C.V.
Residencies, exhibitions, awards & commissions
2019 (ongoing) Artist in Residence with Langdyke Countryside Trust. Research and creation fo new works, with community engagement including an art trail and exhibition. Raising awareness of the Trust’s work. With Sarah Lambert, photographer, and William Thompson, poet.
2019 Langdyke Stories, artist’s residency and community engagement with Art Pop-Up, in association with Langdyke Countryside Trust. Celebrating the wildlife, landscape, history, heritage, and the work of the Trust. I provided workshops and talks for 480+ and created a community artwork working with over 300 - building new networks & strengthening existing ones.
2018 Brief Encounters, residency with University of Leicester for British Science Week 2018, in collaboration with Gayle Price, the University’s Scientific Glassblower, focusing on DNA research.Exhibition at Newarke Houses Museum.
2017 The Collectors - six month residency with The National Centre for Craft & Design with commission to create a new body of work, exhibited at the Centre. Research with the Natural History Museum’s Principal Curator of Corals.
2016 Herbarium Finds - commission to create intervention for Derby Museum’s notice nature feel joy gallery
2016 Ten Ceramic Interventions By Ten Talented Makers, commission responding to Derby Museum’s historic porcelain collection. The resulting “Derby Impossible Cup” was inspired by a tiny 18th century cup and a piece of coral in their nature gallery.
2016 Found in the Fields, solo exhibition at The National Centre for Craft & Design, building on my work with the John Clare Trust. Collections of photography, porcelain, natural objects.
2015-17 Associate Artist with The John Clare Trust, including provision of a sculpture workshop for The Centre for John Clare Studies, Cambridge University.
2015 Concept, selected for exhibition of conceptual art at Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford
2015 Life Essence, joint exhibition at The Willoughby Memorial Trust Gallery
2015 “Found in the Fields Triptych” - public art commissioned for The Stamford Arts Festival; a triptych of porcelain tiles with miniature porcelain plants inspired by local woodlands and heritage. With Art Pop-Up.
2014 UnEarthed: John Clare, Arts Council funded group residency and exhibition with the John Clare Trust, marking 150 years since the poet John Clare’s death. Research with the Centre for John Clare Studies, Cambridge University. Installation of over 100 porcelain plants and lichens in the garden of the Trust’s museum. Toured to Northampton Museum & Gallery and City Gallery Peterborough.
2013 Fresh Take @Burghley, selected for an Arts Council funded conceptual arts residency at Burghley House, Stamford, with Art Pop-Up. The two pairs of life-sized sugar shoes created as interventions in the House. Research focused on the Tudor roof turrets (built to include rooms for eating sugar), historic uses of sugar, and the tales of two women who had lived at Burghley.
2012-13 Inspired By… 2012, selected for exhibition at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. “Contrasts” was a mixed media inspired by an ancient ewer in their collection.
2019 (ongoing) Artist in Residence with Langdyke Countryside Trust. Research and creation fo new works, with community engagement including an art trail and exhibition. Raising awareness of the Trust’s work. With Sarah Lambert, photographer, and William Thompson, poet.
2019 Langdyke Stories, artist’s residency and community engagement with Art Pop-Up, in association with Langdyke Countryside Trust. Celebrating the wildlife, landscape, history, heritage, and the work of the Trust. I provided workshops and talks for 480+ and created a community artwork working with over 300 - building new networks & strengthening existing ones.
2018 Brief Encounters, residency with University of Leicester for British Science Week 2018, in collaboration with Gayle Price, the University’s Scientific Glassblower, focusing on DNA research.Exhibition at Newarke Houses Museum.
2017 The Collectors - six month residency with The National Centre for Craft & Design with commission to create a new body of work, exhibited at the Centre. Research with the Natural History Museum’s Principal Curator of Corals.
2016 Herbarium Finds - commission to create intervention for Derby Museum’s notice nature feel joy gallery
2016 Ten Ceramic Interventions By Ten Talented Makers, commission responding to Derby Museum’s historic porcelain collection. The resulting “Derby Impossible Cup” was inspired by a tiny 18th century cup and a piece of coral in their nature gallery.
2016 Found in the Fields, solo exhibition at The National Centre for Craft & Design, building on my work with the John Clare Trust. Collections of photography, porcelain, natural objects.
2015-17 Associate Artist with The John Clare Trust, including provision of a sculpture workshop for The Centre for John Clare Studies, Cambridge University.
2015 Concept, selected for exhibition of conceptual art at Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford
2015 Life Essence, joint exhibition at The Willoughby Memorial Trust Gallery
2015 “Found in the Fields Triptych” - public art commissioned for The Stamford Arts Festival; a triptych of porcelain tiles with miniature porcelain plants inspired by local woodlands and heritage. With Art Pop-Up.
2014 UnEarthed: John Clare, Arts Council funded group residency and exhibition with the John Clare Trust, marking 150 years since the poet John Clare’s death. Research with the Centre for John Clare Studies, Cambridge University. Installation of over 100 porcelain plants and lichens in the garden of the Trust’s museum. Toured to Northampton Museum & Gallery and City Gallery Peterborough.
2013 Fresh Take @Burghley, selected for an Arts Council funded conceptual arts residency at Burghley House, Stamford, with Art Pop-Up. The two pairs of life-sized sugar shoes created as interventions in the House. Research focused on the Tudor roof turrets (built to include rooms for eating sugar), historic uses of sugar, and the tales of two women who had lived at Burghley.
2012-13 Inspired By… 2012, selected for exhibition at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. “Contrasts” was a mixed media inspired by an ancient ewer in their collection.
Mentoring, Training and Workshops
2021 Artist Mentor for Sanctuary at Deeping Lakes art residency with Art Pop-Up and Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
2020/22 online community engagement workshops for Back from the Brink
2020 SPARK, with Art Pop-Up - research and development programme to gain better understanding of local barriers and exclusion to participation in the visual arts. Building relationships, running online workshops, facilitating and promoting engagement.
2018 Vivacity’s Must Farm / “Place to Be” school workshops - clay workshops for over 600 KS2 children focused on Must Farm and Antony Gormley’s “Place to Be”
2018 Masterclass for University Centre Rotherham art degree student
2017 Printmaking and sculpture workshops for Black to Green & Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, onsite at their nature reserves.
2016 miniature sculpture workshops for City College Peterborough, at a community garden
2015 Talk for Sponsors of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.
2014 INSET training for teachers and support staff from three primary schools, including sculpture and sketchbooks.
2021 Artist Mentor for Sanctuary at Deeping Lakes art residency with Art Pop-Up and Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
2020/22 online community engagement workshops for Back from the Brink
2020 SPARK, with Art Pop-Up - research and development programme to gain better understanding of local barriers and exclusion to participation in the visual arts. Building relationships, running online workshops, facilitating and promoting engagement.
2018 Vivacity’s Must Farm / “Place to Be” school workshops - clay workshops for over 600 KS2 children focused on Must Farm and Antony Gormley’s “Place to Be”
2018 Masterclass for University Centre Rotherham art degree student
2017 Printmaking and sculpture workshops for Black to Green & Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, onsite at their nature reserves.
2016 miniature sculpture workshops for City College Peterborough, at a community garden
2015 Talk for Sponsors of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.
2014 INSET training for teachers and support staff from three primary schools, including sculpture and sketchbooks.
