RECENT SELECTED EXPERIENCE:

2020-19     ‘FUMIFUGIUM ORCHESTRA’, LONDON.

• Instigated and led project with the community to make a musical art installation informed by air pollution data collected by local families.
• Funded by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. 

2019     ‘FLASHES TO ASHES: FIRE IN BRITISH ART 1692-2019’ – CO-CURATOR, ROYAL WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY, BRISTOL, 

• Proposed and co-curated the major exhibition featuring, historical, modern and contemporary works on theme of Fire.

 2019    ‘SMUTTY ATOMS’ – 2019, ROYAL WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY, BRISTOL.

• Arts Council England funded, Arts Grant Award – Audio-visual installation.
• Ran family art workshops on theme of air pollution (collected Bristol data). 

2018     ’ASSEMBLY: WOMEN AT WORK’ ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, BUILDING BLOQS, LONDON.

• 12-week Heritage Lottery Funded residency researching Women’s work in electronics manufacturing industry in Enfield, London.
• Residency placement in industrial manufacturing workshops.
  • Organised and hosted Panel discussion with academic, business and arts organisation participants.
  • Produced booklet of research findings distributed to public.
  • Created exhibition of artworks related to research.
  • Ran workshops for community, participants from non-art backgrounds.

2017-15  ‘ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE: POTATO POWERED COSMOS’ CERN, SWITZERLAND

       INVITED ARTIST FOR CERN’S, HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS PROGRAMME

• Collaborated with science teachers from around the world to re-create installation at CERN; engaging with visitors, students, scientists and engineers
• Co-authored ‘Potato Powered Cosmos – A Construction Manual.’, ‘Sci-Art’ booklet for education and outreach department of art@CMS, CERN, Switzerland
• 2016 – Invited exhibitor at ‘Summer Exhibition’ art@CMS (2016)
• 2015 – UAL – Research award trip and subsequent exhibition in London.

2020 -17 ‘FLOURISH’ FAMILY ART WORKSHOPS, MAXILLA STUDIOS, LONDON

• Designed and delivered a series of art and science workshops for families affected by Grenfell Tower fire.

EDUCATION

2015                        MA Fine Art, UAL: Chelsea College of Arts (Distinction)

1987                       BA (Hons) Ceramics, Bristol Polytechnic

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018                        ASSEMBLY, The Dugdale Centre, London.

2017                         Potato Powered Cosmos, Installation, CERN, Switzerland

2014                         Carbon Based Forms – Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucs

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020-02 inc.            Royal West of England Academy Autumn show, Bristol

2020                          CUT, BURN, FOLD, ­Cube Gallery, London.

2019                          Flashes to Ashes: Fire in British Art, 1692-2019, RWA, Bristol

2017                          CONTEXT – New York USA

2016                          Ultimate Recipe for Cosmic Soup, Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai.

2016                          Summer Exhibition, art@CMS, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

2016                          Shifting Territories, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts,

2016-04 inc.            Affordable Art Fairs; New York, Singapore, Amsterdam, Los Angeles.

2015                          ART BUSAN, Busan, Korea.

2013                         CONTEXT – Art Miami, Florida, USA

2011                         Art Chicago, Illinois, USA

2010/09                  London Art Fair, Islington, London

2009                          Drawing Room II – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2005                         The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2005 – London and tour.

SELECTED AWARDS

2020         UK Robotics Week 2020, one of the winners in ‘Environment Making Challenge’ with SERAS (Skills and Robotics for Autonomous systems)

2015          UAL: Chelsea School or Art, awarded CERN research trip with art@CMS.

2007          Elected Academician Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.

PUBLICATIONS

2019       Flashes to Ashes: Fire in British Art, 1692 – 2019, Co-authored with Gemma Brace and Professor Christiana Payne, Samson & Company.

SELECTED OTHER EXPERIENCE

 2019      Specialist Facilitator, beginner electronics workshop, Maxilla Men’s Shed, London (funded by NHS)

2019         Post-/Human, Guest panel speaker, organised by Flux group, The Library, London

2014-11   Trustee – Royal West of England Academy

2014-13    Initiated and ran Royal West of England Academy and Kids Company collaboration.

2009         Presenter – ‘CUTTING EDGE: LASER CUTTING AND CREATIVITY’ Symposium, Loughborough University, Leicestershire.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS INCLUDING:

The Royal Collection Trust, Royal West of England Academy and fifteen works in Connaught Hotel, Mayfair, London.