Born(1983) Canterbury England.  Completed his BA at Nottingham Trent University (2004) and went onto further study at the Cyprus College of Art, The Royal Academy of ArtsThe Hague Holland and Kensington and Chelsea College, London.

 

The Artist now spends his time between Zurich In Switzerland and Barcelona Spain where he will be attending the Metafora international Arts school from september 2010 - july 2011. He has exhibited widely across Europe including France, Holland, Cyprus and England. His work is held in many Private Collections.  The Artist also spent a considerable time working at the infamous French House pub in Soho London, where he supplemented his income working as a waiter during his early career.

 

Working with both painting and sculpture the artists deploys materials such as dust,plastic, pins, rubber bands and found and discarded materials left on thestreet, re-inventing them in ways that are both surprising and poetic. Each object is chosen for its metaphorical and sociological value. The artist certainly has an obsession with all things morbid, but at the same time his work shines a light onto what might otherwise appear dark.  

 

Beneath each of the artists works there is a feeling that life is far from idyllic we are destroying the planet and each other in pursuit of a perceived perfect life. 

 

 

Extract from press release for the show “ to be an artist “ @ the redchurch st gallery,London 2007 written by Yves Blais Curator 

 

 

This exhibition brings together the work of three young artists at the outset oftheir careers. Although the artists engage with different media and subject matter, there is a core of romanticism at the centre of each which clearly derives from the desire at a very early stage to ‘want to be an artist’whatever that phrase may mean. It questions who qualifies the title ‘artist’;whether the ‘artist’ is someone who must make art; at which stage in one’s career one earns the right to be called ‘artist’ or whether the artist is theone who must name him or herself.

Onething is certainly evident in the practices of all three newcomers, they take their work with the wherever they may go, be it Paul Chisholm’s travels tocollect dust from famous sites, Medley-Whitfield’s field excursions to collect personal or scientific data or Wood’s obsessive notebooks which never leave hisbag and record his life and loves. ‘The studio’ is the place where all threeend their journeys rather than where they begin them. In their various practices, readymade objects and materials are used because of their metaphorical and connotative values, and their delicate nature allows space for reflection and contemplation.

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