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✷  BIOGRAPHY & CV âœ·

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I am looking closely, walking slowly and listening intently. 

 

When I walk past a Magnolia tree in spring, I stop to stroke the impossibly soft buds, they’re like mice. I imagine at dusk the buds come to life and the trees are covered in soft dancing creatures welcoming the flowers into life. 

 

When I walk through a field of Plantain in flower, I kneel down to admire the pollen covered heads. I imagine fairies dancing in a miniature meadow of plantain pollen. I wish to join them. 

 

When I walk past a Campsis climber in August, just as the vivid petals are falling off and revealing the beautiful pistils, I see dragons coming to life. They sing to me.. or they are singing and I am listening, but my god I hear, see, and absorb it all into my being. 

 

I am an ecologically driven artist, the world around me is why and how I am creative.

Group Exhibitions:

 

Creatures, group show, Cabinet of Folklore and Magic (Gwithti An Pystri), curated by Calista Wild, October, 2024

 

Phantasmagorical Histories, The Poly, Falmouth, 19th - 24th February 2024

Mother and Daughter Pop up Show, Hill Close Gardens, 10th October, 2021

The Poly Members' Summer Exhibition, The Poly Falmouth, 17th August - 4th September, 2021

Gray's Wharf miniatures group show, BA(Hons) Fine Art, 1st - 8th May, 2021

Falmouth University Degree Show, 21st - 25th June, 2021

The Poly Spring Open, Curated Art Show, Falmouth 25th May - 5th June, 2021

Street View Falmouth/ Art in the Window, 12 - 18th April 2021

Street View Falmouth, window exhibition trail, 22 - 28th February 2021

Pop up Drawing Exhibition, Falmouth Waterfront, 17th January 2020

Pop up exhibition in Foyle Studio, Tate St Ives, September 2020

Fine Art second year show, The Poly, 2020 (cancelled due to Covid-19)

Fine Art, First Year end of year show, Falmouth University, 2019

Fine Art, end of year show, Warwickshire College, 2016



Education:

 

First Class Honours, Fine Art BA Hons, Falmouth University, 2019 - 2021


Experience:

Leamington LAMP, Assistant Artist, Art in the Park, Leamington Spa, 2022, 23 & 24

Two sustainable workshops for Craft.Eat.Smile festival, online, 27th-28th March 2021

Emerging Artist Platform, online, January - March 2021

Tate Collective Producers, online, January - March 2021

Emerging Artist Platform, Tate St Ives, February - March 2020

Spot Drama, rehearsal & performance photographer, May 2016 - February 2017

Firewood Productions, photographer, July 2016 - January 2017

Mono-printing workshop, Hill Close Gardens, 2017

Lino printing workshop assistant, Pump room Gardens, 2016

Art in the park volunteer, 2016

Stars and Snowdrops event volunteer, Hanwell, 2010 - 2019

 

 

Commissions:

Paper for Earthbound Press:

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Covers made from cotton rag and recycled paper strips, 2024

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Covers made from recycled mitsumata pulp and free range quail egg fragments - J.H. Prynne’s Dune Quail Eggs, 2023

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Covers made from cotton rag and Enchanter’s Nightshade, 2020

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Features:
 

Featured on GWER (Falmouth Universities Online Sustainability magazine) 2024

Featured on Fronteer lockdown, Instagram, June 2020

Featured on Yew! Magazine - Instagram - ‘New Year, New Yew!’ program (January 2021) and
‘Take Yew! Over’ story take over & post (February 2021)

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