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Education Bachelor of Fine Arts Oxford University, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oct 2004 – June 07 (Awarded the Stuart Morgan Prize for Art Criticism and Theory) Diploma in Foundation Studies, Middlesex University, 2003 - 4 4 A’s at A Level - English Literature, History of Art, Fine Art, Photography Previous Employment Arts Co, (www.arts-co.com) Project Manager/Artist Liaison, March 2008 - present The Times, Arts Department, Internship, November 2007 Boutique 1 Magazine, (www.boutique1.com) Assistant Editor, Jan 2007 - 08 Frieze Art Fair, Lux Cinema Assistant, Oct 2006 Sotheby’s, Photography Department/Preview Magazine, June - Aug 2006 Revolution Films, Internship, April 2006 Baystream Ltd. Selected for competitive GAP year placement, July 2004 Delaney Lund Knox Warren and Partners Ltd. July 2002 Selected Exhibitions Second Spaces: The Real and the Imagined, solo show at The East Room, Shoreditch, September 2008 - present Title of Space, La Viande Gallery, Hoxton, November 2007 Thirst*, Exhibition of emerging artists, Beldam Gallery, London, September 2007 Action in Air and Landing, The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, 2007 Beat your Feet, Mal Maison Hotel, Oxford, 2007 The Last Two Strides, The Old Bank Hotel, Oxford, 2007 Hose Pipe Dreams, Oxford University Botanic Gardens, 2006 Selected Group show’s at The Jam Factory, Oxford, 2006, Bullingdon Road Studio’s, Oxford, 2005, Hampstead Gallery, 2004

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My work stems from constructions that I imagine as fragmented worlds. Snippets of experiences and images come together in a hovering dream reminiscent of their original context. In an ever-shifting world, the spaces we inhabit are constantly contested. Where change rules and a vast stream of information and images bombard societies, “second spaces” emerge. “Second spaces”, constructed places with a certain degree of artificiality where individuals seek another chance, a different perspective, or a new experience, are in fact about the fantasy of escape. My work comments on the double side of the fantasy that underlies these fictive realities. Created by a complex process of combining found imagery of existing constructed places or “second spaces”, images are pulled from the internet, magazines, films, and personal photographs, then edited and mixed to create small preparatory assemblages portraying a new imagined space. Whilst utilising the fundamental elements of “second spaces”, my constructions defy their most important aspect: the principle of pleasure and escape. One is faced with a setting where everything seems possible and yet nothing is about to happen. Unlike the fairytale worlds of film and television that directly extract from reality and record objectively in real time according to a real script my works remain removed from the reality that they once existed within. Time is suspended, meaning is manipulated and artificial light creates an enveloping environment that excludes nature. We are submerged into a claustrophobic, uncertain, and uncomfortable setting; revealing the deceitful aspects of “second spaces” which can only provide temporary and fragile escape from our shifting world.

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