A long overdue exhibition with my Fine Art Degree buddy, Craig Hepworth. It has taken us quite a few years to bring this Faces | Places exhibition to light and it has been a great opportunity to have this exhibition at First Floor Space in Croydon.

Faces | Places holds a mirror up to our home towns encouraging the viewer to question what is home, why we are passionate about it, and ultimately what makes us care?

I’m passionate about architecture and keeping a watch on the significant changes of the surrounding urban concrete landscape. While Craig studies the human form, drawing people in their environment. He is often seen in his local Tooting pub with a pen and sketch book in hand studying the faces that make up his town.

In the exhibition we explore how our home towns are evolving. Through photography and drawing, we take each other’s subject matter and explore the places and faces of each other’s home towns and experience what makes up each town from a personal and outsiders point of view. What does the outsider see but the local miss? What does the local love, but the outsider loath? Is it the faces and places that make up where we live – whatever lens we look through?

Places | Faces at First Floor Space, Whitgift Centre, Croydon, 17-21 January.