(b. 1979) I’m a British artist based in London.
Working across performance, sculpture and video, my practice explores power and resistance. Much of my work intervenes in systems of global production, interrogating the relationship between consumerism and Empire.
I’ve produced work in China, India, Palestine, Senegal, Taiwan, Egypt, Somalia, Cambodia, Mexico and Greece. In each case, I’ve looked for ways to collapse space - geographic, historic and bodily - to explore the entanglement between current consuming practices and histories of colonial domination. In the process, my work often appropriates the aesthetics of capitalist spectacle: its forms, structures and surfaces. I regularly collaborate with industrial facilities, film crews and fashion photographers. To this end, my visual language is characterised by a wrong-headed commercialism: a seductive kind of nonsense that continually punctures its own logic.
In brief, I make art to challenge the tyranny of common sense. To rupture logic, collapse norms, and weaponise humour to political ends. The result is a form of radical absurdity, plunged through the surface of neoliberalism. A monster that devours itself.
I’ve exhibited at the ICA, Modern Art Oxford, Fondazione Prada, EVA Biennale, Casino Luxembourg, Lisson Gallery, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Z33, Victoria & Albert Museum, Jerwood Space, Liste, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Budapest Design Biennale, Royal Society of Sculptors, British Textile Biennale, Qalandiya Biennale, Korean Cultural Centre and Southbank Centre. Residencies include Delfina Foundation, Raw Material Company, Arts Catalyst, SOMA and Hospitalfield.
Having received my masters from the Slade School of Fine Art (Distinction), I was a 2014 fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. I frequently deliver lectures at universities and public institutions, and I am also the director of Kunsthallo, an artist-run space.
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Working across performance, sculpture and video, my practice explores power and resistance. Much of my work intervenes in systems of global production, interrogating the relationship between consumerism and Empire.
I’ve produced work in China, India, Palestine, Senegal, Taiwan, Egypt, Somalia, Cambodia, Mexico and Greece. In each case, I’ve looked for ways to collapse space - geographic, historic and bodily - to explore the entanglement between current consuming practices and histories of colonial domination. In the process, my work often appropriates the aesthetics of capitalist spectacle: its forms, structures and surfaces. I regularly collaborate with industrial facilities, film crews and fashion photographers. To this end, my visual language is characterised by a wrong-headed commercialism: a seductive kind of nonsense that continually punctures its own logic.
In brief, I make art to challenge the tyranny of common sense. To rupture logic, collapse norms, and weaponise humour to political ends. The result is a form of radical absurdity, plunged through the surface of neoliberalism. A monster that devours itself.
Having received my masters from the Slade School of Fine Art (Distinction), I was a 2014 fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. I frequently deliver lectures at universities and public institutions, and I am also the director of Kunsthallo, an artist-run space.
Portfolio
CV
Press Pack
Studio