About
Artist's Statement:
Through my socially engaged multidisciplinary practice I focus on the ground level to explore intersections between culture, ecology and urban/suburban space. I am drawn to places undergoing turbulance so I can explore the untethering of things. My research usually starts by walking and making collections.
Bio:
Current work includes commissions for Coventy Biennial of Contemporary Art 2023. Recent work includes, residency and publication 'Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand' for Coventy Biennial of Contemporary Art, group shows 'Hotel Artopia' & 'Skyscraper Stories', Graduate residency, solo exhibition and soundwalk 'Library of Litter' 2021 with Coventry Artspace. Selected for Cellophane Wrapper, Flora & Fauna Creative Showcase, The Wrong Biennale, Coventry Open 2023. Commissions for: Coventry Artspace Artist-on-my-street, Eco-friendly words & images 2022 & Small is Beautiful at The Core, Solihull. Social art collaboration with Workshop 24 as Radio Public; Art Festival on Dudley High Street & Radio Public Library at Brierley Hill Market. Workshops include experimenting with print texture and sculpture, and exploring sense of place with printing, sculpture and found objects.
Education: Currently studying MLitt Art & Archaeology at UHI, Orkney 2022-25 (2nd Yr P/T). BA Hons (First) Fine Art & Contemporary Culture, 2019, University of Gloucestershire, BA Hons History of Art, English and Media & Communications, 1993, University of Wolverhampton.
I live and work in the West Midlands, UK. I have a studio with Coventry Artspace and am a member of Coventry ArtSpace board of trustees and advisory board. DBS checked & PLI.
Please contact me for contemporary art commissions and workshops.
Through my socially engaged multidisciplinary practice I focus on the ground level to explore intersections between culture, ecology and urban/suburban space. I am drawn to places undergoing turbulance so I can explore the untethering of things. My research usually starts by walking and making collections.
Bio:
Current work includes commissions for Coventy Biennial of Contemporary Art 2023. Recent work includes, residency and publication 'Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand' for Coventy Biennial of Contemporary Art, group shows 'Hotel Artopia' & 'Skyscraper Stories', Graduate residency, solo exhibition and soundwalk 'Library of Litter' 2021 with Coventry Artspace. Selected for Cellophane Wrapper, Flora & Fauna Creative Showcase, The Wrong Biennale, Coventry Open 2023. Commissions for: Coventry Artspace Artist-on-my-street, Eco-friendly words & images 2022 & Small is Beautiful at The Core, Solihull. Social art collaboration with Workshop 24 as Radio Public; Art Festival on Dudley High Street & Radio Public Library at Brierley Hill Market. Workshops include experimenting with print texture and sculpture, and exploring sense of place with printing, sculpture and found objects.
Education: Currently studying MLitt Art & Archaeology at UHI, Orkney 2022-25 (2nd Yr P/T). BA Hons (First) Fine Art & Contemporary Culture, 2019, University of Gloucestershire, BA Hons History of Art, English and Media & Communications, 1993, University of Wolverhampton.
I live and work in the West Midlands, UK. I have a studio with Coventry Artspace and am a member of Coventry ArtSpace board of trustees and advisory board. DBS checked & PLI.
Please contact me for contemporary art commissions and workshops.
Research still.
Current/Upcoming
2023 Hotel Artopia Group show, Coventry Artspace Arcadia Gallery
2023 September Observation Station ~ Museum of St Mary's Allotments Art Trail. Open during Heritage Open Days - weekends only
2023 October'Blue Rec' & 'Cabinets of Renegotiation' Commission for Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art ...like a shortcut through the brambles
2023 October 7 & November 24Workshops with Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art
2023 NovemberPrint 7 Sculpture Workshops Warwick University Arts Centre
Recent Activity:
2023 August Anthotype Workshop with Coventry Mothers Who Make
2023 August Summer Show Eastside Projects, Digbeth
2023 August Radio Public Library, Brierley Hill with Radio Public Collective
2023 July Cellophane Wrapper
2023 The Dreaming: Mothers who make a garden Image and poem. Coventry Biennial 2023.
2023 Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand Photo essay. Published by Coventry Biennial 2023.
2023 Coventry Open 2023
2023 March: Buffer Group exhibition
2023 February: Open Studio
2022 October: Flora & Fauna Exhibition (Highly Commended)
2022 September: Museum of St Mary’s’ Art Trail
2022 August: Skyscraper Stories Group show and experimental print workshop
2022 June: Radio Public Collaborative art festival
2022 May: Reveil 9
2022 April: bag.play.art London
2022 March: Eco-friendly words and images You Can Trust in Pioneer Plants
2022: Oak Mother IWD22 Film Programme
2022 'Exploring Collections' step-up course with OutsideIn
2022 Jan: Calling Earth Stars AR installation, Solihull
2021 - 2022 Ground Level Interference Soundwalk, Coventry
2021 Nov Crow Papers Commission
2021 Nov Drowning in Plastic Group exhibition
2021 'Moving Our Futures' Artist's Lab with Moto Fest and Coventry University
2021 'Leading Workshops Online' step-up course with OutsideIn
2021 Residency at Coventry Biennial HyperLab renovations
2021 3 - 17 April Open Fragment online show Pragmata Collective
2021 Jan 26 - 7 Feb: Library of Litter SOLO SHOW, Coventry ArtSpace, City Arcadia Gallery
2020/19 Graduate Artist-in-Residence with Coventry ArtSpace
2020 July: Temperance, Re-opening
2020 April: Selected for 'THE CLUNKER' Norfolk & Norwich Festival (Postponed)
2020 April: Selected for Unas Multorium Plas Bodfa, Anglesey
2020 Feb 27 Human Oak at Classroom, Open Studio, Holyhead Studios, collaboration with Tara Rutledge
2020 Jan: 'falls the shadow' Router, The Wrong Biennale
2019 Nov: The Holodeck Risobook 2 'Future Critical' publication
2019 Aug: Coventry Printmakers Inaugural Open Call Exhibition, Class Room
2019 Sep: Subterraneous Selected as part of the North Pennines AONB Partnership’s Cold-blooded and Spineless project
2019 Mar: Open Exhibition for artists in the West Midlands Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
2019 SLURP Degree Exhibition
2019 TASTER Group Exhibition, Leamington Spa
2018 The other side of June
2017 RBSA Open All Media
2017 AMA Member's Exhibition Rugby Museum & Art Gallery
2017 Exhibition for artists in the West Midlands Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
Currently installed
2022 Jan: Calling Earth Stars Augmented reality installation, Parabola & The Core, Solihull
2021 Nov - 2022 Jan: Crow Papers Coventry Artspace Artist on my Street, Hillfields, Coventry
Publications:
2023 Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand Photo essay. Published by Coventry Biennial 2023. From residency at The Empire renovations.
2021 Seeds from stolen ground The Garden Zine
2021 BLOG: Anatomy of a Smile
Coventry ArtSpace Graduate Artist-in-Residence Blogs
2020 & Nov 2019
Commissions:
2023 October'Blue Rec' & 'Cabinets of Renegotiation' Installation. Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art ...like a shortcut through the brambles
2022: Calling Earth Stars Augmented reality installation, Parabola & The Core, Solihull
2021 Nov - 2022 Jan: Coventry Artspace Artist on my Street, Crow Recycling, Hillfields, Coventry Crow Papers
2021 Making Art in the Public Realm Board game-based training course in collaboration with artist Helen Kilby Nelson for Coventry ArtSpace.
2021 Navigating Disaster Board game-based training course in collaboration with artist Helen Kilby Nelson for Coventry ArtSpace.
2021 Talking Birds Nest Bond 10 Screenprint design
2020 Coventry ArtSpace Illustrations for Artist Development Research
2023 Hotel Artopia Group show, Coventry Artspace Arcadia Gallery
2023 September Observation Station ~ Museum of St Mary's Allotments Art Trail. Open during Heritage Open Days - weekends only
2023 October'Blue Rec' & 'Cabinets of Renegotiation' Commission for Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art ...like a shortcut through the brambles
2023 October 7 & November 24Workshops with Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art
2023 NovemberPrint 7 Sculpture Workshops Warwick University Arts Centre
Recent Activity:
2023 August Anthotype Workshop with Coventry Mothers Who Make
2023 August Summer Show Eastside Projects, Digbeth
2023 August Radio Public Library, Brierley Hill with Radio Public Collective
2023 July Cellophane Wrapper
2023 The Dreaming: Mothers who make a garden Image and poem. Coventry Biennial 2023.
2023 Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand Photo essay. Published by Coventry Biennial 2023.
2023 Coventry Open 2023
2023 March: Buffer Group exhibition
2023 February: Open Studio
2022 October: Flora & Fauna Exhibition (Highly Commended)
2022 September: Museum of St Mary’s’ Art Trail
2022 August: Skyscraper Stories Group show and experimental print workshop
2022 June: Radio Public Collaborative art festival
2022 May: Reveil 9
2022 April: bag.play.art London
2022 March: Eco-friendly words and images You Can Trust in Pioneer Plants
2022: Oak Mother IWD22 Film Programme
2022 'Exploring Collections' step-up course with OutsideIn
2022 Jan: Calling Earth Stars AR installation, Solihull
2021 - 2022 Ground Level Interference Soundwalk, Coventry
2021 Nov Crow Papers Commission
2021 Nov Drowning in Plastic Group exhibition
2021 'Moving Our Futures' Artist's Lab with Moto Fest and Coventry University
2021 'Leading Workshops Online' step-up course with OutsideIn
2021 Residency at Coventry Biennial HyperLab renovations
2021 3 - 17 April Open Fragment online show Pragmata Collective
2021 Jan 26 - 7 Feb: Library of Litter SOLO SHOW, Coventry ArtSpace, City Arcadia Gallery
2020/19 Graduate Artist-in-Residence with Coventry ArtSpace
2020 July: Temperance, Re-opening
2020 April: Selected for 'THE CLUNKER' Norfolk & Norwich Festival (Postponed)
2020 April: Selected for Unas Multorium Plas Bodfa, Anglesey
2020 Feb 27 Human Oak at Classroom, Open Studio, Holyhead Studios, collaboration with Tara Rutledge
2020 Jan: 'falls the shadow' Router, The Wrong Biennale
2019 Nov: The Holodeck Risobook 2 'Future Critical' publication
2019 Aug: Coventry Printmakers Inaugural Open Call Exhibition, Class Room
2019 Sep: Subterraneous Selected as part of the North Pennines AONB Partnership’s Cold-blooded and Spineless project
2019 Mar: Open Exhibition for artists in the West Midlands Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
2019 SLURP Degree Exhibition
2019 TASTER Group Exhibition, Leamington Spa
2018 The other side of June
2017 RBSA Open All Media
2017 AMA Member's Exhibition Rugby Museum & Art Gallery
2017 Exhibition for artists in the West Midlands Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
Currently installed
2022 Jan: Calling Earth Stars Augmented reality installation, Parabola & The Core, Solihull
2021 Nov - 2022 Jan: Crow Papers Coventry Artspace Artist on my Street, Hillfields, Coventry
Publications:
2023 Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand Photo essay. Published by Coventry Biennial 2023. From residency at The Empire renovations.
2021 Seeds from stolen ground The Garden Zine
2021 BLOG: Anatomy of a Smile
Coventry ArtSpace Graduate Artist-in-Residence Blogs
2020 & Nov 2019
Commissions:
2023 October'Blue Rec' & 'Cabinets of Renegotiation' Installation. Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art ...like a shortcut through the brambles
2022: Calling Earth Stars Augmented reality installation, Parabola & The Core, Solihull
2021 Nov - 2022 Jan: Coventry Artspace Artist on my Street, Crow Recycling, Hillfields, Coventry Crow Papers
2021 Making Art in the Public Realm Board game-based training course in collaboration with artist Helen Kilby Nelson for Coventry ArtSpace.
2021 Navigating Disaster Board game-based training course in collaboration with artist Helen Kilby Nelson for Coventry ArtSpace.
2021 Talking Birds Nest Bond 10 Screenprint design
2020 Coventry ArtSpace Illustrations for Artist Development Research