volume: ​the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container...
Enso nest
The Self-Isolation Residency
Dunoon Burgh Hall Gallery,
Dunoon, Scotland, 2021

For 'Enso nest' I once again returned to one of my favourite subjects, the exposition of art. Dunoon Burgh Hall, like many modern art galleries utilises a hanging system to present their 2D work in front of the walls. I often look for preexisting features in a gallery space to base my installation work around...

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Someone Else's Storey
​The Whisper Residency
​The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art,
​Manchester, UK 2014

Two years after my tenure on the 'Breathe' artist residency in Chongqing, China, I was invited to participate in the 'Whisper' Residency by the CFCCA. This residency is offered to selected artists as a form of expansion and reflection after Breathe, to allow then to further develop their practice...

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Shower
The Process Residency 2013
PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2013

​As part of my artist residency at PS Mirabel Gallery I created  a new situation-specific installation piece in what had been an old shower cubical to one side of the main gallery. I had already been experimenting with a paper-shredder for some time at this point...



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Concrete Haiku
Mix Exhibition
PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2013

In 2013 I was invited to react to the nature of concrete for the exhibition 'Mix'. Being of a slightly contrary nature, I decided that I would explore the possibilities of the existing concrete floor...


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Atypical
Occupy Exhibition
Salford, UK, 2013

In some ways even I struggle to define Atypical . Was it a situation-specific installation or a piece of sculpture?  It was created very much for the space of the space and occasion of the Occupy Exhibition...
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The Murder of Crows
​The Line Between Exhibition
​Cow House Studio Residency
Wexford Art Centre, Wexford &
Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2012

The Murder of Crows is unique in terms of my situation-specific installation work, in that it was created for to occupy two  very different gallery spaces...

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Composition in White (Sculpture)
​The Breathe Residency
Sichuan Academy of Fine Art
​(Sculpture Gallery),
​Chongqing, China, 2012

'Composition in White (Sculpture)' was the first of two situation-specific installations which I created whist I was on the 'Breathe' Artist Residency in Chongqing China in 2012...


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Composition in White (Painting)
The Breathe Residency
501 Artspace  Gallery,
​Chongqing, China, 2012

In 2012 I was fortunate enough to be awarded both an Arts Council England grant and the 'Breathe' artist residency at the 501 Artspace in Chongqing China as visiting artist in association with The Sichuan Fine Art Institute...

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​Paper Scissors Rock 
Rock-Paper-Scissors Exhibition​
The Scholar's Rock  Project
​Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK, 2010
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In  2010 I was invited to make a new situation-specific installation  by Chinese artist Wang Jun for his Rock-Paper-Scissors Exhibition, based on the children's game of the same name...


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Pilgrimage
Workhouse Exhibition
​The Hive, Manchester, UK 2010

The Workhouse was a themed exhibition centred around the idea of labour and extreme hard work. The idea was born in part from the name of the venue, The Hive. Bees have always been symbolic to the people of Manchester as embodying the ethos of diligence...


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Floorplan
Manu Exhibition
Finnish Academy of Fine Art Gallery,
​Helsinki Finland, 2010

I was very honored to be selected to make a new situation-specific installation as part of a group exhibition at The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki art gallery by the Finnish artist and pedagogue Petri Hytönen. This exhibition was a great success and wonderful opportunity which allowed my work to be exhibited and considered in a significant international gallery for the first time...

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The Fifth Column
​Where the Garment Gaps Exhibition
​The Triangle, Manchester, UK,  2009

The Fifth Column has become a definitive piece in the catalogue of my work; as it was probably one of the turning points at which the consideration of the exhibition space became as important as what is being exhibited therein...


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Tension
The Holden Gallery
​Manchester School of Art,
Manchester, UK, 2009

Tension was an interesting piece for my practice as the piece reenforced the way that I thought about a 'gallery' space as a material and how that I could make the observer use and think about the space differently...
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Arch
Manchester School of Art
​Manchester, UK, 2009

Arch' was my first situation-specific installation; it was created when I was first beginning to consider ‘space’ as a medium in its own right. 



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