Growing up, I drew a little, but most of my childhood memories involved playing football. Early Saturday morning drives in my dad’s Vauxhall Vectra were mostly spent in silence as I anxiously anticipated kick-off. The nerves were helped a little by the pre-match meal of a Mars bar and a Lucozade Sport, but I guess I’ve always been pretty pessimistic. Once on the pitch, this worked well for me as a central defender. Despite not being noticeably tall or strong, I was great at reading where the ball would go. Good old pessimism.

Despite this, ’Tall and strong’ are perhaps more desirable traits for growing up in South London. As such, I found ways to hide. An overindulgence in sugar paired nicely with video games as a young teenager, before weed accompanied the skatepark in my late teens. Naturally, the pub is the final evolution for a British male seeking to blend in.

My work follows a journey out of the comfort of ordinary British life and into the art world. Utilising technology, I am still in many ways attempting to ‘blend in’; however, this time it’s more about creating work that is ‘good enough’ and photographed properly….