Education
2005-2007 MA Communication Design, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design - Distinction
1991-1994 BA (Hons) Textiles, Manchester Metropolitan University - 2:1
1989-1991 Foundation Course Art & Design, St Helens College, Institute of Art & Design - Highly Commended
Commissions and Public Art
2022 A jump of t’ pantry door and a bite of t’ latch - Commission from St Helens Libraries and Heritage
2020 Heritage Noticeboard designs - Commission for Platform Thirty1, Derbyshire
2018 Libraries, Automata and The Big Draw - Commission for Inspire, Nottingham
2018 Festival Triptych - Commission for Wirksworth Arts Festival with community engagement
2017 Art on The Model - Commission for New Bolsover Model Village with community engagement
2015 'Hidden Spires' - Visual artist for theatre production, Old Fire Station, Oxford
2015 'The rocks beneath us and the hills around us' - Commission for Folly park view
2014 'Bringing the outside inside' - Commission for Whiteleaf Hospital, Aylesbury
2013 Window signage - Commission for Old Fire Station, Oxford
2011 'Change' - Opening commission for the refurbished Old Fire Station, Oxford
2008 Window panel designs - Commission for Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford
Art Residencies and Workshops
2018 - date Platform Thirty1, Derbyshire - Lead Artist working with women and children in refuge
2018- 2020 Artcore, Derby - Art Tutor
2015-2016 Oxfordshire Hospital School, Oxford - Artist in Residence
2014 - 2016 Fairfield Residential Care Home, Oxford - Art Tutor
2011- 2013 Crisis Skylight Centre, Oxford - Art Tutor
2008-2016 St Andrews Primary School, Oxford - Art Club
2006-2007 Leckford Place School, Oxford - Head of Art & Design
Selected Exhibitions
2022: A jump of t’ pantry door and a bite of t’ latch Eccleston Library, St Helens
An installation artwork inspired by my mum’s recollections of growing up in St Helens from the late 1930s to the early 1960s.
2018: The Big Draw:Play Touring 4 Nottinghamshire Libraries
Exhibited artwork collated from workshops with schools in response to ‘When the Circus visited the Library’. The artwork created inspiration for automata artist ‘Keith Newstead’ to create a collection box for the libraries.
An article written about The Big Draw which features this work: https://thebigdraw.org/play2018-feature-spotlight-on-inspire-culture-learning--libraries
2013: Breaking of Tulips; unwrapping books University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Group show: Exhibited artwork in response to articles from an achive of Gardening Chronicles dating from 1800’s.
2010: Rearranging formulae; unwrapping books O3 Gallery, Oxford
Group show: Artists celebrating science. An imaginative transmutation of mathematical and scientific books and journals, selected and donated by Oxford University Press
Website of unwrappingbooks which features both of the above exhibitions: http://www.unwrappingbooks.info/
2009: What is crime? 198 Gallery, Brixton, London
Group show: Shortlisted Photography competition, challenging conventional thinking about harm, injustice and crime
2007: MA Communication Design The Mall Galleries, London
Group show: Final show: Central St Martins College of Art & Design
2006: Food for Thought OXO Gallery, London
Group show: Shortlisted Photography competition winners, in association with The Observer Food Monthly
Grants, Awards and Publications
Arts Council England: DYCP Award to develop my creative practice, working in collaboration with a master glassmaker
Design Week: Work published on front cover. Article and interview inside. 14 June 2007, volume 22, number 24
The Observer Food Monthly Photography Competition: Shortlisted from 7,000 entries. Work featured in the OFM magazine August 2006, No 65
START Magazine: Special feature discussing an art residency in an Oxford school
Artworks Young Artists of the Year Award: Certificate of Merit. Highly commended. Work created during residency at Isis Middle School, Oxford