My drawings affirm a desire to understand more about human relationships, specifically my own interaction with others. They are equally about forming a balance between formal concerns and the creation of emotional resonance. While issues, thoughts and feelings, which often evoke memory, personal history, fears and anxieties, are central concerns, it is their exploration through the specific language
My drawings affirm a desire to understand more about human relationships, specifically my own interaction with others. They are equally about forming a balance between formal concerns and the creation of emotional resonance. While issues, thoughts and feelings, which often evoke memory, personal history, fears and anxieties, are central concerns, it is their exploration through the specific language of drawing that informs the meaning. Through mark-making, I record and map social interaction as intimate / public dialogues are played out on the paper or canvas in an attempt to challenge the validity of language in articulating aspects of human experience.
Selected Solo exhibitions
2023 Head Blocker, ArtShed, Glaisdale
2018 Some Spaces Left, Platform A, Middlesbrough
2016 That Head That Head, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire
2011 Confused Heads, Duckett and Jeffreys, Sledmere, North Yorkshire
2011 All Say The Same, Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire
2010 Sally Taylor, Bar Lane Studios, York
2010 Mouths and Marks, PS2, MIMA, Middlesbrough
Selected Group exhibition
2023 ‘X’ Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle
2023 Champs Noir, Terrace Gallery, London
2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, London (and UK tour)
2022 Malton Sculpture Trail, Malton, North Yorkshire
2022 Connections, Old Parcel’s Office Scarborough, North Yorkshire
2022 Ten Years, Platform A, Middlesbrough, Teesside
2021 SelfScapes, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
2021 Newsprint, Three Works, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
2020 The Far Away Nearby, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire
2020 Art Happens Here, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
2020 London Art Fair 2020, Rabley Contemporary, London
2019 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019, London (and UK tour)
2019 Fully Awake, Freelands Foundation, London
2019 Art Happens Here, Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire
2019 London Art Fair 2019, Rabley Contemporary, London & Original Print Fair, Royal Academy London
2018 SelfScapes 1, Exhibition and Symposium, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
2017 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, Jerwood Space. London (and UK tour)
2017 State of Line: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing, Artworks, Halifax
2017 Ink Art Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Miami, USA
2017 Drawing Matters, York St John University, York
2016 The Prison Drawing Project, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
2015 To Draw is to be Human, South Square Gallery, Bradford; Crescent Arts, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
2015 Beyond Perception, Exhibition and symposium, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
2015 The Sketchbook Today, Avenue Gallery, University of Northampton
2014 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, Jerwood Space, London (and UK tour): Prize-winner ‘SPECIAL COMMENDATION’