Echoes (2025)

Commissioned work — Tate Liverpool × Liverpool Hope University Symposium (Turner archive response, 2025).

Oil on Canvas, 152 × 200 cm, presented with studio experiments.

In February 2025, I was commissioned to produce a new work for the annual symposium delivered in collaboration with Tate Liverpool. The commission invited one student from each discipline to respond to a selection of J.M.W. Turner’s sketches held in the Tate archive. Echoes was presented publicly as part of the symposium within a cross-disciplinary programme of talks and presentations.

In preparing for the event, I spent time with Turner’s sketches and felt an immediate resonance with their speed and the way they function as thinking-in-motion. I treat my studio walls as a kind of sketchbook - working through loose studies on paper that later feed into larger paintings. The symposium gave me a context to speak about that process: how research can happen through making, and how an encounter with historical material can sharpen what I’m already testing in the studio - colour, rhythm, and decisions made.