EXPERIENCE
I have a Masters in Fine Art, with a focus on printmaking. As an artist and arts facilitator, I have a passion for art and enjoy sharing this with others, via exhibitions and running inclusive art workshops for all age groups in a wide range of settings, including the Museum of Liverpool, Beaney Museum, RBSA gallery, Longbridge Light Festival, RNIB, YMCA, The Pocklington Trust home, Artrageous Art festival Canada, Birmingham Children's hospital, schools and community centres.
My art is often created to be physically engaged with enabling people to experience it in different ways.
EXPERIENCE CREATING ART & WORKSHOPS IN RESPONSE TO COLLECTIONS
- I’m currently finishing a commission for The Royal Wolverhampton Hospital Trust inspired by their medical archive and the lived experience of deaf, disabled and Neurodivergent individuals.
- ‘Start the Press’, in 2024 I was one of 8 artists selected to create art live in the Ikon gallery, each of us having four days. Our Work was then exhibited in the gallery alongside work from the Jerwood Collection. My work was inspired by Edwards Lear’s exhibition ‘Moment to Moment’
- ‘Circles and Sight Loss’ a Commission inspired by the archive at The Birmingham Royal Institute for the Blind celebrating their 150th year.
- ‘Wonder’ a Commission and community workshops to encourage people to engage with The Beaney Museum of Art & Knowledge’s permanent collection.
- ‘Zines for Wellbeing’ workshop, creating art inspired by the collections at Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery. These were then turned into zines, taken to Queens Hospital where patients selected their favourites, which were blown up and displayed in the hospital.
- Creating a family drop-in print workshop at the Ikon gallery with Artist Taiba Akhtar, inspired by Aaron Williamson’s Dazzle performance.
- Family Sight Loss awareness art workshop inspired by The History of Place project at the Museum of Liverpool.
- Working in collaboration with artist Taiba Akhtar to guide BCU MA students to design a workshop inspired by Anita Klein’s work displayed at Warwick Arts Centre.
- ‘The Silent History’ - A series of art workshops, oral archives exploring the stigma disabled people face. Resulting in an exhibition at the Hive.
PROJECTS & COMMISSIONS
- ‘Scrum Down Print Forward’ — Worlds Longest Lino print - I helped organise and create a community print project with Birmingham Printmakers, that help break the world record for the longest Lino print.
- ‘Reasonable Adjustments’ was a commission and part of my residency with Peterborough Presents. The exhibition was the result of running accessible workshops for those of all ages who identify as Deaf, Disabled and / or Neurdivergent (DDN). I incorporated their narrative into my work and exhibited their artwork alongside mine. There was a wonderful mixture of visual art, poems and my Seats of Change trail, which were displayed in various venues across Peterborough and were made to be used.
- ‘The Fallen’ – working with WW2 veterans to create a charity print that documented their experiences on Normandy Beach
- ‘Perspectives’ a commission by DASH and Creative Black Country resulting in a solo exhibition. This body of work incorporated the narrative of other disabled people exploring the experiences and barriers faced by individuals who identify as D/deaf, disabled, or Neurodiverse and explores what they feel needs to change for an inclusive society.
- ‘Transient Moments’ created a body of work through funding from Attenborough Arts Centre, it is a visual documentation of my transition from partial-sight to blindness as an artist and challenges others’ understanding of sight-loss. The landscapes document the blurring of boundaries that have arisen and explore the shapes and patterns within the landscape capturing the beauty I am still able to see, avoiding any notions of pity.
- ‘Worlds Within’ a commission from the NHS Trust to create 6 pieces of work for the Genetics unit in consultation with patients and staff. The finished artworks are abstract interpretations of human cells when looked at under a microscope. Microscopic images have always reminded me of beautiful landscapes and vibrant patterns. It was important my interpretations didn’t look too medical and that patients and staff could interpret them as they wish and that the artworks function as either a distraction or fade into the background.
RESIDENCES
Park View Hospital 2025
Birmingham Women's Hospital 2024
Birmingham Children's Hospital 2024
Wolverhampton NHS Trust 2024
Ikon Gallery 2024
Peterborough Presents 2023
Ashfield Academy 2023
Sunbury Shores Print studio Canada 2019
KIRA, Canada 2018
EXHIBITIONS
Below are a few of the exhibitions I’ve worked on:
Upcoming
Current
2024
- Lavender House Birmingham Women & Children’s Hospital
Past
- Start the Press, Ikon Gallery Birmingham
- Windows of the Soul, EUNOS, Rotterdam
- Reasonable Adjustment, Commission & Solo Exhibition Peterborough
- Tate Late Artist Talk, Tate Modern London
- Sensing Nature, Solo Show, Level Centre Derbyshire
- There Is No Masterpiece, Ikon / Grendon
- West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery Walsall,
- Schuh Digital Billboard, Oxford Circus London
- Layers of Vision, Bush House Arcade, London
- Reimagined, Centrala, Digbeth Birmingham
- Perspectives, Commissioned Solo Show, Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton
- Transient Moments, Solo Show, Floor One, Rugby Museum & Art Gallery,
- Divoc 91 Oxo Gallery London (exhibiting & assistant curator)
- Windows of the soul, Bloomsbury Arts Festival London
- The Silent History Exhibition, The Hive Birmingham (co-curator)
- Ikon for artists, Ikon Gallery Birmingham
- Legends and Legacies Ebook, Impact 11, Hong Kong
- The Environments Exhibition, Piano Nobile Gallery, London
- Winter exhibition, Sunbury Shores Gallery, Canada
- Turning Tides Exhibition Sunbury Shores, Canada
- Dash exhibition, Sunbury Shores Gallery Canada
- Coventry Open, The Herbert Gallery
- 20:20 Print Exchange, Hot Bed Press, Manchester
- Beyond War Visualising peace, Beaney museum Canterbury
I’ve been exhibiting consistently since 2015
