College / University

University of Ulster Belfast

Program / Degree

BA (Hons) Fine And Applied Art

Graduation

July 1, 2009

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking

I am...

Me

About my artwork

As an artist my studio practice is influenced by children’s art and the urban environment. I am concerned with issues relating to modern society, religion and nature. By translating issues concerned to icons and symbols my work begins to construct narrative terms.
There is a synthesis between naïve mark making, child like imagery and latent symbolism. I depict my reality through mark making, the innocence in my work is a metaphor for the naivety of modern society, and how it is dislocated from what is going on around them.

Artists I like

Jean Michel Basquiat,De Kooning,Billy Childish,Tracy Emin, Franz Kline, Matisse, Andy Warhol, Hunderwasser, Neil Shawcross, Jeff koons, Andy Goldsworthy, Barbara Kruger, Paul Klee, Barbara Hepworth, Grayson Perry

Centre of the artworld:

nowhere and everywhere