curriculum vitae

2002-04 MA Fine Art, Norwich School of Art & Design

1983-86 BA Hons Embroidery/Textiles, UCE Birmingham School of Art and Design

1981-83 DATEC Diploma in Art/Design, Hounslow Borough College, Middlesex

Projects, Commissions, Residencies

2010 Farm Arts Commission, The Great Outdoors arts programme, to create a series of temporary artworks in two farms in Suffolk throughout June and July

2009 Wisbech Library, commissioned to make artwork for new library and to lead community art project. completed 2010

Sedley Court, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, commissioned to make external artwork for halls of residence.

Bretts's Warehouse, Great Yarmouth, commissioned to make internal arwtork for new develoment of the warehouse into a centre for homeless young people

Vital Communities, Ramsey, Cambs, lead artist on residency working with a dancer and community groups.

2008 Culture of the Countryside, artist on outreach project working with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich and Stibbard primary school, Norfolk.

Vital Communities, Cambridgeshire, lead artist on residency working with community groups in Parson Drove village

East feast, core artist on the Eastfeast NPCL (next practises in communities for learning) project, one of a team of 4 artist working in 3 core schools in Suffolk and Essex throughout 2008 and 2009

ArC 08 (Art Researching Ciizenship), Artist Curator, Firstsite Gallery and Colchester consortium schools. Co-ordinating a team of 7 artists and 7 residencies in schools to make a touring artwork

2007 ArC 07, Firstsite Gallery and Bishop William Ward school, Colchester, residency working with year 5 pupils to make artwork exploring citizenship for the school and exhibiton at Firstsite.

Gallery Games, Firstsite Gallery commission to make an interactive learning resource for the ArC exhibition

Vital Communities Cambridgeshire, artist on 3 residencies in 3 different schools throughout the Spring, Summer and Autumn terms

2006 ArC 06, Firstsite Gallery and Montgomery Infants school, Colchester, residency making artwork with the reception class.

2005 Weatherdays Residency, Wysing Arts, Cambridge, 6 month residency working with a group of adults with learning difficulties and a garden designer to create temporary artworks and re-develop the farmhouse garden

Arc 05, Firstsite Gallery and Kings Ford primary school, Colchester residency making a permanent artwork for the school

Artist Space, Firstsite Gallery, residency and exhibition in the gallery to make new work

The Drawing Room, Firstite Gallery, 1 week residency and drawing project with 8 schools and sixth form college form Colchester

2002 Greshams school, Norfo;lk, artist in residence

2003 Marathon Oil Company, wall piece commissiond by Workplace Art

2001 LTS Architects, London series of wall pieces comissioned for new offices

1998 The King of Saudi Arabia, wall piece commissioned by Workplace Art

1996 The Co-Operative bank, commissioned to make artwork for the new headquarters in Rochdale

Exhibitions

2009 Blue Sky, Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

2007 Kettles Yard Open, Cambridge

2005 Drawing: Imagination, Investigation and Process, Hay Gallery, Colchester

Salthouse 05, Salthouse Church, Norfolk

Emergency 2, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

Artist Space, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester (solo)

Papworth Hospital, Cambridge (solo)

2004 MA Fine Art exhibition, Norwich

Ben Nicholson gallery, Greshams school, Norfolk (solo)

2003 Material Spaces, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle

Art 03, England & Co Gallery, Business Design Centre, London

2002 Art 02, England & Co Gallery, Business Design Centre, London

Passing Place, Sevenoaks Museum & Gallery (solo)

Recent Work, England & Co (solo)

2001 Showhome, Cadogan Place, London

Art 01, England & Co Gallery, Business Design Centre, London

2000 Art Textiles 2, Bury St Edmunds Museum & Gallery, Suffolk

3x3, SE1 Gallery, London

Art 00, England & Co Gallery, Business Design Centre, London

Solo exhibition, England & Co Gallery, London

1999 Continuation, England & Co Gallery, London

Art 99, England & Co Gallery, Business Design Centre, London

1998 Art Futures, The Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall, London

Art 98, The Contemporary Art Society, Business Design Centre, London

Small Works, England & Co Gallery, London

Vital Art, Atlantis Gallery, London

1997 Chelsea Crafts Fair, London

Small Objects of Desire, The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

Pallent house, Chichester (solo)

1996 Chelsea Crafts Fair, London

Spheres & Surfaces, Orleans House Gallery, London (solo)

1994/5/6 The Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall, London

1990 The Art of the Stitch, Commonwealth Institute, London

A Sense of Order, McCormac, Jamieson & Pritchard Architects

1989 Art For Offices, London

Publications

2009 The Elephant in the Room, illustrations for an anthology of poetry written by people with memory loss, commissioned by Cambridgeshire libraries

2006 Kettles Yard Open catalogue

2004 Firstsite Paper with commissioned essay by Rebecca Wills

-MA catalogue

2003 Textile Perspectives in Mixed Media Sculpture, book to accompany Material Spaces exhibiton

2000 Art Textiles 2, catalogue

Collections

works in the collections of; One Aldwych hotel, the Economist, the Royal Brompton hospital, Unilever plc, Hertfordshire Education Authority, Co-operative Retail Services, South Holland council and various private

Teaching/Professional

2006 - Freelance Artist and Arts Educator

2003 - 05 Exhibitions Co-ordinator, Babylon Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire

2001 - 02 Gallery Co-ordinator, Open Space Gallery, Cambridge Regional College

2000 - 02 P/T lecturer, Diploma and Foundation, Cambridge Regional College

1999 - 02 Textiles Technician, Cambridge Regional College

1995 - 96 P/T lecturer in drawing, City and Guilds, College of North West London

1993 - 96 P/T lecturer, 1st year BA Fine Art Textiles and Access Textiles, Goldsmiths College, London

1991 - 96 Embroidery Technician, BA Fine Art Textiles, Goldsmiths College, London

1991 P/T Lecturer, Adult Education Richmond upon Thames, London

1990 P/T Art Tutor; Tooting Bec Psychiatric Hospital, London

1989 - 90 Deputy Supervisor The Design Council Bookshop, London

1987 - 90 Gallery Assistant; Lumley Cazalet Gallery, London

Visiting artist/lecturer on the BA fine Art at the Colchester Institute, West Anglia College and the University of Huddersfield School of Art and Design.

Professional Development

2008 to present, member of Satellite a self organised artist group

2008 Eastfeast NPCL Postgraduate Diploma in Education, Anglia Ruskin University, Suffolk

2007 Artist Training in working with adults with learning difficulties, Project Artworks, Hastings

2004 – 06 Mentee on Commissions East Mentoring programme

2006

2007

Teaching/Profe1995-6