About my work

My painting and printmaking is about people and their dialogues, characters in the stage of life, real and imagined. I want to examine the flesh, bone and blood that constitutes the human form, and the complex relationships and narratives they manifest. I adore life drawing, sketching in oil or ink to build up a vocabulary of the body. As well as experimental printmaking approaches (e.g. in moving image), I wipe, scratch, scour, burnish, dab and splatter in monoprint and etching, producing images of the body that shout that they've been produced by a human. My CV is available here.

. Please flick through the gallery below to see examples of recent work (click on an image for more info).

I have exhibited regularly at Cambridge Contemporary Art, as well as in London, including at Mall Galleries and Bankside gallery. My etchings have been shown at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and Royal Society of Painter-printmakers exhibitions (awarded the East London Printmakers prize for outstanding print). In 2023 I was awarded a residency at Cambridge Artworks for my MA degree show, and last year I took up the Expanded Print residency at Graphic Studio Dublin, and was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize. This year I spent 3 weeks on residency at Cill Rialaig Arts Centre.

A solo exhibition of my paintings and prints, Do you Feel Irish?, opened at the London Irish Centre in October 2024. This year I'm exhibiting joint exhibition with Sarah Strachan at Stapleford Granary Arts Centre (see here for more details). I'm currently developing a body of work entitled "A certain critical period", using a phrase from Love Letter by George Saunders as a jumping-off point. This includes a moving image piece, about which I've given a couple of seminars - see here for more detail. I'm also currently running a fundraiser for charities tackling gender-based violence via a limited edition book, 50 Life Drawings.

For more details for recent and upcoming work and exhibitions - see my blog, my recent work page or my instagram