Born Exeter, England

EDUCATION

Research Lab: Craft in the Historic House, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts & Design, Stockholm, Sweden.

Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design, MA Fine Art.

COMMISSIONS

2021 Wetlands Unravelled artist and curator for a group exhibition exploring the paradoxes of conservation and climate change at The London Wetland Centre.

2017 Muse:Makers in Museums, commissioned to work with Chard museum and make new work in response to their collections.

2015 Metal Harvest commission in Peterborough working with Lucy and Jorge Orta

2015 In-Site Commission, collaborative public art commission responding to Rochester riverside

2014 Hoodwink commission ‘Letters Home’ site-specific response to Horsmonden, Kent.

2014 Unravelling Uppark, Uppark National Trust, Unravelled, www.unravelled.org.uk

2013 Unravelling the Vyne, The Vyne, Unravelled

2012 Unravelling Nymans, Nymans House and Gardens, Unravelled

2010 Unravelling the Manor House, Preston Manor Brighton, Unravelled

2007 Comfort Zones touring exhibition curated by Oriel Davies Gallery

RESIDENCIES

2017 Artist-in-residence at Chard Museum as part of Muse: Makers in Museums

2015 Lab workshop at Metal Peterborough May 2015

2008 Aftershave Workshop, Nigeria Triangle Arts Trust

2007 Braziers International Artist’s Workshop Oxfordshire, UK

2005 International Artist Fellowship with the Arts Institute Prague, Czech Republic

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Terrain Rodhus Gallery, Brighton

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Wetlands Unravelled, The London Wetland Centre, Unravelled

2019 Entanglements, Konstkraft, Ljusne, Sweden.

2019 Entanglements, Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.

2018 Muse: Makers in Museums, Museum of Somerset, Taunton.

2017 Red, The Grange, Rottingdean.

2017 Present Tense, curated by Lucy Day, Phoenix Brighton Gallery.

2015 Apertures, Rochester Art Gallery, drawings presented as part of In-Site 2015.

2015 Contemporary Applied Arts, London, Leaving Home

2014 Letters Home site-specific response to Horsmonden social club & Gun & Spitroast pub

2014 Unravelling Uppark, Uppark National Trust, South Harting, West Sussex.

2013-2014 Craft Emergency Open, aspex gallery, Portsmouth.

2013 Unravelling the Vyne, Unravelled, The Vyne, West Sussex

2012 Unravelling Nymans, Unravelled, Nymans House and Gardens

2011 Shifting Boundaries, House Festival, Phoenix Brighton

2010 Lost in Translation? Riverside Studios, London, Unravelling the Manor House, Preston Manor, Brighton, Dream Home, Phoenix Brighton Gallery, Brighton

2008 I am not I: pity the tale of me curated by Robert Lowe part of www.axisweb.org.uk

2008 That’s Entertainment…Off-site project curated by Cathy Lomax, Transition Gallery London as part of Whitstable Biennial, Comfort Zones Oriel Davis Gallery group show touring to: Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight and Bury St. Edmunds Gallery

2007 Comfort Zones Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales, touring to Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, James Hockey Galleries, Farnham

2006 Jerwood Drawing Prize touring to: Rennie Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Bayart, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff , The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Poole, Drawing Room Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, City Running, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton Fringe Festival

2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize Jerwood Space, London touring to University of Gloucestershire, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham, What Happens When Everything Is Reduced to Ones and Zeros? Pearlfisher Gallery, London. Sussex Open ‘Words-Imagination, Fantasy and Tales’ Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

2004 Perspective 2004 Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast curator Vittorio Urbani Director of Nuova Icona Venice, The Inscriptive Ferret, curated by Craig Martin, Space 44, London.

2003 artinheaven The Meeting House, Sussex University, Brighton Fringe Festival, Here The Lethaby Gallery, Southampton Row, London

2002 The Haven Phoenix Gallery, Brighton

AWARDS

2019 Konstfack grant for Research Lab.

2019 Estrids Ericssons Grant to develop a publication as part of the Research Lab at Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.

2014 Arrivals & Departures, travel grant from Farnham Maltings for R&D visit to New York City.

2008 Arts Council Individual Award.

2004 Arts Council R & D Award.

WORKSHOPS

2015 Workshops & Events as part of Harvest commission.

2015 Community workshops and events as part of In-Site research, development and commission

2014 Participatory workshops as part of Letters Home, Horsmonden

2012-2013 Workshops at the Vyne and at studio for the development of We Could Have Been Anywhere

2010 Workshops & talks as part of Unravelling the Manor House, Preston Manor.

2007 Development of workshops for Comfort Zones

PUBLICATIONS

2014 Crafts magazine, May/June, 2013, Crafts magazine July/August, House & Gardens

2012 Crafts Magazine, May/June issue, news item, Celebrating Sussex, the Argus and online review from Crafts July, Embroidery magazine and Selvedge magazine, September/October issues,

July/August 2010 Arts Industry, published by BC Publications. Unravelling Nymans, Unravelling the Vyne, Unravelling Uppark, produced by Unravelled Arts, Crafts Magazine, review, July/August issue, ArtsIndustry, published by BC Publication

2007 Comfort Zones, produced by Oriel Davies Gallery, 2005 The Jerwood Drawing Prize, produced by Wimbledon School of Art, 2004 Perspective 2004, produced by Ormeau Baths Gallery.