As a visual artist and curator I work across the mediums of text, performance and dialogue. Since graduating in Fine Art in 2007 my practice has moved towards facilitation and research of contemporary art. I'm currently working on an ongoing curatorial project; Reading for Reading's Sake with artist Maurice Carlin. I've programmed and exhibited work at Spike Island, Bristol, Stanley Picker Gallery, London and the A Foundation, Liverpool.
Last year I undertook a curatorial residency at Islington Mill Studios in Manchester. This included working with a free art school based in the studios; Islington Mill Art Academy, and setting up a round table discussion concerning the place of young artists within the art market. My curatorial agenda is to work locally with artists artists at all stages of their career, however I have a particular concern with the place of young artists within the market and the increasingly bureaucratic nature of contemporary art practice.
For about the last six years my art work has made use of the found object. I direct a series of actions using object as props, often breaking apart and reconstructing fragments. These processes play upon curatorial strategies such as the re-organization of objects and knowledge dissemination.
The image above is a detail of Sleeve, 2008. Each sentence in a piece of found text has been rearranged in alphabetal order.