DYCP Portfolio
This portfolio presents selected work that reflects my ongoing reportage practice, exploring place through mark-making, mixed media drawing, photography and print. Including examples from urban and rural documentation projects, showing the development of a visual language I aim to refine and expand through the DYCP-funded proposal.
BRIStresting. 2024 - current
Documenting Bristol’s underbelly through drawing.
Tunnel 01 - Lawrence Hill roundabout. 70 x 100cm. Mixed Mediums - Ink, pencil, soft and oil pastel, charcoal.
Phone box
Gloucester Road corner
School sand bin
The Digbeth Collection. 2020-2023
3+ year documentation of Digbeth, Birmingham.
Screen print trio - Floodgate st 108x80cm, Bordesley st 81x61cm, Old Crown 75xs65cm. Created on mark resist positive using ink, charcoal and etching.
Floodgate st screen print & Fleeting floodgate reworked original screenprint, exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists for Graduate Members show. Resulting in selected Graduate membership - GRBSA
A selection of on site research collection and drawings
Birmingham Skyline drawing A1. Giclée prints limited edition of 25. Sold out.
The Digbeth Collection exhibition. My debut solo show exhibiting 25 artworks, hanging from the beams of the Custard Factory Works, Digbeth.
Pembrokeshire Collection 2017-2019
A collection of screen and giclée prints of the Pembrokeshire coast, exploring the micro and macro, of 3 areas I grew up near - Newgale, Druistone, Solva.
Druidstone Haven, screen print 85x60cm
Druidstone screen print, positive drawn on location.
Solva, screen print. A2
Screen printed mark makings of micro elements of Newgale. Including; sand patterns, rock formations, found objects of twigs, stones, shells, rock and cliff shrubs. Created using found beach objects.
Gower Peninsula, screen print. A1. Positive created on mark resist using ink and etching.
Workshops + Community Events
Gallery Pop Up - bringing gallery level artwork to accessible spaces, using local talent.
Social Sketch - workshop focused on using a fun still life and guided techniques to build a layered image, focused on process and mindfulness.
Walk + Draw - Location drawing workshop, using guided techniques by me to capture the feel and physicality of a street or building. Images taken from Birmingham Design Festival and Moved Exhibition workshop.
Studio in situ