Artist (b.1983) currently based in Warrington UK. I have an ideas led practice and I’m interested in: the snippets of everyday conversations that linger and our interpretations of them. Our relationships with one another and how transcribing may enable empathy and our ability to look beyond the limitations, expectations and probable outcomes to create new systems with their own eventual limitations, expectations and probable outcomes.

Using a combination of scale, colour, humour, and domestic craft techniques I create works such as large scale site responsive installations, wall hangings, soft sculptures, art garments & performance. 

In 2017 I launched Ride Your Pony. An international group exhibition and residency that I organise and curate.

CV
........             solo shows
2022               That’s Not My Retrospective..., Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces, Warrington UK
2022               That’s Not My Exhibition..., Galeri, Caernarfon UK
2019 - 20        Let’s Get Stuck in Traffic! (Extended) Warrington Museum & Art Gallery UK


........             group shows
2024                Virtual Visions. Birch Studios & Gallery, Birkenhead, UK
2024                Bath Open Art Prize. 44AD Artspace, Bath, UK
2024                AIR Gallery Open Exhibition. Rogue Artists Studios, UK
2024                Warrington Arts Festival. Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, UK
2023               Syfrdanol. HAUS, Llandudno, UK
2023               The Art of Mootherhood. Stretford Public Hall, UK
2023               Art in the Barn. Goosefest, UK
2023               Studio 7 Showcase. Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, UK
2023               Fibres. AIR Gallery, Altrincham, UK
2022 - 23       The Art of the Football Scarf. OOF Gallery, London, UK
2021                Light Knit Film Programme. Framework Knitters’ Museum, Nottingham UK
2021                Slap Bang!. Castlefield Gallery New Art Space, Warrington UK
2021                The Knit & Stitch Show. Alexandra Palace, London UK 
2021                Warrington Pop-up Museum & Library, Golden Square, Warrington UK
2021                Form Made From. Design centre, Chelsea Harbour, London UK       
2020               CRAFT | In Season.   Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth UK
2019                Ride Your Pony No.03 (Extended) Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival UK
2019                Neo: Arts Prize 2019 Bolton Museum & Gallery UK
2018                Open Exhibition. Galeri Caernarfon, Wales UK
2018                Creating Space With Frames.   Manchester UK & Delft, Netherlands
2018                Transient Space. Design Manchester UK
2018                The Society of Interesting Things. Independents Liverpool Biennial UK
2018                Ride Your Pony No.02. Independents Liverpool Biennial UK
2018                Contemporary Arts Festival Warrington Museum & Art Gallery UK
2018                I Don’t Love Soccer Because... Camp & Furnace, Liverpool UK
2018                Letterspace exhibition & auction, The Whitworth Gallery Manchester UK
2017                Ride Your Pony No.01 (Touring) Liverpool John Moores University UK
2017                Legacy 2 Alumni Exhibition Manchester Metropolitan University UK
2017                Ride Your Pony No.01 Islington Mill, Manchester UK
2017                CURIO CURIA Castlefield Gallery, Manchester UK
2017                Islington Mill Today The Lowry, Salford UK
2015                MFA Exhibition Manchester Metropolitan University UK
2015                Molecular + Bonnacons of Doom Liverpool John Moores University UK
2014                MA Exhibition Manchester Metropolitan University UK
2012                Be Hospitable! Camp & Furnace, Liverpool Independents Biennial UK

........             residencies
2021 -              Artists Residency in Motherhood, UK
2018                Ride Your Pony Residency No.02, Liverpool UK
2017                Ride Your Pony Residency No.01 Islington Mill, Salford UK
2017                ‘What is the City But the People?’, an idea by Jeremy Deller,
                         Manchester International Festival Opening Islington Mill, Salford UK
2015                Slow Media Residency Part 2: Making & resolutions, MMU UK
2014                Slow Media Residency Part 1: Place & processes Brittany, France

........             awards & commissions
2025                Warrington Arts Festival commission
2024                It Wazza Nice To Meet You! producer, Warrington Arts Festival
2024 - 25        Culture Warrington Associate Artist
2024 - 25       Galeri Art Space, Caernarfon exhibitions selection panel with Artist Bedwyr Williams. 
2023                Grundy Gallery, Blackpool. Group collaboration in response to Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois exhibition
2023                Covid 19 Inquiry Commemorative Tapestry, UK. M&C Saatchi. Curator Ekow Eshun.
2022                DYCP funding Arts Council England, UK 
2022                Diamond Village commission, Framework Knitters Museum, UK 
2021                 NLPG Arts Council England for Ride Your Pony No.04, Blackpool, UK 
2020                Vlieseline Innovative Use Of Textiles in Fine Art Award UK
2020                Guest Curator & Organiser Warrington Contemporary
                          Arts Festival Open Exhibtion Warrington Museum & Art Gallery UK
2020 - 21         Project Manager FORM MADE FROM Group Show London Craft Week UK
2020                75th Anniversary VJ Day Banner Warrington Museum & Art Gallery UK
2019                 Artists’ International Delegation, Castlefield Gallery & a-n Denmark
2019                 Crafts Council Hothouse programme UK
2019               Shortlisted Jerwood Makers Open
2019               One of 52 itv Creates artists London, UK
2018                 Artists’ International Development Fund Arts Council England
2018                 Winner of Contemporary Arts Festival Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, UK

........             talks & workshops
2024               Young Producers group in Warrington
2023               BA Graphic Design course, University of the West England, Bristol
2022               Making projects happen. London College of Communication (LCC) UK
2022               Talking type. LJMU UK
2022               2 x machine knit workshops, Framework Knitters Museum, Ruddington, UK
2020               Hothouse induction 2020 cohort. National Centre for Craft and Design, Lincolnshire
2020               Lecture - My Career as an Artist. Illustration & Graphic Design, LJMU & MMU
2019                Show See Say II Castlefield Gallery
2018 - 20        Unit X Talk (x 5) and workshop (x 4) Graphic Design & Illustration, MMU
2018 & 19        Assist HAZUKI game/knit workshop Manchester & London, UK
2018                Assist Alphaknit workshops with Sam Meech Liverpool & Manchester, UK
2018                Lecture - My Career as an Artist. Illustration & Graphic Design, MMU
2015                Lecture - My Career as a Designer. Graphic Design, MMU UK
2014                Knitronica. Live knitting & audience participation, The Whitworth’s pub crawl UK
2014                Lecture - Grief, Archiving and Virtual Reality. Art Theory & Practice, MMU UK
2013                Lecture - My Career as a Designer. Graphic Arts, LJMU UK

........             press / featured
The Guardian Online, The Observer, The Festival of Quilts Magazine, The Skinny, Creative Tourist, Manchester Wire, The Culture Diary, Visit Manchester, MMU, Art in Liverpool, Seven Streets, Kin 2 Kin, OK! Magazine, Warrington Guardian.

link                  The Knitting & Stitching Show - Judges comments
link                  A Woman’s Work - Essay for publication by writer Laura Robertson
link                  Taking Up Space - Review by writer Julia Johnson
link                  Art in Liverpool - Arts Festival entries labelled as best ever. Article & judges comments
link                  The Skinny - The Skinny showcase.

........             education
2013 - 15          MFA Graphic Design & Art Direction, Manchester Metropolitan University UK
2015                 ILTA of PGCLTHE Manchester Metropolitan University UK
2003 - 06        Graphic Arts BA Honours, Liverpool John Moores University UK
2002 - 03        Art Foundation Parc Menai Bangor, North Wales UK