CV
Education
2023 Mlitt Creative Writing - with distinction, Glasgow University
2005 BA (Hons) Fine Art – first class, York St Johns University, York
1998 Waldorf Class Teacher Certification - Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School, Stourbridge
Awards
2021 DYCP (Develop Your Creative Practice) Grant, Literature, Arts Council England
2019 Arts Council Project Grants for Drawn project
2005 Principal's Prize for Cultural Entrepreneurship, York St John’s University, York
Exhibiting
2021 - 2022 cy_fi, Hyper-Possible, Coventry Biennial, Coventry
2021 Vital Capacities Residency, videoclub, online.
2021 un-being, All Alone, Meadow Arts, Croft Castle, Hereford
2019 Ambit, NUNO, Ovada, Oxford
2019 30 Days of Summer, Conversations with Weather, art.earth, Dartington
2018 Solstice, (solo show), Width of Circle, Stourbridge
2017 United We Stand, Shape Arts Open, London
2015 Weather Paintings, Shape Arts, Westfield Gallery, London
2013 Love & Mother Love, Shape Arts pop-up gallery, London
2012 Nest, made by a bookworm that has just digested a copy of Gormenghast, Bessant Gallery, Wolverhampton University, Wolverhampton
2011 Nestbooks, Strange Attractors, Leicester
2010 Mother Love, Knit Happens, Scarborough
2007 Frigga, Deviant Art Festival (DAFT), mixed media installation, Trollhattan, Sweden
2007 Neolithic, Stitch, artworks mk, Milton Keynes
2007 Love, Lux Festival, York
2006 Meditation on Loss, Hida Takayama Museum of Art, Takayama, Japan
2006 Homage to The Goddess, York Minster, York
Residencies
2021 Artist Residency, Vital Capacities
2019 - 2021 Fellowship, BOM, Birmingham
2018 Artist Residency, BOM, Birmingham
2018 Artist Residency, Hogchester Arts, Dorset
Collaboration
2021 All We Ever Wanted, Black Hole Club, Birminghm
2020 May Day Reader, Black Hole Club, Birmingham
2007 Please Do Not Bend, York
2006 Nebulous, collaborative installation and residency with Nathan Chenery
2005 Strangers on a Train, collaborative performance with artist's collectives Disco and Discotheque
Curation
2012-2014 The Library of Lost Books, Birmingham and Nationwide
2007 - What Is A Drawing? Group Show, McGee Gallery, York
Talks and teaching
2017 Speaker, Art, Brain and Behavior, Fermynwoods Contemporary
2014 Speaker, Beyond the Book Symposium, Exeter, England
2013 Curator's talk, The Library of Lost Books, Wolverhampton University.
2013 Speaker, Resurrecting the Book conference, Birmingham
2012 Speaker, Collaboration and the Democracy of BookArts, MMU
2005 Speaker, Inaugural meeting, Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society, York
2005 Visiting artist, Japanese Universities Co-operative, Hiroshima, Japan