Artist

Website:
gommie.com

Instagram:
instagram.com/gommie_poem

My Practice Depends On Walking Vast Lengths Of The UK, Writing And Painting Poems On Maps, Based On The Amazing Things People From Different (Often Forgotten) Communities Say To Me. I Navigate An Area With An OS Map Which, Economically, Becomes My Canvas, And I Use Whatever Paint, Ink, Mud Or Texture Is To Hand To Create Each Piece. The Result Is A Picture Bursting With Life And Colour Reporting From The Coleface On One Of The The Most Difficult Times In Recent History. I Won “Best Artist” At The Other Art Fair 2019, Winning A Mentorship With Kate Bryan And My Work Being Used In The Soho House Collection. Messums Gallery Offered Me An Exhibition In January, Which Made The Metro And The Oxford Times.

GENERAL INFORMATION 

Born In Oxfordshire, UK, 1985.

Worked As A Actor Until 2017 Then Moved Into Visual Art And Performance.

Currently Lives And Works All Over The UK, Travel Being Essential To His Practice.

EDUCATION 

2008  1st Degree Honors, Central St Martins, Acting

EXHIBITIONS 

2019  Selected Works,  Messums Gallery,  London

2019  Waving Not Drowning (Loyal Carner Album Launch), House Of Vans, London

2020 Selected Works, Messums Gallery, Online Exhibition Due To Covid 2020

2020 Unmasked, Daniel Raphael Gallery, Online Groupe Exhibition Due To Covid 2020

2020  Bursting Myths, What Search And Rescue Really Feels Like, Refugee Rescue, Online

Exhibition Due To Covid 2020

PUBLICATIONS

2020  Rising Art Stars Of 2020, Glossier Magazine

2019  When They Start To Love You As A Machine You Should Run, (Poetry) New River Press Yearbook

2018  Year Of The Propaganda And The Corrupt Plebiscites, (Poetry) New River Press Yearbook

2017  The Obsession Issue, Unblock Magazine

HONORS

2019  Soho House Mentorship Award With Kate Bryan, The Other Art Fair

2019  This Pen Is A Biro Pen, Outspoken Finalist, Visual Poem Of The Year.