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Currently exploring the medium itself, my silk-screen work draws from my drawings and paintings.

I revel in the visceral core of the natural world while striking out/in-ward to the sublime chaos of the human condition.

Specimens of anatomy, intuitive symbolism & the occult psyche form the base camp for these excursions.

I invite you to join me.
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My relief print work is currently focussed on multi stage lino cut.

The process of cutting a block is a journey into the physicality of perception.

Visual information is transmuted into sculptural information and back again, making the printing block a sort of pupa for the finished print.

I celebrate natural fauna with a respect for accuracy and the dialogue between intention and medium.

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Without any formalised background in fine art but working as I have across many mediums and materials has helped me develop a new perspective.

Ink, paint, carcoal, ceramics, wood, found materials & natural ephemera, bone and animal pelts..
All these things have their own perceptual baggage, be it cutural or personal to the perciever.

I now have a real appreciation of the importance of the physical substance of an art piece as much as its intention and interpretation.

For an idea to be seeded a form must be created to be its vector in the world. The viewers conception of this form carries its own transcription machinery for this artistic DNA.
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Sculpture, performance and space itself can often feel like the same artistic material to me.

Audio then adds another layer of immersion.

Wordless narratives emerge from the intersections of the human senses and these are necessarily primal & visceral.

I created the Mantid Snip Shop in 2016 for my business of screen printed anti-fashion & accessories. 

It has since become the home for all my artistic merchandise and is now located on the delectable Baphomart


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