About
Artist's Statement:
Through my socially engaged multidisciplinary practice I focus on the ground level to explore intersections between culture and ecology and urban geography. I am drawn to spaces undergoing turbulance so I can explore the unthethering of things. My research usually starts by walking and making collections of found objects.
Bio:
Recent work includes, solo exhibition and soundwalk 'Library of Litter' 2021, selected for Flora & Fauna Creative Showcase, The Wrong Biennale, Coventry Open 2023, graduate residency with Coventry Artspace, commissions for 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, residency and publication 'Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand' for Coventy Biennial of Contemporary Art. Workshops include experimenting with print texture and sculpture, and exploring sense of place with printing, sculpture and found objects.
Education: BA Hons (First) Fine Art & Contemporary Culture, 2019, University of Gloucestershire, BA Hons History of Art, English and Media & Communications, 1993, University of Wolverhampton. Currently MA Art & Archaeology at UHI, Orkney 2022-25.
I live and work in the West Midlands, UK. Studio space at Coventry Artspace Eaton House. 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 and ecology and urban geography. I am drawn to spaces undergoing turbulance so I can explore the unthethering of things. My research usually starts by walking and making collections of found objects.
Bio:
Recent work includes, solo exhibition and soundwalk 'Library of Litter' 2021, selected for Flora & Fauna Creative Showcase, The Wrong Biennale, Coventry Open 2023, graduate residency with Coventry Artspace, commissions for 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, residency and publication 'Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand' for Coventy Biennial of Contemporary Art. Workshops include experimenting with print texture and sculpture, and exploring sense of place with printing, sculpture and found objects.
Education: BA Hons (First) Fine Art & Contemporary Culture, 2019, University of Gloucestershire, BA Hons History of Art, English and Media & Communications, 1993, University of Wolverhampton. Currently MA Art & Archaeology at UHI, Orkney 2022-25.
I live and work in the West Midlands, UK. Studio space at Coventry Artspace Eaton House. Member of Coventry ArtSpace board of trustees and advisory board. DBS checked & PLI.
Please contact me for contemporary art commissions and workshops.
Research still.
Upcoming
2023 July Cellophane Wrapper
2023 August Radio Public Library, Brierley Hill
2023 OctoberCommission for Coventry Biennial ...like a shortcut through the brambles
2023 OctoberWorkshops
2023 NovemberTextures Workshops Warwick University Arts Centre
2023 Group Show
Recent Activity:
2023 The Dreaming: Mothers who make a garden Image and poem. Coventry Biennial 2023.
2023 Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand Publication for 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 Coventry Biennial. 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:
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 July Cellophane Wrapper
2023 August Radio Public Library, Brierley Hill
2023 OctoberCommission for Coventry Biennial ...like a shortcut through the brambles
2023 OctoberWorkshops
2023 NovemberTextures Workshops Warwick University Arts Centre
2023 Group Show
Recent Activity:
2023 The Dreaming: Mothers who make a garden Image and poem. Coventry Biennial 2023.
2023 Cracks in the moon and aliens in the sand Publication for 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 Coventry Biennial. 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:
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