Mr Universe 1948 - Grey Print

I am an artist, print maker and sculpture born in 1964, London. Completing a BA in Fine Art at Newcastle Polytechnic in the mid 1980’s, focusing on sculpture. Following a successful career as a commercial art director I returned to art education in 2019 completing a Masters Degree in Fine Art with distinction at Winchester School of Art under the stewardship of Programme Leader and artist Nick Steward. Influenced by Doris Salcedo, Jannis Kounellis, Mark Dion, Andy Warhol and the artworks of Robert Rauchenburg with his notion of the ready made or “Gifts from the Streets”, as Rauchenburg called it, in making art. Old newspaper articles, abandoned mattresses and domestic relics become charged with significance and saturated with meaning. The unwanted, redundant and obsolete have become my obsessions, like fragments of time, measured, catalogued and immortalised. My photographs, collages, prints and schematic assemblages transform these obsolescent items into poignant and commanding testimonies of loss and remembrance. I hope by cataloguing the things we throw away, to draw attention to the environment we live in, while asking the viewer to reconstruct stories, sparking memories that question the fragility of their own life.