"My work explores the boundaries between Art and Archaeology and the context of museological display, using a variety of archaeologically unearthed material and remnants of societies discarded detritus. Over the past few years, this has involved a variety of interdisciplinary collaborative projects with a number of art galleries and museums, in an endeavour to analyse and understand the human past. It is an investigation into how visual representations have shaped archaeology, and the importance of the conceptualisation of the past by museums in their constructions of knowledge, observing how the museum 'imposes its frame (physical and moral) on everything that is exhibited in it in a deep indelible way'. Putnam, J: (2001) These collaborative projects involve an ongoing series of interventions both with and without the permission of art institutions and museums across the UK. Each intervention without permission is site-specific to the institution targeted, focusing on the subversion of the art institution by means of site-specific performance-based interventions within galleries, in order to shift the emphasis towards audience participation. It is a rebellion against the art institution, seen by Michel Foucault as likened to the structure of the prison, functioning as a means of instigating regulatory behaviour. Interventions with permission involve site-specific projects working with objects in museum collections. These often focus on the laborious and meticulous methods of selecting, sorting, labelling and classifying, and the subsequent documentation, interpretation and museological display of artefacts, which are intrinsic to both art and archaeology."

Qualifications and training

2007

• BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), University of Chichester, West Sussex

Solo exhibitions

2011

• Title Pending, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, West Sussex

2009

• Anarchyology II, Casson Gallery, Eastbourne 2009Anarchyology (End of Residency Exhibition), Christ's Hospital School, West Sussex

2008

• A-I-R, Christ's Hospital School, West Sussex

2007

• Unearthed: A site-specific installation, Chichester District Museum, West Sussex
• Embankment, Pallant House Gallery Bookshop, Chichester, West Sussex
• Unearthed II, Collections Discovery Centre, Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex

Group exhibitions

2010

• Affordable Art Fair, Alicia David Contemporary Art, Brussels

2009

• Edinburgh Art Fair, Alicia David Contemporary Art, Edinburgh
• Affordable Art Fair, Alicia David Contemporary Art, Battersea Park, London

2008

• TAG Exhibition 2008, Southampton University, Southampton
• Seven for a Secret, Yarrow Gallery, Oundle, Peterborough

Degree shows

2007

• Intervention, ArtOne, University of Chichester.

Curated projects

2007

• Tactile Art Project (funded by the Arts Council), Otter Gallery, Chichester

Live/Performance

2009

• AngelAngle. Collaborative dance performance. Choreographer Aya Kobayashi., The Place, Robin Howard Theatre, London

Intervention

2009

• Skiving Trades, Christ's Hospital Museum, West Sussex

Workshops

2008

• Primtech, UCL Experimental Archaeology Course, West Dean Estate, West Sussex

Residencies

2009

• Artist-In-Residence, Christ's Hospital School, West Sussex

Projects

2009

• Room to Read, Voluntary Teaching Project with C.H.E.S.S Nepal, Lamjung District, Nepal
• PRINT NOW, London Art Fair/BEARSPACE, Business Design Centre, Islington, London N1

2008

• Co-ordinator of Arts/Workshop leader (as Part of the National Community Action Strategy), Camp Galacuic, Foscani. Romania

Competitions, prizes and awards

2007

• Lord Wolfenden Prize for Academic Excellence, University of Chichester, West Sussex

Educational experience - tertiary

2008

• Printmaking Tutor, Sussex Sculpture Studios, Partridge Green, West Sussex

Site specific

2006

• Bad Art for Bad People. (Work featured in the Chapman Brothers retrospective), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool