For fifteen years, I worked across the UK with participatory arts; facilitating workshops, producing events, festivals and consultations - mostly with a determined focus on access and enabling voice - outdoor exhibitions, a banner of community faces from Burnley taken to Parliament, creating improvised theatre, mime and movement with audience members. I worked with organisations including Groundwork, Action Factory, English Heritage, Manchester Arts International.
While studying online, I painted, designed posters, album covers, and illustrations,
featured in Wire Magazine, Creative Review and Positive News. Life and sudden onset of cPTSD interrupted the completion of my Open University degree, exposing a deep resistance to a computer-based life. I began working as a cleaner, school dinner lady, veg box delivery driver and other roles.
I have spent the last 6 years living in and learning to manage 7 acres of woodland and meadowland, with a rare opportunity to explore a singular human relationship with a land through art and writing. As nature collapsed and renewed around me, I saw a model of recovery for the trauma and cPTSD that had debilitated me.
Exhibitions - Group Shows unless stated
Shelter - sculpture- Christie’s, London 2026
Our Turn - sculptures - Loading Bay, Bradford 2025
Shelter - The New Art Gallery, Walsall 2025
A Sense of Place - sculptures - Woodend Gallery, Scarborough Museum 2025
Celf ar Waliau Exhibition - sculpture - Mill Gallery, Leeds 2024
Climate Emergency - sculptures - Northlight Art Gallery, Hebden Bridge 2023
Bankley (Ones to Watch) - sculpture, Bankley Gallery, Manchester 2023
Cellophane Pie - Installation- Proteus Gallery, Basingstoke 2023
Art Lab ‘Grief Composting’ - sculpture, Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax 2022
Bad Bandage - Response to Grenfell - photography, Spilt Milk Gallery, online, 2021
Isolation - ‘Bird’s Nest’ sculpture Sowerby Bridge Church 2015
Domestic Bliss - interactive sound sculptures, Science of Sound Festival Bradford 2011
This Way Up - giant outdoor collage, Bread Collective, Manchester 2008
Womb - ceramic and seed installation, Chapman Gallery, Salford 2005
Bad Dream - collages, Chaat Gallery, Shoreditch, London 2007
Dream Workers - ceramics, Tourist Information, Hebden Bridge, 2005
Body - paintings and illustrations - Solo show, Three Wise Monkeys, Todmorden 2004
Hebden Bridge Sculpture Trail - Sweet Drops - sugar and cotton sculptures, 2003
Professional Development
Unbound, public art mentoring as part of Our Year: Wakefield District 2024/5
Northern Expressions with Scarborough Museums and Galleries 2024
DYCP Arts Council England Funding 2023/24
Features in Publications
09/2022 : Yorkshire Post - Art Lab
03/2018 : Positive News - Album artwork
11/2011 : Wire Magazine - Album artwork and packaging
02/2012 : Creative Review - Album artwork
Education
1996-98 HNC Arts In The Community, City College Manchester, Wythenshawe
2002-04 Art Access at Todmorden Community College
2004 City and Guilds Level II Ceramics
2013-17 Design and Innovation BSc (inc units in humanities), Open University
Pending application : Part-time MA at Huddersfield University : start April 2026
