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As a graduate from the University for the Creative Arts with both a BA (Hons) and a MA degree in Fine Art, I am a highly motivated and ambitious sculptural and mixed media artist.

I am always keen to learn new skills and translate it to my own practice. I am Looking to secure a position in the creative sector where I can develop further, cultivate my skills and show it to other people. The main goal in mind being to Inspire people to try and understand what it is about art that talks to us, that “thingly thing” of an object

My practice is an obsession with the haptic, the manipulation of texture and materiality of an object and the craftsmanship of sculpture. Because of this my work normally deals with the concerns of the personal viewpoint of taste (though whimsical and hard to quantify) with the “pure” creation of the artist. I constantly deal with the themes of Materiality vs aesthetics and conceptualism.

I often find myself expressing this through the production and testing of sculptures. This means my practice is very open, the experimentation allows for what seems like an un-exhausting amount of transformation, truly getting in and pushing the limits of the materials.

Contemporary Art has allowed the atypical artist to flourish. The opportunity to experiment with a chance of growth through production. I think the pushing of people to just do and create and see where that takes them is fantastic and fun and needs to be brought back on a larger scale, that the passion for the material and the labour of production and being in love with your work should top the narrative any day.

 

Exhibitions

  • MA Degree Show, UCA Canterbury, August 2018

  • Into the Space, HOP Project Space Folkstone, March 2018

  • BA Degree Show, UCA Canterbury, June 2017

  • Unwanted Attention, Rhodaus Close Canterbury Garages collaborative exhibition, 25th-29th July 2016

  • Nothing Serious, UCA Bar Show Canterbury, 17th-21st November 2015

  • End of Year 1 Show, UCA Canterbury Year 1 Studio, May 2015

  • Breaking Limits, Resort Studios Margate, March 2015

Contact

  • shalloe.gallery@gmail.com