CV

Events

2024

  • Hadleigh Open Studios – 5 & 6 Oct (10am-4pm), Hadleigh Old Fire Station, Hadleigh SS7 2PA
  • SEVEN artists, group exhibition – Leigh Art Trail, Essex
  • Winter Charity Exhibition in support of The One Love Project – Two Tree Gallery, Essex

2023

  • CAOS Open Studios exhibition – HOFs, Essex
  • Southend Urban Landscape competition
  • SEVEN artists, group exhibition – Leigh Art Trail, Essex

2022

  • Open Studios – Hadleigh Old Firestation
  • SEVEN artists, group exhibition – Leigh Art Trail, Essex

2021

  • SEVEN artists, group exhibition – Leigh Art Trail, Essex
  • ‘Estuary festival’ – Metal Southend

2020

  • All events postponed due to Covid-19

2019

  • SEVEN artists, group exhibition – Leigh Art Trail, Essex

2018

  • SEVEN artists, group exhibition – Leigh Art Trail, Essex
  • SEVEN artists, group exhibition – Southend Art Trail, Essex
  • ‘Painting with Light’ – LAT residency, Essex
  • ‘Our RA Summer Show’ – LAT residency, Essex
  • ‘Art of the Abstraction’ – LAT residency, Essex

2017

  • SEVEN artists, group exhibition – Leigh Art Trail, Essex

2016

  • SEVEN artists, group exhibition – Village Green Festival, Metal Culture, Essex

Artisan Markets

2024

  • Folk & Bespoke, Leigh Community Centre – October
  • Folk & Bespoke, Leigh Community Centre – April
  • Folk & Bespoke, Leigh Community Centre – March

2023

  • Eco Market, Leigh Road Baptist Church – November
  • Folk & Bespoke, Leigh Community Centre – November
  • Folk & Bespoke, Leigh Community Centre – October
  • Folk & Bespoke, Leigh Community Centre – March
  • Folk & Bespoke, Leigh Community Centre – February

2022

  • Folk & Bespoke, Rayleigh Mill – December
  • Echo Market, Leigh Road Baptist Church – November
  • Folk & Bespoke, Leigh Community Centre – November
  • Folk & Bespoke, Leigh Community Centre – October

Workshops/Talks

2021

  • Cyanotype stitching – Southend Seaside Stitchers
  • Intro to bookbinding – Freelance Meetup group

2020

  • ‘Embroider a Vintage Postcard’ – Embroiderer’s Guild
  • ‘Creative Journals’ with SEVEN – Metal Culture, Essex

2019

  • ‘Creative Journals’ with SEVEN – Metal Culture, Essex
  • ‘Connecting Threads’ with Gwen Simpson – Turn the Page, Norwich
  • ‘Next Generation’ with SEVEN – Metal Culture, Essex
  • ‘Celebrate with Stitch and Collage’ – Embroiderer’s Guild

2018

  • ‘Big Draw’ with SEVEN – LAT residency, Essex
  • ‘Altered Books: Threads of Thought’ – Embroiderer’s Guild

2017

  • ‘Next Generation’ with SEVEN – Metal Culture, Essex
  • ‘Pecha Kucha’ talk – Metal Culture, Essex

Education

2015-2016

  • Creative Journal workshops – Metal Culture, Essex

2002-2004

  • MA Digital Media & Cultural Studies, University of East London

1990-1991

  • BA Hons Textile Design, 2:1 – University of East London

1988-1990

  • HND Surface Pattern & Graphic Design – South Glamorgan Institute of HE (now Cardiff Metropolitan University)

1987-1988

  • Art Foundation Diploma – Mid Cheshire College of FE