My art practice is now centered on developing, and participating in, artist-led projects. A few of us have come to a way of working that optimizes the art-making process as well as producing an enjoyable environment. A small group of artists comes together to produce work around an agreed theme. While the work of each individual artist gets feedback and discussion, the work itself remains completely under the control of each artist.

Exposure

I have spent the past two years developing the project Exposure with artist and musicians Giles Perring and Kirsty Law. Now, after traveling six times to Giles’s home on the Isle of Jura in Scotland, our exhibition, is set to complete its four-site Scottish tour in Glasgow on September 6th 2022 at Wasps Studios South Block. It will be in Brighton from April 20 to April 30th 2023.

The Now Project

In 2015, I was one of four artists who gathered in the Old Mortuary Room of Hornsey Town Hall for a five-day residency. We would make individual works guided by the theme of “the Now”: the present moment. Sabrina Osborne created a video/performance piece; Paul Berry made an installation; I painted large-scale surfaces inspired by the car parks out back; and Peter Coyte composed a sound piece. A year later we showed The Now Project in the same room in which we had made it, although the space itself had been transformed into the Ply Gallery.