Artist Statement

My practice interrogates the entanglements between traditional craft and contemporary digital culture, employing media including embroidery, collage, video, drawing, and speculative web-based forms. Across these modalities, I explore the tensions, absurdities, and contradictions that characterise 21st-century life. From hand-embroidered appropriations of unsolicited digital communications to Instagram-native artworks that function simultaneously as object, persona, and critique, my work examines how language, labour, and technology mediate identity and visibility. Rather than offering resolution or closure, these works invite viewers to engage with discomfort, ambiguity, and affective dissonance.

Artist Bio

Spike Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist whose work blends embroidery, collage, video, and digital culture. Originally from Wales, he studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art before completing a Master of Fine Arts. Now based back in Wales, his practice navigates the absurdities of 21st-century life, fusing handcraft and internet ephemera into strange, thoughtful works.

His work has been exhibited nationally at Oriel Davies, MK Gallery, and Ruthin Craft Centre, and internationally in cities including Los Angeles and Kaunas.