About the work

My drawings are highly detailed, intimate works based on film stills. I remove the film still from its context to explore themes of human interaction and emotion. The medium of pencil adds another layer of delicacy. By slowing down something meant to be seen in motion, the image gains its own identity and a whole new story becomes possible. I expand it further by adding or removing small elements, and also making sure every part of the drawing is given the same focus.
This work is a scene that is recognisable in the everyday, a window surrounded by plants, but also manages to be fluid with time as the scene is from a film based in 1815. And, on closer inspection you see a statue in the centre of a window with a headless figure next to it, which suggests it could be both our world and not.

Date and country of birth

1983, GB

Career Highlights

Rembrandt to Rego, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK (2024); Frieze 2023, Regent’s Park, London, UK (2023); Figure Up, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023); New Acquisitions, British Museum, London, UK (2023); New Arrivals, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK (2021); What Was My Own, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK (2021); Last Year in Marienbad: A Film as Art, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2016) and Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, (2015)

Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York,National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, British Museum, London, Yale Centre for British Art, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut, Government Art Collection, London