Born in Telford 1991
Based in Wolverhampton & The Black Country
I have a printmaking practice (in the broadest sense) often adopting sculptural, painterly and social forms to hold and share spaces for learning. The manoeuvres of printmaking - contact, transference, intimacy underline these activities in which a focus on making together have emerged as my approach. I work with archival materials to connect with place, people and histories, offering a framework to respond and reimagine in the present. I am thinking about local ecologies, inherited landscapes and climate justice through these means.
Since 2022 I have been co-diretcor of Eagle Works Studios & Project Space in Wolverhampton, a Community Interest Company that provides affordable studios and opportunities for artists. You can find out about Eagle Works here.
Projects, Events & Exhibitions
2024
Nature Stewardship, Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust, Dudley
Deveron Projects Residency, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Midlands Painters, Moonraven Gallery, Birmingham
Start the Press! , Ikon Gallery
2023
Gathering Press at Dartmouth Park Pavillion, Multistory
Constellations Cohort 2023, UP Projects
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, 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
Texts, Papers & Publications
2025
Speculative Matterings: Re-imagining the Art School Studio. Presentation for ‘Have some Imagination: Towards a Manifesto for Arts Education’ conference at BALTIC, Northumbria University (Feb 2025).
2024
Collaborative Practices, the Studio as a Space of Creative Uncertainty. Presentation for ‘Art of Resistance,’ conference at University of the Arts Canterbury.
How do we learn to talk through gestural moments and speculative acts? Workshop for ‘Essential Not Optional’ conference at University of Lincoln.
Making Bread With Your Feet. Workshop for 'Gentle Gestures' stream at 'Midlands Conference for Critical Thought' conference at Nottingham Trent University.
Gathering Press: Towards an Environmentally Resonant Pedagogy. Article in 'Makings Journal: Gentle Gestures, Contexts, Spaces and Approaches Beyond the Academy.'
2023
Studio Culture & Pedagogic Change. Leadership seminar for Council for Higher Education in Art & Design (CHEAD).
Studio as a Space of Exception. Session convenor, 'On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach', conference, Glasgow School of Art & Uni Arts Helsinki.
Printmaking Communities at the Edge of Chaos, co-authored research paper with Dr Simon Harris, IMPACT 12 Printmaking Conference, Bristol.
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.
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.
2019
Reading Otherwise. Research paper for ‘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)
Fellow, Higher Education Academy (208 - 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
CoLab Dudley, Multistory, Ikon Gallery & Ikon Youth Programme, Creative Black Country, New Art Gallery Walsall, The Barber Institute, Grand Union Gallery, The Feast, Gatis Community Center, Birmingham City University, National Saturday Art and Design Club, Wolverhampton Social Prescribing, Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
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)