Self-taught, queer artist from North Lincolnshire living in Leeds

Most recently my work has expanded from digital painting to found-object sculpture and photography, where I like to play with the parameters and contradictions surrounding concepts such as worth, British heritage and class struggle. Much of my work comes from my identity of growing up around one of Britain's economically deprived steel towns, where I try to evidence the uncomfortableness of clashing what is known to be fine art together with concepts of social class, gender and sexuality, and push this to the forefront in the final piece. I often create as a therapeutic exercise to make that unease palatable to view, but never completely gone.

Curator of:

Strong as Steel: Visibility for Queer Artists Exhibition, 20th August 2024 - 7th September 2024

Work exhibited:

'Keadby 1 from a train' - Photography Zine - Many Hands (Zine Library), Sunnybank Mills, Leeds. 12th July - 5th October 2025

'Keadby 1' - Thermal print receipt paper, old wooden tabletop, metal tacks - 2025 Leeds Summer Group Show, Leeds Playhouse, Leeds. 3rd July - 23rd July 2025

'Stop Fucking Cutting the Grass' - Acrylic paint, resin horse sculpture - Visions of Change: Echoes of Tomorrow - Left Bank, Leeds. 22nd January - 26th February 2025

'Untitled Horse' - Chalk pastel, pencil & glitter stickers on paper - LUU Art Society Winter Exhibition, Headrow House, Leeds. 30th November 2024

‘I Hate Horses’ - Audio and Digital Painting - Inspired by Stubbs, Ground Floor of Normanby Hall. 1st March 2024 - 5th January 2025

'Keadby Power Station' - Photography - Scunthorpe Through Our Eyes, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe. 4th May 2024 - 22nd June 2024

‘Lady Roseletta’ - Public Fibreglass Sculpture – A Sculpture Tail Around North Lincolnshire, Scunthorpe Central Library. 28th July 2024 - 5th January 2025

‘Sentimental Memento’ - Photography & Collage on Risograph – Memories of Café INDIE, Café INDIE, Scunthorpe. 17th May 2024 - 1st December 2024

‘Letting Go’ - Acrylic Paint on Shattered Pottery – Strong as Steel: Visibility for Queer Artists, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe. 20th August 2024 - 7th September 2024

‘Gestures of Uncomplicated Love’ Tryptic – Photography & Glitter Stickers, Digital Painting, Acrylic on Paper – Doodle Chat Exhibition, Left Bank Leeds. 16th October 2024 - 17th November 2024