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Exhibitions, Residencies & Publications
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.