Biography

I initially studied literature, going on to train and work as Assistant Curator at the Norwich Gallery for four years at the time of the establishment of the ‘East' international exhibition. I founded and steered the development of the Warehouse Artists Studios in Norwich, where I was based from 1990 to 1997. During this period I was closely involved with the artist-run studio movement, and worked with the National Artists Association to launch a Code of Practice for the Visual Arts.

I took part in the site specific exhibition, Wholesale, in 1996, for which I filled the walls of a former cold store from floor to ceiling with a decorative cycle of eighteen paintings of massed fruit and vegetable produce. In this work a theme emerged which is still present in my painting: the function and pleasures of display in daily life are repeated and played off against the context and aesthetics of painting. In the same year my work was selected for the Kettles Yard Open and the International Triennial of Painting, Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 1997 I moved to Barcelona, studying on the Winchester School of Art MA European Fine Art. During this period I produced a series of large, figurative paintings exploring the relationships of families and children, which, following my graduation in 1998, were exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Galerie Daniel Wahrenberger in Zurich, Switzerland. In Barcelona I also made a series about Castellers, the popular Catalan custom of creating human towers as a street display. The Castellers were exhibited as a solo exhibition at the Galeria Groc in Barcelona and toured in Catalonia. Drawings from the series were selected for the Cheltenham Open Drawing competition.

After returning to the UK in 1999, I showed alongside Colin Self and John Kiki in the exhibition, Seven Painters and One Self at the Dockroom, London in 2001. I began to focus on people in urban space as subject matter for my work, taking an eye-level perspective, and using my own photographs as a source. This series of work was shown in solo exhibitions in Spain at the Casa de Cultura, El Campello, Alicante; the Sala de Exposiciones of the town of Blanca; and the Liceo Francais, Alicante in 2007.

I am currently working towards a solo exhibition scheduled for 2011 in the Museum of Santa Pola, Spain.