, and the lower layer a digitally reproduced illusionistic space. However the graphite drawn on the digital surface adds another element of time and space which is determined by light falling onto the surface. Depending on the direction and source of light, the image shifts and changes; the graphite catches the light, recreating a lens-flare effect, pushing the digital background further away and emphasizing the drawing on the surface. As the light changes the drawing dulls down and the open illustionistic space of the photograph asserts itself.
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