Exhibitions
2019 Art of Gathering, The Newcraftsman Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2017 Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea Town Hall, Chelsea, London
2017 Pairadeaza Feast, Broomhill Art Hotel, Muddiford, Norh Devon
2017 Green Hill Open, Greenhill Arts, Mortenhampstead, Dartmoor, Devon
2017 New Year- New Work, North Devon Arts, Broomhill, North Devon
2016 Westward Ho! and Bideford Art Society Annual Open Exhibition
2016 Soil Culture: Deep Roots, Plymouth University, Devon
2015 Westward Ho! and Bideford Art Society Annual Open Exhibition
2015 Soil Culture, Exeter University, Exeter, Devon
2015 Soil Culture: Deep Roots, Falmouth Art Gallery, falmouth, Cornwall
2015 Painting Together, White Moose Gallery, Barnstaple, North Devon
2014 Soil Culture, Falmouth University, Cornwall
2012 In the Dark Times, CMR Arts Space, Redruth, Cornwall
2012 MA Degree Show, University College Falmouth, Cornwall
2012 A Cultivation Field, Symposium and Exhibition, in association with the Arts Council England and PhD researcher Kate, Corder, The Keep, Reading
2011 The Colour Garden, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2010 In the Midst of Wonders, The Royal Polytechnic Society, Falmouth, Cornwall
2009 Solo Show, Ock Pop Tok, Living Crafts Centre, Luang Prabang, Laos
2009 On Land, Fulham Palace Gallery, Bishop’s Avenue, London
2009 The Slade BA Summer Shows, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2007 Turtle, Woburn Studios, Woburn Square, London
2006 Eating Under Water, The Thomas a Becket, Old Kent Road, London
Projects
2019 Tutor at St Ives School of Painting, Landscape Painting and Natural Pigments
2018 Trewidden Garden Studio, Design and Making of a Dye Garden
2017 Selected artist at Greenhill Arts and Article in Devon Life
2017 Pairadeaza Feast, Broomhill Art Hotel, Muddifrod, Norh Devon
2015 eARTh moves to Hele Corn Mill, Hele, North Devon
2015 Painting Together, collaborative painting projects
2014 eARTh, workshop, ideas and project space officially opens
Education
2010-2012 University College Falmouth, MA
2005-2009 The Slade School of Fine Art, BA
Awards/ Scholarships
2010-2012 University College Falmouth Bursary Award
2010 Creative Enterprise Cornwall Award
2009 The Jeremy Cubitt Prize
2005-2009 The Euan Uglow Memorial Scholarship
2005 The Worshipful Company of Painter’s Stainers Prize
Residencies
2012 Trebah Garden, Mawnan Smith, Cornwall, U.K
2010 Ock Pop Tok, Living Crafts Centre, Luang Prabang, Laos
Installations
2012 Surrey Docks Ecological Park, Indigo
2011 An Impromptu Happening, Fox Rose Hill Gardens, Cornwall
Painting
My painting practice reveals a continuous development about a response to environments, taking place in the landscape and in the studio. Going back to painting made me feel differently about it as the practice of painting provides me with a way of understanding and apprehending a deeper appreciation through visual language. I made a series of paintings as a response to living by the sea and the feeling this gives, focusing on mark making and colour to provide a language to convey these feelings.
Drawing
My drawing practice acts as a way of seeing and encountering the world. Spending time drawing provides a means of close observation, studying the forms of plants to understand them better.
Dyes
Using local and exotic plants in the South West and mud from the Thames River, London, the Penryn Estuary, Cornwall and earth pigments from Penwith, Cornwall, North Devon, West Somerset and Pembrokeshire, Wales, I have experimented with traditional and contemporary dye techniques including solar, composting and immersion.
Film
Film work is mostly done in collaboration with other artists including dancers and attempts to portray aspects of the natural world. and our human interaction with it.
Theatre
The Sanford Collective Independent Theatre Company
Research
Earth Walks
Kew Gardens research interview
The Eden Project research interview
Jenny Dean
Jenny Balfour-Paul
The Permacouture Institute
Mud project river Thames
Other information
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