Chapter 5: Reading University

University life: 2000 - 2004. I was to quickly find out that I wasn’t really ready to be either an English or Art student, but instead I stumbled upon another course that seemed to satisfy my visual problem-solving brain… As well as studying I was experiencing independent living and house-sharing for the first time…

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Chapter 4: The bike sheds

Adapting to life back in the UK, I was thrown into employment, then college for three years. It’s here my love for music really grew, as well as finding my feet in painting stories…

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