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“I certainly need a hug right now but a hug never lasts as long as I need it to. Take me back to the womb, shield me from all the chaos and nightmares!”
“There can be great relief in imagining oneself as an object, not as a form of dehumanization, but as a strategy of sidestepping the essentializing pressures that come with being a subject.”
“A work feels resolved when the materials settle into a kind of internal logic. At that point nothing more needs to be added or removed, and the structure feels both inevitable and improbable at the same time.”
“Uncertainty is what allows the work to move; without it, a painting can only arrive where you already expected it to.”
“The action of walking is removed from its usual function. It is left suspended in an absurd repetition without progression.”
“These performative acts allow the body to blend into the object and the object into the body, dissolving boundaries and merging into unfamiliar territories.”
“The image remains a state and shows a moment full of possibilities that cannot be completely resolved.”
“I’ve always been intrigued by things that are soothing and disquieting at the same time.”
“Sound penetrates directly beyond (rational) interpretation; it is experiential, self-narrating, and largely self-explanatory.”
"It really opened up to me how much my thinking of the world was so narrow, and that any view of someone else changes when you give them the openness that the sign series was able to offer."
“A-A’, B-B’, which will take place both in Glasgow and Turin, feels very much like a project for the age of Brexit – a divided painting, a divided car, two venues bridging an imminent divide.”
"They are hybrid figures. They are part Victorian, part African, part Dutch. They are an expression of the identity of a contemporary post-colonial birth."
“Although my work draws on Art History, the issues I’m interested in are generally rooted in the present.”
“The YBA thing wasn’t exactly a movement, but it was the last and closest thing we’ve had to a movement in recent times where a whole crop of artists emerged together apparently responding to a mood and sequence of events.”
"AI is just us, in aggregate—it is beautiful and requires rethinking how we arrange life."
“The rhythm of the colours seemed to pulse and move, creating a visual beat through the space.”
"I am not sure how the Trump phenomenon will manifest in my work but I do know it is impossible for anyone to negate it and its ability to submerge into our subconscious.."
“I certainly need a hug right now but a hug never lasts as long as I need it to. Take me back to the womb, shield me from all the chaos and nightmares!”
“Places like Frieze, it’s like an acid trip: the plastic surgery, the gross clothes, the money. I’m not making a judgement, I’m just saying “bloody hell can we all see this!”
“it is the first time that everything that surrounds the making of art has stopped which is both daunting, when this is your livelihood, but also a real focus puller on the primal human need to make art.”
Galleries we have worked with:
Medusa and Venus – Inland Empire
Medium: Acrylic on hand-dyed canvas
Dimensions: 170h x 130w cm
Year: 2024
Price: £3,800
I want to carve the message in stone 2
Medium: Fired clay, unique work, signed certificate
Dimensions: 43x19x1 cm
Year Made: 2023
(Photo credit: Marlene Zoë Burst)
Price: £1300
Beyond The Clouds
Medium: Oil on linen
Dimensions: 110 X 140 cm
Year Made: 2025
Price: £6250
Twin Flower
Medium: acrylic and oil on linen
Dimensions: 40 x 44 inches
Year Made: 2025
Price: £3700
A Charge to Keep
Medium: Steel Dressmaker Pins and Velvet on Board
Dimensions: 94” x 74”
Year Made: 2008-2009
Price: NFS
HOLIMESS / HOLINE
Medium: Acrylic, pencil, spray paint, oil stick and pastel on glassine and mulberry paper.
Dimensions: 65cm W x 80cm H x 10cm D
Year Made: 2025
Price: £2,600
Summer Bummer
Medium: Acrylic on toned paper
Dimensions: 20x 28 inches (w x h)
Year Made: 2025
Price: £1,200