About the work

This work grew out of and alongside a series of paintings called “Exit” – they each have a central focus, and allude, in some form, to the promise of escape to another space. A central brick, a spine, a door, the back of a seat, inviting, obstructive and absorbent.

Date and country of birth

1988, GB

Career Highlights

Solo exhibitions: Presser, Cample Line, Dumfries, (2024); Landing, Grimm, London, (2023); Mile, Grimm, NYC, (2022); Signal, Micki Meng, San Francisco, (2022); for days, Seventeen, London, (2020); Group: The Decendents, K11 Musea, HK; Present ’23, Columbus Museum; Mixing it Up, Hayward Gallery, London (2021); Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London; Help Yourself, Blain Southern, London, (2017).

Selected group:  Self-Portraits, GRIMM, New York, NY (US) [forthcoming 2024); Dispatches, Sans Titre, Paris (FR) (2024); The Descendants, K11 Musea, Hong Kong (HK); PRESENT ’23, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (US) Cursed Union, Micki Meng, San Francisco, CA (US), (2023); The Kingfisher’s Wing, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM, New York, NY (US),(2022); Mixing it up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London (UK), (2021)

 

Collections:
AkzoNobel Art Foundation (NL); Arts Council Collection (UK); Columbus Museum of Art (US); de Young Museum, San Francisco (US); He Art Museum (CN); Long Museum, Shanghai (CN); The Rachofsky Collection (US); The Roberts Institute of Art (UK); Royal Academy of Arts (UK) , Walker Art Gallery (UK).