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Exhibitions, Residencies & Publications


Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey, Devon, UK 2024

Time and Tide - solo exhibition, Black Swans Arts, Frome, Somerset, UK 2024

Mawddach Artist Residency, Wales, UK 2024

Made In Bristol Fair, The Beacon, Bristol UK 2023

Craft Festival, Cheltenham Town Hall, UK 2023

South Bristol Art Trail, UK 2024

BV Open Studio event, Bristol, UK 2023

Craft Festival, Cheltenham Town Hall, UK 2023

The Print Room - group show, MAKE Southwest, Devon, UK 2023

Artist Residency, Plymouth, UK 2023

MAKE Southwest Summer Show - members showcase, Devon, UK, 2022

Wells Art Contemporary - selected show Wells Cathedral, Somerset, UK 2022

Black Swan Arts Open Exhibition - selected show | Black Swan Gallery, Frome, UK 2022

BV Open Studios Bristol, UK 2022

Artist Residency Penzance, UK 2022

The New Folk - group Folklore exhibition North Lincolnshire Museum, UK 2021-22

Fall Again - group show Bocobar Art, Bristol, UK 2021

Moonlit - solo show MAKE South West, Devon, UK 2021

Press Play - group show Kosar, Bristol, UK 2020

The Summer Show - selected members show MAKE South West, Devon, UK 2019

MA Multi-Disciplinary Print Show Arnolfini Bristol 2019

Wipe #118 Limited edition international publication, Field Study, Australia 2019

The World is a Handkerchief London Print Studio Gallery 2019

Miniature Print Exhibition 2 Grain Barge Bristol 2019

Artist Residency Penzance 2019

33rd Annual Miniature Print Exhibition Arnolfini, Bristol 2018

Interruptions: Nostos/Nostalgia Athens Print Fest, Greece 2018

OFF-SET The Old Town Quarry, W-S-M 2018

TopShed artist in residence Norfolk 2018

World Book Night UWE Bristol 2018

Somerset Rural Life Museum artist in residence Somerset 2018

World Turned Upside Down Leeds 2017

OFF-SET Christmas Steps Gallery 2017

FOUND Centre Space Gallery 2017

RWA Autumn Open Show 2016

Colour CODED, Devon Guild of Craftsmen 2016

Pitt Rivers Museum residency Oxford 2015







 

Artist Statement


My work captures things at the cusp of change – a moon, a moth, the tide. Using the physical acts of stitching, binding, folding, printing, collecting & preserving to tether the ephemeral, I try to use the ritual of daily noticing, recording and making to foster mindfulness and appreciation of the quiet transformation happening around us. Inspired by traditional folk craft, I embrace the prosaic nature of these techniques to create work that becomes love-letters to the passing of time, transformation and the fragility of life.

My work is a walk through the [deep dark] woods even when you find yourself in the city. I like to discover forgotten and disregarded things; a moulted feather, a lip-stick blot, fingerprints on a mirror, an old love letter or shopping list. To me these found things that have been cast off either unnoticed or because of their insignificance, become an opportunity to tenderly work subtle interventions and try and tell their stories.

My work is influenced by nature and the marks we leave behind and trying to preserve both. I find myself constantly trying to straddle the gap between human control and ordering of data, formation and display and letting nature, the elements, life cycles and time take the lead – adapting my materials according, and in response to, a situation or object as I find it. I want to be able to retain and catch a transient moment, thing or memory and hold it forever; preserving it in some form; solidifying something that barely exists. Saving or documenting it before it’s lost forever.