Information/Biography
Artist Statement
His work is interdisciplinary, using a diverse range of media, skills and techniques. Much of his work is concerned with creating a dialogue with our surroundings and each other. Using familiar objects and themes he depicts the world around us, altering the original context of subjects so they appear simultaneously both familiar and unfamiliar, encouraging or stimulating a sense of questioning from the viewer. He is also a curator and has been instrumental in the developement of the HIVE contemporary art gallery in his home town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. His curatorial practice is concerned with the ways that artists connect with and influence society using a diverse range of media, skills and techniques.
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Projects
Developed and curated HIVE Gallery, Barnsley. 2008
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Public Realm
Volume, Various locations. 2008
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Home, Various locations. 2008
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Commissions
Twickenham Stadium, London, 2009
Barclays Capital Bank, Canary Wharf, London, 2008
Digital Media Centre, Barnsley. 2008
Collections
Twickenham Stadium, London
Barclays Capital Bank, Canary Wharf, London
Digital Media Centre, Barnsley
AFO, London
Private Collections, UK
Solo Exhibitions
The Civic, Panorama, Barnsley, 2009
The Space Between, Clock Tower Gallery, Sheffield. 2007
New Work, Friar Lane Gallery, Nottingham. 2007
Portfolio Gallery. Barnsley. 2006
Tampopo, Leeds. 2003
Cooper Gallery, Barnsley. 2001
Group Exhibitions
Town & Country, Artist Film Screening, Leeds Project Space, 2009
Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow. 2009
Buy Art, Urbis, Manchester. 2008
BCAF, Battersea, London. 2008
Comme Ca Group Exhibition, Lowry Hotel Gallery, Manchester. 2007 Prelude, Spitalfields, London. 2007
Group Show, Friar Lane Gallery, Nottingham. 2006
Off the Shelf. Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn by the Sea. 2006
Objects in Waiting. End Gallery, Sheffield. 2006
Host:06. North Light Gallery, Huddersfield. 2006
Yorkshire Open Art Exibitions 1994 – 2000
Representation
Comme Ca Art, Manchester. View Website
Alicia David Contemporary Art, London. View Website
Inter Art Contemporary Art Gallery, London. View Website
Awards
Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2007
Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2001
Curated Projects
Process, Jane Mellor, Kate Whatley, Nathen Wills
26 April - 08 June 2008. HIVE. View Link
Some Little Artists, Little Artists
14 June - 27 July 2008. HIVE. View Link
Jet Set Trash, Vincent James
2 August - 7 September 2008. HIVE. View Link
Hypotrochoids, Lesley Halliwell
13 September - 19 October 2008. View Link
Alphabet, Sir Peter Blake
25 October - 23 November 2008. HIVE. View Link
Make mine a Molotov, Richard Bartle
10 January - 15 February 2009. HIVE. View Link
Cloud of Hammers, Greg Cox
21 February - 29 March. HIVE. View Link
Revolutions from gatefold to download, Various
6 March - 01 May 2009. The Gallery@ The Civic.
Thresholds, Ruth Solomans
18 April - 31 May 2009. HIVE. View Link
Art in Motion, Len Lye, Universal Everything, Airside, Takcom
6 June - 19 July 2009. HIVE. View Link
Unstrung Theory, Adrian Pritchard
25 July - 6 September 2009. HIVE. View Link
Small World International Short Animation Festival Unstrung, Various
22 July - 1 September 2009. The Gallery@ The Civic.
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