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I am based at Studio 91, Spike Island, Bristol.

I am an active member of the arts community in the South West setting up The Unit in 2016 (a temporary residency space in St James Arcade, Bristol)  followed by  The Garage:  in 2019.  This was replaced by  The Launderette: Stokes Croft, Bristol in 2023. 

Member of Throes of Grief (TOG) – a research group led by Annabel Pettigrew.

education:  MA Fine Art (Dist), University of Brighton 2012-14        

funding:   recipient of DYCP, Arts Council England, 2021;  Research funded by Brigstow Institute  (with Ass. Professor Lesel Dawson and Dr. Julian Brigstocke), 2022

exhibitions: 2023 – 2025

October 2-9 ’25 ‘Material World’, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol with Nicky Hodge, Victoria Coombes, Helen Grant

May ’25 Open Studios, Spike Island, Bristol

April ’25 ‘Borderlands’ at Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, curated by Hannah Hornby

March ’25 ‘making a scene’ with Vicky Smith, Bristol Galleries Weekend, the Launderette, Bristol

Nov-Feb ’24     ’inside:outside’, Oriel y Bont Gallery, University of South Wales with James Vasello and David Morgan-Davies

Oct-Jan ’24    ‘At a Loss’, international group exhibition, Barry and Penarth, Sth Wales

Sept ’23    Return exchange with Durden & Ray, Los Angeles – American/UK artists, The Launderette, Bristol

May ’23    ‘what it is to be there’, solo exhibition  at The Factory Porth

residencies and talks:

12 Sept ’24 Invited speaker & panelist: MAC Birmingham, Picturing the Unseen – Grief & Labour in and out of Motherhood.

Feb ’24        Invited participant: Transformative & Emancipatory Processes in Artistic Research Symposium, University of the Arts, Helsinki.

April ’23        Residency and women’s workshops:  The Factory, Porth.

Nov ’22         Invited speaker (1 of 2) + presentation of work: E(e)arth – launch of Unesco-Bridges Hub at University of Wales, Swansea

2022                Talk and presentation of work;  workshop for researchers to consider: Research Development Award, ‘The Generativity of Materials: Creativity, Memory and Place’ led by Professor Louise Steel & Assoc. Professor  Lesel Dawson.  

July ’22         Residency: Garw Valley, Sth Wales to collaborate with invited artists.

June ’22        Residency: The Garage with Tommy Cha (sound) and Matteo Amadio (audio visual)

2013                Year-long residency: Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton. Find more information here  

selection of exhibitions, 2015-2021:

Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (2016, 2018, 2020 & 2021)

Wales Contemporary, London (2021 & 2022),  Deptford X (2015)

Wells Art Contemporary, Somerset (2019 & 20)

Art Habens Biennial (2019), Turps Banana painters ‘Cosmic Fishing’ (2019)

Whitenoise Projects, The Crypt London (2019)

Solo with BabyForest (2018)

Tate Exchange with Spike Island Associates (2017)

Spike Associates at Spike Open Studios (2017)

Wing Art Gallery, Sussex (2016)

Spike Island Test Space (2016)

Flux @ Royal College of Art (2015)

Strata @ Clerkenwell (2015)