CV

Recent Highlights

2020 - present PhD (by Practice) in Painting and Performance, Manchester School of Art

April 2024 Feckless Gallery x K-House – two-person show, K-House, Manchester

July 2022 Discourses on Motherhood: International Conference, Birkbeck, University of London - paper How does the Cult of Busy Affect Mother Artists?

July 2022 Artists Residency - Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh

May 2022 PAHC Symposium - poster and presentation Making Time

Oct 2021 The Last Cartwheel - Solo Show, Existential House, Liverpool

 

 

Selected Employment

Oct 2022 – Sep 2023

University Centre St Helens – Associate lecturer BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting

General teaching duties including lecturing, seminars, tutorials, assessment, feedback; module leadership (L4 Painting and Drawings Modules) with duties including administration, curriculum and assessment design, preparing handbooks, managing course information and communications via the Moodle VLE.

 

Jan 2012 –Nov 2019

University Centre St Helens - Module leader BA (Hons) Photography

General teaching duties including lecturing, seminars, tutorials, assessment, feedback; module leadership (L4 and L5 Research Methods and Extended Essay) with duties including administration, curriculum and assessment design, preparing handbooks, managing course information and communications via the Moodle VLE. Assisting students with UCAS application, portfolios and writing references.

 

March 2002 - Present

Freelance workshop co-ordinator/lecturer

Working as a freelance artist/educator at various schools, colleges and galleries. Facilitating workshops in conjunction with exhibitions or within an educational context. Facilitating a wide range of school workshops from short-term indoor displays to permanent outdoor features. Projects have run from a half-day to a programme over a whole term using knowledge of current primary curriculum.

 

March 2003 – Nov 2003

Raffles La Salle College, Sydney: Lecturer (PT)

Delivering and developing learning opportunities in Figure Drawing and Visual Studies on an Advanced Diploma Course. Maintaining and providing administrative records, including assessment, and taking part in curriculum development and implementation.

 

Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

Drumcroon Education Arts Centre: Artist-in-Residence

Continuing own practice, education training and workshops with students aged from 4 + in a variety of
mediums and in a variety of environments (Gallery, school, workshop and community), organising and running
Life Classes.  

 

Jan 1999-Jan 2000

Manchester Metropolitan University: Lecturer (PT)

Unit Leadership - Giving Individual and Group tutorials on BA Photography. Administration and assessment.

 

Sep 1999

Liverpool Biennial (Voluntary)

Working with international artists across all areas of exhibition production - including marketing, administration and installation.

 

Qualifications

September 2020                                      Start PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University

2017-2018                                              MRes Art and Design (Distinction) LJMU      

2014-2016                                              MA Fine Art (Merit) LJMU

1989-1992                                              BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sheffield City Polytechnic

1996-1997                                             P.G.C.E (Further Education) Art and Design, Bolton University

Dec 2012                                               Awarded QTLS Status, IFL

 

Exhibition Highlights

The Last Cartwheel, part of Feckless Gallery x K-House, K-House, Manchester April 2024

“We are all Going to Die” Existential House  Aug 22              Single Figures, Projects Gallery, Sheffield Dec 21 Mixed Show, Royal Standard, Liverpool, Jun 2015                        Solo Show, Stockport Art Gallery, Feb 2012 

“Head On” Red Gate Gallery, London, Mar 2010                   Liverpool Biennial, NCC, Sep 2008 UAMO Festival, Munich, Germany, Mar 2007                                             Shortlisted for Saatchi/Guardian Show, Sep 2006

North Sydney Collective, Sydney, Australia, Oct 2003             Solo Show, Cornerhouse, Manchester, May 2000

 

Conferences

May 2022 PGR Conference, MMU – presentation of practice and research

June 2021 Time / Space / Paint: A Conversation – Symposium arranged by Liverpool Independents Biennial

April 2018 Body.Method.Time Symposium Tate Liverpool Delivered Paper “Making Time”

 

Performance

Sep 2023 Scratch Performance Domestic performance with my children

May 2018 Space, Time and Motherhood performance and seminar as part of the TimeTunnel Multi-Media Collaborative Festival, Fabric District, Liverpool.

Feb 2017 Bonneting Arts Council funded collaborative painting performance at Leydon Gallery, Whitechapel

 

Curation

Nov 2017 - present Feckless Gallery at Make, Liverpool. Building and curating a pop-up space and producing a number of short-term events providing exhibition, curation and performance opportunity for emerging artists.

 

Collections

Private collections in Europe, USA and Australia