Bradford born girl from the North living in the South for over 30 years. Taught to stitch by my grandmas one who worked in the Mills and the other who ‘made do and mended’ as a Royal Engineer’s wife in Poona, India. So I guess its in my blood!
Study
Winchester School of Art, Textiles Fashion & Fibre, 2005-2009
Morley College, C&G Artist in Residence, 2007-2008
Wimbledon School of Art, BTEC Foundation in Art & Design (distinction), 2004-2005
Wimbledon School of Art, Pre- foundation drawing, 2003-2004
Exhibitions
Six Degrees of Separation, Bedford Room, Woburn Abbey, June 2013
DIFFERENCE: contrasts, distinction, variances, variations, divergence, deviation , Wimbledon Gallery, UAL:Wimbledon College of Arts, October 2011
AIR2, Morley Gallery, London, July 2008
Indigo, Final Project BTEC Foundation, Wimbledon College of Art, June 2005
Community Arts Projects & Residencies
Care & Comfort in the First World War, for the National Archive Kew, 2015-2016, www.blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/care-comfort-national-archives/
The Harmony Project, for Shared Heritage in partnership with V&A Museum, 2013-2014, www.harmonyproject.co.uk/blog/
Chinwag, for Shared Heritage, 2011, www.sharedheritage.org/chinwag-4/
Colourful Characters, for Shared Heritage, 2010, www.sharedheritage.org/colourful-characters/
Tana Bana, for Shared Heritage, 2009-2010, www.sharedheritage.org/other-projects/
River & Cloth, for Merton Council in partnership with the Embroiderers’ Guild, 2009-2010, www.riverandcloth.co.uk
Storyscapes, British Council International Schools Partnership Residency, Ricards Lodge High School /MSB Institute Kolkata, 2008
Text & Textiles exhibition, Wimbledon Book Festival 2007, work produced by students during residency at Ricards Lodge High School, 2007
Employment
Dye & Print Technician, UAL Wimbledon College of Arts, 2007-2015