“Language is both our freedom and our restraint. Books have the power to influence, educate and inspire us. There is often a guilt associated with classic books we haven’t read. My work explores books that have inspired me. These revisited books begin to create my own list of books to be read. Reading leaves no material trace, but can forever change and alter our outlook and perceptions. This work attempts to create a trace of reading and interpretation…”

“I started creating paper cuts during the second year of my Fine Art degree at the University of Lincoln. After experimenting with different cutting techniques and a variety of paper, now in my third year I have begun to focus my work. Using a craft knife I cut tiny, repetitive, circular patterns into paper. A structure of connecting circles builds over the sheet so some of the original form has been kept, but the page also becomes really fragile…”

“Birds are symbolic of freedom, peace and fragility. Flocks of birds can stir emotions of awe, fear and majesty. Ornithologists have documented birds for many centuries; capturing them from life with accuracy and realism. I have studied birds from life and in photographs: my drawings strive to obtain a high amount of realism; alluding to the works of bird artists such as John Gould and Edward Lear…”

“I have a huge love for music and thats where the inspiration comes from in some of my favourite pieces. Some of my work is self-initiated but most of it is my outcome to a brief given by university.

Seen as though this industry is based on opinion of what is good design and what is not, I try and produce work to satisfy myself, to create a portfolio that reflects myself, and not a collection of opinions.”

“Facing the Other in the guise of twin or double, we sense a
threat to our idea of personal identity, yet we are teased and
delighted by the odd prospect of becoming ‘otherwise’.”
- John Lash, Twins and the Double

“The faerie tale is a common element of childhood; the majority of us will have been brought up with stories of the fantastical whether heard from a voice or through the written word. As adults our imagination begins to diminish, it weakens and shrivels into reality. We begin to trust what we can see in front of us. We grow old. However the pressures of our burdening daily lives drive us into withdrawal…”

“My work is about the forgotten, the left behind. Using the given history, context and how the past resurfaces in the present as starting points, I physically interrogate the surface revealing the poetics of specific sites or objects, adding my own brittle traces in the process. I am a collector of what is infinitely collectible, the stuff of human passage, the debris of humanity, our dent in time…”

“I unintentionally find myself taking on the role of a social documenter, presenting drawing’s that begin their existence as mundane occurrences, relying heavily on impulse and association in order for an image transformation…”