Biography

Visual artist based in the South Downs National Park, England

Current research: The Art of Enquiry ‘walking-with’ texts and images from the Edward James Collection & Archive through the woodlands of the wider estate to encounter ‘otherness’

Solo Exhibitions
2016 ‘The intimacy of trees’, Sustainability Centre, East Meon, Hampshire
2015 ‘Kingley Vale: The Road to the Interior’, Oxmarket Gallery, Sussex
2010 ‘Dys-embodied’,  Joy Gallery, Chichester
2006 ‘Resembling Nano’, Portland Building, University of Portsmouth
2003  ‘Turning Up The Visual Volume’  The Other Gallery, Southsea

Group Exhibitions
2024 ARTEL, Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester (October)
2023 St Huberts Art Exhibition,
Idsworth, West Sussex
2019 ‘Line & Form’, West Dean College of Arts & Conservation, West Sussex
2019 Venue 38, Chichester Art Trail, Victoria Inn, West Marden, West Sussex
2018 ‘Re-Pair’ at St Huberts, Idsworth, Hampshire
2016 ‘Periferica’, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
2015 ‘PopUp’ with ARTEL artists, North Street, Chichester, Sussex
2015 ‘Possessed’, ARTEL, Guildhall, Chichester, Sussex
2014 ‘Raw: Reflections on war and it’s aftermath’, ARTEL, Guildhall, Chichester, Sussex
2013 Chichester Art Trail, Bosham, Sussex
2012 Unity Studio Artists, Oxmarket Gallery, Sussex
2011 Open Studios, Unity Arts Studios, Chichester
2011 ‘Stuffed’ – GASP exhibition, Artspace Portsmouth, Hampshire
2011 Open Studios , Artspace, Portsmouth, Hampshire
2008 ‘In Science We Art’  Millais Gallery Project Space, Southampton, Hampshire
2007 AA2A, Eldon Building, University of Portsmouth, Hampshire

Grants/Awards
2023 Edward James Foundation research programme
2012 Dignum Trust
2008 Capability Fund, Southampton Solent University
2006  Grants for the Arts, (Arts Council England)
2006 SCAN (Southern Collaborative Arts Network)

Residencies
2020 Mawdacch, Arthog, Wales
2016 Cambridge Sustainability Residency
2015 Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, Natural England
2006/7 AA2A University of Portsmouth

Education & Training
Communication Design BA, University of Portsmouth, 2003
Design for Digital Media MA, University of Portsmouth, 2005
Youth Arts Project Management training, University of Buckingham, 2013
Artquest training – Liz Lehrman studio critique facilitation, 2015
Psychology of Vision, Mastery & Trainers training 2021, 2022, & 2023
Newlyn School of Arts 2023/4

Networks
Founding artist – Women Artists Moonwalk – Sussex, Hampshire, Cornwall & Wales – 2017-2021
Co-founder Arts & Transformation peer art group 2016 – 2017.
Director and co-founder of ChArt, artist network in partnership with University of Chichester & Pallant House Gallery,  2006 – 2015
Member of ARTEL Contemporary Art Group Chichester 2013-2015 & 2024-current