Commissions

Time and Tide - A touring art work Lancaster and Morecambe Libraries, Blackpool Central Library - Lancashire Archives, Litfest, Lancaster 2015

Leftcoast Express- Self directed learning programme with the Blackpool Creative People and Places Project, 2014

A ‘Pop-Up Library’ for Blackpool Library Services, 2013

Archives and Conversations, Shadows Pass - for Blackpool Borough Council - Blackpool Culture Shops - July to September 2013

The Waiting Room - Preston Train Station, for In Certain Places in collaboration with Virgin Rail- September 2012 to present 

No More Last Minutes - Blackpool Culture Shops, for Blackpool Borough Council, August 2011 

Landscapes from the Tower - Landscape mural painting for the National Trust study centre, Slindon Estate, West Sussex 2004

South Asian Arts UK - Set design for the Samyo National Youth Orchestra for Indian Music tour 2002


Solo Exhibitions

The Earth Murmurs While We Sleep - The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool 2015

'Into the Bright Blue Fields' South Square Gallery, Bradford UK - April 2012

'In The Fall' Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects - Oct 2011

'Autobiographical Terrains/ Explorations of Landscape' The King's Art Centre, Kings College Cambridge 2011

'Autobiographical Terrains' Harris Museum and Art Gallery 2011

MA Degree Show University of Central Lancashire Sept 2010

 

Residencies

Abingdon Studios, Blackpool April 2015

Arquetopia Foundation for Development, Puebla, Mexico: February - March 2015

The Birley
Artists Studios and Project Space, Preston, North West UK: December 2014- January 2015

Art Lab- Contemporary Printmaking Studio, University of Central Lancashire: Post Graduate Fellowship 2011, The AA2A Scheme 2012.


Selected Exhibitions

Test Bed, Art COP Paris - Abingdon Studios, Blackpool 2015

DESTROY BLACKPOOL
Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects 2015

Adventures in a Northern Landscape - Lytham Heritage Rooms 2015

'Time and Place, Hither and Thither, War and Peace', Contribution to 3 graphic newspapers and exhibition at the Design Event North East Festival for Graphics North Unlimited- Angels of George Braque, October 2010

Ten Twelve University of Central Lancashire September 2010

Interim Show PR1 Gallery, University of Central Lancashire, February 2010

    Circle Bokartas 5th International Artists Book Triennial 2009 /2010
  • Leipzig Book Fair, Germany, 2009
  • Gallery Arka Vilnius, Lithuania 2009
  • Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark 2009
  • Gallery Hübner Bokform, Halmstad, Sweden – March, 2010
  • Seoul International Book Arts Fair, Seoul, Korea May, 2010
  • Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Venice, Italy October, 2010

The Harris Open The Harris Museum; Gallery Preston 2009

The Blackpool Art Fair The Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool 2009

    Triple Echo University of Central Lancashire 2008
  • Liverpool John Moores University 2008
  • Wirral Metropolitan University 2009
  • Editions Gallery Liverpool 2009
  • University of West of England IMPACT Print Conference Bristol 2009

BOOK at Margaret Harvey Gallery, University of Hertfordshire 2008

Celador Chorlton Arts Festival, Manchester 2006

BOOK at De Beauvoir Town, London 2006

Spring Equinox Two am Press Studio, London 2004

Picsel+02 National Museum Gallery of Wales, 2008

Old Library andQueen Street public information monitors 2002

Time Visual Arts North East 1999

British Book Artists Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia 1999

Streetwalkers Bull and Last London 1998

Souvenirs William English Rare Books Museum Street, London 1998

Forest The Bull and Last Public house London 1998

Recent Graduates in Printmaking The New Ashgate Gallery Farnham 1997


Curatorial Projects

Salon Events 1-6 Associate Artist for They Eat Culture co-curating exhibitions The Continental, Preston Lancashire 2009/ 2010

Building for Pleasure at The Bull & Last London 1999

British Book Artists Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia 1999

The Two am Press and Friends London Artists Book Fair and The Anarchists Book Fair 16 artists invited to join the tour 1998


Work Held In Collections

Lunch on the Promenade with the Seagulls limited edition artists’ book Norwich University Art Library

‘Random’ contribution to collection of box set print project, The Study Gallery Poole Dorset

The Pilgrims Way collaborative box set of editioned prints The International Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum London


Lead Artist for Educational Projects and Workshops

Festival of Stories- Memory Maps and Bookbinding 2015

Time and Tide - Morecambe and Lancaster 2015

Leftcoast - Creative People and Places, Blackpool 2014, 2015,2016

Community Mapping - Claremont Children’s Centre, Blackpool 2011

Workshops : The Grundy Art Gallery 2011-2015Blackpool Arts Society 2015, Hoghton Tower Lancashire 2014, St Anne’s Library 2012, 2013, St Bernard’s Primary School Preston 2011, Brewery Arts Centre Kendal 2011, Bluecoat Liverpool 2011BZZZ’ Pop up Gallery Blackburn 2010South Asian Arts UK 2002


Teaching Posts

Technical Tutor Art and Design and Educational Research as part of the FILED Group -  Middlesex University School of Education, London 2003-2008

Aim Higher Year 10 Summer School Tutor - Middlesex University, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Art and Design Teaching Posts -  Westminster Kingsway College 1999- 2002, Southgate College PGCE placement 2002

Fine Art Tutor -  Kent Institute of Art and Design 1999- 2003, University of Northumbria at Newcastle 2000, Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, 2004


Selected Education

MA in Fine Art University of Central Lancashire 2010
Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Post Compulsory Education), University of Greenwich 2002
BA (Hons) Fine Art Kent Institute of Art and Design Canterbury 1997
Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art and Design Blackpool and The Fylde College 1994