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"Butter Net" (detail) 2002 - Butter print on window - size variable



	Qualifications	1985 - Postgraduate Higher Diploma in Experimental Media - Slade School of Art, University College London 1983 - First Class BA (hons) Sculpture - Liverpool Polytechnic
	Teaching	1995 - Currently 0.5 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston University

	Exhibitions	2004 - Solo show - Portsmouth Cathedral 2004- Arttextiles - Survey of 18 British artists referencing textiles - Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery and touring UK 2003 - Access Aspex - Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth 2002 - Jerwood Drawing Prize - Touring UK 2002 - Tabula Rasa - Parfitt Gallery, London 2002 - Island Film and Video Festival - Prenelle Gallery, London 2002 - Prospects Pizza Express Drawing Prize - Essor Gallery Project Space, London 2002 - Experiments in Print - Oriel Canfas, Cardiff 2001 - East of Eden - Spacex Gallery, Exeter

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STATEMENT

Using drawing and video I explore the tension between the illusion of depth and the flatness of a surface by working with the screen that holds two spaces apart.
Much of my recent work has used net curtains. Net curtains attract and repulse me; they represent cloying conformity but also working class aspirations. I use them to make work that oscillates between sadness and pride, tackiness and beauty. I am interested in this tension and the fine line that the work treads between surface decoration and idea or meaning. I want to open up escape routes from the Englishness that the nets represent creating ruptures in situations that appear ordinary or un-heroic.





	"Hampshire" (video still) 2001- 16 minute digital video





"Cut Flowers" (video still) 2003 - 13 minute digital video