Artist Statement
Approaching poetry as a painter, painting as a poet…
Born on the south coast of England, I attended art school in London before moving to New York City in 2002. After art school, I exhibited widely including the 1989 New Contemporaries show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, but began writing in the early 1990s as the result of a bet. While co-curating an art show at a disused South London warehouse, I spotted a contest ad in Time Out for writing that demanded to be performed. Despite not writing creatively since school and never performing onstage, I said I’d enter and win. I did.
At this point I began using words in my paintings and installations. After relocating to NYC, I concentrated on poetry and spoken word performance. In 2012, I co-founded great weather for MEDIA. An independent press focusing on innovative poetry and prose, great weather publishes anthologies and solo poetry collections. I was deeply honored to receive a 2020 NYC Acker Award in publishing for my contribution to the avant-garde community.
Fast forward to 2022 and now living in Hudson with a studio, I feel inspired to return to visual art. Writing allows me to go back to a previous draft if necessary. However, applying paint to canvas becomes a relationship with time; a continuous dialogue between material, action, and thought.
Intuition, spontaneity, rhythm, and space…these are the balancing acts I am excited to explore.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.
Community Partner Sponsor for Open Studio Hudson 2022. https://timeandspace.org
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.
Community Partner Sponsor for Open Studio Hudson 2022. https://timeandspace.org
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