projects
I am a founding member of Drawing Connections (2015 - 2019) a group of artists worked collaboratively to extend the medium of drawing. We exhibited in the UK and Internationally
professional development and residencies
2012 Contributing speaker ‘Drawing Lines’ Pecha Kucha No 7, The Hepworth, Wakefield
2008 Selected for Artists Access to Art Colleges Scheme University of Portsmouth
education
2012 MA Fine Art,Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London
1991 BA (Hon's) 3 D Design (Metals) West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham
solo exhibitions (edited list)
2006 Craft & Design Showcase, Oriel Davis Gallery, Newtown, Powys
2006 First Sight Showcase, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Hove
2004 Jewellery Showcase, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Jewellery Showcase, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
group exhibitions (edited list)
2021 ‘A Strange Lightness’, duo show, Yellow Edge Gallery, Gosport, Hampshire
2019 ‘Summer Open’, Yellow Edge Gallery, Gosport, Hampshire
2019 Drawing Connections|Murmuration’ (selected) hARTslane, London
2019 'Time Memory and Transience' St Georges Church, Esher, Surrey
2019 'Go Figure’, (selected) Summer Open, Guggleton Farm Arts, Stalbridge, Dorset
2018 Bath Open Art Prize, (selected) 44AD Fringe Arts Bath
2018 Drawing Connections, Studio 93a, Artist Open Houses, Brighton
2017 'Between a Rock and a Divine Space', duo show, no format Gallery, London
2016 'A Many Sided Thing: Drawing Connections, A-Side B-Side Gallery, London
2016 'On Our Way to Where: Drawing Connections, hARTslane Project Space, London
2015 ''Make/Create', (selected) The Crypt Gallery, London
2015 'Line and Light' duo show, The Wall's Cafe Gallery, Husk, London
2013 ‘Motivation Meaning and Making’, Craft Central, Clerkenwell, London
2013 ‘Perspective’, (selected) Farnham Library Gardens, Farnham, Surrey
2012 Postgraduate Summer Show, Wimbledon College of Art, Wimbledon
2012 ‘Wunderkammer’, The Nunnery, London
2011 ‘Futura Bold/ Futura Oblique’, The Nunnery, London
2009 ‘Where we were before’ AA2A 10th Anniversary CCi Space, University of Portsmouth,
2008 ‘Inspired by the banks of London’, ACJ London Group, A&D Gallery, London
2007 Craft Showcase, (selected) aspex (gallery), Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
2006 ‘Heirlooms’, ACJ Membership Exhibition, St Botolphs Church, Aldgate, London
2005 ‘Cracker’, (selected) Kath Libbert, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford
2004 ‘Jewellery Unlimited’, (selected) Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
publications
2007 Jewellers: The Directory, A&C Black Publishers
2006 Heirlooms, an exhibition of rings, Catalogue, Edited byProf. G Votalato & E Callinicos
2004 Jewellery Unlimited, Catalogue, Edited by Holly Belsher & Jessica Turrell
background
I set aside designing and making jewellery in 2008 to explore the motivations behind my craft practice and gained my MA Fine Art in 2012. Alongside my craft practice I worked as a freelance consultant and subject specialist. I also taught visual arts subjects, including professional development, within adult, further and higher education settings until 2016. I now focus on making drawings and sculptural assemblages, mainly from materials I find.