RCA GRAD SHOW
13 - 16 July 23. MA graduate show where I’ve showin my full Art & Design practice, including a live performance of my Masters piece ‘The destruction of a kouze (a traditional Iranian Vessel)’
Clerkenwell Design Week
Launched my design ware with Trouping Colour at CDW. My full range was on show for the first time together, along with the first batch of Mountain Tumblers from Novotny.
WIP
Wetherby Gardens, Chelsea, London.
Royal Collage of Art Ceramics & Glass MA2 group show. Hosted by the generous Preston Fitzgerald as part of his 11th annual RCA Ceramics & Glass exhibition.
Having resolved my ‘Intimacy22’ project I was able to show the documentation of the performances and interactions with the Intimacy vessels over 2022. More people interacted to kiss through the vessels at this show, once I went first others felt comfortable.
Intimacy22 NYE
New Years Eave 2022 saw the final live performance of ‘Intimacy22’ where I organised a large house party with the community I live with and brought out six intimacy vessels. people kissed all night, through the midnight count and into 2023.
I’ve collated the documentation of the ‘Intimacy22’ performances into a book showing the interactions with the vessels through this year.
Preface
Pumphouse gallery, Battersea, London.
Royal Collage of Art Ceramics & Glass MA1 WIP show. Together with my cohort we self organised an exterior show to exhibit our yearlong efforts, with resolved pieces and works in progress on show.
I took this opportunity to show my ‘Intimacy22’ project. This spring was a return to socialising after being fully released from social restrictions, it made the perfect platform for interaction with the Intimacy vessels.
Magnificenses
Amersham Arms, New Cross, London.
I entered a group performance event with the communal drinking vessel to perform ‘Reclamations’ in a public space. This performance offers the audience a drink from a communal glass inspired by a Bohemian era vessel.
This performance came as we were being slowly released from lockdowns in 2021 and were in the “socially distanced”. Some audience members were wearing mask, which they removed to drink from the vessel before putting the mask back on.
Somnus: X - Zone.
Collaboration with underground collective Somnus, creating a live sensory art and music event. We saw two vortex appear that night, one behind the DJ, and another in a tunnel further down the event, with Aria sitting at the other end
Somnus: X - Zone
Collaboration with underground collective Somnus, creating a live sensory art and music event. We saw a vortex appear that night, behind the DJ, people lost their minds, becoming their bass self, absorbed by the light… none of them were seen again.
Somnus: X - Zone
Collaboration with underground collective Somnus, creating a live sensory art and music event. We saw two vortex appear that night, one behind the DJ, and another in a tunnel further down the event.
Lumen: Through the Looking Glass.
Exhibiting with Lumen at Ugly Duck London, in this show we presented works that contemplate the perspectives on the world around us, examining our sensorial approach to understanding our world and the mysteries of space. I used two of my paintings from the Untitled series, and an experimental light rig to exaggerate and highlight the colour theory in the paintings.
Lumen: Lunar
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of humans landing on the moon, Lumen hosted a selection of artworks based on the ideas of astral travel and exterior planets. I presented a new VRTX made especially for this occasion, as well as a plaster cast of the moons surface, made using production methods used in ‘2001: A Space Odessy’ that i had previously made in reaction to visiting the Stanley Kubric archive at University for the Arts London (UAL)
Art No.23 - Dreams
Based on the lucid concept of Dreams, for this exhibit I blacked out a room and used a single levitated light piece to fill the area with changing colour. This was a great experience to experiment with an empty space, at the Biscuit factory, Bermondsey, London.
Saatchi Arts - The Other Art Fair.
Participating in Saatchi Arts Other Art Fair Bristol edition. I had my own stall exhibiting drawings, paintings, and light installations made over the past year. I started typing Sol Lewitt’s sentences on conceptual art and handing them to people, to use to decipher some of the more cryptic works at the fair, and get a deeper appreciation for my own artwork.
Lumen - Cosmic Perspectives
Group show curated by Lumen London, contemplating perspectives of earth from space. I created a RGB triptych drawing of the south pole shrinking entitled ‘Our Time’.
Not Quite Light
Invited by Lumen London to participate in a light festival held in the iconic St Philips Church, Salford, Manchester. I exhibited two VRTX pieces side by side for the first time, in a wooden alter, the varnished wood reflected the light from VRTX, and a band played lucid progressive rock through the opening.
Art No.23 - Vibrant.
One of my favourite installs, in the Biscuit factory, Bermondsey, London. I had a room which I blacked out and installed ‘VRTX 0.2’ this version could only be viewed through a door window, obscuring the viewers understanding of the piece. creating a boundary between the audience and the VRTX excelled its mysticism massively.
Liminal - Conspiracies
2018 – Conspiracies. Lewisham Art House, Lewisham. London.
Group show with the original Liminal crew I did my first exhibit with after graduating. A of mixed media artists, all works showing a subversion from reality and the mundane. I Presented ‘VRTX 0.1’ and ‘Ditch’ a large scale perspective drawing.
Downtown 500 - No it’s not, not always.
2018 – No it’s not, Not always. By other means gallery, Bethnal Green. London
Teaming up with LGBT magazine Downtown 500, I we showed people there’s more than one perspective in life, the Downtown 500 crew showed you a culture you don’t see in the mainstream, and I showed you there more perceptions of reality within your own. We created a metamodernist exhibition consisting of artworks, photographs, and performances.
Lumen - Atina residency show
The first time people saw VRTXultra, it happened in the crypt of St. Johns Church, in Bethnal Green, London.
This show followed up on the work we made on the Atina residency, however we were back home now, where I wasn’t limited to the equipment I brought with me, so I made a VRTX open in time and space, it was ultra, and you could hear its sound for the first time.