Early work combined life-size figure drawing with diaristic text, candid photography, and video installation. After graduating he took part in and curated group exhibitions across Yorkshire, and in 1998 he won First Prize at The Bradford Open at Cartwright Hall. His practice now focuses on intimate, psychologically charged portrait and figure studies that explore memory, identity, and the passage of time. He has been featured in Portraits for NHS Heroes (Bloomsbury Caravel, 2020), and his work is held in private collections in the UK and internationally.

2025 · Brighton Festival (group), Thomas Rainsford Gallery, Brighton, UK
2004 · Post Everything (group), The Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK
2003 · Lo-Res (group), The Freebutt, Brighton, UK
2001 · Feeling is Everything (group), Gallery II, Bradford, UK
2000 · Plan 27 (group), Yorkshire Arts & Craft Centre, Bradford, UK
2000 · Vim & Vigour (group), S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK
1999 · Young Professionals (group), Love Apple Cafe, Bradford, UK
1999 · Don’t Come Easy (group), E-Street Arts, Leeds, UK
1999 · Unconditional Love (group), Priestley Centre for the Arts, Bradford, UK
1998 · Bradford Open (group), Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK
1998 · Dilute to Taste (group), Windows Gallery, Bradford, UK
1998 · Virgin Exhibitionists (group), Delius Lived Next Door, Bradford, UK

Masi Amarone della Valpolicella Classico ‘Costasera’
A sumptuous, concentrated Italian red with dried-cherry and dark-fruit richness, layers of spice and a velvety finish.

Why it pairs with Gray Simpson
His work explores how the body shapes itself through routine and balance. Amarone brings that bodied presence, generous, enveloping, intensely tactile, yet it resolves into a poised, harmonious finish. It’s exuberance with control, like a figure under tension that holds perfect balance.