Born in Reading in 1978, I completed my foundation at Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design in London between 1997 and 1998. I continued on to complete my BA (Hons) at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2001.
My work is heavily influenced by the fact that I am one of a conjoined set of identical twins. My twinning creates resonant psychological dimensions that are reflected in my compositions, for instance paired or mirrored motifs recur throughout my work, often creating surrogate double portraits. My magnetic attraction to doubled imagery emerges in my manipulation of shadows and mirrors in my latest body of work. I employ found objects in conjunction with paint to express my ideas. A very poignant influence in this body of work, was a photograph I came across of a door to Marcel Duchamp’s studio at 11 rue Larrey in Paris (1927). The single door serves as two doorways, it’s a double door sharing one hinge. As a result, when it swings on its hinges to close the entrance to one room, it opens another. For me, Duchamp’s studio door symbolizes the double life an identical twin feels they have before him/herself. It represents the point at which you can choose a certain path in life, whether through your own free will, or as a conscious decision to be different from one’s ‘other half’. There is then, this removed state - an opportunity to see the path you could have chosen, whilst at the same time living your own chosen path. This idea is perfectly encapsulated in the symbolism behind this image. 
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Training & Awards * 1998 – 2001 University of Oxford, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
Relevant Experience & Exhibitions Mar 2024 'Threads', Group exhibition, Artists Pool, Eastbourne Sep 2022 'Bottom Drawer', Joint exhibition with Rachel Schwalm at GBS Fine Art, Wells Dec 2021 'Biddenden Maids', Solo exhibition, Ryebank Gallery, Rye Oct 21-22 ‘Turner Contemporary Open’, Turner Contemporary, Margate March 2021 ‘Contemporary Art 2020/21’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London (online) May 2020 ‘The COVID series’, virtual exhibition Nov 2019 ‘The Christmas Exhibition’, Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh May 2019 ‘A Sense of Place’, MHS, Hawkhurst, Kent Jan 2019 'ArtRooms Fair', Procreate Project, London Jun 2018 ‘Friends Art Exhibition’, Horniman Museum, London Mar 2018 'Sheroes', Lon-Art Projects, London Nov 2017 'Left Overs', Procreate Project, London Oct 2017 'Illusions', Menier Gallery, London April 2016 'New Works', Solo exhibition, Waterhouse & Dodd, Albermarle St Jan 2016 'London Art Fair', Islington with Waterhouse & Dodd, Albemarle St Sep 2015 'Reflections' joint Exhibition with David Simon Contemporary, Bath Sep 2015 '20/21 International Fair' with Waterhouse & Dodd, London Sep 2015 'Summer Exhibition' Waterhouse & Dodd, Albermarle St, London Jan 2015 'London Art Fair', Islington with Waterhouse & Dodd, Albemarle St Sep 2014 60th Open Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich, London Aug 2014 'A New Light', David Simon Contemporary, Bartlett Street, Bath Jan 2014 London Art Fair, Islington with Waterhouse & Dodd, Albemarle St Sep 2013 '2Q13', Lloyds Club, London with Marcelle Joseph Projects May 2013 'Still Life', group exhibition at Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork St Jan 2013 London Art Fair, Islington with Waterhouse & Dodd Dec 2012 Scope Miami with Waterhouse & Dodd Nov 2012 Abu Dhabi Art with Waterhouse & Dodd July 2012 Art Southampton, New York, Waterhouse & Dodd June 2012 Scope Basel with Waterhouse & Dodd May 2012 ArtMRKT San Francisco with Boltax Gallery, NY Jan 2012 International Fine Art Fair, West Palm Beach, Florida, Waterhouse & Dodd Dec 2011 Solo exhibition at Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork Street, London Nov 2011 Aqua Art Fair, Miami with Boltax Gallery, USA Nov 2011 Solo exhibition at Abu Dhabi Art, Saadiyat Island, Waterhouse & Dodd Oct 2011 Texas Contemporary Art Fair with Boltax Gallery Sep 2011 'The Word', Sarum College, Salisbury Cathedral Aug 2011 'Two-in', Solo exhibition at Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY USA Apr 2011 Marmite Prize, The Nunnery, London Jan 2011 Art Palm Beach, Florida with Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, USA Jan 2011 MIA Fair, Miami with Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, USA Dec 2010 Shortlisted for the Marmite Prize, touring biennal around the UK at various locations until April 2011 Dec 2010 Art Miami, with Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, USA Nov 2010 Wimbledon Art Studios Open Studios, London Nov 2010 Art Abu Dhabi, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi UAE Oct 2010 Art London, Chelsea, London Sep 2010 9th Annual Small Works Exhibition Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY Aug 2010 Cork Street Open Art Exhibition, The Gallery in Cork St Aug 2010 Summer Exhibition, Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork St, London July 2010 Art Hamptons, USA with Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork St, London May 2010 Wimbledon Art Studios Open Studios, London May 2010 St. Edmund Hall Art Exhibition, Oxford 2010 – Freelance consultant for Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork St, London 2007 – 2010 Co-manager of Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, Cork St, London 2002 – 2005 Gallery Manager Stephen Lacey Gallery, London 2001 – 2007 Assistant curator of Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Surrey 2001 Ruskin Degree Show, Oxford 2000 Constructive Objects Magdalen College, Oxford 2000 Spectrum joint exhibition with Mary Foulkes, Magdalen College, Oxford 1999 Them & Us Herford College, Oxford 1998 Central St. Martins End of Year show London I regularly undertake commissions and am happy to discuss specific ideas. Collections * Her Royal Highness Sheikha Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi UAE * The Dorchester Hotel, London * Numerous private collections in the USA, UK, Australia and UAE |