CV
EDUCATION
2019 Turps Banana Correspondance Course
2007 MA Children’s Book Illustration, APU Cambridge, Final Project 91%
1996 Post Grad Certificate in Arts Practice. University of Derby
1995 Fine Art BA (Hons). First Class, Nottingham Trent University
FORTHCOMING
2023
September - No Place Like Home, invitation to exhibit at Arthouse Jersey in a group show by Rosalind Davis and Laura Hudson
2023
October - Curating PLOT at Platforms Project 2023, Athens
2024
Solo Exhibition, Enia Gallery, Athens (October 2024)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Invitation by Kate Geneva to exhibit, The Noticeboard, Uffington
2019
Living Rooms, The Angelus Gallery Winchester College
2017
Fantastical Landscapes, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington
2016
Lost, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wilts
2014
Perfume and Savages, Angears Centre, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
2012
Short, Sharp, Blow to the Head, Solo Show, Trade Gallery, Nottingham
2009
Play or Not to Play, DEDA, Derby
2007
Play, Harrington Mill Studios Exhibition Space, Long Eaton, Nottingham
2007
Grace:Sequential Drawings, Frances Bardsley Visual Arts Centre, Romford
2002
Unnatural Selection' Derby Museum & Art Gallery, Derby
2002
Selected paintings - Royal College of Pathologists, London
2002
'Extracting Anatomy' The Yard Gallery, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham
1995
Graduate solo exhibition, Habitat, Nottingham
AWARDS & OPEN EXHIBITIONS
2022
RSA Maude Gemmell Huchinson Prize
Invitation by Robbie Bushe to exhibit at the Scottish Royal Academy 2022
2021
Shortlisted Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2020
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery, Basingstoke
Mall Galleries, London
2019
Shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
Awarded the Kaipo Che Residency, Baroda, India by Artcore, Derby
Exceptional - graduate award, Collyer Bristow Gallery
2017
Royal Academy Summer Show
The Cello Factory,The London Group Open 2017 - Part 2
2016
Nottingham Castle Open - awarded the John E Wright Prize
Royal Academy Summer Show
Columbia Threadneedle Prize
2014
Nottingham Castle Museum & art Gallery, Nottingham Castle Open Tarpey Prize winner
2013
SKETCH2013, Exhibition Prize, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough
2012
Nottingham Castle Open Prize Winner
Derby Museum Open, Highly Commended
2011
Nottingham Castle Open Prize Winner
SKETCH Drawing Prize 2011, Rabley Drawing Centre,, Marlborough, Shortlisted
2010
Royal Academy Summer Show
AN Publications Seasonal Greetings Prize
2007
MA Dragon Prize, Anglian Ruskin University
1995
Leicester Open prize winner
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
'Contrafibularities', Invited by Sean Williams to show at the Frontier Gallery, Sheffield
2022
Transplant Community Links, exhibition and auction to raise funds for overseas kidney transplants. Ewebanks Auctioneers
Art-Athina, Art Fair, Athens. Represented by Enia Gallery
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Touring Show, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, Salisbury Museum, Wilstshire, Jersey
Telling Tales, Platforms Projects, Athens. An exhibition of 17 artists curated by Jackie Berridge
2021
RSA AnnualOpen Exhibition, invited artist
Platforms Project, Athens, Greece
Light and Dark, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington
Normal Service Will Be Resumed, group exhibition by Hatchery
Platforms Projects, Athens
2020
Hatchery, Self directed residency and exhibition set up by Chris A Wright
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery, Basingstoke
Mall Galleries, London
Art-Athena Art Fair, Athens, Represented by Enia Gallery
2019
Exceptional 2019, recent graduates selected by Jordan Kaplan, Kristian Day and Rosalind Davis
Group Show by 8 Indian artists and 3 UK artists, Reliance Arts Centre, Baroda, India
2018
TLC Auction Designing Jack of Hearts playing card. Artists include Quentin Blake, Grayson Perry, Jake and Dinos Chapman
Back to basics: Painting, ENIA GALLERY, Athens www.eniagallery.com
They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea. Group show, SCI Artists, Liverpool
Honfleur, UK/French Exchange at Harrington Mill Studios
'When All is Said... and Done', Curated by Artemis Potamianou, Angus-Hughes, London,
Two-person show with Sam Francis Read curated by David Scarborough for Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough
2017
DEDA, Derby People; What are they like? And how do we see them? Group Show curated by David Manley
London Group Open Part 2, Cello Factory, London www.thelondongroup.com
Art on a Postcard Secret Auction, London. By invitation
Royal Academy Summer show
'Untold, PLATFORMS 2017, Athens, CATALOGUE...
2016
LAWRENCE ALKIN GALLERY LONDON MIX: WINTER GROUP SHOW
Landmarks Arts Centre Teddington, TLC Auction -Quentin Blake, Yinka Shonibare, Sir Peter Blake, Anthony Frost
Precious Little, Platforms@Art-Athina, Athens, Greece. Produced Catalogue
2015
LAWRENCE ALKIN GALLERY LONDON MIX: WINTER GROUP SHOW
INBOX curated by Jackie Berridge Platforms@art-athina, ATHENS, Greece &HMS Exhibition Space
Salon 7, curated by Rachael Pinks, The Old Lock Up, Cromford Derbyshire
2014
Lawrance Alkin Gallery, Mix : Winter Group Show with Banksy, Peter Blake and Chapman Brothers
Supermarket, Stockholm, Invited by Art on Armitage, Chicago
2012
The Darkness of Light, Art Center, Choung Ang University, Seoul S Korea
2011
Games People Play, ArtCore UK/India exchange, various venues incl Quad, Derby
'Through A Glass Lightly', GoCArt Gallery, Visby, Sweden
OPEM Open Exhibition, The Collection, Lincoln
Art On The Armitage, Residency and Exhibition, Chicago, USA
Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Cambridge School of Art, Exhibition Hall, Paju Book, Seoul, Korea
‘Unique Perspectives’,
RESIDENCIES
2020
Hatchery Self directed residency with ACE bursary of £500
2019
Artist in Residence Winchester College
Kaipo Che Residency, Baroda, India
2014
Research Residency - Summer Lodge, Nottingham Trent University
Lakeside Arts resiedency to coincide with Perfume & Savages exhibition
2011
Art on Armitage, Chicago, USA – collaborative drawing with Alison Whitmore
2005-6
Artist in Residence, Frances Bardsley School, Romford
WORKSHOPS & WORK EXPERIENCE
2019
Winchester College, Winchester - working with YR 10 and Yr 12 pupils
2007 - 2018
Set up and managed Harrington Mill Studios - 18 artist's workspaces and gallery space
2006
Harolds Wood Hospital, Romford - making a concertinaed book based on a ‘Day in the Life of …’ different health practitioners
Squirrels Heath Primary School – Imaginary Friends pop-up books
Gidea Park Primary – After-school art club. Pop-up book
Francis Bardsley Yr 9 Arts Day – Fashion illustration using Memoirs of a Geisha’ as inspiration, Yr 10 Layering charcoal
Yr 11 Colour Theory and abstract painting, Yr 11 Media - Animation and story board. Yr 7 Picture books based on an imaginary island working with English
2005
Frances Bardsley Art Teachers Forum, – Making picture books and sequential image. Training teachers.
Corbetts Tey Special School – pop-up books. Using a range of techniques which enable children of different abilities to participate
Royal Liberty Boys’ School – Yr 10, Colour theory through practical sessions.
2002
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham ‘Art Mania’. 'Linking Rhythms'. Unique partnership with Dept of Education and Skills and Angel Row Gallery with Manning School pupils
1998
The Blue Coat School, Nottingham. Yr 12
Elms Primary, Nottingham. Yr 4
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
EDUCATION
2019 Turps Banana Correspondance Course
2007 MA Children’s Book Illustration, APU Cambridge, Final Project 91%
1996 Post Grad Certificate in Arts Practice. University of Derby
1995 Fine Art BA (Hons). First Class, Nottingham Trent University
FORTHCOMING
2023
September - No Place Like Home, invitation to exhibit at Arthouse Jersey in a group show by Rosalind Davis and Laura Hudson
2023
October - Curating PLOT at Platforms Project 2023, Athens
2024
Solo Exhibition, Enia Gallery, Athens (October 2024)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Invitation by Kate Geneva to exhibit, The Noticeboard, Uffington
2019
Living Rooms, The Angelus Gallery Winchester College
2017
Fantastical Landscapes, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington
2016
Lost, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wilts
2014
Perfume and Savages, Angears Centre, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
2012
Short, Sharp, Blow to the Head, Solo Show, Trade Gallery, Nottingham
2009
Play or Not to Play, DEDA, Derby
2007
Play, Harrington Mill Studios Exhibition Space, Long Eaton, Nottingham
2007
Grace:Sequential Drawings, Frances Bardsley Visual Arts Centre, Romford
2002
Unnatural Selection' Derby Museum & Art Gallery, Derby
2002
Selected paintings - Royal College of Pathologists, London
2002
'Extracting Anatomy' The Yard Gallery, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham
1995
Graduate solo exhibition, Habitat, Nottingham
AWARDS & OPEN EXHIBITIONS
2022
RSA Maude Gemmell Huchinson Prize
Invitation by Robbie Bushe to exhibit at the Scottish Royal Academy 2022
2021
Shortlisted Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2020
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery, Basingstoke
Mall Galleries, London
2019
Shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
Awarded the Kaipo Che Residency, Baroda, India by Artcore, Derby
Exceptional - graduate award, Collyer Bristow Gallery
2017
Royal Academy Summer Show
The Cello Factory,The London Group Open 2017 - Part 2
2016
Nottingham Castle Open - awarded the John E Wright Prize
Royal Academy Summer Show
Columbia Threadneedle Prize
2014
Nottingham Castle Museum & art Gallery, Nottingham Castle Open Tarpey Prize winner
2013
SKETCH2013, Exhibition Prize, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough
2012
Nottingham Castle Open Prize Winner
Derby Museum Open, Highly Commended
2011
Nottingham Castle Open Prize Winner
SKETCH Drawing Prize 2011, Rabley Drawing Centre,, Marlborough, Shortlisted
2010
Royal Academy Summer Show
AN Publications Seasonal Greetings Prize
2007
MA Dragon Prize, Anglian Ruskin University
1995
Leicester Open prize winner
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
'Contrafibularities', Invited by Sean Williams to show at the Frontier Gallery, Sheffield
2022
Transplant Community Links, exhibition and auction to raise funds for overseas kidney transplants. Ewebanks Auctioneers
Art-Athina, Art Fair, Athens. Represented by Enia Gallery
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Touring Show, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, Salisbury Museum, Wilstshire, Jersey
Telling Tales, Platforms Projects, Athens. An exhibition of 17 artists curated by Jackie Berridge
2021
RSA AnnualOpen Exhibition, invited artist
Platforms Project, Athens, Greece
Light and Dark, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington
Normal Service Will Be Resumed, group exhibition by Hatchery
Platforms Projects, Athens
2020
Hatchery, Self directed residency and exhibition set up by Chris A Wright
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery, Basingstoke
Mall Galleries, London
Art-Athena Art Fair, Athens, Represented by Enia Gallery
2019
Exceptional 2019, recent graduates selected by Jordan Kaplan, Kristian Day and Rosalind Davis
Group Show by 8 Indian artists and 3 UK artists, Reliance Arts Centre, Baroda, India
2018
TLC Auction Designing Jack of Hearts playing card. Artists include Quentin Blake, Grayson Perry, Jake and Dinos Chapman
Back to basics: Painting, ENIA GALLERY, Athens www.eniagallery.com
They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea. Group show, SCI Artists, Liverpool
Honfleur, UK/French Exchange at Harrington Mill Studios
'When All is Said... and Done', Curated by Artemis Potamianou, Angus-Hughes, London,
Two-person show with Sam Francis Read curated by David Scarborough for Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough
2017
DEDA, Derby People; What are they like? And how do we see them? Group Show curated by David Manley
London Group Open Part 2, Cello Factory, London www.thelondongroup.com
Art on a Postcard Secret Auction, London. By invitation
Royal Academy Summer show
'Untold, PLATFORMS 2017, Athens, CATALOGUE...
2016
LAWRENCE ALKIN GALLERY LONDON MIX: WINTER GROUP SHOW
Landmarks Arts Centre Teddington, TLC Auction -Quentin Blake, Yinka Shonibare, Sir Peter Blake, Anthony Frost
Precious Little, Platforms@Art-Athina, Athens, Greece. Produced Catalogue
2015
LAWRENCE ALKIN GALLERY LONDON MIX: WINTER GROUP SHOW
INBOX curated by Jackie Berridge Platforms@art-athina, ATHENS, Greece &HMS Exhibition Space
Salon 7, curated by Rachael Pinks, The Old Lock Up, Cromford Derbyshire
2014
Lawrance Alkin Gallery, Mix : Winter Group Show with Banksy, Peter Blake and Chapman Brothers
Supermarket, Stockholm, Invited by Art on Armitage, Chicago
2012
The Darkness of Light, Art Center, Choung Ang University, Seoul S Korea
2011
Games People Play, ArtCore UK/India exchange, various venues incl Quad, Derby
'Through A Glass Lightly', GoCArt Gallery, Visby, Sweden
OPEM Open Exhibition, The Collection, Lincoln
Art On The Armitage, Residency and Exhibition, Chicago, USA
Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Cambridge School of Art, Exhibition Hall, Paju Book, Seoul, Korea
‘Unique Perspectives’,
RESIDENCIES
2020
Hatchery Self directed residency with ACE bursary of £500
2019
Artist in Residence Winchester College
Kaipo Che Residency, Baroda, India
2014
Research Residency - Summer Lodge, Nottingham Trent University
Lakeside Arts resiedency to coincide with Perfume & Savages exhibition
2011
Art on Armitage, Chicago, USA – collaborative drawing with Alison Whitmore
2005-6
Artist in Residence, Frances Bardsley School, Romford
WORKSHOPS & WORK EXPERIENCE
2019
Winchester College, Winchester - working with YR 10 and Yr 12 pupils
2007 - 2018
Set up and managed Harrington Mill Studios - 18 artist's workspaces and gallery space
2006
Harolds Wood Hospital, Romford - making a concertinaed book based on a ‘Day in the Life of …’ different health practitioners
Squirrels Heath Primary School – Imaginary Friends pop-up books
Gidea Park Primary – After-school art club. Pop-up book
Francis Bardsley Yr 9 Arts Day – Fashion illustration using Memoirs of a Geisha’ as inspiration, Yr 10 Layering charcoal
Yr 11 Colour Theory and abstract painting, Yr 11 Media - Animation and story board. Yr 7 Picture books based on an imaginary island working with English
2005
Frances Bardsley Art Teachers Forum, – Making picture books and sequential image. Training teachers.
Corbetts Tey Special School – pop-up books. Using a range of techniques which enable children of different abilities to participate
Royal Liberty Boys’ School – Yr 10, Colour theory through practical sessions.
2002
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham ‘Art Mania’. 'Linking Rhythms'. Unique partnership with Dept of Education and Skills and Angel Row Gallery with Manning School pupils
1998
The Blue Coat School, Nottingham. Yr 12
Elms Primary, Nottingham. Yr 4
- Douglas Primary Nottingham. Yr 6. Sponsored by ‘Dillon’s’.
- Kirk Ireton Primary, Derbyshire.
Salterford House School, Calverton, Notts. Y6r
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham