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about

i am a visual artist working across the fields of painting, illustration and applied art. i’m a member of nous vous, a collaborative practice founded in 2006.

i’m interested in creating improvised images that exist at the boundary of legibility; between the pictorial and the abstract.
i have an ongoing research interest in collaborative and hybrid processes such as machine drawing/painting.

as an illustrator, i am adept at making bold, playful & highly communicative images with collage and (sometimes) line.

i lecture on ba illustration at camberwell college of arts and work on educational / visual art projects with institutions around the world.







selected exhibitions, awards, talks & residencies

2025
  • back to my trees, terrace gallery, london uk
  • tutor, sfk international summer school, beijing cn

2024
  • grog blossoms, paddlers cafe, tokyo jp
  • tutor, sfk international summer school, beijing cn
  • arts council england, dycp award

2023
  • cuaderno blah blah blah, bangarang, valencia es
  • small but mighty, bankside galleries, london uk
  • the window project, wilton way, london uk
  • recreo artists book fair, ivam, valencia es
  • lead artist, designlab nation, v&a, london uk

2022
  • gold teeth, utrecht, tokyo jp

2021
  • gold teeth, sioribi, nagano JP
  • nicolas burrows x stamps collection launch, tokyo jp

2019
  • folk, utrecht/now idea, tokyo jp
  • abstract waffle, paddlers coffee, tokyo jp
  • playing with tradition, idee store, tokyo jp
  • burrows/luz, studio gris, tokyo jp
  • speaker, yeti conference, porto pt



2018

  • abstract waffle, senhora presidenta, porto pt

2016-17
  • three men in a boat (exhibition & residency), house of illustration, london uk

2015
  • micromegas, wizard, oslo no
  • flim flam flum, kk outlet, london uk
  • facebook artist in residency, menlo park us

2014
  • a watery line, the tetley, leeds uk
  • this is how we walk, kunstraum, berlin de
  • pick me up, somerset house, london uk

2013
  • new abstract, print house, london uk
  • chubby stumps, 38b, london uk

2010-12
  • hval, kornel, antwerp be
  • primaries, yes cincinnati us
  • now or ever, ter dilft, bornem be
  • real time, good press gallery, glasgow uk
  • colossal tomb, dama aflita pt
  • pick me up, somerset house, london uk
  • rotate, contemporary art society, london uk
  • if you could collaborate, a-foundation, london uk
  • workshop leader, ‘mash up’ project, ica, london uk

        (full cv on request)

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