About me
I am passionate about creativity: It’s fuelled everything I've done in my career and life to date.
I've spent 15 years in the creative industries: blending Design, Business and Futures, whilst building my portfolio as a professional artist.
In my design career I bring together talented people from all walks of life to unleash their creativity and work collaboratively to solve tricky commercial and social challenges - with Nike to the NHS to the Affordable Art Fair.
There are 3 key themes to my art practice: human spirit, connection and emotion. Through my art practice I explore and capture new perspectives (sometimes literally - I'm qualified as a club paragliding pilot!) about the interactions and impact humans have on their environment, our world and each other. What is the human spirit? How do we connect to each other and make sense of this world?
My work draws on my interest and experience in futures, emerging human behaviours, emotion, empathy, nature, wilderness, systems, contradictions and technology. Participatory process and collaboration is increasingly something I am incorporating into my practice. The result is a broad-ranging art practice that blends hand-crafted pieces, including sculpture, painting and drawing with digital pieces including projections, audio and sound recordings, film and animation.
In my first year as a professional artist I:
My experience as both an art practitioner and a business consultant means I understand the wider creative and contextual factors influencing artists, designers and business people, and the trends and forces impacting the changing world around us.
I've spent 15 years in the creative industries: blending Design, Business and Futures, whilst building my portfolio as a professional artist.
In my design career I bring together talented people from all walks of life to unleash their creativity and work collaboratively to solve tricky commercial and social challenges - with Nike to the NHS to the Affordable Art Fair.
There are 3 key themes to my art practice: human spirit, connection and emotion. Through my art practice I explore and capture new perspectives (sometimes literally - I'm qualified as a club paragliding pilot!) about the interactions and impact humans have on their environment, our world and each other. What is the human spirit? How do we connect to each other and make sense of this world?
My work draws on my interest and experience in futures, emerging human behaviours, emotion, empathy, nature, wilderness, systems, contradictions and technology. Participatory process and collaboration is increasingly something I am incorporating into my practice. The result is a broad-ranging art practice that blends hand-crafted pieces, including sculpture, painting and drawing with digital pieces including projections, audio and sound recordings, film and animation.
In my first year as a professional artist I:
- sold over 30 works of art across 10 countries and 4 continents
- delivered 4 art commissions - two of which were for international clients
- designed and delivered a large-scale mural in the reception of a blue-chip music publishing business
- displayed over 20 art pieces in corporate offices across London.
My experience as both an art practitioner and a business consultant means I understand the wider creative and contextual factors influencing artists, designers and business people, and the trends and forces impacting the changing world around us.
Awards, achievements & activities
CURRENT Co-founder of the Prism Project - a collective of creative strategists delivering talks and collaborative sessions around the future of creativity
Advisor and art experience designer for Deepr: a design lab exploring empathy-driven connections in society and business. Cultural researcher and advisor for Garden of Ideas: a next generation visitor attraction Inspired by the UK’s historic pleasure gardens, GOI combines arts, science and technology, within spectacular gardens and cavernous halls. Represented by Artiq - a boutique art rental company Represented by two London urban contemporary art galleries - Curious Duke Gallery and The Archivist Gallery Member of the EXC (Exhibition Collective) - a collective of East London artists. (2017 - present) Art Academy London - BA in Fine Art (present) |
PREVIOUSArt Challenge 2016 - Winning team with the pitch for ‘Benefactor’: A crowd-funding platform connecting supporters with artists
Published poet: featured in TimeOut London. (2014) International Cultural Leadership Programme - British Council Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurs programme - 3 month residency in Hong Kong and China (2009) Creative Pioneer Programme - National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA): financial investment & 4 week residency (2005 - 2008) Northumbria University - First Class honours - BA (Hons) Design For Industry (2004) RSA Design Directions - Shortlisted entry (2004) Spirit of Creation - Design scholarship and 2-week residency (2003) |
