EXHIBITIONS & PARTICIPATIONS

Ilkley Arts Pop Up, Nov 2024

Open Studio (with Ilkley Arts Open Studios Event 2024), Oct 2024

Group Show, Tinker Gallery, Aug-Oct 2024

Fundraising Exhibition for Jamie and Juliet Gutch Fountain Project, Ilkley, Apr 2024

‘40 for 40’ selected group exhibition by West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mar-Apr 2024

‘Arrangements of Dots on Paper’, Ilkley (via Tinker Gallery), Oct 2023 to Jan 2024

‘Written Word’, Tinker Gallery, Ilkley, Oct-Dec 2023

‘Take Time: Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition 2023’, Ilkley Sept-Oct 2023

‘Print’, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield Aug-Sept 2023

‘Through the Looking Glass’, (by Swanfall Art) Mall Galleries, London Aug-Sept 2023

‘A Generous Space 3’ (by Artist Support Pledge) Huddersfield Art Gallery July-Sept 2023

‘Source’, The Gallery at Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, Jan-Mar 2023

Winter Open, Gallery 180, Leeds, Dec 2022-Jan 2023

Winter Solstice, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, Nov-Dec 2022

Opening Show, Tinker Gallery, Apr 2022

Solar Gallery, Ilkley, various exhibitions, June 2021 - Sept 2022

International Print Exchange, 2021 & 2022

‘Dovetailing’, Western Gallery, Ilkley Manor House, Nov 2021

2020 Print Exchange, 2021 & 2022

Lockdown Quilt Exhibition, Ilkley Manor House, July 2021

Castle Yard Arts Festival, Oct 2020

Participative Print Project, 2020

Collective Conscience, for Art-E-Motion at Tate Exchange, Tate Liverpool, 2018

Message in a Bottle (altered States), for Art-E-Motion, Hamburg Kunsthalle, 2016

Refuge, The Barn Gallery, Weston, 2016

Window Shopping, Ilkley Arts Trail, 2015

Where Do You Draw The Line? for Art-E-Motion, Venice 2015

Leeds Re-visited (with East Street Arts), BIG Gallery, Dortmund, 2014

Show Home, Ilkley Arts Trail, 2013

Sheffield Photographic, Huttons, Sheffield, 2012

Art In Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London 2012

Globe for Art-E-Motion, Hamburg Kunsthalle, 2012

6x6, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NY 2012

Taking a Line for a Walk, Siena Art Institute, 2011

Spinning Yarns, Armley Mills Industrial Museum, 2011

Home from Home, Leeds, 2011

Time and Tide, North Light Gallery, Huddersfield, 2011

Collateral Damage (Unfinished), Peace talks at Bed In at The Bluecoat, 2010

Misspent Youth, Emergence Show at Copper Gallery, Barnsley, 2009

Mind Your Head, interventions at The Academy Building, Liverpool John Moores, 2009

CURATORIAL WORK

Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition ‘Take Time’, Western Gallery, Ilkley Sept-Oct 2023

PRINT FAIRS & OTHER RETAIL

The Gallery Shop, Sunny Bank Mills (since 2023)

The Art House, Wakefield (since 2021

Liverpool Print Fair, Bluecoat Gallery, April 2023

Printed Bound, Sunny Bank Mills, April 2023

Shipley Print Fair, Shipley Print Studio, Nov 2022

Liverpool Print Fair, Baltic Triangle, April 2022

Chester Print Fair, Chester Cathedral, Oct 2021

and with West Yorkshire Print Workshop at Hepworth Print Fair and Sheffield Print Fair

WORKSHOPS/EDUCATION

Teacher trained (PGCE & QTS), enhanced DBS certificate, first aid trained

Since 2011: bespoke workshops in screen printing, relief printing, working with resists, experimental drawing and 3D work with local art groups, schools outreach programmes and at:

• Otley Courthouse,

• West Yorkshire Print Workshop,

• Ilkley Arts Studio and

• Sunny Bank Mills

TALKS/INTERVIEWS

Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition, Sept-Oct 2023 (Gallery interviews with participating artists & presentation to members of Ilkley Arts)

Castle Yard Arts Festival interview, Oct 2020

Creative Process in Photography & Film, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds 2012

Bed In at The Bluecoat, Conflict Resolution interview with film maker Clare Brumby, 2010

The Production of Meaning, invited speaker, Leeds University 2010

PUBLICATIONS

Take Time writing and design of illustrated catalogue (self-published for Ilkley Arts) to accompany the Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition, 2023

Gathered Notes (featured artist), part of collaboration with Juliet Gutch and Clare Dearneley, 2022

Out of Place (writing and photography, self-published), for ‘Refuge’ 2016

Just Passing Through (writing and design, self-published), travelling book project, 2011

Visual Sequence (photography), for Athinais Cultural Centre Athens, 2006

CHARITABLE WORK/VOLUNTEER ROLES

Ilkley Arts Board of Trustees and Artist Advisory Committee (2022 to present)

Solar Gallery Management Team (2021-2022)

A Letter in Mind, participation in annual fund raiser for The National Brain Appeal, since 2021

Textile Archive, Sunny Bank Mills (2020)

Exhibition Guide, Leeds Art Gallery (2010)

Northern Art Prize Guide, Leeds Art Gallery (2009-10)

Art education & employment

2017-2019: Secondary Art & Design Teaching (PGCE Leeds, training, induction year & supply)

2013-2017: Secondary School Art Technician

2009-2013: Freelance & voluntary work

2008-2009: Post Graduate Certificate in Fine Art (Liverpool John Moores University)

2005-2008: BA (Hons) Fine Art (Leeds Metropolitan University)

2004-2005: Leeds College of Art & Design (Access)