Artist statement.
I work through installation art and a range of media to express the flux and vulnerability of life, drawing on a professional background in health and social care and a more recent education in fine art.
I work through installation art to express the flux and vulnerability of life, drawing on a professional background in health and social care.
Because installation art is three dimensional it allows the viewer to walk around and interact more emotionally with the work and its meaning. The materials I choose are mainly textile, paper and recycled objects combined with imagery, light and projections, large and small, that evoke the fragility of experience of different groups.
I am also interested in art as research, both as a method and as a means of communicating findings more widely, and currently I am working with the Cluster for Refugee Education at the University of Winchester to represent at art exhibitions their research findings on the experiences of young refugees in education.
Previous work has portrayed the body communicating with the social environment.
Following a fine art degree at Central St Martins and an MA in London, I have exhibited in London and the South East for 15 years. I am now based in Winchester, where I have my studio at Jewry Street Studios.
Qualifications.
| 2011 | MA Creative Media Arts, London South Bank University |
| 2008 | BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central St Martin’s College of Art |
| 2003 | Foundation Course in Textiles, Morley College, London |
Exhibitions.
| 2025 | ‘Seeking Sanctuary: Young Refugee Voices’ solo exhibition at West Downs Gallery, University of Winchester, 16-20 June |
| 2024 | ‘Creative Process 1 & 2’ in ‘Chance’ online group exhibition, August |
| 2024 | Publication of graphic novel ‘Flora Twort’s War’, February |
| 2023/4 | Group Exhibitions with Cowprint Printmakers, Romsey and Exbury |
| 2022 | ‘Channel Crossing’ at Boundaries Exhibition, Winchester University, 4 Apr-13 May |
| 2020 | ‘Dolls House Dioramas’, virtual exhibition by Small House Gallery, South London |
| 2019 | ‘Four Sight’, Group Exhibition of 4 printmakers, Turner Sims Gallery, University of Southampton, 12 Nov-21 Dec |
| 2018 | ‘InterArt’, cross-disciplinary and intergenerational dance performance, Rawberry Café, 8 July |
| 2018 | ‘Hat/Building’, Transform exhibition, Westbury Manor Museum, Fareham 26 May-14 July |
| 2018 | ‘Feminist Superheroes’, two cartoons for ‘Press for Progress’, International Women’s Day exhibition, The University of Winchester, 28 Feb-18 March |
| 2017 | ‘The Poems of Edward Thomas: Scents and Sounds’ at Inspired by the Word exhibition, Petersfield Museum, 4-22 April |
| 2017 | ‘Rita’ a graphic story and ‘A Point Scorer’, poem & sketch at ‘Be Bold for Change’, International Women’s Day exhibition, The University of Winchester, 8-31 March |
| 2015 | ‘The Quintessential Chalkstream: an investigation’, at CHALK 10 Days-Winchester Exhibition, Winchester Discovery Centre 10 |
| 2014 | ‘The Quintessential Chalkstream: an investigation’, at CHALK 10 Days-Winchester Exhibition, Winchester Discovery Centre 10 |
| 2014 | Video ‘To Go’, Group Exhibition ‘Vessels’, Making Space Gallery, Havant, 27-3a Oct |
| 2014 | ‘Take-away Cup’ installation, Fllavoursome’, Group Exhibition with Unit 11 Studios, Mettricks Café, Southampton, May-Jun |
| 2013 | ‘Illuminating: an artistic celebration of Fords’, Group Exhibition St Barbe’s Museum, Lymington, 26 Oct-9 Nov |
| 2013 | ‘Bedroom Window’, projection, Group Exhibition, The Wool House, Southampton, Aug |
| 2012 | ‘Bedroom Window’, projection, Coastal Gallery, Lymington, Nov |
| 2012 | ‘Electric Goldfish’ and ‘Sails’ installations, Brilliance Festival, Poole, Dorset, March |
| 2011 | ’Boxed In 1, 2, 3′ installations, Group Exhibition ‘Feeling Small’, Harbour Lights Picture House Gallery, Southampton, November |
| 2011 | ‘Feeling Small’ installation, Group Exhibition ‘Art in a Box’, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks, September |
| 2011 | ‘Giant Glow Worms’ installation, Brilliance Festival, Poole, Dorset, March |
| 2010 | ‘Snow in the Office’ and ‘Giant Glow Worm’ installations, Group Exhibition ‘Crypt-mas, The Crypt, St Pancras Church, Dec |
| 2010 | ‘Frankenstein’ video, Group Exhibition ‘Puppets, Mobiles and Automata’, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks, November |
| 2010 | ‘Vital Signs’ installation, Group Exhibition ‘Secret Subterranean London’, Shoreditch Town Hall, Sep |
| 2010 | MA Project ‘The Dying Body: kinetic art installations’, Digital Art Gallery, London South Bank University, 22-26 Feb |