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‘If I were called in to construct a religion, I should make use of water.’
Philip Larkin

Over the past four decades my practice is marked by a profound dedication to studio practice and site-specific projects like opening the ‘Red October’ studio in Moscow, or the ‘Dark Vat’ artist residency re-activating an abandoned photographic paper factory in Siberia, to ‘Makers Place’ the first plastic and aluminium recycling facility in the Maldives, or ‘Renaciendo’ reopening the last Carmelita Convent in Spain closed for over 170 years; these projects highlight an ongoing commitment to meaningful cultural and environmental stewardship. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2025   ‘Goya, reborn in water’ in the 10th-century Castillo de la Piedra Bermeja.

2021   ‘Drink Less’ sculpture exhibition made from island cleanup interventions.

2020   ‘Renaciendo’, derelict Baroque Carmelite convent dating from 1688.

2019   ‘Breaking the plastic habit’ public installation for Climate Week, London.

2018   ‘Visions from the shoreline’ Dellasposa Gallery, London.

2017   ‘Death of the dream’ Dellasposa Gallery, 93 Piccadilly, London. 

2017   ‘All icons are false’ D-Contemporary Gallery, London.

2016  ‘The illusion of oil’ Ekaterinburg, Russia.

2015   ‘Oil + Water’ site-specific installation in the forests of Siberia.

2014   ‘Vanitas’ Cafe Royal, London. ‘Rastvorennaya Pechal’ Triumph Gallery, Moscow.

2013   ‘Intersection’ London.

2012   ‘A beautiful announcement of death’ PA&G Gallery, London.

2010   ‘Taxi’ Ann330 Gallery, Los Angeles. ‘Tokyo Green’ Conningsby Gallery, London.

2009   ‘Space & Time’ London.

2008   ‘Working Water’ RCP Gallery, Sydney.

2006   ‘Flight’ The Boiler House, Shanghai.

2004   ‘Shift’ 109 Building, Shibuya, Tokyo.

2003   ‘No Logo’ Maison Bastille, Paris.

2002   ‘The Colour Candy’ G & A Gallery, Sydney.

2000   ‘Flesh & Foliage’ Loft 56, New York.

1999   ‘Liquid Mechanics’ — 18 installations mapping endangered streams.

1996   ‘Defluxio’ deviation plinths installed.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2019   ‘Dark Vat’ re-purposing a disused photographic paper factory in Siberia.

2018   ‘Site Unseen’ Dellasposa Gallery, London.

2017   ‘Contemporary Still Life’ City of London Guildhall, London.

2017   ‘Ars Moriendi’ Dellasposa Gallery, London.

2017   Museum of Contemporary Art ‘Vanitas’, Four Domes Pavilion, Warsaw.

2016   ‘Still Life’ Bohuslans Museum, Sweden.

2016   ‘Reinvigorating the Still Life’ Konsthallen Bohuslän Museum, Sweden.

2015   ‘Natre Morte’ Hå Gamle Prestegard Museum exhibition, Stavanger, Norway.

2011   ‘Iconoclasts’ Lloyds Club, London.

2011   ‘The House of the Nobleman’, London.

2011   ‘Still Even’ Pertwee Anderson & Gold Gallery, London.

2010   ‘You Are Here’ Flaere Gallery, London.

2021   ‘Objects & Structures’ Dark Vat collaboration, Russian Academy of Science.

PROJECTS (selected)

2024   ‘Designing A Circular Future’ A series of university circular design workshops.

2022   ‘Waste to Wealth’ plastic & aluminium recycling workshops.

2022   NFC art authentication offering uncompromising studio provenance verification.

2021   Siberian winter studio relocation to complete unfinished works from ‘Oil + Water’.

2021   Design & install a plastic & aluminium recycling facility, Maldives.

2020   Lighting installation & re-opening of a Baroque Carmelite convent.

2019   Keynote speaker and studio host to the Plastic Free Design Workshop, Siberia.

2019   ‘Dark Vat’ artist residency — 15 artists in a disused photographic paper factory.

2019   Invited as a keynote speaker at Plastic Free Maldives Legacy Workshop.

2018   20 works donated to fund a community PET & HDPE plastic recycling facility.

2018   Artist residency offered to glassmaker Zachery Cincotta (USA).

2017   Studio relocates Baa Atoll, Maldives to create new works.

2016   Launch of secure legacy authentication through US-Copyright Office & NFC tags.

2016   Three poetry-recital films released from the 2015 artist residency.

2015   Artist residency offered to eight UK-based artists.

2015   Studio relocates to the forests of Siberia to create a new body of work ‘Oil + Water’.

2014   Artist talk ‘Deconstructing Flow Practice’ Cafe Royal, London.

2014   Artist residency offered to Russian painter Alex Kuznetsov.

2013   Studio relocates to ‘Red October’ chocolate factory, Moscow.

2012   ‘Tokyo Taxi’ — a collection of photography & texts (2002–2012) published by Merrell.

1995   Fabricated & distributed salt-water solar stills to remote island nation inhabitants.

1986   9-month kayak expedition, Maldives, distributing aluminium can crushers.