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What is your favourite film of all time?

"Blade Runner",  "Princess Monoke" and "oni baba" are some of my favorite films of all time.

My favorite directors include Hayao Miyazaki, Ridley Scott and Joel & Ethan Cohen.

What music are you currently listening to and why?

Jurassic 5

LCD soundsystem

Bailey Cooke

Tool

Which living artists do you most admire and why?

Damien Hirst because of his brass nerve. I am facisinated by his taxidermy work and butterfly paintings.

Which deceased artist do you most admire and why?

eonardo Di Vinci because he was a vertuiso in so many respects. Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol because they had so much style.

Which exhibition that you have visited made the greatest impact on you and why?

The first time I saw Francis Bacons large lurid figures in the flesh whilst studying for my A levels. Prints of Bacon's paintings in books did not move me but in the flesh they are breathtaking, awesome. This was the first time I had experienced the enormity of the gap between artworks in the flesh and the documentation of them for the sake of art history.

What is the question you get asked most frequently about your work and how do you answer it?

How are they made?

This work is made using the most primitive form of photography whereby objects are placed directly on the paper and exposed to light. Literally taking the animals down to darkroom. After developing these prints they are scanned either and then edited back into whole images. The finished piece is a large digital print.

What / who inspired you to be an artist?

My mum has always painted and my family have provided me with a lot of support, both financial and emotional, and in terms of equipment. If that seems like a fairly standard answer. Mr. Read of the art department at Wheatley Park School singled me out to study art towards the end of the first year of sixthform. I had not studied art for my gcses. I believe dropping geography was a very formative step in becoming an artist. Being taught by the Fine Art department for a period of my BA due to tutor absence on my own course made me realise that I was in the wrong department.

Can you tell us about where you make your art and what if any the significance of this location is?

I make the original exposures in the darkroom that my parents allow me to keep in their cellar. This significantly has been the sole workplace for this even during my Ba and masters study as a traditional darkroom and a working practice that is reliant on live subjects and turning on the lights are not really compatible. Depending on the scale of the original print the scanning I mostly get done for me as alot of my work needs to be scanned in A3 panels. The editing is something that I do in my flat. The final file is delivered to a professional printers and framers for the final production phase.

What do you like most about being an artist?

I enjoy making the work. Argueably the experience of making and processing the original prints. This is made exciting by the inherent element of chance and the infinate variation the process that I use.

Creating something that is entirely mine

What is your greatest achievement as an artist to date?

The fact that I have been able to carry on producing work.

What are your plans for the coming year?

To make new prints and thus some entirely new work. To make new work from existing prints. Make some bird photograms. To set up a website.