STREET CULTURE / WORKING CLASS
STAY TRASHY
The Essay Has Landed..
‘Cut Before It’s Grown’ is a self-reflective series which explores my mental health and lived experiences; it is a journey into an unconventional adolescence and those ‘things’ that just stay with you forever. The aim is to make sense of my own life experiences: dealing with grief, coming from a working-class background and the impacts of being reckless as a youth. This essay will not discuss such exposures in detail but rather highlight them to conclude a body of work in reaction to key topics which have arisen through them. As I have been inspired by a number of artists who have used art to embody similar issues from a subjective point of view, I have credited each of them throughout this piece.
SHOP
Have a butchers of what's in store
VOTING SCHMOTING
Hope Is Power is currently part of the Voting Schmoting exhibition in Hackney Wick, London. The exhibition has a variety of artists who have donated their work to not only raise awareness of the importance of voting, but also to raise funds to send some lucky people to art school.
Hope is Power is available for sale and is a unique, original painting.
Ministry of Arts Podcast Episode
I sat down to chat with Gary Mansfield about art class and what makes me angry!
Food For Thought: Females Creatives at Lunch Panel Discussion Featuring Sara Prinsloo & Annie Mays
About Me
As an artist I’m passionate about delivering work that represents my own self through paintings involving multiple layers of expressive mark making alongside controlled line work inspired by my short stint as a tattoo apprentice. I try to combine both fine art and illustrative techniques.
I have always been inspired by street culture and its subcultures as well as the history of creative culture within skateboarding, as a skater myself. Not just art created in these cultures but the ethos, concepts and experimentation from film makers, musicians, designers and spaces in which exist because of it. My work often references words and text taken from songs and films which resonate with my life experiences.
My 2D work also develops into 3D practice using wood, plaster and jesmonite. These sculptural works are mostly created using mould making and casting methods of manipulated, existing objects. 3D work enables a level of tactile work which can’t be achieved as well in paintings/drawings. It's these textures and forms which help present my messages.
I'm also the founder of the It's OKAY Project which is a creative mental health project.