Education
2017 Foundation Course in Art Therapy - Insider Arts, Exeter
2010 MA Fine Art Contemporary Practice - Falmouth University
1989 BA Hons Textile Design - Winchester School of Art
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Audio Visual Sound Map: Kit Hill Quarry - Collaboration with composer Arlo Anwin, AONB Tamar Valley Centre, Gunnislake
2023-2024 Truro Open: Spirit of Cornwall - Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
2023 Walking Home - solo exhibition at Cowslip Workshops café, Launceston
2022 Irreplaceable - Ongoing online Collection, www.irreplaceable.world
2022 Migrations - We are all Lichens Now - audio piece, in response to BAS9, CAMP Writers’ Kin, Down Stage Write Production with Sound Art Radio
2022 How Long - exhibition by CAMP artists at Vacancy Atlas, Plymouth
2022 A New Folklore - group show curated by Anna Járai, Fish Factory Arts, Falmouth
2021 Last Chance Saloon REPRISE - Slash Arts, Regent’s Canal, London
2021 Last Chance Saloon - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Cornwall
2021 A Spring Like No Other - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Cornwall
2020 A Space for Dreaming - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Cornwall
2004 Spirit Seed - 2 person exhibition with Carolle Blackwell, Morvah Schoolhouse, Cornwall
2000 Maps for the Millennium - Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
2000 North Cornwall Museum and Gallery - 2 person show with Printmaker Mary Gillett
2019 Evolving the Forest - drawing Installations, Dartington Space, art.earth Conference, Dartington Hall, Devon
2007-19 Open Studios Cornwall
2018 Nature, Our Nature - group show, Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Cornwall
2017 Thinking Tantra - 365 days wall piece in collaboration with D. Moss, Peninsular Art Gallery, Plymouth University
2016 365 Days in Moments, a year trying to notice - collaboration display with D. Moss, Associate Psychology Professor, at Plymouth University
2016 Closely Observed Nature - group show, Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Cornwall
1997 Wild Beasts - Northern Fibre II group exhibition, Museum of Textile History, Borås, Sweden
1995 / 1993 Solo Shows - The Ice House Gallery, Holland Park, London
PROJECTS / RESIDENCIES
2022 - Hello Project - Lead artist, Studios on the High Street Launceston, Tresorys Kernow
2022 - Lanson Zine Project - Arts Lab x5 sessions, Launceston Youth Project
2022 - Drawing Exploring - ANOB Tamara Project, Cotehele and Kit Hill
2019-22 - Artist in Residence - Dunsland Park, National Trust, Nth Devon
2018-22 - Part time Art Teacher KS3/4 - St Josephs School, Cornwall
2021 - The People’s Herbarium - Lawrence House Museum, FEAST, Cornwall Museums Partnership
2021 - Riso Zine workshops - Carefree Cornwall Young people, Eco Park Press, Zine for G7 summit
2021 - Drawing with Nature workshops - The Pearl Exchange, Bude
2021 - Guineapig Drawing club - inter-generational online drawing course
2020 - Journals > Zines Project - young people in Cornwall, Carefree Cornwall young people
2019 - Art in Nature - Course for adults with Learning Difficulties at Made-Well, Devon
2017 - Cyprus Well - 2 week artist residency, at the home of poet Charles Causley
2017 - Drawing in Causley’s Footsteps - Poetic drawing walk, Launceston
2017 - Moments to See - Mindful drawing workshop, D. Moss, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University
2012 - Sound Mark Tour - Appledore Visual Arts Festival - participatory event with artist C. Wallis
2011 - The Big Draw - Drawing Exploring workshop - CCANW, Haldon Forest
2000 - Paper Factory - 3 month residency, David S. Smith Packaging Company, Year of the Artist
1997 - Northern Fibre II residency, 28 international artists at Nordic Ark, Bohuslän, Sweden
AWARDS
2023 - CAMP Research Residency
2022 - CAMP Go and See travel Bursary 2020 - Re-ignitian funding, FEAST for Journals and Zines Project
2021 - Bright Sparks, FEAST, Cornwall Museums Partnership, for People’s Herbarium Project
2018 - VASW bursary to attend For Love > Money Conference for creatives
2006 - Creative Skills Award - master printer workshop with Carolle Waller
COLLECTIONS
2017/18 - The Charles Causley Trust, Cyprus Well, Cornwall, residency works
2007/2018 - Art for Life, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, stitched wall pieces
2001 - South West Tourist Board office, Exeter, Corrie, wall piece
2000 - D.S. Smith Ltd. Launceston - Stitched Factory Map, factory foyer
MEMBERSHIPS
Stile collective (2022)
CAMP
a-n Artists’ Information Company
PUBLICATIONS
2020 - Art Worlds - 'Making Art in Cornwall’s Edgelands’ Article for Art Quest
2020 - Riddle 57 - Exeter Book - print contributor to animation, Double Elephant Printworkshop
2019 - National Trust interview - Dunsland Artist Residency
2018 - Postcard from For Love > Money Conference for creatives - VASW report
2010 - a-n MA interview
1996 - The Art of People and Places - featured artist - BBC2 schools programme
Autumn 1995 - The World of Embroidery Magazine article, vol.46 no.3 - Inspiration > Intuition - karen howse
1994 - Artists Newsletter Magazine - Front Cover May issue