Drawing is my core discipline and underpins my approach to research through making, reading and writing. For creative engagement projects I often bring drawing's potential to help express and explore the experience of place. I also design and develop site-based activity within the public places where people work and mix : from the hospital to the courthouse to the local community meet-up.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 MA Fine Art final show Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloucestershire 21-27 January 2022 2018 Redrawing from life Redpod Studios, Ivybridge, Devon Life drawing: Dean Prior Group Birdwood House, Totnes, Devon Group show 2017 Drawn Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Contemporary drawing open |
The Justice Project
Crown and County Court, Plymouth Joint show within the public spaces of the courthouse (see below) Drawing ACP The Elbow Room, Redpod Studios, Devon Summer solo show 2015 ‘We’re in!’ Plymouth College of Art, September Group show of four artists (see below) Maker Take Maker Heights, Rame, Cornwall, August Group show following painting residency |
ENGAGEMENT
Ways to wellbeing: remapping hospital site with NHS staff March 2020 Part of the Southmead Pathfinders project; shortlisted for CHWA wellbeing awards 2021 Working as an artist alongside the Fresh Arts team at Southmead hospital (c.8,000 staff), I led a staff engagement project to remap the site for staff and visitors based on work regulations and real offers to access the outdoors. In 2021 I designed activities to emphasise self-permission, self-care and fun as part of the Trust’s expectation for staff wellbeing at work:
Redpod Love: summer makeover June 2018 Group makeover of exterior to welcome visitors to new creative community hub For staff and visitors I organised a makeover of the outdoor reception, repurposing materials from the site and building a team project among artists and staff for a voluntary weekend. Later, for World Aids Day, I arranged sponsorship and red planting with a national garden centre chain, to support The Eddystone Trust, our landlord. Community cinema at The Clay Factory December 2017 First community cinema for creative community hub With volunteers from an award-winning community cinema I helped set up in Buckfastleigh in 2016-17 I organised a screening of Miracle on 34th Street to test the site’s viability as a film venue. The Eddystone Trust charity (landlord followed up by establishing a Cinema for All hub, adding an income stream to the business. The Justice Project July 2017 Plymouth Crown and County Court The first UK exhibition of art in the public spaces of the courthouse This was a joint student show working with an artist who is a legal professional supporting adults and children through the court experience. My work focused on the experience of the building for the public involved in legal proceedings, seeking a quiet place to centre among the wigs and gowns. The Big Roll (Plymouth Art Weekender event) September 2016 Design and delivery of a launch public participation workshop, 25 September 2016 I created this launch workshop for the new artist community at Redpod Studios, to announce our arrival and engage the local community in hands-on making on their first visit to the giant factory space. My workshop was designed for all ages to engage in upscaled shared making to create the longest monoprint made in Devon (25m using a garden roller). |
VOLUNTARY ROLES
Acts of Making
September 2015
Volunteer to support artist Mah Rana and engage people visiting public libraries (Plympton + Central Library) in Plymouth to explain the project and encourage them to tell the stories behind their jewellery. Part of a long-running project by the artist.
Artist Rooms: Gerhard Richter, Plymouth
September 15 – January 2016
Voluntary gallery explainer for Saturday mornings and 'Art Bite' talks on Richter's Grey paintings.
'We're in!'
Plymouth College of Art, September 2015
Design, curation and show in this project to bring the art college into the regional annual art trail, building a panel of internal and external judges and bringing together Plymouth College of Art (academic, estates, marketing), The Swarthmore Foundation (funders) and the Drawn to the Valley network of 80 artists.
Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff - 40 Years of Art Walking
20 September – 14 December 2014
Volunteer gallery explainer for Saturday mornings to develop my practice exploring walking and drawing; based at the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and Plymouth College of Art.
Acts of Making
September 2015
Volunteer to support artist Mah Rana and engage people visiting public libraries (Plympton + Central Library) in Plymouth to explain the project and encourage them to tell the stories behind their jewellery. Part of a long-running project by the artist.
Artist Rooms: Gerhard Richter, Plymouth
September 15 – January 2016
Voluntary gallery explainer for Saturday mornings and 'Art Bite' talks on Richter's Grey paintings.
'We're in!'
Plymouth College of Art, September 2015
Design, curation and show in this project to bring the art college into the regional annual art trail, building a panel of internal and external judges and bringing together Plymouth College of Art (academic, estates, marketing), The Swarthmore Foundation (funders) and the Drawn to the Valley network of 80 artists.
Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff - 40 Years of Art Walking
20 September – 14 December 2014
Volunteer gallery explainer for Saturday mornings to develop my practice exploring walking and drawing; based at the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and Plymouth College of Art.