Northwest based artist using a process led approach to create work that spans across several disciplines including drawing, sculpture, textiles and site-specific installation.
Focusing on colour relationships the work explores how a variety of diverse materials can be manipulated to create a visual response. Play and experimentation often lead the research, various items are accumulated and either folded, layered, overlapped, sewn, slotted together, tucked or painted to produce a finished piece. Anomalies are celebrated and often develop into part of the outcome.
CV & EDUCATION
EDUCATION
University of Central Lancashire, PGCE in Post Compulsory Education
University of Central Lancashire, BA Hons in Fine Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Stars on Canvas, London – 2016
Museum at Night, The Museum of Life, Wigan – 2016
CSA Group Show, The Old Courts, Wigan – 2016
18 X 18, Cross Street Gallery, Standish – 2015
New Mills Arts Festival Trail , New Mills – 2015
Testing Space, Pyramid & Parr Hall, Warrington – 2015
Level One Gallery, The World of Glass, St Helens – 2015
A6 Dialogue, 3rd Floor Studios, Manchester -2014
The Shop, ‘Our Art Neighbourhood’, Leigh – 2014
Flying by the Seat of Your Pants, Cross Street Gallery – 2012
28 Drawings Later, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow – 2012
The International Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham – 2012
West Lancashire Open, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk – 2011
We Are Here, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh – 2011
Mad, Bad and Sad, PAD Gallery, Preston – 2010
Retold, Liverpool Biennial Independents – 2008
Fermez La Bouche, St Peters Square, Preston – 2007
Endangered Species, PAD Preston – 2006
COMMISSIONS
The Museum of Life – 2016
Marus Bridge Primary School – 2015
New Mills Arts Festival- 2014
Turnpike Gallery, Leigh – 2011
RESIDENCIES
De La Salle High School, St Helens – 2012
PROJECTS
Migrate, A6 Dialogue exhibition, co-organised and co-curated with Jane Fairhurst at Cross Street Gallery – 2016
All About Drawing, Curated at Cross Street Gallery 2014 and The Gallery at Bank Quay House, Warrington – 2015
Art on a Card, Funded postcard exhibition throughout the Wigan Borough – 2012
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
The National Trust, Lyme Park, ‘Lymescapes’, workshop – 2016
Standish Library 50th Birthday Celebrations, workshops – 2015
‘Sculptural textiles’ workshop– The Heart of Glass, St Helens – 2015
Our Arts Neighbourhood – Assisted / led various workshops – 2014
Artist Talk – New Mills Arts Festival – 2014
Southlands High School workshops – 2014
Hindley High School, Wigan – 2012
Cardinal Newman College, Preston – 2011
St Helens Festival – 2010, 2009
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Through the Looking Glass – Volume 9 – 2014