EXHIBITIONS & PARTICIPATIONS

Tinker Gallery ‘Play’ Exhibition, invited artists, 5th February to 21st March 2026

Solo Studio Show, ‘Content’, Ilkley Arts Studio, 6th to 7th September 2025

Tarpey Gallery Open Exhibition 2025, selected artists, 30th August to 19th October 2025

Leeds Summer Group Show 2025, Leeds Playhouse, selected artists, 3rd to 23rd July 2025

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Director’s Cut, selected artists 2025

Derby Print Open 2025 (Award Winner), selected artists, 1st to 30th June 2025

‘40 for 40’ by West Yorkshire Print Workshop, selected artists, March to April 2024

‘Through the Looking Glass’, Mall Galleries, London, (by Swanfall Art), selected artists, Aug to Sept 2023

‘A Generous Space 3’, Huddersfield Art Gallery (by Artist Support Pledge), selected artists, July-Sept 2023

‘Source’, The Gallery at Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, selected artists, January to March 2023

‘Dovetailing’, Western Gallery, Ilkley Manor House, invited artists, November 2021

Collective Conscience, for Art-E-Motion at Tate Exchange, Tate Liverpool, invited artists, 2018

Message in a Bottle (altered States), for Art-E-Motion, Hamburg Kunsthalle, invited artists, 2016

Where Do You Draw The Line? for Art-E-Motion, Venice, selected artists, 2015

Leeds Re-visited (with East Street Arts), BIG Gallery, Dortmund, selected artists, 2014

CURATORIAL WORK / PROJECTS

‘Play’ for Tinker Gallery, Ilkley February to March 2026

Selection Panel, Ilkley Open Exhibition at the Manor House 2025

Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition ‘Take Time’, Western Gallery, Ilkley September to October 2023

Participative Print Project, 2020 (online project via Artist Support Pledge)

PRINT FAIRS & OTHER RETAIL

The Gallery Shop, Sunny Bank Mills (since 2023)

The Art House, Wakefield (since 2021)

West Yorkshire Print Workshop (since 2019)

Liverpool Print Fair, Bluecoat Gallery, April 2023

Printed Bound, Sunny Bank Mills, April 2023

Liverpool Print Fair, Baltic Triangle, April 2022

Chester Print Fair, Chester Cathedral, October 2021

TALKS/INTERVIEWS

Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition, September to October 2023 (interviews with participating artists)

Castle Yard Arts Festival (online), 2020

West Yorkshire Print Workshop (online), 2020

Bed In at The Bluecoat, Conflict Resolution interview with film maker Clare Brumby, 2010

The Production of Meaning, invited speaker, Leeds University 2010

PUBLICATIONS

Take Time writing and design of illustrated catalogue (for Ilkley Arts) to accompany the Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition, 2023

Gathered Notes (featured artist), part of collaboration with Juliet Gutch and Clare Dearneley, 2022

Out of Place (writing and photography, self-published), for ‘Refuge’ Exhibition 2016

CHARITABLE WORK/VOLUNTEER ROLES

Ilkley Arts Artists Advisory Committee (2021 to present)

Ilkley Arts Board of Trustees (2022 to 2025)

Fundraising Exhibition for Jamie and Juliet Gutch Fountain Project, Ilkley, Apr 2024

Solar Gallery Management Team (2021-2022)

A Letter in Mind, participation in annual fund raiser for The National Brain Appeal, 2021

EDUCATION

2008-2009: Post Graduate Certificate in Fine Art (Liverpool John Moores University)

2005-2008: BA (Hons) Fine Art (Leeds Metropolitan University)

2004-2005: Leeds College of Art & Design (Access)

Additionally: French Literature and Language, BA (Hons) at UCL1984 , Law Conversion & Law Society Finals at Chancery Lane, London 1986, PGCE (Secondary) at Leeds University 2017. Varied employments over the years: international corporate lawyer, secondary school art & design teacher, as well as voluntary and charitable roles in the Arts and time spent raising my family. All presented valuable learning experiences which have impacted my art practice at many levels.