Living in Bilston, working across the
West-Midlands
Studio holder at Eagle Works
Selected Projects, Events & Exhibitions
2023
Gathering Press x Ikon Slow Boat, Wolverhampton
Valuable Conversations, group exhibition, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
2022
Positively Disruptive, workshops, Being Human Festival of Humanities
Gathering Press x RAW, British Art Show 9 Legacy Project, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Barber Print Club, workshop series, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Twenty:Twenty Collection, group exhibition, New Art Gallery Walsall
On Paper, group exhibition, Paper Gallery, Manchester
2021
SpeakEasy, print window exhibition, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Simultaneity of stories-so-far, exhibition co-curator, Grand Union, Birmingham
Seasonal Cards, Minerva Apothecary Garden, Birmingham
2020
Gathering Press, (ongoing) mobile screen-printing press, Black Country
Barber Home, online commission, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
2019
The Twin: Coventry Biennial, group exhibition, The Row & Bell Green Library, Coventry
FLIMSIES (small acts of care), group exhibition, Art Licks Festival, London
I am because we are, collaborative project with The Haven, Wolverhampton
2018
Archiving the Feminist Experience, group exhibition, Feminist Art Library, London
GU Women, group exhibition, Modern Clay, Birmingham
Selected Conference Papers & Publications
2023
Studio as a Space of Exception, session convenor, 'On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach', conference, Glasgow School of Art & Uni Arts Helsinki (upcoming June).
2022
Maker-centricity and 'edge-places of creativity': CARE-full making in a CARE-less world, in 'European Journal of Cultural Studies, Special Issue: Craft Economies and Inequalities.' 25(6) published 7 Dec
Printmaking Communities at the Edge of Chaos, co-authored research paper with Dr Simon Harris, IMPACT 12 Printmaking Conference, Bristol
2021
Printing Press as Boundary Object, research paper, 'Places, Spaces and the Printing Press Conference', CPHC Birmingham and National and University Library of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2020
Print as a Collective Space for Learning & Social Practice, research paper, 'Print and Pedagogy,' CASS Research Seminar, London Metropolitan University
Reading Otherwise: Claiming Collective Spaces for Reading, research paper,
2019
'Reading Otherwise',research paper, Association for Art History Annual Conference, Brighton
2018
Recommended Reading: GU Women, Art Licks Magazine
Being Maker-Centric: Making as Method for Self-organising, in 'The Organisation of Craft Work: Identities, Meaning & Materiality' (Routledge: UK) co-authored book chapter
Other Activities
Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Wolverhampton (2017 - present)
Programme Assistant, Grand Union Gallery (2014 - 2022)
Center for Print History and Cultures, Member (2020 - present)
National Association for Fine Art Education, Steering Committee (2022 - present)
Workshops
Ikon Youth Programme, The Barber Institute, Grand Union Gallery, The Feast, Gatis Community Center, Birmingham City University, National Saturday Art and Design Club, Wolverhampton Social Prescribing.
Bursary & Awards
CADRE Seed Funding, University of Wolverhampton (2022)
Classroom Testbed Bursary, Classroom Gallery (2021)
Creative Black Country Seed Funding (2020)
a-n Travel Bursary (2017)
Vice-Chancellor Strategic Research Award (2017)
Education
MA Art and Education Practices, Birmingham City University (2017)
PGCE Post-Compulsory Education, University of Wolverhampton (2015)
BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Wolverhampton (2013)