Qualifications

BTEC National Diploma in General Art & Design

BA (Hons) Degree in Graphic Design Major Study Area: Illustration

MA in Communication Design

PGCE in Further Education for Special Needs students

 

Awards

2006-07

• Grant for the Arts Award ACWM. ‘Who's Who' to create a collection of portraits of pioneering and emerging disabled artists.

2000

• Year of the Artist awarded a Grant from Yorkshire arts to research and develop digital technology within my arts practice

 

Consultancy/training

2007

• July 07 Discovering Disability in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery arts archive of paintings and creating a recording for the paintings.

2005

• February 05 Whitechapel Art Gallery. In conversation with Alison Lapper on disability Arts aesthetic.
• February/March 05 NCH Birmingham Arts Consultation workshop
• July 05 Fusions – training artists to explore concepts of disability art in their arts practice.

2004

• May 04/March 05 Stride-manager-Arts placement scheme for disabled artists within arts organisation. West Midlands ACEWM.

2003

• December 03 Walsall Council-Disability awareness training Youth-workers
• December 03 Craftspace Touring-Disability Arts Awareness Training – Designers Working with Disabled Children in schools

Commissions

2005

• Illustration for Sage Publications- ‘Disabling Barriers'
• Illustration for Sociology Catalogue

2004

• September/november 04 Loudwater studio facilitator of setup independent arts group
• January 04 BBC Disability Arts Showcase Event
• April 04 Artist in residence commissioned by South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust conference on Clinical Governance. Artwork support report.

2003

• May 03 NHS Stoke on Trent LEARNING DISABLED STRATERGY seminar reportage artwork. Arts 4 Health

1997

• LDAF(London Disability Arts Forum) images for POSTAL STRIKE postcard publication

 

Projects / workshops

2006

• July 06 Still life Drawing workshop with residents of Maisbrooke Nursing home, Shrewsbury.

2005

• May 05 DASh Carnival
• July 05 young Arty Party visual arts workshops
• December 05 Arty Party-Telford. Visual arts- artists skills development and curator of exhibition ‘Fruit Family Album'.

2004

• December 04 Tate Britain/NCH BIRMINGHAM Art Maters
• June 04- December 04 Arty Party- Telford. Visual arts workshop

2003-2004

• November 02/April 03 Horton lodge special primary school, Leek. South Stafordshire county council. Workshop leader/ mentor.
• December/March 04 WMDAF. Workshop leader/lead artist. Tamworth EYDP access audit arts project
• March 04 DASh Digital Now project leader/artist residency/Exhibition curator
• May 03 DASh Carnival Training
• September 03/March 04 Tamworth Council-Action Art.org-EYDP project
• November 03 GP annual convention-Visual arts workshop.
• January/March 04 Craftspace Touring/Creative Partnerships. Project in Wilson stuart school. Birmingham

2002-2003

• April seminar artists forum DASH (Disability arts in Shropshire)
• April/January 03 researcher Coordinator / Lead Artist, signage project, DASH, OLD MUSIC HALL Shrewsbury.
• February/May 03 workshop leader/exhibition curator, Astoria project, DASh
• July Workshop CREATE! NORFOLK Disability arts conference.
• August Staffordshire leisure services Disability Arts Workshop

2001

• January/March Workshops Poster design using digital technology with group of Mariner's Resource centre, Leeds
• August Workshop Independence Festival, Leeds

2000

• January/April Workshops, creating a mural with women's group of Mariner's Resource centre, Leeds
• August Workshops, mix-media, digital technology, printmaking, creating a mural with service users of Osmondthorpe resource centre, Leeds
• November arts Residency Leeds City Art Gallery, a trio panel artwork made with potential artist from Osmondethorp Resource Centre Leeds.

1999

• September/October Artist in residency LDAF Women's crisis centre Drayton Park Islington London.

1998

• January - June, Huddersfield Technical College & Artlink Leeds (Howland Centre, Dewsbury).
• April/June Armley Resource Centre Leeds.
• 30 June Vale Dale Day Centre Holbeck Leeds Mens Health Art Workshop.
• 6 - 17 July. 2 week Artist in residency Leeds City Art Gallery Education unit.
• Sept/October Artist Workshop-debate Disability Arts festival Jacksons Lane community arts centre London.
• October Disability Awareness Training Day (Artlink) at Barnsly Open College.

1997

• October/December Armly Resource centre Leeds. SLDD
• November/December Joseph Priestly College of F.E. Leeds. SLDD

1995

• Workshop Laing Gallery Newcastle.
• Artists training day 'Older People with Mental Health Problems' Artlink.
• Workshops for Leisure Services Tyne & Wear Social Services. Working with women with stress related mental health related disabilities

1994

• Workshop Viewpoint Gallery, Manchester City of Drama.

1992-93

• Part-time Lecturer Life Class and 1st year Illustration Students Manchester Metropolitan University.

1990-92

• Artist in residence at Kirklees Art Space Mirfield.

1990

• Part Time Lecturer MA Students Leeds Polytechnic.

 

Curating Exhibitions

2006-2008

• DASh, Arts Development Team II and III, (ADT) Project Manager/mentor, Curator and curator training as part of the ADT professional arts practice training. Qube gallery, Oswestry
• April 05 DASh, Arts Development Team, (ADT)Project Manager/mentor, Curator and curator training as part of the ADT professional arts practice training.
• December 05 DASh, Digital Now II, Curator, exhibited in Qube gallery Oswestry
• October 04/December 05 Arty Party-Telford. Visual arts- artists skills development and curator of exhibition ‘Fruit Family Album '. Oakengates Theatre, Gallery. The ‘Fruit Family Album' is a unique explorative collection of drawings that take on a brand new dimension of maturity. They celebrate learning disability art aesthetic at the highest level yet this work is still not been realised by them or by the rest of the art world as an art form in its own right.

2004-2005

• January 04 Exhibition consultant for the Young Curators, Qube Gallery, Oswestry

2003

• February/May 03 Curator, Astoria project, DASh, Qube, Oswestry. The Astoria project is a collection of artifacts, strategies for living a fully inclusive lifestyle, and symbiotic imagery created by the residents of three islands based in a rural pacific ocean that is visible to its residents, disabled people/artists, yet invisible to those who choose not to see.
• March 03/March 04 DASh. Digital Now Curated in Qube Oswestry. Digital Now is a collection of manipulated digital images based on the theme ‘Disabled people in a disabling world'. The work challenged the status quo of the way disabled people live in a rural community that is slowly working towards creating workable solutions to breaking down disabling barriers in every way.
• November/December03 Curator – ‘Moving Beyond' exhibition at Custard Factory. Birmingham. WMDAF. ‘Moving Beyond' is an exhibition that brings together professional, emerging and amateur disabled artists of the West Midland Region in an eclectic arena. Workshops and seminars began a chain of discussions and debates around profiling of disability art in the mainstream.
• December 03 Craftspace Touring-Disability Arts Awareness Training for Designers Working with Disabled Children in schools. Exhibition consultant.

 

Group Exhibitions

2004 ICA London

2004 GATEWAY Gallery Shrewsbury

2002 DASH Gallery Shrewsbury

2002 DA21 Conference Holton Lee Poole Dorset

1999 University of Essex Colchester, ICA London, Phoenix Exeter Arts Centre Devon & Exeter

1998 Jackson's Lane Community Art Centre Highgate House London Diorama Gallery, LDAF London

1997 Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield.

1996 Networking November RIBA Site Gallery Leeds, 'Angel & Mechanics' touring Watermans Arts Centre Middlesex/South Hill Park, London/Tullie House Gallery Carlisle.

1995 Macintyre Gallery London, 'Unleashed-disability issues & experience' Laing Art Gallery Newcastle.

1993 Holden Gallery Manchester Metropolitan University.

1992 'Exchange' Eagle Works Gallery Wolverhampton.

1991 'Artists in residence' Eastthorpe Gallery Kirklees Art Space.

1990 Leeds Polytechnic Art Gallery

 

Solo Exhibitions

1995 Changing Room Gallery Walthamstow London.

1994 'City of Drama' Ladywell Community Centre Salford.

 

Published Works

2004 ACE-Celebrating Disability Art-Arts Council England

2004 Article in Newsletter of Royal College of General Practitioners

2002 front cover illustration ‘Desires' By Penny Pepper

2001 DAIL magazine-article on my arts practices and influences

1996 I illustration in 'Sex & Sexology', (5 volumes). Volume title: Representation of Sex (4 volume). Written by H. Hagiwara, Osaka Women's University, Japan. Published by Senshu University Press. Tokyo. illustration in 'Angel & Mechanics' exhibition catalogue.

1995 illustrations and supporting artist statement, DAIL magazine.

1993 Illustrations, front & back cover of 'DAM' (Disability Art Magazine), summer issue 93, vol.3, No.2.

 

Talks & Lecturers

1998 Guest speaker, Body Politics Seminar at Jackson lane Community Arts Centre, ‘The Shape We're In' disability arts festival. Interviewed/filmed for BBC, ‘From The Edge', TV programme scheduled for 21 April 98.

1997 Leeds City Art Gallery. Lecture/seminar presentation of my artwork.

1997 Dail magazine, article discussing 'The Art House' conference artwork, May 97 issue 124.