Solo exhibitions: 2017- Oubliette (performance), Oriel Davies, Newtown2015 - MORDANT, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown 2013 - Billets-Doux, various Public Libraries in England and Wales 2011 - Camera Obscura & Other Stories, The Gallery in Redchurch Street, London 2010 - 'Story' The Plinth Project, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol 2010 - Talk to Me, Chapel Row Gallery, BATH 2008 - Hard Words, Air Gallery, hosted by Four Square Fine Arts, Dover Street, London 2007 - Speaking Soul, City Gallery, Leicester 2005 - Texting, Charlotte Street Gallery, London 2005 - Woman's Realm, The Women's Library, London 2002 - Body Language, Charlotte Street Gallery, London.
Group exhibitions: 2015 - Call Me, Gallery on the Green (Telephone Box), Settle, W Yorks 2014 Surface & Depth, Strand Gallery, London 2014 - Beyond the Book, Long & Ryle, London & Devon Guild of Craftsmen 2012 Genus Loci: A Sense of Place, Gallery at 32 Store Street, London 2012 - Only Connect Lab, Aberystwyth Arts Centre 2011 - Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts, BATH 2010 - Lingua Franca, Arnolfini, Bristol 2009 - Pulp Fictions, Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester, Kent 2007 - READesign, Mobile exhibition around North Shields, North Shields 2007 - READesign, Woodhorn Museum & Gallery, Northumberland 2006 - Prints Now: Directions and Definitions, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2005 - Body Languages: Four Women, Four Visions, Art Vitam Gallery, Miami, USA 2005 - Paperworks 2005, b. j. spoke gallery, Huntington, New York, USA 2004 - Art, Age and Gender, Usher Gallery, Lincoln 2004 - Collect 04, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2004 - Crossing the Line: Salthouse 04, Salthouse Church, Salthouse, North Norfolk 2004 - Hats and Gloves, City Gallery, Leicester; McManus Gallery, Dundee; Mansfield Museum, Mansfield; Hatworks Hat Museum, Stockport 2004 - Haunt, Sherborne House, Sherborne, Dorset 2004 - Made at Wysing, Wysing Arts, Bourn, Cambridgeshire 2004 - Sofa, Chicago, USA 2003 - Sartorial, England and Co, London 2002 - Art, Age and Gender, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham 2001 - Body Beautiful, 20/21, Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 2001 - Starting a collection, Art First, Cork Street, London 2000 - December Show, England & Co., Westbourne Grove, London 2000 - Kettles Yard Open, Cambridge 1998 - Barbarella:dolls and doll imagery, Sasson Gallery, Folkstone, national touring exhibition Live/Performance
Residencies/ Performance/Collaborations: 2018 Residency at Hafan y Waun Care Home, 2018 Collaboration on Still 4'33 with College of Arts, Farnham 2nd year FA students, 2017 Sunflowers performance, National Gallery
Education 2014 - MA in Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University (DISTINCTION) 2006 - PGCE in PCE, Oxford Brookes University 2001 - MA in Fine Art, Norwich School of Art 1994 - BA in Illustration, Manchester Metropolitan University 1984 - BA in Theatre Design, Wimbledon School of Art
Teaching: 2017 workshops NPTC students and young carers at Oriel Davies 2013-16 Freelance Workshop Leader NHS & Arts Care Wales 2008-9 Pathway Leader for Textiles, Swindon College 2006-8 Pathway Leader in 3D Design, Truro College 2002-4 Associate Lecturer in School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Employment: 2014 - Freelance journalist, 2012- p/t Studio Opener BBC, Freelance Illustrator for EMI Music Publishing
Awards: 2017 - Arts Council Wales for Oubliette 2015 - Arts Council Wales for MORDANT 2015 - Teeside University for Call Me 2013 - Arts Council Wales for Billets Doux 2012 - Bursary from Aberystwyth Arts Centre for Only Connect Lab 2010 - Commission from Container Arts for Plinth Project 2007 - Arts Council England for Speaking Soul 2007 Funding from SE Northumberland Public Art & Design Initiative for READESIGN project 2005 - prizewinner for Paperworks 2004 - Arts Council England for SALTHOUSE 2004 - Anglia Ruskin University for Haunt
Publications: 2017 Billets-Doux, Performance Research 2010 Playing with Books: Up-cycling, Deconstructing & Re-imagining the book, Rockport Publishing 2009 Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut, Black Dog Publishing 2006 - Prints Now: Directions and Definitions, V & A Publishing