Sculpture

Created during my Masters in Prosthetic Effects at Falmouth University, 2022, this was my first truly large piece and my first connection with Gwithti an Pystri, The Museum of Folklore and Witchcraft, where this piece resides to this day, scaring children and the occasional dog. This was also my first piece of folklore art, a direct representation of the mythic Black Dog, seen all across these isles and beyond. My interpretation was taken from one of the many sightings listed in Mark Norman's book 'Black Dog Folklore'. If you decide to visit it in the old Folklore museum in Falmouth, do give it a gentle pat.

This skeleton of Falmouth's local sea monster was created for a joint exhibition at the Poly in 2023, known as Phantasmagorical Histories, in which myself and six fellow artists explored a whimsical reimagining of Falmouth's past. The following year it was revamped and photographed on Greenbank beach, see more on the photography page. The first of the 'at home' beasts, in this case home is a caravan I share with my beloved partner and cat, and a testament to my determination to make something big regardless of the circumstance. This beast also resides in the Falmouth Folklore museum, coiled around the ceiling by Pen Mor the OSS.

The first two pieces from my Prosthetic Effects MA, 2021, Silicone (1 &3) and Latex (2) heads inspired by the transformation and beheading of the Forest God from the Studio Ghibli film: Princess Mononoke. Even with access to university materials, I still found myself unable to resist and the eyelashes on the silicone head are in fact cat hair from my friends Bengal and the white fur is brushed out yarn.

Over the last year of my BA Fine Art, 2021, I started creating taxidermy chimeras from dead insects I would find in my everyday life. They became 'Relics' in the mythology of 'The Cult of Mortentra', which was a narrative religion I wrote and the focus of my 3rd year practise. In this mythology the afterlife was somewhat of a spirit world, each soul/spirit could fuse and combine with those that they felt kinship with, or those they had dwelt near in living world. Eventually these spirits could become so many that they'd become Gods of their own, each spirit could become part of a collective divinity and each God started as single untethered beast. My dissertation that year was about the Ethical Implications of using Remains in Fine art, and has heavily impacted my artwork ever since.

A very large and very friendly interpretation of a Megaloceros, the giant deer that roamed these lands around the time of the last ice-age. Composed nearly entire from recycled materials and displayed at the brilliant Great Estates Festival, May 2026.

Some of the first creature pieces from the second year of my BA Fine Art, 2019. At the time I didn't know what was drawing me to create them, but the fact that they had wire frames and could be posed, animated, was a key part of their character. That I considered them characters at all was the starting sparks of what my work would eventually become.