After an Art Foundation course in Leamington Spa, I read English and Drama at Exeter University (graduated 1988 BA Hons). I then successfully completed the Motley Postgraduate Theatre Design Course at the Almeida Islington, London and subsequently, after 5 years of theatre design work, did a PGCE at the Institute of Education. I taught English and drama at the Grey Coat Hospital School in Westminster, London, for 6 years.
In 2006 I came to Bristol and, in addition to some free-lance interior design work, have been working as a professional textile artist since 2008.
Shows
July 2008- Sept 2008 show at Slimbridge WWT
June 2009 Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey
Winner of Liberty fabric prize April 2009
June 2009- April 2010 Feature artist for CellMark (Sweden) 2008
July 2009 Quilt exhibited at the Design Museum Gothenburg Sweden in CellMark 25 years of artist collaboration exhibition (photograph above)
Oct/ Nov 2009 RWA Autumn Exhibition - Fan selected Button Phobia III selected
Oct 2009 Sustain - group show at The Space in Stroud
Jan/ Feb 2010 Button Phobia show at Harvey Nichols Bristol
June/ Aug 2010 Mona Bismarck Foundation Avenue de New York, Paris work contributing to the show: Boutons, artistic, historical and cultural phenomena
Forthcoming activities
I have been commissioned for several private pieces
I will be at The Contemporary Craft Fair in Bovey Tracey - June 11th- 13th 2010
Publications and press
Article in Telegraph July 2008
Article in Bristol Evening Post July 2008 (Material World)
Article in the Gloucestershire Gazette July 2008 (Material World)
Appearance on BBC Radio Bristol Saturday morning show (Material World)
Article in Western Daily Press July 2008 (Material World)
Feature article in BBC Homes and Antiques October 2008
Feature article in Bristol Magazine / Bath Magazine June 2009
Article about CellMark exhibition in GT Gothenburg July 2009
I have been featured on a number of online publications and blogs including Apartment Therapy, Feeling Stitchy, Liberty of London
Feature article in Homes and Gardens Deutsche September 2009
Appearance on BBC Radio Bristol discussion Button Phobia and forthcoming exhibition at Harvey Nichols Oct 2009
Feature article Bristol Evening Post about Button Phobia December 2009
Feature article in Venue magazine about Button Phobia January 2010
Feature article Embroidery Magazine March/April 2010