Projects
Paintings and drawings from projects with Portsmouth City Council and Arts Council England covering such subjects as rough sleeping, homelessness, social and palliative care.
Rough Sleeper Portraits
I am currently engaged in a project challenging public attitudes to rough sleeping and homelessness with the Society of St James. Also researching how portraiture can be used as a tool in breaking cyclical narratives of negative entrenched, internalised ideas of self-worth and boost self-esteem particularly in difficult areas of mental ill-health, drug and alcohol dependency.
Social And Palliative Care
This is an ongoing project based on carers and their stories of looking after loved ones. The care system is coming under increasing strain as we live longer and end of life care becomes more and more complex in terms of medical care and quality of life.
We Don't Need Culture
We Don't Need Culture is a project based in and around the Portsmouth area in association with Portsmouth City Council and Arts Council England with the aim to expose working arts practice to local people using portraiture as a tool for a re-examination of the word ‘culture', and to examine the difference between the ideals and reality of social structures that culture represents. Targeted at local people who connect the word culture with elitist connotations, the project delivers new perspectives through portrait painting exhibited in freely accessable areas such as community centres.