(b 1989United Kingdom. Lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne)
“Painting has always been my predominant output, alongside developments in recent years in sculpture and set design. Recurrent, but not exclusive themes in my work to date are ideas around symbols, visual and architectural language, as well as continued hands-on methods of engineering and resolving composition.
When putting a painting together, I tend to refer to architectural and landscape elements, machine parts, temples and gateways. I take inspiration from the sculpture of the 1960s New Generation, Postmodern Design (especially the Memphis group) and lately extended periods of walking in a rural setting.
Sometimes I think of my paintings as living somewhere between abstracted machines and impossible places. Initial surface patterns manifest themselves more as ‘working parts’ as the work develops. Developments of form and an approach of generative composition have started to form what I see as machines, depending upon one another in a cycle of energy”.
