Over half a century of being bombarded by media messages that are, at best, useless and at worst generators of great insecurities, sparked a desire to manipulate their outcome. Images and wording from magazines, scalpels, glue, and a sprinkle of digital assistance have given me a rebellious freedom of creation.
I work intuitively as the source materials always have their own life that adds new significance, often in unpredictable ways. The meaning is formed as the work progresses. I address the perpetual human preoccupation with vanity, consumerism, fashion, fame, mortality, sex, gender, wealth and power, as well as ponder the cultural expectations of the sexes, the domestic space and the treatment of the body and youth as a commodity.
Some pieces have a dark mood, some are angry, others are plain silly. There are also various self-portraits.
My aim is to make the audience question the society they take for granted, but I have also been told my art enlightens, confuses, and amuses.
2024 "Static Energy" Associates Exhibition, 44 AD, Bath,
13-27 January .
2023 "Unruly Performer" Solo Kiri Kiri Exhibition, 44 AD, Bath, 13-19 March .
An alluringly odd redeployment of magazine images astutely spliced together to capture the critical, rebellious spirit.
Addresses the perpetual human preoccupation with vanity, consumerism, fashion, fame, mortality, sex, gender, wealth and power, as well as pondering the cultural expectations of the sexes and the treatment of the body and youth as a commodity.
2023 "Fossil", annual 44AD Associate Annual Exhibition (14-21/1).
2022 Associates Annual Exhibition 44AD (14-23/1).
2021 "I Don't Have a Favourite", annual 44AD Associate Exhibition online, "Self-Portrait with Fries", online 20/01-20/06. The artwork was chosen for a full page front piece for The Arts in Bath Life Magazine issue No.438, Feb-March 2021.
2021 "OUCH!" Virtual exhibition of Art and Science celebrating 10 years of study at the Centre of Pain Research, University of Bath, 13/11/20- 31/10/21. Sculpture "Warried (sic)" was created for this exhibition and selected for the Bath University's promotion and web pages.
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2020 A-Z, letter G for Gesture, "Internet" and "On Hating", 44AD an online exhibition due to covid-19 lockdown.
2020 A-Z, letter F for Flora, "Fairy Tales", 44AD an online exhibition due to Covid-19 lockdown.
2020 A-Z, letter E for Envelop, "Sorrow" and "Euphoria", 44AD an online exhibition due to Covid-19 lockdown .
2020 A-Z, letter B for Between, "Beat", 44AD an online exhibition due to Covid-19 lockdown 15/4-22/4).
2020 "Material World", 44AD Associates Annual Exhibition (9/1-26/1).
2019 Physics/Art Skills Swap Shop, University of Bath, 23/5
Visited the Department of Physics in order to see their resources, equipment and experiments. This involved laboratory tours, experimental demonstrations and discussion sessions. Twelve physicists and eight artists attended the skill swap workshop to share the skills they use to achieve their research outputs.
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2019 "Element 5", 44AD Printmaking Exhibition (13-19/5).
2019 "Alter Ego", 44AD Associates Annual Exhibition where "Flesh and Blood" was chosen for the promotional poster (7/1 - 19/1).
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2018 Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution (BRLSI), Member’s Art Exhibition (21/3-12/4).
2018 - Present - 44AD, Associate Member
2015 - Present - Penwith Society of Artists, Associate Member
2006 Participant, Cambridge Open Studios
Education:
Japanese Language and HIstory, Hokkaido Tokai University, Sapporo, Japan 1992-3
Calligraphy under Hiroko Kimura, Stockholm University, Sweden 1990-1992
Japanese Language and History, Stockholm University, Sweden 1990-1992
History of Art, Stockholm University, Sweden 1986-1988
Fine Art, Stockholms Konstskola (Stockholm Art School), Sweden 1984-1986