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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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