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​​​I exhibit regularly in Cambridge and London. My etchings have shown at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers exhibitions, where in 2024 I was awarded the East London Printmakers Prize for outstanding print. A solo exhibition of my paintings and prints, Do You Feel Irish?, opened at the London Irish Centre in October 2024, and last year I co-curated and exhibited a two-person show at Stapleford Granary Arts Centre. I’m currently developing a body of work entitled No Place in Our Town, anchored by a short moving-image piece, A Certain Critical Period, that takes its name from a phrase in George Saunders’s short story Love Letter.

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I am a painter and printmaker based at St. Barnabas Press in Cambridge.

​My work is about the flesh and blood of the human form, and the relationships and narratives we manifest. Through oil painting, etching and lithography, I explore the space between the ideals and realities of national identity, with characters from childhood memory colliding with contemporary news to produce a sometimes-comical dissonance.

 

Working from observation drawing, literature and news, I also use colour and pattern and the spectacular textural range of etching to tell incomplete stories about displacement, solastalgia, and the places where we don’t quite belong.​​​

Sheltering a small, remaining trace of fire through a dark period
Work

in the dream there was no one familar;

I met only the black scrutiny 

of an apricot tree in bloom, turning

around as it left suddenly

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perhaps it was left there one summer 

when the world was as white as a feast,

before I had learned that a dreamer

must dream like the trees, be a dreamer 

of fruit to the last

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from Alphabet, Inger Christensen

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