Education
PhD Fine Art – Oxford Brookes University (current)
MFA in Fine Arts – Oxford Brookes University
Post Graduate Certificate Textiles – University for the Creative Arts
BA(hons) Textiles 1st Class – University for the Creative Arts
Exhibitions
2024
art-sauce members exhibition – Common Ground Oxford – 1st – 31st May 2024
2023
Work selected for Afterlives – SDA’s Spring 2023 Selections Online Exhibition – May 2023
Unseen workers : the essential roles of microbes May 2023 – Oxford Town Hall
Dying alone and its afterlives in Contact-less socialities conference – exhibition and talk. The Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Germany April 2023
Oxford Human Rights Festival – exhibition and talk. Oxford Brookes University March 2023
2022
1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale, Haitian Sky Art Center, Qingdao, China. December, 2022
2021
Galerie Zône, Leiden Netherlands May 2021
2020
Selected for Vanishing at This Gallery online December 2020
Lie Down exhibited within a virtual exhibition space for the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide – Remembering Srebrenica exhibition July 2020
Lie Down exhibited at YMCA North Stafford as part of Srebrenica Memorial Week 2020 July 2020
2019
Nou Wave I The Old Biscuit Factory, London November 2019
Conflict and Identity Conference, Lincoln College Oxford, October 2019
‘Body of Work’ MFA show Brookes University, Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford, June 2019
‘a Meeting’ Independent open studio exhibition and conversation, Oxford, June 2019
‘Chromantics’ Cornerstone Gallery, Didcot April 2019
The Socio-Parasitology Manifesto The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts London January 2019
DreaMFActory 18 Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University December 2018 – January 2019
2018
‘Our Place’ Arts at the Old Fire Station, Oxford November – December 2018
Srebrenica Memorial service at The Guildhall London July 2018
8372 Cards – Participatory art project for Srebrenica Memorial week exhibited in Oxford Town Hall. Funded with help from Oxford City Council 8th – 16th July 2018
‘Lie Down’ Exhibited at City of Oxford College May 2018
disPLACED P21 Gallery, London 20th January – 10th February 2018
2017
19th International textile exhibition SVÚ, Dostojevského rad 2, SK – 811 09 Bratislava, Slovakia May 31st – 25th June 2017
Latent The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London 13 – 14 January 2017
2016
Through An Artist’s Eye All Saints Church, Esher Kent 8 October – 29 October 2016
Dis-locate Exhibition with Magdalen Road Artist Studios Old VW Showroom, Iffley Road, Oxford 27 May – 5 June 2016
2015
17th International textile exhibition SVU Manes Diamond, Spalena 4, Prague Czech Republic 1-24 July 2015
17th International textile exhibition SVÚ, Dostojevského rad 2, SK – 811 09 Bratislava, Slovakia June 2015
2013
Oxford Spotlight Oxfords light festival Organised by OVADA held in Oxford Town Hall November 2013
Curatorial
Unprecedented an exhibition of work exploring resilience during the Covid Pandemic OVADA Gallery May 2021
Projects
Lead artist ‘Our Place’ – Crisis and The Old Fire Station, Oxford. November 2018
Lead Artist – Processions 2018 Banner Workshop OVADA April 2018
Commissions
Inert – commissioned work for collaborative project ‘Through an artists eye‘ funded by Arts Council England, October 2016
Residencies
Cel Del Nord – Virtual Residency during the Coronavirus Pandemic March 2020
Publications
1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale catalogue ISBN: 978-7-112-28213-5
Textiles and the Acknowledgement of Unidentified Dead – Textile: Cloth and Culture February 2022
Work selected for Covid magazine December 2020
Cover artwork of Idles Divide and Conquer 7” single November 2017
Awards
The Association of Death and Society 2021 Public Education Award
Remembering Srebrenica Community Champion
Conferences / Talks
Oxford Brookes Post Graduate symposium, May 2024
International Contemporary Material Art Symposium – China May 2023
The Max Planck Institute for Human Development – Berlin Germany April 2023
Oxford Human Rights Festival – Oxford Brookes University March 2023
Friends of The Pitt Rivers Museum – October 2022
Death and Culture IV – York St Johns University – September 2022
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology – School of Fashion and Textiles – March 2021
Bradford University Archaeology and Forensic Science Department Guest Lecture Series – March 2021
The Association of Death and Society Seminar Series – Using Art Practice to explore the acknowledgement of unidentified dead – February 2021
CAA Conference – Panelist for “BIODEGRADABLE ART: TOWARDS REGENERATIVE AND CIRCULAR SYSTEMS” February 2021
Lincoln College, Oxford Conflict and Identity Conference October 2019
York University – Symposium – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Corpse Work June 2019
Guild of Embroiderers – Oxford Branch April 2018
OVADA Warehouse Art School 11th January 2018
CARU | Arts re Search Conference 2017 10th December 2017
Workshops
Build a wordpress website for artists OVADA 2017
Social Media Marketing for artists workshop OVADA 2017
Work
Director – art-sauce October 2022 – Present
Advertising Manager – Surface Design Association February 2021 – Present
Textiles Tutor – Open College of the Arts – June 2019 – Present
Programming Coordinator – OVADA March 2020 – April 2021
Outreach Arts Facilitator Rough Sleepers Hub – Crisis – July 2019 – April 2020
Part time Studio Manager – Magdalen Road Artist studios – August 2015 – July 2019
Lead Artist / Project co-ordinator ‘Our Place’ – Crisis and The Old Fire Station, April 2018 – January 2019
Art Class leader – Crisis – October 2018 – December 2018
Voluntary website support – OVADA 2014 – 2020
Trustee – OVADA – 2014 – March 2020
1 to 1 support for artist with ADD – 2017
Project Management of group exhibition ‘Dis locate’ January – June 2016
Project admin and commissioned artwork – Through An Artist’s Eye June 16 – October 16