Education | |
2020 | Certificate, Arts Therapy for Self Healing (Part One), Art Therapy: How to Use Arts Therapy with Other People, Renaissance Life Therapies (on-line courses) |
2020 | Certificate and Accreditation, Therapeutic Art Life Coach, Transformation Academy (on-line courses) |
2020 | Certificates, Training in 12 Steps & CBT, Carers & Addiction, Non Substance Behavioral Addictions, Overview of Addiction, Socioeconomic Impacts of Addiction, Substance Misuse & Mental Ill Health |
2000 – 2001 | MA Fine Art University of Sunderland |
1995 – 1998 | BA (Hons) Fine Art University of Sunderland |
1994 – 1995 | City & Guilds Teaching for Adults, D32 & D33 Assessors Awards |
1992 – 1994 | Fine Art Certificate University of Northumbria |
Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
2011 | Travel Documents (Bucks Open Studios Fortnight), Flux Gallery, Burnham Park Hall, Burnham |
2008 | Heads N' Tales, The Old Photography Studio, High Street, Burnham |
2007 | Sensitive Skin, The Long Corridor, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge |
2007 | Sensitive Skin, Upper Waiting Hall Houses of Parliament, London |
2006 | SKIN Shattered Shelters II, The Gallery @ University of Northampton |
2005 – 2010 | Collection of works in St Bede's Institute, Ushaw College, Durham |
2003 | Circles (a rain/reign meditation), Greenfield Arts &Community Centre, Newton Aycliffe |
2002 – 2004 | Collection of Paintings in Café MOODS, Durham |
2001 | JUST-ICE, Riverside Pavilion, Durham |
2001 | Local Stories, Kimblesworth & Nettlesworth Ex-Servicemen's Club, Durham |
Selected Group Exhibitions | |
2023 | WEAVE, Congregate Fest Bishop Auckland Town Hall WEAVE, Kimblesworth and Plawsworth Community Centre |
2022 | Cyber Eyes Wide Open, British HCI Conference Keele University . |
2021 | Creative Fuse Cyber Eyes Wide Open, Athenaeum, Sunderland & John Marley Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne. |
2019 | Friends of the Hatton Summer Exhibition. |
2018 | Passion For Freedom, Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, London. Shortlisted for Arts Awards. |
2017 | Arts for Peace in Syria: Reflections and Visions, St Peter's Church, Burnham |
2014 | Blessed are the Peacemakers, St Peter's Church, Burnham & St Mary's Church, Slough |
2013 | Transformation out of Conflict, IKEDA Hall, Taplow Court, Maidenhead |
2013 | Art in Mind, The Brick Lane Gallery, London |
2012 | Diamonds are Forever, St Peter's Church, Burnham |
2012 | The Olympic Angels and Lord Desborough's Sporting Celebrations, SGI-UK, Taplow Court |
2012 | Food For Thought, Flux Gallery, Burnham Park Hall, Burnham |
2011 | Art in a Cold Climate, Flux Gallery, Burnham Park Hall, Burnham |
2011 | Undercurrents (Henley Royal Regatta Week), St Mary's Church, Henley |
2010 | Elemental, Flux Gallery, Burnham Park Hall, Burnham |
2009 | Heads N' Tales, Eastwood Slough Trading Estate, Slough London 2012 Open Week-end Events, South Bucks |
2008 | Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teesside |
2005 | SKIN:Shattered Shelters, Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne Inside Out, Imaginations Gallery, London Submit to Love, OXO Gallery, London The People Show, University of Northumbria TRACES, Ushaw College, Durham |
2004 | TRACES, Lamplight Arts Centre, Stanley Three Times 3, Alnwick Playhouse Beyond Words, Friends of the Hatton, University of Newcastle Weardale Contemporary Arts Festival, St Thomas's Church, Stanhope |
2003 | Arts into Art, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle |
2002 | Resonances, The Discovery Centre, Bishop Auckland |
2002 | The Garden of Bright Images, Alnwick Playhouse |
2002 | Junctions, Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland |
2001 | Touch the Earth, Riverside Pavilion, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham |
Awards | |
2010 | Finding the Funds - Chairman's Community & Volunteering Award, South Bucks District Council |
2008 | Arts Council England, South East - towards the costs of the Heads 'N' Tales Visual Arts Project |
2007 | Finalist, Arts in Business, CDC Enterprise Agency, Durham |
2006 | Exemplary Community Champion (National Award) for the work of Skin Project and Film, Scarman Trust & DFES |
2005 | Winner, The Peter Straughan photography prize, People Show, University of Northumbria Short-listed for the Art Prize, Inside Out Competition, Imaginations Gallery, London Arts Council England, North East, towards costs for the Skin Project |
Teaching | |
2000 – ongoing | Participatory Artist |
2000 – 2013 | Tutor Open College of Arts |
Residencies | |
2008 | Short film Eats Pearls and Swims, Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teesside |
2000 – 2001 | Local Stories Project, Chester-le-Street |
2000 | Ferryhill Appraisal, Durham |
1998 – 1999 | Raising Awareness of Psoriasis, Dermatology Dept., Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne |