Education

1993-1996 BA Hon's Degree (1st) Illustration. University of Wolverhampton

  Current Commissions

   Jul-Dec10        Salisbury District Hospital Commission. Artworks for A&E Playroom & 10-12 Children's Bedrooms

   Jul-Oct10          Fareham Community Hospital. Mixed Media Artworks for 4-6 Waiting Areas

   Sep09-Aug10 Young People's Department Commission (YPD) (Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen). Working with Staff and Service Users to transform the whole department, (including exterior frontage, corridors, and 15 multi purpose rooms)

   Oct09-Jun10 Cowbridge Comprehensive School Interior Inlays Commission (Cardiff)

  Selected Public Art Commissions

   Jan-Apr2010      Perspex & Children's Area Commissions, Adelaide Health Centre, Southampton

   Jul-Oct09       Vinyl Graphics Commission for walls of Adelaide Health Centre, Southampton

   Feb08-Jul09      Day Areas and Corridors Commission (Milton Keynes Mental Health Service)

   May08-Mar09      Aberdeen Department of Child & Family Mental Health (Art Works Project) Working with children, carers, staff, & a youth club to create a more welcoming space

   Jun-Aug08     1A Children's Centre. Designing a visual identity for the centre. Starting at window front imagery, and trailing up the stairwells. (London, Holborn)

   Dec06-Dec07      Enhancing the Healing Environment Commission. Creating a room where people can "be alone without feeling lonely": Changing room structure, adding exterior exit, all interior design &flooring, as well as art work. (Milton Keynes Mental Health Service)

   Apr-Nov07        Farleigh Hospice Corridor Artworks Working with patients, carers, and design team of A Level students. (Chelmsford)

   Apr05-Jul06     Moving On Project working with architects, users and staff to create artworks for the newly built Adult Acute Units of the, Bristol Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

   Oct05-Jun06       Renal Dialysis Unit Residency (2 days per week), culminating in artworks for the waiting area, corridors, arched ceiling space. Broomfield Hospital, (Essex)

   Oct05-Jul06        Children's Play Area, A&E Department Residency, leading local primary school children (in design teams) to create an interactive themed room to engage and distract young patients. Broomfield Hospital, (Essex)

  Awards & Nominations

   Feb 2010         Community Partnership Awards 2010 Finalist for Community Youth Initiative (Vinyl Graphics Commission for walls of Adelaide Health Care Centre, Southampton)

   Nov 2009           Building Better Healthcare Awards 2009- Finalist for Best Use of Visual Art in Healthcare (ArtWorks Project at Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital)

   Mar 2008          Campaign for Drawing, Drawing Inspiration Awards 2007- Finalist Gardens of Easton Lodge Workshops, Essex

   Mar 2007   Campaign for Drawing, Drawing Inspiration Awards 2006- Winner of Inspired by Heritage Award: Banner Project, 'Invitation to Discover' at The Gardens of Easton Lodge

   Mar 2006        Campaign for Drawing, Drawing Inspiration Awards 2005- Winner of Inspired by Heritage Award: 'Drawing on Memories' Project at The Gardens of Easton Lodge

Teaching Experience

Sep01-Jul02 1st & 2nd Year BTEC & Foundation Tutor (Part Time) Teaching drawing techniques & observational skills, figure drawing & critical analysis. Also Graphics Tutor, setting projects & course assessments. West Thames College, Isleworth, London.

Sep-Jul02        Adult Evening Class Tutor teaching drawing & painting skills. Ealing College

Selected Community Projects

Apr-Jun08    Teenage Workshops Spray-Painting self-portrait layered stencils, canvases, t-shirt artwork, developing designs in Photoshop. Exhibition at The Camden Roundhouse

Aug-Sep07     Set & Costume Designer for 2 Youth Theatre Projects. Intensive 10-day projects culminating in a performance at Hackney Museum. 7-18 year olds. (Hackney)

Apr-May07     October Gallery Animation Working with 2 classes from Kingsgate Primary School to explore creative ways of depicting the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Using stop/start animation, photography, assemblage, spray-painting, etc. (Kilburn)

Sep-Oct06        Gardens of Easton Lodge Banners working with 6 schools to create 8ft by 4ft banners inspired by historical changes in the local area. Great Dunmow, (Essex)

Oct06-Nov06      Gallery Workshops with 'Strange Fruit' exhibition. October Gallery London

Sep-Oct05   Drawing On Memories Commission, producing installations, working with a local primary school looking at WW2 events at The Gardens of Easton Lodge, (Essex)

Sep-Oct05       Workshops with the October Gallery  Local schools creating 'consumers' from scrap material. Looking at branding, globalisation, & waste caused by our 'consuming'

Mar-Sep05         The Thames Festival Banner Project Working with 16 secondary schools to produce 16 banners depicting historical trade routes with other countries. Banner trail lining the South Bank, creating a treasure hunt for the Thames Festival, (London)

Dec04-Jul05       Journey Home Project Exploring differing concepts of heritage, culture and identity shaped by journeys through generations. Working with primary school children, their parents, a dancer, musician & writer. Pegasus Theatre & East Oxford Primary School

Mar2005               Bar Installation based on teenagers' views on drugs. Chats Palace, (Hackney)

Nov2004              4 Shop Window Displays as part of Artists' Trail in Brentwood, (Essex)

Jun2004        Beach Hut Project Transforming huts into Art pieces. Dovercourt, (Essex)

Feb-Apr04      Aerial Installation of a flock of 250 laminated birds filling the 60ft high interior of Essex County Hall Atrium (swooping towards the fish pond). Each bird created by a child from Perryfields Primary School embellished with text about personal migration

Education

Dec06-Dec07 Enhancing the Healing Environment Commission. Creating a room where people can "be alone without feeling lonely": Changing room structure, adding exterior exit, all interior design &flooring, as well as art work. (Milton Keynes Mental Health Service)