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About
Visual artist, curator and art educator based in Northampton, UK, specialising in visual arts within an health/wellbeing context.
Current Artist Statement
"As my wider practice engages in introducing visual arts to healthcare and community settings, I have become increasingly interested in understanding the role that art and creativity has on mental health and wellbeing; and ultimately ways to visually articulate and ‘de-clutter’ thought processes.
Today's digital environment creates a 'need’ to feel connected and constantly on the move, yet with this comes an overriding sense of disconnection from, distrust and self-doubt in our environment. My artworks seek to visually articulate this modern complex of feeling disconnected or isolated whilst in the company of others. To do this, basic principles of animation, such as anthropomorphic form and an implied movement and narrative are applied to traditional 'still' art forms with a deliberate a sense of naivety and often self-deprecating humour.
The narratives of this suspended state, trap subjects within familiar spaces, just out of reach and provide momentary escapism into an alternative reality. There is a focus on themes such as anxiety, uneasiness, unsettled sense of place and location, hyperactivity even. This not only emphasizes the subject matters humanistic qualities but also its value as an 'object'; with- a past, present and a future.
Today's digital environment creates a 'need’ to feel connected and constantly on the move, yet with this comes an overriding sense of disconnection from, distrust and self-doubt in our environment. My artworks seek to visually articulate this modern complex of feeling disconnected or isolated whilst in the company of others. To do this, basic principles of animation, such as anthropomorphic form and an implied movement and narrative are applied to traditional 'still' art forms with a deliberate a sense of naivety and often self-deprecating humour.
The narratives of this suspended state, trap subjects within familiar spaces, just out of reach and provide momentary escapism into an alternative reality. There is a focus on themes such as anxiety, uneasiness, unsettled sense of place and location, hyperactivity even. This not only emphasizes the subject matters humanistic qualities but also its value as an 'object'; with- a past, present and a future.
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Education:
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts; The University of the Arts London, 2014 BA (Hons) Fine Art, The University of Northampton, 2010 Collections: Artworks in private collections in UK, UAE, USA and Canada Selected Exhibitions, Projects & Awards (2013 onwards) 2020-2021 >Rugby Open 20 - (virtual exhibition) Rugby Art Gallery and Museum 2019 >#ShelvedIt: - Floor One Gallery, Rugby (solo exhibition) >Rugby Open19 - Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, 2018 >NN Open, NN Contemporary, Northampton; Selected by Kaavous Clayton, Jules Devonshire & Roxy Walsh >Rugby Open18 - Rugby Art Gallery and Museum 2017 >Community Cohesion Through Art- (RBC Arts Grant) Benn Partnership Centre, Rugby 2016 <<<Fast F0rward/Rewind>>>, Punctum Gallery, London > Intergenerational art project, (RBC Arts Grant) Benn Partnership Centre, Rugby 2015 >Summer Salon, Islington Art Factory, London >Broadway Studios, London (Group Exhibition) 2014 >Networked, MA Show, Chelsea College of Arts >Suspend_ed - Interim Show, Cook House Gallery, London >Emma Barford & Emily Kathryn Stevens Pop-up Show, Chelsea College of Art >Camden Show, London (group exhibition) 2013 >Postgraduate study award Windle Charitable Trust >Not Knowing,Chelsea Salon Project >Intro Show,Cook House Gallery, London |
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