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Recent projects have explored the practicalities and functions of making large scale reportage drawings in public places. In India and Morocco the intention was to promote discussion around the fragility of the traditions and skills of street workers (pappad makers, laterite masons, horn comb carvers, storytellers etc.). In England (Forest of Bowland AONB, Cuerden Valley and Rare Breeds Survival Trust projects) the focus has been on recognising the human endeavour (often of volunteers) that shapes our countryside. The Expanded City map drawings document and overtly question the emotional effect of changes in the landscape (past, present and future).
2014 MA Fine Art (site and archive intervention) University of Central Lancashire
2000 BA(Hons) Visual Art University of Southampton

EXHIBITIONS
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 Harris Open Harris Museum, Preston, Lancashire
2016 Paint the Town The Bureau, Blackburn
2016 Café Clock, Marrakech, Morocco
2015 Forest of Bowland Museum of Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire
2014 Cabral Yard, Kochi, Kerala, India
2013 Oxheys Mill, Preston
2013 Wylye Valley Art Trail
2012 Seen & Felt (two person exhibition) The First Gallery, Bitterne
2011 Wylye Valley Art Trail
2011 The First Gallery, Bitterne
2010 Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire
2009 Reasons to be Cheerful (solo show) Space Above Gallery, Fordingbridge, Hampshire
2009 Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2009 Salisbury Library, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2008 Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Totton, Hampshire
2007 Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Totton, Hampshire
2006 Salisbury Museum, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2005 Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire
2005 Southampton City Art Gallery
2004 Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2004 Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire
2003 Lacewing Gallery, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2003 Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire
2002 ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire
2002 Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire
2001 ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire
2001 Southampton City Art Gallery
2000 The Crypt Gallery, Seaford, Sussex

WORKS CURRENTLY DISPLAYED IN PUBLIC SPACES (office, hotels, schools and village halls) in England & New Zealand

COMMISSIONS
2019 Harris Museum, Preston - Ingol Memories Project
2017- 2018 In Certain Places - Traces of Place - community mapping project
2015-2016 In Certain Places - Expanded City - deep mapping project
2013 In Certain Places, Harris Flights - Unpickling Aspic - performance
2012 Cheltenham Art Gallery - Leonard Stanley Apple Day
2012 Chris Beardshaw Urban Oasis at Hampton Court flower show - 111 metres wall drawings
2011 National Trust at Mottisfont - sculpture for Angel Garden
2010 Hartlepool Art Gallery – Tactile Art Resource Boxes
2009 Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, outside Millennium Seed Bank – Seed Arch
2007 Kew Royal Botanic Gardens , wetlands at Wakehurst Place - Wave
2006 Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust, Blashford Lakes – Sculpture Trail (4 pieces)
2006 Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust, Swanwick – Seats (5 pieces)
2005 Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, nature reserve gate,at Wakehurst Place - Waca
2003 The National Trust, Box Hill – Boxhill Dragon, site specific sculpture
2003 Salisbury Festival – drawings for In Praise of Earth
2002 Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, wetlands at Wakehurst Place – The Culpeper Mermaid
2001 Hertfordshire County Council – illustrations for ‘The Wall at the End of the Site’
2001 Wiltshire County Council – illustrations for ‘Two For One’ (sequel to ‘Horse for Joe’)
2001 EFECOT – illustrations for ‘Life on the Fair’ (published 2004)

RESIDENCIES

2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 Larmer Tree Festival, Dorset

2012 Furzey Gardens, Hampshire
Documenting through drawing the 'Journey to Gold' at Chelsea Flower Show

2010/2011 Hands On Project with MENCAP + Tate (Liverpool)

2010 Garway Folk Festival, Gloucestershire

2010 Creative Partnerships, at Otterbourne Primary School, Hampshire
Living willow sculpture project

2010 Creative Partnerships, at Montacute Special School, Poole, Dorset
Natural pigments project

2008, 2007 Natural England/Salisbury Festival Living River Sculpture Project

2005 English Nature/Shapwick Heath Nature Reserve, Somerset Levels
Local community art project creating a Story Seat.

2004 The National Trust, The Vyne Estate, Hampshire.
Creating community sculpture trail in woodland.

2004 English Nature/Shapwick Heath Nature Reserve, Somerset Levels
Local community art project creating a Giant and his felt shawl.

2004 Wasps/Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland.
Special Needs residency working with adults & children in schools & day centres.

2002 Arts & Business New Partners at Friends Provident and White Hart Hotel, Salisbury.
Engaging employees in making 3D structures for the Salisbury Festival In Praise of Trees project.

2001-2005 The National Trust Mottisfont Abbey estate, Hampshire.
Working with visitors of all ages and abilities, local community groups, countryside wardens, gardeners and house staff.

SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2016, 2015 Forest of Bowland AONB
2011, 2012, 2013 Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham
2011, 2013. St Barbe's Museum, Lymington
2006 Hampshire CC, Hog-the-Limelight
2005 Brockenhurst College, Adult Education
2003,‘05,’06,’09 Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport
2003-2012 Avon Heath and Itchen Valley Country Park
2004 In Praise of Earth, Salisbury Festival
2000-2012 Wiltshire and Hampshire County Council schools
2003, 2005-2007 Hampshire County Council Wood Fairs & Water Festivals
2002- 2009 The National Trust Countryside Guardianship Scheme
2001, 2002 Covent Garden Flower Festival & Seven Dials Festival, London
1998-2001 Turning Point, Castledene Day Centre (adults with special needs), Salisbury. 2014