Bio.
20 years professional experience working as an artist in community, educational and heritage settings. Working with a wide range of people of different ages, abilities and backgrounds.
Delivering arts and crafts engagement activities, workshops, projects and courses in painting, drawing, 3D work, textiles, printmaking, book arts and paper craft.
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS:
Re-Lit, Re-Read, Doncaster. NOVEMBER 2022
Installation of lights and paper moth sculptures on an open day at a book warehouse.
Barnsley Bright Nights, Barnsley Museums. NOVEMBER 2021
Creation of light-up jellyfish models and self-led activity for children to make jellyfish for display in Barnsley library as part of Barnsley Bright Nights.
Letters of Consequence, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley. APRIL 2021
Paper collage illustrations and concertina books made for ‘ELMER and friends’ exhibition. The books were then posted between local children and the Illustrator and children’s author David Mckee to write a story together.
Visitor Experience Officer, Nostell, National Trust, Wakefield. 2017-2020
Working in an 18th Century Palladian mansion house, using arts and crafts activities to educate and engage diverse audiences with its history, craftsmanship and collections, supporting artists and managing the traditional paper marbling art intervention ‘Obelisk Marbling’ by artist Giles Round.
Making Ways development funding award to work at PULP Paper Arts Workshop, Glasgow. MAY 2019
Working in professional paper making studio producing paper from clothes with artist Alison Newman.
Screening of short film ‘Jeans’, on side of Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield. APRIL 2019
Large scale projection of ‘Test Card’, group of shorts by MA Fine Art students at Sheffield Hallam University.
CARP artists’ residency at The Civic, Barnsley. OCT 2018 to MARCH 2019
Joint residency with artist Lynne Barker exploring overlooked and unused areas of the Civic building in Barnsley town centre.
Curator, ‘Sense of Place’, White Room Gallery, Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield. DECEMBER 2018
Selection and hanging of work by 30 contemporary local and national artists in a pop-up gallery space at a music venue.
Platform 18 ‘Mis-information’. Millenium Galleries, Sheffield. APRIL 2018
Sheffield Institute of Arts student showcase curated by artist Mark Riddington.
Exhibition Team Leader, ‘Da Vinci Engineered’, Amy Johnson Festival, Hull. JUNE TO SEPT 2016
Management of temporary gallery, education space and shop for duration of the festival.
Exhibition tours and interpretation.
‘Unfolding Stories’, Hull Central Library. James Reckitt Library Trust. SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2015
Planning and delivery of series of creative bookmaking workshops with refugees and asylum seekers, for whom English was not their first language.
Curator of ‘Dead Bod Museum’, Humber Street Sesh, Hull. AUGUST 2015
Pop-up exhibition of local folk-art graffiti , in a transport container at a music festival.
Lead Artist on ‘Follow the Herring’ Arts and Heritage Project. Artlink, Hull. APRIL TO SEPT 2014
Travelling community arts project focusing on the Herring Industry. Designing arts and crafts activities and supporting groups of adults to create a variety of pieces for three different exhibitions.
Curator and contributor, ‘irk.’ 2003-2008
Self-published hand-made magazine of artists’ and writers’ work.
GROUP SHOWS:
Stuft, Red Gallery, Hull, 2004
DIY, Temporary Art Space, Piece Hall, Halifax, 2010
12x12x12, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, 2012
Stuft All Over Again, Red Gallery, Hull, 2014
Platform 18, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield, 2018
Sense of Place, White Room Gallery, Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield, 2018
Post, Exchange Place Gallery, Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, 2019
animal pARTy, Victoria Works, Sheffield, 2020
Autumn Almanac II, Exchange Place Gallery, YAS, Sheffield, 2022
Education
MA Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, 2016-19
BA Fine Art, Humberside University, 1990-93