My practice is informed by either personal experiences or wider issues that are pervasive in patriarchal society. I work with textiles, ceramics, print and installation, to explore themes of love, loss, resilience and trauma. I use found objects, reclaimed textile and reappropriated text to reveal personal narratives or uncover collective experiences.
After postgraduate study at Goldsmiths College, I settled in South East London for 15 years working as an artist, tutor and freelance artist educator, working in a number of adult education colleges and with the following creative partners; The Natural History Museum, The British Museum, SPACE London, The Cultural Olympics (Southbank and The Roundhouse), Bloomsbury Festival,, The Foundling Museum, University College Hospital, The October Gallery, Chelsea Physic Garden, The Fashion & Textile Museum and Orleans House Gallery.
I have my work in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and am featured in a podcast and ebook held in Gawthorpe Textile Collections archive, 2020.
I was selected for the Artist’s book residency grant at the Women’s Studio Workshop in New York, 2020 and have been awarded commissions by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Southwark Council and CBRE.
Exhibitions
Coastal Currents, Folde, Observer Building, Hastings, 2023
Pop up gallery, Art and Plants, Hastings, 2022
Coastal Currents, No place like home, Hastings, 2022
Two Tidal Towns, Artist Exchange, Monkton Arts, Isle of Wight, 2021
House of Annetta, London, 2021
Present Future, Curated shop front, Hastings, 2021
The Space In Between, 54 Gallery, London, 2021
New Beginnings, On-line Exhibition, 2021
The Art of Isolation, Espacio Gallery, London, 2020
Hastings Open, Hastings Museum, 2020
State of Mind, Stour Space, London, 2019
Open House, Hastings, 2018
Threads, Espacio Gallery, London, 2018
Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, 2014
Nunhead Gallery, London, 2013
We love Peckham, Southwark Council Tooley St, London, 2012
We love Peckham, Peckham Multiplex Cinema, London, 2012
We love Peckham, Southwark Cathedral, London, 2012
Untold Stories, Together Gallery, London, 2011
Up close: in detail, Mall Gallery, London, 2011
Kensington and Chelsea College gallery, London, 2011
Open House, East Dulwich, London, 2010
Rarefind, New Ashgate Gallery. Farnham, 2008
Origin: The London Craft Fair, Somerset House, London, 2007
Islington Design Show, Candid Arts, London, 2007
Origin: The London Craft Fair, Somerset House, London, 2006
Islington Design Show, Candid Arts, London, 2006
Contemporary Textile Fair, Teddington Arts Centre, London, 2005/6
Top Drawer, Earls Court, London, 2004
Design Front, Southend-on-Sea, 2004
Mesh, Broadway Market, London, 2004
The British Craft Show, Harrogate, 2004
Women’s Work, Farnham, 2003
Forces of Nature, Redditch, 2002
Treeline Gallery, Bakewell, 2001