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Recent Work

At the launch of Do You Feel Irish?

Do You Feel Irish? at the London Irish Centre, Camden (17th October - 3rd November 2024)

A solo show featuring 22 paintings and 10 etchings. The experience of being “sort of Irish” runs throughout the work. Its characters are displaced from their native place or time, sometimes finding themselves among the artifice and cultural maelstrom of the funfair. For some who watch Ireland from afar, a pride for its culture and history also comes with shame at a menacing undercurrent in the current political climate. For others, Irishness is just the experience of feeling not-English.

A catalog of works with media and prices is available here​ as a pdf. But for a better view of all the pieces in the show see the gallery below. I'll be adding more installation shots and images from the private view soon. All the pieces are beautifully framed (some of the images below were taken pre-framing - I will update these when I get a chance). For etchings I have one framed copy in stock, but am happy to arrange additional framing at cost price.

Opening hours:

Mon: closed

Tue, Thu, Fri: 10am - 4pm

Wed: 10am - 10pm

Sat 19th & 26th: 2pm - 5pm

Sun: 9am - 4pm

MA degree show at the Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge (2023)

A selection of my life drawings from TOUCHDOWN.

 

I'm writing this a week after de-installing the the MA degree show, entitled TOUCHDOWN, at Cambridge School of Art. The opening event was really a blast - so many friendly old and new faces came along and engaged with the work. My work focused on the human form, our relationship with nudity, and evoking the tactile and multi-sensory through visual work. I showed a series of etchings called Why Can't They Draw Fruit? These are all available but limited to editions of 10 so please get in touch if interested. They'll also be going to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers annual exhibition (opens next Thursday at Bankside Gallery), and Woolwich Contemporary Print fair soon. I was also delighted to receive a Cambridge Artworks residency which at the very least helped me with the panicked floundering when people kept asking me "So, what next?".

Video of my projection installation Why Can't They Draw Fruit? (left), and two little visitors (image credit: Paul Burton).

Printmaking 
 
Monoprint, etching, working with text, and animation. Printmaking formed a key part of my MA show at Cambridge School of Art in 2023 - see this blogpost, and see here for more printmaking.
 

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Mill Road at Night (2023)
 
A set of 17 oil paintings for an exhibition at Cambridge Contemporary Art, May 26th-June 18th. These were created over the past year or so and focus heavily on the people of Cambridge's bustling, diverse Mill Road. All will be also be available from CCA's website shortly.

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Emergent protagonists (2022-2023)

Working in monoprint, drypoint and oil, I've focused on scraping and wiping the human form out of ink or onto canvas. I want my figures to communicate, to shout "here I am" or to sigh. I have used sequential monoprint, repeatedly re-working a printing plate without cleaning between prints, to generate sequences, and in the film "Like Beacons", experimented with including text from my documentation. These working processes, as well as life drawing, and slack-jawed perusing of Elle Decoration, have fed into a series of large oil paintings of male nude figures grappling with capitalism's plundering of the body's sensuality. Some of this work, including Like Beacons was shown at the In Free Fall  Exhibition at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge.

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Contactless Living (2021-2022)

In urban areas, the world looks different now. Contactless living is everywhere - especially in the way we eat, apparent in the blossoming of meal delivery scooters and bikes. When I moved to Cambridge in lockdowned 2020, these meal deliverers were often the only protagonists of the otherwise deserted street scenes I observed and sketched. Some of this work has been shown at the RBA Rising Stars exhibition 2021, Through The Red Door at the Zion Baptist Crypt (Cambridge), New Beginnings at the Blue House Yard gallery (London), and the 2022 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition at the Mall Galleries (London) 

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Older work (2020-2021)

York Street
Der Blaue Katze
Cricketer's
Assorted Huts
Do you even
The Annunciation
Trinity Lane (Green Sky)
Mariachi
Always
Phoebe II
Mill Road
Sleaford/Sturton II
Under Haddon Library
Colimore II
Fen I
Dog world
First case
If on a winter's night a traveller
Still Life with the artist
Still Lives II
Smile
New Town
Tresspasser III (Devon's)
Commute I
Trinity Chapel
Sea Cabbage
Sculpture Garden
Colimore
Conversations at Hawk Cliff
Electronica Garcia
Cloud forest
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