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2024 RESIDENCIES

HARI Hull Artist Research Initiative Summer Season: RE-VIEW Inaugural Response Micro-Residency.  August 14th and 15th (25 hours).

 

2024 GRANTS

Create North East Lincolnshire Project Grant.  Water Bodies: A Celebration.  July to September 2024.  Exhibition and public participatory workshop and event celebrating the interconnectivity of the human body and water.  Event date 21st September in Cleethorpes.

 

2024 PUBLISHED WRITING

Wort Journal - Issue 2, Summer 2024.  In Collaboration with Woad: An Artist’s Year of Listening.  Article on working closely with woad in an eco-somatic art practice over the space of a year; historical, sociocultural and ecological researches and embodied explorations with/in the liminal terrain of the Fens.

 

2024 ​WORKSHOP FACILITATION

  • Stories from the Water-Body. A series of 3 workshops with women in North East Lincolnshire.  In collaboration with Hannah Green of Dance Free CIC.  April 27th, May 11th, May 18th - Cleethorpes.
  • When the Wind Blows the Downy Willow Seed Blows Away.  The Museum of Cambridge.  Movement, Handpan drum soundscape and willow charcoal drawing. In Collaboration with Rebecca Lindum-Greene. 13th June (3 hours).

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2024 WORKSHOPS AND COURSES ATTENDED

  • ​Considering Time.  Performance art intensive with Marilyn Arsem.  Stanley Arts, London.  17th to 21st June.
  • Abstractions Based on Circles: British Rock Art in a Global Context.  With archaeologist Dr Kate Sharpe.  Higham Hall, Cumbria.  4th to 7th June.
  • Thinking with your Hands. With Studio Amos. Lewes, East Sussex.  1st to 5th May.
  • March to May 2024: One-to-one in-person mentoring with Helen Poynor - teacher of the Walk of Life programme.  (12 hours).
  • ​Ecosomatic Practice for Living and Dying on a Damaged Earth.  Online workshop series run by Body Cartography Project for Movement Research. 8th to 12th January. (12 hours).



2023 

2023 GRANTS

Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice Grant for Geographies of Inclusion: Mapping Ways to Integrate Sustainable Creative Practice, Indigenous Models, and Health. Covers 12 month period to July 2024.

 

2023 RESIDENCIES

  • Artist in Residence with Slumgothic at x-church, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. April to December 2023.
  • Micro research residency with Deveron Projects, exploring ways in which the community have been engaged in stories of place and belonging. Huntly, Aberdeenshire, November 6-12

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2023 WORKSHOP FACILITATION

Moving with Nature in collaboration with DanceFree. Funded by Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm Community Fund, managed by Lincolnshire Community Foundation. Sat 15th July.

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2023 EXHIBITIONS

  • Group Exhibition: Nature Positive, Project Space +. University of Lincoln. November 13-17.
  • Solo Exhibition: Moving with Rock, Decimal Place, Lincoln. August 2-31.
  • Group Exhibition: Nature's Way, Patience Gallery (online) Feb onwards. 

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2023 COURSES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

  • The Winter Sessions with The Dark Mountain Project: (4 weeks).  Land-based creative practice developing stories of place.  2-30 Dec. 
  • Health and Wellbeing through Artmaking (10 weeks/25 hours).  University of the Arts, London (Central St. Martins). 3rd Oct to 5th Dec.
  • Creating Stories and Atmosphere from the Body.  With Cai Tomos at The Bhavan, London.  27th Nov.
  • Walk of Life movement workshops with Helen Poynor.  Devon/Dorset.  March 24th-26th, June 10th-11th and July 7th-9th.
  • The Dance of Being Lab, Retreat, Wild Conference. January 20th-22nd. Copperdot Studios, Norwich

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2022 

  • Awarded Advanced Diploma in Art and Creativity (NZQA Level 7 - equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts in the UK).  The Learning Connexion, Taita, New Zealand.  
  • Simultaneous group and solo exhibitions in the UK and Aotearoa (New Zealand) as graduation show: Ko au ko koe, ko koe, ko au (I am you, you are me), TLC Gallery, Taita, New Zealand, and At Home, at artist's home, Lincoln, UK.  December 2022.
  • Publication of art essay In Search of Isatica online by The Dark Mountain Project.
  • Selected as Featured Artist of the Month for October by Art.Earth
  • Wild Writing course, Lincoln with Dr. Ruth Charnock (15 hours) - Embodied Writing (Attended in-person).
  • Sentient Performativities: Thinking Alongside the Human.  June 26-30, Dartington, Devon.  Symposium investigating somatic (bodily) practices and their role in fostering ecological awareness and interspecies communication.  Curated by art.earth.  Attended in-person as participant.  
  • Relocated from New Zealand to the UK (April)

2021 

  • Volunteer Gallery Host: New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington. 
  • Front of House Volunteer: Academy Galleries, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.
  • Full-time Art Student: Level 6 Diploma in Creativity. Feb 2021 to Dec 2021. The Learning Connexion, Taita, New Zealand. Recipient of partial scholarship towards fees.
  • Participated in 4 group exhibitions, Wellington, New Zealand at The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Mitchell Studios, and The Petone Depot.

2020 

  • Began making artworks full-time during the first lockdown
  • Participated in 3 group exhibitions, Wellington, New Zealand at The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and The Petone Depot.

 

QUALIFICATIONS​

  • B.A.(Hons) Geography, University of Hull, UK
  • Advanced Diploma in Art and Creativity (NZQA Level 7 - equivalent to a B.A. in the UK), The Learning Connexion Art School, New Zealand.
  • Graduate Diploma in Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
  • Diploma in Professional Interior Design, National Design Academy, UK.
  • Certificate in Counselling and Family Therapy, Human Development and Training Institute of New Zealand. 
  • A Levels: English, Geography, Social Biology.

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