I am a mixed media artist from Salford who lives and works in Glasgow. I am interested in how stories of local history can be told through a class-conscious lens. My practice interrogates and fictionalises my lived experience through the creation of absurd scenes, objects and characters. Through my work, I negotiate the confluence of the real and the surreal, the dead and the alive - our world and the underworld. This half-space between realms is where I propose an alternative urban mythology which asks the audience to further consider the impact of industrial legacy on the human condition.
Featured is a selection of work from an ongoing project which seeks to communicate the inherent sadness and underlying grief of a post-post-industrial upbringing. Continuously circling back to the ongoing regeneration of my hometown of Eccles, this project looks outward along class lines at the generational impact of Levelling Up, and the undoing of the social fabric as a consequence. While always leaving space for the friendly faces of my childhood and the hope of times gone by, the work displayed here is heavy with the burden of having to love home from a distance.
