About

I am currently in the final stages of a BA Hons in Fine Art at Coventry University.

The work I am currently producing amalgamates my interest in the representation of life and death and what it means to exist in this world. My visual vocabulary is gleaned from varied sources ranging from Renaissance woodcuts about the Danse Macabre, to the image bombardment we are subjected to on a daily basis from the media; the beautiful and horrifying amalgamated into a glossy dose of apparent reality ready for our consumption.

The process by which I achieve my surface finishes is relatively organic; my development of mixed media techniques has been furthered by gaining an understanding of the prejudices of ‘high and low’ art. The main materials I employ besides acrylic paint and glass spray paint are collaged elements, glitter and gems which are intended to reference back to more decadent days. The combination of glossy, seductive, and sparkling elements along with the macabre skeletons and germs is intended to produce an image that is simultaneously attractive and repulsing. The appropriation of old woodcuts depicting age old questions about humanity seem ever more potent in the age of the pixel and the act of appropriating them into my work seems like a just reflection of how society consumes the old and regurgitates it with a different agenda.