Teaching

Visiting Lecturer at Winchester School of Art January 2005- 2009 (on going)

Lecturing at Middlesex University May 2004.

Lecturing and teaching at Kiad, Canterbury June 2004.

Residencies

Art at the Centre, Lead Artist for Isle of Sheppey, see www.aatc.org.uk (2005-07)

Insula Ovinium
The Rockhouse Gallery, Sheerness, 14th August – 12th September.

Platform Primera
Dunkerque, France, 15th-25th November 2003. A group project funded by the Kent Institute of Art. involving seven female artists making and presenting their work in the town of Dunkerque, France.

Education

The Slade School Of Art, UCL, MFA Sculpture.

Middlesex University, BA Fine Art.

Chelsea school of Art, Foundation.

Awards Won

Shortlisted for  Hung, Quartered And Drawn, Drawing competition at the Tower of London, Jan 2008.

AHRB study grant for the MFA.

Pocock Award of £500 from the Slade School of Art.

The Duveen Travel Scholarship 2002, £1500 awarded by a selected board of artists.

The ‘Free Place’ award 2003, from the Salzburg Summer Academy, Austria.

Reviews and Published works

I am quoted in PILOT:2 booklet  2005 answering a series of questions relating to the art market and current trends.

I was one of the ten sculpture graduates selected for the ‘Graduate 2002’ Supplement of Art Review published in June 2002.

My show in St. Martins Lane Soho, was reviewed by Jessica Hemmings in the September issue of Fibre Arts, which has distribution over USA and Canada. 

'Insula Ovinium, Volume 1'. A book containing an essay contributed by Jenny Uglow and documentation of the exhibition which took place on the Isle of Sheppey 2004. The project was inspired by William Hogarth's peregrination to he island, a bound document which mocked the vogue of the Grand Tour in 18th century Britain..

Statement

"I am interested in the way we use space and how habitat affects our lives. Working on a regeneration project has drawn my attention to how important architecture is and the impact it has on quality of life. Short-sighted development in the UK has lead to substandard housing estates. This is the subject of the work New Home, a performative sculptural work, made entirely of shortbread and icing. Based on the archetypal new-build house, it was placed in Queenswoods, North London, as part of a group show, and left to be eaten by passer-bys and animals.

My work frequently embodies the aesthetic of decay, being made from organic materials and degenerating over time. Whereas my edible works encourage decay and transience, my other pieces try to freeze change as if time could be stopped.

The works made of eggshell is an area of my practice which I have been exploring for several years. These sculptures are essentially attempting to describe an object metamorphosing. They are sensual, fragile and enigmatic, but with a definite presence in the given space. Most of these works have been site-specific, quite often in heritage locations where the loaded atmosphere has made the otherness of the work strangely compelling. The most recent of these is a work in progress called Statocumulus which will consist of many of these cloud-like structures made on silts placed in a stone vault in Southampton. The strange solidity of nothing but energy and water is the main subject of Stratocumulus piece.

I want the viewer not only to see, but also to smell, touch and taste my work. By transcending traditional ways of appreciating art, my work resists being contained like a museum archive, balancing the intimacy of personal experience with the broader aesthetic experience. "