Recent work is a re-structuring of memories of personal experiences and places discovered, with an aim to encounter more intangible images through paint. Elemental forces and natural phenomena mutate to uncover underlying layers of experience which relate to the psychic as much as the physical world. Energy contained within landscape and how we relate to landscape is translated into sensory and seductive qualities of colour, light and texture. Balancing ideas of the impossible existence of wild nature with the human need to control it, each painting is an outcome of a dramatic interplay of investigative marks and processes that explore the ever-changing relationship we have with the world around us.
CV
Background and Education:
Born 1973 Cheshire, UK.
1992-1993 Art Foundation Certificate, West Cheshire College, Chester.
1993-1996 BA Hons Fine Art (2:1), The Nottingham Trent University.
Lived and worked in Liverpool since 1997, based in Arena Studios in the City
Centre since 2001.
1998 Part time Multimedia Technology Course, Connect Centre Liverpool
2001- 2002 7307 Adult Teaching Certificate.
2004 ECDL cert. Dreamweaver MX,
Various training sessions ie Equal opps & Diversity.
2006 Fresco Painting.
Fleur Kelly, Somerset
Group Exhibitions
1998 Rented Rooms. Large Site specific group show.
Pompa. Nottingham.
1999 Group Exhibition, CADT Building, Tracey, Liverpool Biennial
2001 Trafford Centre, Manchester, exhibition with 'Artzu',
2001 Dynamics in Colour Joint exhibition, Hanover Gallery, Liverpool
2001, 2002 The Sefton Open, Atkinson Gallery, Southport.
2002/3.North West Artists, North West House, Brussels, Belgium
2002 'Dreaming of Wildflowers' The Free Market, Independent, Liverpool Biennial,
2003 Artzu Gallery, Manchester, ongoing
2004 (Apr)Crash II. 8 Days A Week exhibition of 6 Liverpool painters, Cologne,
Germany
2004 8 Days a week, Biennial Independent district. Liverpool
2004 Ten, Ten abstract painters, Loop Gallery, Princes Dock. Liverpool Biennial
2006 (Feb-May)The Albany Apartments, Liverpool
2006 River Frescos: St Nicholas Church Artist's residency exhibition , Dying
Frog, Liverpool Biennial,
2006 Cohesion: Arena Members.Biennial Independents, Arena Gallery, Duke St
2007 LOOP overview, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool, Feb-Mar 07
2007 (May-June)You Are Here. Exhibition and Artists Talk. Kitchen Gallery,
Cheshire
Solo Exhibitions
1998 Unfamiliar Territory. Three Month Gallery, Liverpool.
1999 Recent Paintings, Solo exhibition, Beluga Bar, Liverpool.
2004 Paintings,
Drawings & Prints. Solo Exhibiton, Unity Theatre galleries. Liverpool
2007Transition, solo show of recent paintings, Kirkby Gallery, Newtown Gardens,
Kirkby, Knowsley, Merseyside.
Commissions:
1998 Commssion for large scale work in The Quay Bar, Manchester, Stephenson/Bell
Architects.
2001 Drawing commission representing historic Liverpool architecture. Private
collection. 2001.
2001 3 Paintings commissioned by Stephenson/Bell Architects, and Amatica
2001. Drawing commission representing historic Liverpool architecture, private
collection.
2002, Two Commissions for The Paint Stop, Altrincham, Cheshire.
2004 Work purchased for permanent display in Wetherspoon's Liscard, LBF Architects
2005 Several commissions for private collections
Experience
Aug 07 Led children's Art workshops for Sefton Council
Aug 07 Co-ordinator and Administrator for Arena artists group show
Aug-Nov 2006 Residency at St Nicholas Parish Church, Water Street, Liverpool
2006 Delivered a Fresco workshop for Women's Aid St Nicholas Parish Church
Dec 2005 Led a series of painting workshops at Liverpool Women's Aid
Oct 2001-June 2004. Part Time Lecturer in Art and Design at The Arts Centre,
Liverpool Community College. Taught on Art Foundation in Fine Art, Graphic
Arts, life drawing, printmaking, AS, A2, GNVQ
April - Oct 2002. Planned and delivered series of Art Workshops, The National Wildflower Centre, Knowsley.
Oct 1998- Dec 2000. Worked full time as a Web/Multimedia designer, Action
Multimedia (Amatica), Wirral.
Awards
Research & Development grant from Arts Councils Grants for the Arts.
June 2006
Research funds from The Liverpool Design Initiative to visit Cologne
and Berlin in October 2003
Princes Trust funding for production of new work
and exhibition in Hanover Gallery, October 2001.
work can also be viewed at...www.artzu .co.uk and www.designinit.org.uk