Gommie is a Poetartist. He incorporates the written word, performance, painting and travel into his work. Gommie trained and worked as an actor before moving into the visual arts in 2016, as a response to Brexit. He quickly made a name for himself, winning "The Soho House Mentorship award" chosen by Kate Bryan and produced solo shows with Messums Gallery and Daniel Raphael gallery. He has worked with mental health charity CALM, Hauser & Wirth and Bonhams. He has also published a collection of poems and sketches, "I am ill with hope" with Salamander Street.
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Waving Not Drowning (Loyal Carner Album Launch Exhibition), House Of Vans, London
2020 Selected Works, Messums Gallery, London
2020 if you like you can just snog me and drop me off at the hospital, Messums Gallery, london
2021 The Top 100, The Auction Collective, London
2021 Poems on things, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London
2022 Like When There is hope I can Dream, Hauser & Wirth, London
2023 Text me when you can, Bonham’s gallery, Woolwich Print fair London
2023 soho house art fair, Babington house, Frome
2023 Soho House Permanent collection
PUBLISHED
2022 i am ill with hope, poems and sketches by gommie, Salamander street
2020 Rising art stars of 2020, Glossier Magazine
2019 When they start to love you as a machine you should run, (poetry) New River Press Yearbook
2018 Year of the propaganda and the corrupt plebiscites, (poetry) New River Press Yearbook
2017 The Obsession Issue, Unblock Magazine
HONORS
2019 Soho House Mentorship award with Kate Bryan, The Other Art Fair
2019 This Pen Is A Biro Pen, Outspoken finalist, visual poem of the year.