Category Archives: Exhibitions

I’ve donated a large print of my drawing ‘I Want None of This’ to ‘Going Once, Going Twice, Gone!’, a fundraising event in aid of the Save Devonshire Street Campaign. When Sheffield Council approved demolition of 162-170 Devonshire Street, home to three of our most prized independent businesses, it didn’t follow the proper planning processes.Continue reading

Just The Noise… solo exhibition

It’s been really good for me to get the main chunk of my work (with the exception of the installations from previous shows) into one big space. But it was especially good to show smaller works next to the larger ones, as I feel doing this helped map out the last 5 years quite well.Continue reading “Just The Noise… solo exhibition”

Upcoming Exhibition: An Unofficial Alumni

We were all incredibly pleased with the way the exhibition came together (and would still be very thankful to any more visitors to the show). The exhibition tried to bring together a rather interesting mixture of work from working artists from the area around Barnsley, aware that after 9 years running, 2013 marks the endContinue reading “Upcoming Exhibition: An Unofficial Alumni”

My work for An Unofficial Alumni (a Cognitive Mapping of Now)

Image courtesey of Rob Nunns Within this exhibition is basically my full year’s expenditure of energy that didn’t otherwise go into earning a wage, maintaining social bonds, our down the plug hole mixed with alcohol. So obviously it’s something I deem worth sharing, alongside the blogpost cover the entire An Unofficial Alumni exhibition. The crucialContinue reading “My work for An Unofficial Alumni (a Cognitive Mapping of Now)”

The Barnsley Artwalk 2013 (Thursday 27th/Friday 28th June 2013)

Next week I will have works featured in an Open Northern Young Artists exhibition, Redbrook, as part of the Barnsley artwalk 2013, the first of its kind (to my knowledge) in the borough to date. A (art)bus service will transport visitors between Redbrook and Barnsley town centre. For more information visit http://www.alternativebarnsley.com/ Below is aContinue reading “The Barnsley Artwalk 2013 (Thursday 27th/Friday 28th June 2013)”

Drawing in situ at P A N D E M I C York

I took part in York this weekend just gone.  P A N D E M I C, inspired by the Situationist movement (notably the philosopher Guy Debord, who wrote Society of the Spectacle), invites anybody to come along, to perform, discuss, or whatever they feel they want to do. But it is also an environmentContinue reading “Drawing in situ at P A N D E M I C York”

Borderline Ballardian

Group art exhibition Curated by Globalsapiens C.A.D.S. – 7 Smithfield, Sheffield Date: Friday 6th July – 18th July 2012 Bordeline Ballardian is an exhibition of works that questions and observes British society and the psychological effects of technological, social and environmental developments.The word ‘Ballardian’ originates from the works of British novelist, James Graham Ballard andContinue reading “Borderline Ballardian”

The Mary Rose: we are sinking (installation)

 “The (Diamond) jubilee has made the union jack more unavoidable than perhaps any time since the war” Owen Hatherley   This installation was for the exhibition Borderline Ballardian, at Creative Arts Development Space, Sheffield. When thinking about the proximity of dystopian forewarnings to the present tense the visuals of fabricated national pride featured very frequently, as aContinue reading “The Mary Rose: we are sinking (installation)”

Borderline Ballardian

 Open night Friday 6th July 2012 @ 6pm onwards with live poetry and discussion!Creative Arts Development Space 7 Smithfield, St Vincents, Shalesmoor, S3 7AR Sheffield, United Kingdom “It is the psychological effects of technological, social and environmental developments I am interested in.” JG Ballard To question the environment around us, to take a step backContinue reading “Borderline Ballardian”