Artist statement

I am fascinated by the potential of painting to combine different levels of information.

I make paintings of small-scale paper models built in my studio. This allows me to create specific subject matter in terms of shape, colour, texture and lighting. At the same time, it provides only limited information on the scale, context and possible usage of the objects. The models themselves function purely as source material.

Currently, I take elements from maps or diagrams as my starting point. I enjoy the way their visual language can oscillate between abstract symbol and realistic depiction. This involves a back and forth between the two and three dimensional, detaching the imagery from the countable, the measurable and the functional.

My practice hints at the relationship between the speed of painting and the speed of looking. Each painting includes brushstrokes of different scales and varying intensities of detail, drawing the viewer’s attention towards the process of making the work.

Education

Royal College of Art, MA Painting, 2002 – 2004
Winchester School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, 1995 – 1998

Selected exhibitions

yardt SALE vol. 1, SAP Space, Berlin, 2024
X, ZF Projektraum, Berlin, 2023
Freiwillige vor!, nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, 2023
The Method of the Moment, Small Talks Art Space Lab, Berlin, 2022
Emotions & Relations, ZF Projektraum, Berlin, 2022
II III X #3, nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, 2018
Silent Auction, The Drawing Hub, 2017
fragment, Werkstadt, Berlin, 2016
Ausdauer, nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, 2015
Underlying Structure, Kunstraum E, Leipzig, 2015
The Producers Art Fair, Hamburg/Harburg, 2014
Likeness, Galerie in Stadtzentrum, Schenefeld, 2013
Ridley Road Open Studios, London, 2011 and 2010
National Art Open, The Minerva, Chichester, 2009
Barbican Arts Group Open, 2009
Zoo Art Fair, One in the Other, London, 2007
Incorporate, Arts and Business, London, 2007
Pulse Art Fair, One in the Other, New York, 2007
Toronto Art Fair, Frost and Reed, Toronto, 2006
The Miniature Worlds Show, Jerwood Space, London, 2006
Merry Echo Cooling Spot, One in the Other Gallery, London, 2006
Peculiar Encounters, ECArtspace, London, 2005
Second Nature, Blyth Gallery, London, 2005
New Romantic, The Hospital, London, 2005
Platform 100, ING Bank, London, 2004
Common Ground, Chambers Gallery, London, 2004
Apthorp 2001, touring exhibition, London, 2001
Trust Us, The Florence Trust, London, 2000
Rentrée, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, 1999