Biography

My work examines the implications of plural or alternative readings of everyday information. It uses strategies of sampling, re-ordering and making inventories to reveal agendas hidden in the information's original format. Current research  at Chelsea College of Art looks at why an artist would choose to make work within the institution (specifically the museum or gallery), particularly under the guise of education or interpretation.

 

In Making Sense 2002, over a year long period I sampled images from free newspapers, re-proposing them as an installation and video dictionary. Book of the World (an alternative theory of evolution), an animation from 2004, sampled and re-ordered images from a 1940s encyclopaedia to challenge traditional ideas of progress. Dictionary from Memory,  2003 is a work that explores the idea that everyone carries their own dictionary in their head - a concept later developed in collaboration with the public at the De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (Choices, Choices, 2004). Making Sense of Politics an animation from 2005, was a combined image and text piece examining gesture and repetition in political debate. Current work examines the differences between collaboration and participation, particularly in the institutional site.

Selected Exhibitions, Projects, Residencies & Awards

2009-10                       Artist in Residence, Police Museum, Chelmsford

2009                            Artist-Curator, Temporary School, firstsite Colchester

2005-2007                   Artist-researcher, Serpentine Gallery, London

2005-06                       Artist in residence, Doncaster Museum and Cannon

                                    Hall, Barnsley              

2005                            Studentship for Doctoral Research at Chelsea College of Art

2005                            Biblio Triangle Space, Chelsea

2003                            Choices, Choices De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill

2002                            Residency, KHN Center for the Arts, Nebraska US

2000                            Phenomena, Bankley Gallery, Manchester

2000                            Proof, Smithhalls Hall, Bolton

1993                            Italian Government Scholarship for Postgraduate Study

 

Education

 

1983-86                       BA Hons English/ History of Art (2:1), University of York

1987-91                       Degree in Fine Art: Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

1992-93                       Postgraduate Certificate: Printmaking, Il Bisonte Scuola 

                                    Internazionale di Arte Grafica.                                           

2002-03                       MA Painting, Wimbledon School of Art

2005-present               Research Degree, Chelsea College of Art

 

Experience

2008                            Consultant, firstsite Colchester
2007                            Consultant, Towner Gallery Eastbourne
2001-present               Lecturer, Tate Modern, London, teaching on

                                    postgraduate programmes in collaboration with

                                    Goldsmiths College and Kings                                                        

1997-2001                   Artist-Educator, Tate Liverpool

1999-2000                   Acting Education Curator, Adult and Community Programme

                                    Tate Liverpool                                       

1995-97                       Lecturer in Critical Studies and Printmaking, City College

                                    Manchester                                            

1992-93                       Lecturer in Printmaking, American University Exchange

                                    Programme