Curriculum Vitae 2021
Employment
2007– Programme Leader: BA (Hons) Art & Design, MA Visual Arts: Bradford School of Art
1999-2007: Lecturer in Art and Life Skills: Wetherby Young Offenders.
1990-1999: Deputy Manager/Care Worker for Adults with Learning Disabilities: Northern Life Care Ltd, Harrogate.
Education
2017: PhD in Visual Arts. Sculptural Reconfigurations of the Kitchen Utensil: A Poetic Chaos of Domesticity. – (To be completed in 2022) Coventry University.
2008-2010:
M.A in Visual Arts, Bradford School of Arts and Media (Leeds Metropolitan University)
1994-1996
P.G.C.E in Further Education: (Huddersfield University) Harrogate College of Art and Technology
1987-1989:
BA (Hons) Degree in Sculpture, Wimbledon School of Art, London
1985-1986:
Foundation Certificate in Art and Design. Harrogate College of Art and Technology
Group Exhibitions
2020: Invasive Species: Harlow Car Gardens, RHS, Harrogate
2020: Interesting Times: London Metropolitan University Gallery
2020. Some New World: Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury
2020: Are you Ready? South Square Gallery, Thornton ,Bradford.
2019: I/material: Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculptors Group
2019: Object /Image: Selected prints-: WYPW Mirfield, Yorkshire Sculptors Group
2019: Temporal Terrains: Dean Clough, Halifax, Yorkshire Sculptors Group
2019: Whisk up, Grind Down: Solo Show, South Square, Thornton, Bradford
2019 Breaking Ground Exhibition: Derby, Yorkshire Sculptors Group.
2018: Staff Exhibition: Selected Works, Dye House Gallery, Bradford School of Art
2018: Separation: Dye House Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire Sculptors Group
2018: Travelling Light: Dye House Gallery, Bradford Yorkshire Sculptors Group
-Water Street Gallery: Tod Morden, West Yorkshire.
-Dean Clough, Halifax
-Baltimore, America
2018: Now and Then (Selected works). Bowery Gallery Leeds: Contribution to Journal Article
2018: Wild Wings Fly: (The Unlocked Collective) South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford
2018: Selected works (Friends of South Square) South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford.
2018: Connexions (Selected Works) – Dean Clough, Halifax. Yorkshire Sculptors Group
2018: Venus 100: Leeds Art Gallery Library. (Welcome Trust).
2017: Separation: Dye House Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire Sculptors Group
2017: Summer Show – Dutch House-York
2017: Separation: – Dean Clough, Halifax, Yorkshire Sculptors Group
2016: Place and Space- Left Bank, Leeds
2016: Made of All Work- Bowery Gallery, Leeds
2016: No Future No Hope (Unlocked Collective)- Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
2015: If Walls Could Talk (Unlocked Collective)- Sunny Bank Mill, Farsley, West Yorkshire
2015: Group Show -Bradford School of Art.
2014: Bradford School of Art, Alumni Exhibition: Selected works- Dean Clough, Halifax
2014: X. V. Y: Group Exhibition (Unlocked Collective) -The Old Court House, Thirsk.
2012: Harrogate Open Show -100 Hook and Eye- Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
2011: War Exhibition and Conference – Knife, Fork and Spoon- Bradford School of Art.
2010: MA Show – Bradford School of Art
2010: Salon Show Exhibition – South Square Gallery. Thornton, Bradford
2010: Centenary Exhibition – Bradford School of Art
Solo Shows
2020: Are you Ready? South Square Gallery- Thornton, Bradford.
2019: Whisk up, Grind Down: Solo Show. South Square, Thornton, Bradford
2011: Couples- Collaboration with Writer/Poet Michael Stewart- South Square Gallery Thornton. Limited Edition Book of Exhibition. (Images and Poems).
Commissions
2013: Large Steel Head Sculpture (Concept Artist: For Chris Beardshaw)- Hampton Court Flower Show.
Book Publication
2020: Are You Ready? Artist book. Journey through Venice, (Coventry University)
Journals
2018: Now and Then (Selected works). Bowery Gallery Leeds: https://issuu.com/gedtog/docs/then_and_now
2014: Another of the Other: Volume 1 Issue 1 October 2014.Epicurious- Bradford College E-journal.
2015: Making Knowledge Travel. Goldsmiths Conference: Contribution to PhD by Design: Instant Journal:
Awards/Fellowships
2021: Hosking Houses Trust (Fellowship)
2019: Venice Fellowship, British Council.
2007: Inside Out Award for Community Anti-Drugs Project
2006: Koestler Award: Group Project, Wetherby Young Offenders
2005: Jerward Award: Community Project. Wetherby Young Offenders
Membership
2019: FHEA: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
2016– YSG (Yorkshire Sculptors Group), https://www.yorkshiresculptorsgroup.org
2014- Unlocked Collective, https://www.unlockedcollective.co.uk
Conferences/Presentations
2014: Symposium: Oscillations, Bradford School of Art.
2015: Artists Talk ‘Couples’ Harrogate College:
2020: Presentation /Workshop: Communicating the Unsayable Learning at the Intersection of Language and Arts. Leeds University
2019: Presentation: Whisk Woman, Wheel Woman, Coventry University:
2019: Presentation: A Film about Sue. Leeds Museum
2018: Presentation/Workshop, Body, Mind Image: Leeds Library (Sponsored by Welcome Trust)
2017: CREST Conference, -: London
2016: Artists Talk: Desire: Another of the Other. Harrogate College
Workshops
2018: Venus 100 Work Shop 1: Body, Mind, Image: Leeds Art Library.
2018: Venus 100 Work Shop 2: Body, Mind, Image: Leeds Art Library.
2014: Drama Arts Productions (D.A.P) Creative Arts Director: Commedia Dell’Arte: – Delivery of Mask Making Workshops Venice Italy
2013: Drama Arts Productions (D.A.P) Creative Arts Director: Commedia Dell’Arte:- Delivery of Mask Making Workshops Venice Italy