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SOCIALLY ENGAGED PROJECTS, HAPPENINGS, PERFORMANCES, INTERVENTIONS

• Seedlings (2020-21) Peninsula-wide seed sharing and community growing project, Cartmel Peninsula 
• On Invisibility (2019) Sewing performance and film, National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
• Exploring the Distaff Effect (2018), Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Gawthorpe Hall
• the Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Connecting Collections: Twelve Museums | One Great River (2018)
• from Cordwainers & Curriers (2017) for Fabrications Festival, Pennine Lancashire
• from Cordwainers & Curriers (2017) for National Festival of Making, with Cookson & Clegg
• Tell it to the Water (2016), Canal & River Trust on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal for #LL200
• This will never happen (2016), performance for LADA and Heart of Glass, St Helens
• #sharethespace (2015), Canal & River Trust, Blackburn
• When I think of you I think of Sundays (2015), Performance for 2020+, Manchester
• Going Home (2015) Performance workshop with Geraldine Pilgrim, LADA at AND Festival
• Wandering the Green Ways of West Bank (2015), Halton CCG
• Table Manners (2015), Runcorn Town Hall for Halton Heritage Partnership
• The Homeless Library (2015), Stockport & Manchester with arthur+martha
• A Million Maybes (2015), performance for HOST exhibition, Warrington
• Inspired Responses (2015), Wade Deacon High School, Widnes
• Poetic Projection (2014), St Maries Church, Widnes
• Tontine Trading (2014), St Helens Market
• Super Slow Way (2014), in-situ along the Liverpool-Leeds canal
• Inspired Responses (2014), St Chad’s School, Runcorn
• stonepaperwater, and us (2013): Not A Drop, London
• Thirty Instruments Loaned by Ladies (2013), The Harris Museum, Preston

EXHIBITIONS

• Single-Use Planet? (2020) Grange over Sands (solo exhibition)
• Water Marks (2019) National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
• Reading Between the Lines (2018), Yokohama/Tokyo​
• World at War (2018), World of Glass, St Helens
• Turning the Page (2018), Paper2, Manchester 
• Focus (2018), Norton Priory
• Interval (2017&2018), The Brindley Gallery (2017) and Ordsall Hall (2018)
• Landmarks & Boundaries (2016-7), The Gallery at St Georges House, Bolton
• STUFF, Fort Walney Uncovered (2016), Art Gene, Barrow in Furness
• Landmarks & Boundaries (2016), The Brindley, Runcorn
• Knitted Curiosities (2015), Hazlehurst Studios, Runcorn
• Inspired Responses (2015), The Brindley, Runcorn
• HOST (2015), The Gallery at Bank Quay House, Warrington
• Sheffield Sculpture Trail (2014)
• Cabinets of Curiosity (2014), The Colonnades, Albert Dock, Liverpool
• Colonize, Liverpool (2014)
• Colonize, Jamestown, New York (2014)
• Right Here, Right Now (2014), Brierfield, Lahore & Houston
• Canalology (2014), POST London 
• The Imaginary Museum (2014), The Tetley, Leeds 
• From the Curious to the Contemporary (2014), Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
• Artists & Archives (2014), World of Glass Museum, St Helens 
• Inspired Responses (2014), The Brindley, Runcorn
• Heritage Detectives (2013), The Brindley, Runcorn
• I am Awaiting the Arrival of Night (2013), The Gallery at Bank Quay House, Warrington
• Chester Open Art Exhibition (2013)
• Curiosity Acquired (2013), 2021 Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
• Inspired Responses 8 (2013), The Brindley, Runcorn

RESIDENCIES

• Working Lives (2014-16), Exploring Halton's Collections, Runcorn & Widnes
• Dementia & Imagination - Research Artist (2014-17), Newcastle University
• Fort Walney Uncovered (2014-16), Art Gene - Walney Island, Barrow in Furness
• in-situ in-residence in-pendle (2013), Brierfield, Lancashire
• Archiving the Little Things (2013), Bright Beginnings Community Nursery, Adswood, Stockport​

ENVIRONMENT FOCUSSED TALKS (2019-present)

• Zero-waste communities (2020-21) to various groups in South Lakeland & Barrow 
• Unwrapping single-use plastic (2019-21) to various groups in South Lakeland
  

PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

• Artists’ book held in Tate Collection, London, Leeds Art College & National Library of Wales

MEMBERSHIP

• Current: Member of PEAT (Peninsula Environmental Action Together), South Lakeland 
• Past: Member of Markmakers Artists and Associate Artist, Castlefield Gallery Manchester

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CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• 2008-2010 | DISTINCTION | MA Site, Place & Archive Interventions, UCLan, Preston
• 2005-2008 | FIRST | BA (Hons) Fine Art, Wirral Metropolitan College, Birkenhead
• 2004-2005 | DISTINCTION | Art Foundation, Priestley College, Warrington

EMPLOYMENT

• 2011-2013 Research Assistant to Charles Quick, Professor of Public Art Practice, UCLan (p/t)
• 1991-2014 Working full time and from 2003 part time in the IT industry in a variety of customer facing, process driven project roles, managing teams, individuals and processes (18 years at Fujitsu)​​

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