My painting practice concerns itself with communal experiences and forms of celebration, using them to explore inner-city London. As a prominent part of my upbringing I use my work as a translation of those experiences while aesthetically tugging a line between figuration and abstraction.

I use my work to question hierarchy within culture: currently, I am looking at live music as a central pillar within communities. Recently, this has been through exploring London’s Soundsystem culture, with an emphasis on grime, and the relationships between MC, DJ & the crowd that are central to it – a subject close to my heart growing up in the scene. I am attempting to represent and translate my surroundings by exploring the value of Soundsystem culture within local communities. My work plays with the personal and impersonal, investigating the contradicting senses of security and vulnerability within crowds. I consider the value of interaction with strangers within these settings and the collapse of individuality within large groups.

My paintings can be aesthetically ambiguous, mirroring the fleeting moments of interaction and anonymity of a crowd setting. This allows me to use the dislocating nature of crowds to interpret characters within my paintings, creating exaggerating personas often of my own interpretation.