I typically create photo etchings starting with photographs of deaf models signing or performing sign dance. My practice stems from the notion that signing and gesture resonate with the viewer because of their origins as the roots of language. Sometimes language is embedded in the artwork by giving the model a text such as a poem, to sign. The work centres around emotional and spiritual issues such as transformation and transcendence. I am particularly occupied with light, tone and movement.
Over the course of developing my work I have photographed models and dancers including Japanese dancer and choreographer Chisato Minamimura, Indian dancer specialist Shrimati Susanna, dance partners Sign Dance Collective and models from Deafinitely Theatre. A further strand of work inquiries into the gestures in ballet dance from video footage.
Intaglio Printmaker Award, Bankside Gallery, 2012
International Print Prize, 3rd Guanlan Print Biennial China, 2011
Finalist, National Art Competition, Saatchi Gallery, 2010
2015: Fifty Years of Artists Prints, Bankside Gallery
Parallel Prints, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia Multiplied, Christie's
7th Splitgraphic Biennial, Old Town Hall, Split
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery
Shifting Subjects, Abbey Walk Gallery
Print Exhibition Burton Art Gallery and Museum
Bideford St Barbes Museum, Lymington
Off the Wall, Bankside Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead
Open Studios, Park Studios, Finsbury Park
50:50, New Ashgate Gallery Good Figures, The Downland Jerwood Gridshell, West Sussex
London Original Print Fair
The Royal Academy Imprint
Wetpaint Gallery, Cirencester