Tarzan Kingofthejungle
work︎︎︎
‘Ibid’, 2025 - fishing floats, 90 x 90 x 35cm
‘Untitled’ (1-11), 2024 - hand-carved gypsum ceiling tiles, 60 x 60 (each)
‘A Thousand-Armed Polyp’, 2023 - mixed-media installation, approx. 240 x 240 x 400 cm
‘Encephalitis’, 2023 - hand-carved gypsum ceiling tile, laser-cut mirrores Perspex, 60 x 120 cm
‘Macguffin 2 (bottle)’, 2023 - Evian bottle, fake ice, sand, glitter, scrabble pieces
‘Macguffin 1 (lantern)’, 2023 - battery powered LED lantern, fake ice, sand, glitter, scrabble pieces
‘Macguffin 3 (book)’, 2023 - ‘The Singularity is Near’ - Ray Kurzweil, fake ice, sand, glitter, scrabble pieces
‘Edifice, Epoch, Aether’, 2021 - 01:00 HD film (loop) installation
‘Winspit’, 2023 - giclee print of deckled edge Hahnemuhle bamboo paper, 96 x 41 cm
‘Crash 3’, 2021 - pencil, oil pastel and watercolour on paper, 19 x 30cm
‘Dog’, 2021 - 01:00 4K film (loop) (trailer)
‘777’, 2021 - lasercut mirror, 42 x 30 cm (each)
‘Macguffin 5 (1000 lumens)’, 2023 - battery powered LED lantern, aquarium gravel, dried wheat
‘It Set The Perfect Stage, Though The Curtain Time Was Vague’ (excerpt), 2022 - 13:00 HD film
‘MacGuffin/Vertebra (failure)’, 2020 - plaster sculpture, 90 x 60 x 110 cm
(installation view at ‘Artifice, Ripped’, a group show at The Bomb Factory, London, March 2023)
‘Fruitless Descent’, 2023 - 4-channel video installation (03:38 loop)
‘Untitled’, 2020 - pencil on paper, 30 x 100 cm
‘Untitled (Lambzan)’, 2019 - print on paper, 29 x 42 cm
CV
Shows
‘Planned Obsolescence’ Curated by Chaney Manshu Diao and Juliusz Grabianski, Seager Gallery, London, 2025
‘Greenhouse’ Curated by Ben Raz and Jean Watt, Set, London, 2024
‘Log 2: NovoStruct Hard Hat Area’ Plicnik Space Initiative, London, 2024
‘Half Truths’, Curated by Vanessa Murrell, London, 2023
Troubled Water (Rea!), Lampo, Milan, 2023
OTO (RCA x LUX Moving Image), Fold, London, 2023
Artifice, (Ripped), The Bomb Factory , London, 2023
Babele (Curated by Caspar Giorgio Williams), Spazio Musa, Turin, 2023
Rea! Art Fair, Fabricca Del Vapore, Milan, 2022
Not Long But Very Good, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2021
Slade Degree Show, London, 2021
A Way to Break Through, online show, 2020
Melon Cauli, Carolines Garden’s Chapel, London, 2019
Themselves Warehouse Festival, Unit 8, Copeland park, London, 2019
Art Show, Safehouse 1, London, 2019
Boys Don’t Cry, Karma Sanctum, London, 2019
Boys Don’t Cry, Candid Arts Trust, London, 2018
Themselves: Group Show, Five Bells , London, 2018
Publications, etc.
Worthwhile Unions #03 with Anna Clegg, Resonance Extra, 2023
Rea! Exhibiton Prize, Milan, 2022
Era Journal - Issue 15: ‘Up and Away’, 2022
Round Table Discusion: Emerging Technologies and Art, UCL Art Futures and Serpentine Gallery, 2021
Era Journal - Issue 14: ‘Get Real’, 2021
Thing 018: From the Drained Pool, Form IV, 2021
Collage, Or: A Fair Day’s Fiddle, Themselves Publication, 2020
Education
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, BFA, 2021
Kingston University, Foundation, 2017
About
My practice involves constructing situations or scenes, often composed of borrowed elements such as props, lines, symbols or characters, isolated and stripped of their contexts. (e.g. a discarded lantern, a lens flare, a soundtrack) I experiment with these elements by dismantling, manipulating or rearranging them to see how meaning emerges and shifts. I usually work in film, installation, performance and writing. I am interested in belief systems—religious, esoteric, secular, and philosophical—and particularly in their accompanying allegorical tales, which tend to drive my research. Recently, I have been thinking about the mechanics of storytelling, including narrative structure, character archetypes, cinematic tools and techniques employed by filmmakers, the cultural osmosis that occurs as fairytales evolve and spread, and the evolution of fiction from its prehistoric beginnings to its various forms and uses today.