About

Making

My practice is formed of three strands which have evolved together and inform each other: I am an artist, educator and curator with a socially-engaged practice.

As an educator, I have worked on projects with communities and groups of all ages and abilities, using arts and art Collections as a vehicle to explore wider social issues and create shifts in thinking and practice.

As an artist, I make sculpture and installation which engages with the language of materials and found objects; a perpetually evolving studio project involves construction of small assemblages from materials collected and re-cycled from places I have lived, or with which I have a personal connection – an act of rebirth.

I am interested in the way in which people feel strong emotions toward, or bestow meaning upon, particular objects, materials or spaces, particularly in the process which transforms something raw into something which is ‘precious’, whether through human touch, knowledge of its history, or the method or technologies involved in its making.

Residencies & Awards
2013 TyssenKrupp Steelworks, Duisberg, Germany
A collaborative project between artists and architects, to propose a piece of public artwork as part of the Amsherkunst Arts Festival in Duisberg, Germany.

2012 Bartlett Travel Scholarship
Funded research trip to New York (USA) as part of an ongoing investigation into different processes we use to navigate / map urban spaces

2012 Creating a Context, Bologna, Italy
Artist – Architect collaboration & cultural exchange project.
In association with Neon Gallery, Bologna

2012 Pybus Fund for Artist in the North of England
Funding to further research into the ways in which people and buildings respond to each other, specifically relating to abandoned anti-aircraft forts in the Thames Estuary.

Selected Exhibitions
2013 Genius Loci (ii) Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
2013 Genius Loci (i), Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle
2012 Connecting Principles, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle
2012 Newcastle Cathedral Exhibition, Newcastle
2012 Room with a View, Long Gallery, Newcastle
2012 Milfield Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
2011 My Family & Other Animals, Hexham, Northumberland
2010 Interim, Waygood Studios, Newcastle
2009 MFA Interim Show, Sculpture Studios, Newcastle University
2008 Pencil to Paper, Artworks galleries, Newcastle
2008 Monkeys with Car Keys, Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton
2007 Bow Open ’07, Bow Arts Trust, London
2006 Bow Open ’06, Bow Arts Trust, London
2006 Nonagon, Tram Depot Gallery, London
2006 Lost in Space (Part i), Three Colts Gallery, London
2005 Not Quite Here, Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London
2005 Untitled, African Embassy, London
2004 Annual Arts Centre Exhibition, London
2003 Things Which May Appear, The Empire Gallery, London
2002 Art:Ex; Googe Street Exhibition Space, London
2002 Hans Brinker Prize Exhibition, Kerkstraat 136, Amsterdam