Thoughts

May 2025
A recent feature on Art-web.space
Below is the full interview.

Art-Web is a space to celebrate those who go a different route: artists, curators, and galleries who shape their visual identity with intention. Some make bold design choices. Others work more quietly, but with the same care and clarity.
Thankyou to Isabelle Cuisset and wishing you great success with your new venture.

Sciophytes - An A5 soft cover booklet made with mixed paper weights and qualities.

Copies are £10. Please contact me for further info and to purchase.

Detailed page images below.

May 2025
I am now an elected member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

INSIDE - May 2025 - A solo show set in the Old Schoolhouse, Krowji, Redruth

A walk-around film of the show 

ACHILLES 2025

STOOL
FRINGING
CUSHION
MOTOR WITH CABLE

Whilst this piece works on its own, there is also an idea to make it a part of a larger installation.
This installation would involve a large open room with several items connected to individual motors. Items could include stools, chairs and even small tables.
These powered up objects will make their way from the outskirts of the space (plug points) and
will be attempting to get close to each other in the centre of the room, wires taught and the items vibrating violently. Lots of noise and a sense of chaos, desperation, and sadness.

Each piece could have it’s own name. Achilles being one. They all make their way towards each other. Why? To battle? To find companionship? 
Perhaps there are only two objects so desperate to be with each other but it is impossible. It would take the wire to pull away from it’s energy source to get remotely close. I feel sad thinking about this but understand the melancholy.


THOUGHTS AROUND THIS ARTWORK:


Achilles reimagines the tragic hero not as a warrior, but as a haunted domestic object—restless, vibrating, and tethered. A mid-century stool, adorned with a hand-crocheted cushion depicting a horse, butterfly, Celtic cross, and rose, becomes the site of memory and myth. Black fringe quivers around its edge like nerves exposed, as the stool hums with electrical agitation, dragging its own cable tight in a futile attempt to move beyond its confines.

The title evokes the legendary figure whose strength was shadowed by a single point of vulnerability. Here, that fragility becomes literal: the stool’s movements are animated and constrained by the same source—its Achilles’ heel is the cord that gives it life but denies it freedom. The absurdity of its effort speaks to deeper emotional tensions: the desire to escape inherited roles, the echo of unresolved histories, the quiet rebellion of the seemingly mundane.

Achilles sits at the intersection of power and powerlessness, masculinity and softness, myth and memory.



For 6 weeks during September and the beginning of October 2024, I spent several days full-filling an art residency at Bill's Attic. My reaction to this fascinating place was captured through various art works which were shown as a solo show simply titled 'Attic'. I chose to showcase the work over a short period of time at the G12 Contemporary Art Space at Krowji in Redruth, Cornwall, which was was within close proximity to Bill's Attic.
The images below show the curation of the gallery space, a small film which was projected onto the wall, and also a detailed 'walk-through' of the show.

A view of 'Attic' show from the immediate left of the door. Work was curated to flow from left to right with bright reds becoming green becoming a dark blue sapphire. Spotlights sat in situ creating intended shadows and the work ranged from painting to sculpture, installation to film, and a collection of small paper works.

Words on the wall. An intro to the show

Feelings at the end of the show. 20+ artworks made over a very short period of time which included a residency and full curation, set-up and take-down of a solo show. A challenge to myself fulfilled.

Film made during a month long residency at Bill's Attic. Shown as part of my solo 'Attic' show, October 2024

Taking a moment to reflect on work produced for 'Attic'.

A full walk-through of my 'Attic' show. October 2024

Throughout December and January four artists have been sharing a space as part of a group residency at Back Lane West gallery in Redruth. We decided to to open up the space at the mid-way point to show what we've all been working on. It was a great opportunity to challenge ourselves and see how we could curate a show between us. We were really pleased with the result and had some amazing feedback. The exhibit was only on for a night and a day but we're planning to open up again towards the end of January. Artists in residence are Ben Davies, Emma Digerud-White, Ruth Bateman, and myself. Unfortunately Ruth couldn't take part in the first show but will be with us in Jan.

L-R - A.Todd, Emma Digerud-White, & Ben Davies

Group Residency Show at Back Lane West, Redruth, Cornwall

My 'corner film'

A Darker Christmas show at Sudio Kind, Braunton, Devon. The idea for this show was put together by Ruth Bateman and Jody Medland after a conversation they had the previous year about Christmas time often being a challenging and difficult one, and not always the joyous time it's made out to be. The exhibition featured an eclectic range of work from artists across the South West of the UK and held several events over the two weeks of opening. Poetry, performances, talks highlighting mental health, and carol singing were featured and there was a lot of joy to be found too.
I had two pieces of work selected. 
'Rhodopsin' (seen on the right, in the image below, next to a Stephanie Lamb etching) and 'Augoeides' which stood freely in the centre of the gallery.

A Darker Christmas show at Studio Kind, Devon

I had a really wonderful experience showing work at 'Derelict' in London recently.
I'd been looking for abandoned spaces to show work and was pointed in the direction of this exhibit which was being organised and curated by Uncovered Collective. 
The Safehouse is two abandoned Victorian homes next to each other in Peckham. It has previously held several exhibitions and is an incredible location which was very fitting for my selected piece of work, Thorax.
Being on site whilst the curation was taking place, I was very grateful to be able to have some input. After noticing an area of pink wall that almost perfectly matched parts of my work, I was given the go ahead to hang it myself. There were so many holes already in the wall, I didn't even need a drill.
"did you paint the pink on your work afterwards, to match the wall?"
The exhibition was very atmospheric and their was some amazing work on show. It was everything I'd been looking for and I'm excited to create more experiences like this in future. 

Footage of 'Derelict' show at The Safehouse, Peckham, London

November 2023

An interview with Jesse Leeroy-Smith as part of PULSE show at Tremenheere Gardens Gallery

June 2023

An interview with Faye Dobinson as part of her 'In Conversation With' series.

45 Queen Street, Penzance

July 2023

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