Curriculum Vitae

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Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S

2003 – 2006 - B.A. Hons Fine Art Sculpture, University of Brighton. First Class Honours.

2002 – 2003 - Art and Design Foundation, University of the West of England. Distinction.

A W A R D S

2021 - Henry Moore Foundation grant
2020 - Member of Royal Sculpture Society.
2019 - Network for Creative Enterprise Award, to develop practice

2016 - Arts Council England, Grant for the Arts, to explore casting molten rock.
2015 - GAIN Trust Grant
2015 - Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
2006 - Burt, Brill and Cardens Peoples Art Award, University of Brighton.
2006 - Burt, Brill and Cardens Second Prize, University of Brighton

C O M M I S S I O N S
2021 - ‘Volcanoes and Scoria Bricks’ Live lava performance for Middlesborough art weekend, UK
2021 - Home from Home, Public Pavilion commission, Yate, UK
2020 - Cipher, Gingko Commission in St Pauls, Bristol, UK
2020  -‘Material as Labour, Labour as value’ Yellowfields Publication; Production, Production.
2020 - ‘Graft Ladder’, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton, UK.
2019 - Is it Magma, Lava performance, Science Gallery, London
2017 - Curious Formations, commission by Biddulph Grange Garden, Stoke on trent, UK
2013 - STILL/life, commission by Trust New Art, Leigh Woods, Bristol, UK.
2013 - Art, Cities & Landscapes, temporary commission, Amiens, France.
2012 - Digital Art Commission with Exeter University at C.A.L.M, UK.
2011 - Kunst & Zwalm biennale, Zwalm, Belgium.
2007 - Upstaging nature, Lookoutpost, London.
2007 - FRED 2007, commission, Sugar Tongue in Whitehaven, Cumbria.

R E S I D E N C I E S

2015 - Resident artist at Hestercombe gallery and gardens, Somerset, UK.
2012 - Expand, Explore, Expose Residency, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria
2012 - Resident artist at Stapleton Road Tavern, Bristol, UK.
2011 - I-park, Artist in Residence, Connecticut, USA.
2009 - Artist in residence at Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Canada.
2009 - Project Room research space, at Ace Art Inc, Winnipeg, Canada.
2008 - 'Coup de Pouce' residency at L'H du Siege in Valenciennes, France

W O R K   +   W O R K S H O P

2020 - Now - Member of Material club organised by STEAMhouse/Eastside projects, Birmingham
2018 - Now - Trustee for BRICKS, a new gallery and studio space in Bristol.
2017- Now - Selection panel for Studios at Spike Island Artspace, Bristol
2017 - Now - Council member for Earth Gallery, Bristol University, Earth Science Department.
2019 - FACTORY, workshop making bricks for Yate Pavilion at Spike Open 2019, UK
2018 - 2019 - Member of the Network for Creative Enterprise, South West, UK.
2012 -2018 - Co-director of ‘Ore and Ingot’ bronze foundry, Bristol.
2017 - Visiting lecturer at Plymouth University.
2017 - Making Oak Gall ink for the tree charter commission by Woodland Trust, UK
2016 - Visiting Lecturer at University of Gloucester.
2016 - Workshop at UCL, Institute of Materials, London.
2016 - Process, Material, Alchemy workshop, Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloucester.
2016 - Live lava pour, Spike Island Open studio, Bristol.
2015 - “I am making art” Workshop on making Oak Gall Ink at Spike Island, Bristol.
2012 - Workshops on how to collect tree resin for the Forestry Commission, Grizedale, UK
2008 – 2010 - Part-time lecturer in Sculpture at Hastings College.


S O L O   +  T W O   P E R S O N   E X H I B I T I O N S

2019 - Well Trodden Wrong Ways, Thelma Hulbert Gallery (with Paul Blakemore)

2018 - Getting there, Fabrica, Brighton, UK
2016 - Is it magma?, Earth Gallery, University of Bristol, UK
2016 - A Solid Above, Hardwick Gallery (with Solveig Settemsdal)
2012 - DIY Metallurgy, The Motorcycle Showroom, (with David Snoo Wilson)
2009 - Pools in their shadows, 43a gallery, Bristol.

S E L E C T E D  G R O U P   E X H I B I T I O N S

2021 - Infrastructure, MAW, Middlesborough, UK
2020 - Something Orange, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2019 - Women on the moon, KKKC, Lithuania.
2017 - Operation Skye, Test Space International and Volkskammer, Berlin, Kilmuir, Scotland
2016 - Decapod, Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent.
2015 - Conversation Pieces, TestSpace, Spike Island, Bristol.
2015 - Second site, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton.
2014 - You move me, Antlers gallery, Bristol.
2013 - Rhod 2013, Melin Glonc, Drefelin, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
2012 - Neoreplicates, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter.
2012 - llusoriamente, European Conference on Visual Perception, Sardinia.
2012 - Art Roots, Grizedale Forest, Lake District.
2012 - Other Nature, Antlers gallery, London.
2011 - Able, Sangdee Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2011 - What will we do when, The Motorcycle Showroom, Bristol.
2011 - Nocturne, Hand in glove, 2 Park Street, Bristol.
2011 - Victorian cloakroom, Park row, Bristol.
2010 - All systems go, Departure galley, London.
2008 - Artsway OPEN08, Artsway, Sway.
2008 - Adventures in gravity, The Foundry, London.
2008 - CUBE open, Centre for Urban Built Environment, Manchester.
2008 - Slow, Edward Cullinan Architects, London.
2007 - The Third Space, Regency Town House Basement, Brighton.
2007 - Price, “Da” (Direct Action) arts group, London.
2006 - 'Tag' Permanent gallery, Brighton.
2005 - Max 5 Film festival, Café Gallery Projects, Southwark, London.
2005 - Black Market, Municipal market, Brighton.