Exterior Sculpture

Together We Rise comprises over 30 artworks by Royal Society of Sculptors members, presented within Chichester Cathedral. The work responds to the artists’ experience of the pandemic, their resilience, sense of community and collective hope. The exhibition opened at Chichester Cathedral on 27th June and runs until 6th September 2022 During this challenging period, a group of...

Unpacking my Archive of work up to May 2022 – an opportunity to share a quick overview of my work to date. Currently, I am engaged in research for a new chapter of work. In doing so, I unpacked a part of my archive to best understand my linear progression to date and provide context to new developments. Archive of the Natural World Lichen suspended in the kitchen with...

Together We Rise comprises over 25 artworks by Royal Society of Sculptors members, presented within Chichester Cathedral. The work responds to the artists’ experience of the pandemic, their resilience, sense of community and collective hope The exhibition will open at Chichester Cathedral on 27th June, and runs until 6th September 2022 During this challenging period, a group of...

Quercus Edition 3m tall, an edition of 8 Sculpture construction system which is durable and kinder to the planet. December 2021 Quercus Edition explores the characteristics of the oak leaf, which have Golden Section and Fibonacci proportions, and the sculptures rotate through the golden angle as they rise upwards optimistically. They embody spiritual and geometric principles which...

Quercus has a new glass skin, added in 2021. The glass was painted in response to experiencing ancient woodland. At winter solstice 2020, at the end of a year like no other we had ever known, I visited Kingley Vale, an ancient yew forest on the South Downs. The limbs of yew entwined and grew together as if they were a single organism, and created primitive vaulted spaces which are natural...

Rise are a series of sculptures which stand upright and are characterised by profiles which draw undulating wave forms. The symmetrical waves separate negative space and the stacked forms. A rhythm is created by the repeated volume and line, and the whole has a taught glass skin which separates the airspace and the mass, washing it in colour, a painted response in glass enamels. The...

The Rise sculptures are a series of works that have grown out of my interest in how matter and energy move and the laws of physics which govern our understanding of the world. Their repeated curves, ascending from the earth towards space, echo the forms of waves of pure energy. They can be seen as sound waves, electromagnetic or heat waves, or communication waves through water or air....

Glass Worlds: a series of imploded glass and concrete spheres. As the pandemic extended, my thoughts were taken over by this unprecedented situation, with fear for the safety of my loved ones and frustration at the environmental disasters this planet endures. My automatic reaction to this is to express it with glass. In my opinion, disrespect towards the current ecosystem has led to...

Room dividers with Japanese Motifs in the Tokyo National Museum, Japan. Tokyo National Museum, Japan, is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is enormous, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artefacts and sculptures into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining: “Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist...

Surge I was recently invited to attend an event hosted by Carole Bent, a creative catalyst and Bill Cotton from the BCP council. The event bought together 8 local creatives and considered the values of art in the school curriculum, and was held at Talbot Heath school. Led by Head Teacher Angharad Holloway, Talbot Heath already pioneers STEM education and has recently built a STEAM hub; a...