Art Education
2014-2016 MA (DIST) Fine Art (by Reg. Project), Nottingham Trent University
2011-2012 Fdn Dip (DIST) Art and Design, Chesterfield College
2002-2005 PG Dip Art Psychotherapy, University of Sheffield
Selected recent and upcoming art exhibitions
Solo shows
2022 Preys B, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield
2017 Liminal Bodies, Gallery 35, Sheffield
Two person and small group
2022 Aonachd - Sameness - Disturbance - Troimh a Chéile, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, North Uist
2021 Matter out of Place (Material Voice), Persistence Works, Sheffield
2020 Transient Lines, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2019 What is the Matter? Materials, Commodities, Narratives, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
2018 Embodying Space and Dialogue, Access Space Labs, Sheffield
2018 Female Funambulists, Haarlem Mill, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
2016 Encountering Space: Transience and Liminality, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield
2015 Folie à deux, Sheffield Showcase, Sheffield
Selected group and open call
2024: Hiraeth, Old Lockup Gallery, Cromford Mill, Derbyshire
2024: Material Truths, Royal Society of Sculptors, North of England and Scotland, The Old Parcels Office, Scarborough
2024: Miniatures Revisited, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2023: The Shape of Life, Royal Society of Sculptors summer show curated by Edward Bulmer, Dora House, London
2023 The Power of Creativeness: Champernowne, Withymead, Jung, University of Sheffield Library Exhibition Gallery, Sheffield
2022 Autumn Almanac II, Persistence Works, Sheffield
2021 Autumn Almanac, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield
2021 Royal Society Sculptors/Milwyn 10gram Challenge, Dora House, London
2020/1 Ubuntu, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2020 Members Show, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2019 Symbol, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2019 Metamorphosis and Paramorphosis, Gallery Carafova väznica, Prešov, Slovakia
2019 Metamorphosis and Paramorphosis, Koniaren Gallery, Trebišov, Slovakia
2018 Inspirations and Deviations, Gallery 35, Sheffield
2018 Figure, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2018 [Kwir] Identitities, The Chapel Galleries, Blackburn
2017 Platforms Project, The Art Centre, Athens, Greece
2017 Transitions, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield
2017 TALKEX17, St Ann’s Building, Rotherham
2017 Warriors, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield
2017 Alternative Portraits, Access Space, Sheffield
2017 The Senses, Gallery 35, Sheffield
2017 The Court of Love, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield
2016 Mastered, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2016 The Beast Within, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield
2016 Unity, Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield
2015 A Sense of Place, The Art House, Sheffield
2015 Work in Progress, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
2015 Chionodoxa, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
Outdoor Sculpture Gardens
2023 - present: Velarde Gallery, Kingsbridge, Devon
2019-present The Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Dorking, Surrey
2019-21 Court Robert Arts, Raglan, Monmouthshire, South Wales
2016-21 The Hannah Bennett Sculpture Garden, Eyam, Derbyshire
Residencies, Collaborative Projects and recent courses
2022-23 Good Trouble Labs - digital storytelling - with Vanitas Arts in collaboration with Screen Industry Growth Network
2021 - present Dance collaboration as part of Third Bite Dance for touring performance in Sheffield and Yorkshire
2021 Dance collaboration as part of Third Bite Dance for film This is How Gorgeous It Feels
2020/1 Collaboration on film of installation/performance, Preys, 2020, with drone operator/photographer, Mark Smith
2020 Collaborative project with dancer and choreographer Dawn Holgate on Film Autumnal Comings and Goings
2019-20 Collaboration with dance artist Gerry Turvey
2018-present Part of collective of women sculptors, Material Voice
2018 Regardez la fenêtre, Access Space Labs, Sheffield
2018 The Copse Project, The Hannah Bennett Sculpture Garden, Eyam
2017/8 Syn-Aesthetic, Exchange Place Studios
2015 A Void, Creative Arts Development Spaces, Sheffield
2015 A Drift, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
2015 A Wake, Collaborative dance project, Sheffield
Commissions
2019 Bull’s head, Restaurant feature for Mercado Central, Cambridge
2017 Birth, Sheffield-Rotherham Canal, public sculpture for TAPS project, Rotherham Ethnic Minority Alliance, Rotherham
2016 Metamorphic Wings, installation and Lady of Situations performance piece for Vanitas Arts, Sheffield
Teaching and workshops
2019 Wire vessel workshop, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
2018/9 One-to-one project-based workshops with individuals and small groups
2018 Residential art workshop, Champernowne Trust, Leicestershire
2018 Wire weaving workshops, The Hannah Bennett Sculpture Garden, Eyam
2017 Wire weaving workshops, Yorkshire Artspace Open Studios, Sheffield
2016 Residential art workshop, Champernowne Trust, Buckinghamshire
2016 BAAT art talk, British Association of Art Therapists, Regional 11, Sheffield
Awards
2022+ Arts Council England DYCP funding for projects developed from Preys B solo exhibition
2022 Yorkshire Artspace micro grant for solo show (Preys B), Sheffield
2021 Arts Council England and Yorkshire Artspace funding for Material Voice artists collective - show (Matter out of Place) and collaboration with Artworks Sheffield
2021 Time, Space, Money II - bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company and Arts Council England
2020 Elected member of the Royal Society of Sculptors
2020 Short-listed for the New Emergence Art Unity award
2020 Time, Space, Money - bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company
2019 Arts Council England funding for Material Voice artists collective - show (What is the Matter?) and collaboration with Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
2018 Wire Inquiry in Slovakia - Research and Development award from Making Ways, a programme supported by Sheffield Culture Consortium through Arts Council England to showcase, celebrate and develop the exceptional contemporary visual art produced in the city
Other information
Previous careers in clinical psychology in women’s and physical health (NHS clinician) and art psychotherapy (Associate lecturer)