Qualifications and Training

 

HND, Graphic Design & Illustration - Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, 1992 to 1994

Foundation in Art & Design - Rotherham College of Art & Technology, 1991 to 1992

 

Employment History

 

2012 to present - Freelance Artist and Director, Kidology Arts 

2008 to 2012 - Manager, Sheffield Children’s Festival, Sheffield City Council

2006 to 2008 - Arts Development Officer, High Peak CVS

2005 to 2006 - Festivals Co-ordinator, Barnsley Council

1994 to 2005 - Freelance Artist

 

Recent Projects

 

March 2023 - From Sky to Sea - Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

Group show of work from Sheffield Museums’ permanent collection including works by Hockney, Turner, Titian, and Cezanne. Show included 4 paintings from my series of iceberg paintings called Melt.

 

2022 - Dark Peak Demi Paradise - Yorkshire Artspace

Solo show of 22 paintings of the upland landscape of the Derwent Valley in the Peak District National Park

 

2021 - Drawn to the Water - Creswell Crags Heritage Trust

ACE funded project in which I engaged members of Nottinghamshire’s Eastern European community. The project resulted in an art and sound installation commemorating 14,000 years since the first migrants came to the UK

 

2020 - Flood - Online

ACE funded lockdown collaboration with composer Amanda Johnson and writer Damian Le Bas to make an art, music and spoken word film about migration

 

2019 - Hind of the Morning - Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham

ACE funded project with Rotherham Council engaging vulnerable young people in the making of an art and music installation

 

2019 - A Landscape Changed - Nottingham Trent University

Heritage Lottery Funded project engaging children in the changing natural landscape of the North Nottinghamshire coalfields

 

2019 - My Sister’s Scarf - Online and at Ilam Park, Staffordshire     

ACE funded visual art, music and dance performance project made about migration and objects in Buxton Museum’s collection

 

2017 and 2018 - Artist in Residence - Peak District National Park

2-year residency to make art inspired by the connections between objects in Buxton Museum collection and the Peak District landscape

 

Awards, Commissions and Exhibitions

 

2022                 Open Studios, Yorkshire Artspace

2022                 From Sky to Sea, group show, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

2022                 Dark Peak Demi Paradise, solo show, Yorkshire Artspace

2022                 Awarded a Jean Harrison art commission

2021                 Open Studios, Yorkshire Artspace

2021                 Joined Yorkshire Artspace Society

2021                 South Yorkshire Open, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

2019                 Digital Art commission, Derbyshire County Council

2018                 Lullaby of the Larks, Buxton Museum & Art Gallery

2017                 Collection of the Artist commission, Buxton Museum

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