CV
EDUCATION
2013 MA Ceramics and Glass, Royal College of Art
2013 Art Therapy Foundation, British Association of Art Therapists
2008 BA (HONS) Ceramics, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, School of Art and Design
2005 Art and Design Foundation, University College Falmouth
PUBLIC PROJECTS
2020
Studio Founder and Director of Brickworks, since 2017, a centre for learning, experimentation and creativity in clay, Penryn, Cornwall
Lead Artist on Brickfield, since 2019, an experimental, participatory Brickworks set in a disused china clay extraction quarry near St Austell, Cornwall. Supported by Whitegold, St Austell’s ongoing arts and regeneration project
2019
Summer Clay Workshops at Kestle Barton, Lizard Penisula, Cornwall
2018
Field Trip, Brick Making and Brick Clamp Kiln Firing as part of Groundwork
2017
Craftschool Workshop Facilitator, Newlyn Art Gallery
2016
Artist Facilitator, Kettles Yard, Cambridge. Freelance engagement since 2015 working together with resident artists on the Open House projects
Artist Facilitator, Bethlem Royal Hospital Ceramic Studio, Professional Masterclass workshops and public drop-in sessions. Freelance engagement since 2012
Ceramics and Textiles Tutor, Workshop 305, working with adults with physical and learning disabilities providing weekly sessions since 2014
Foundation Year Technician, The Royal Drawing School. Providing technical assistance and expertise to students on their foundation year studies, since 2014
Assistant Studio Manager at The Kilnrooms, Peckham
2015
Ceramics and Craft Tutor, St Josephs Pastoral Centre, working with adults with physical and learning disabilities during weekly sessions since 2012
2014
Life Drawing Tutor, Royal College of Art
Craft Council Buddy for Hilary Mayo for Hothouse 4, support for Emerging Makers
Creative Practitioner, Merton and Wandsworth Asylum Welcome
2013
Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art Drawing Studio
Drawing Studio Assistant, Royal College of Art
Tutor of Experimental Drawing Workshop for BA Students at UCA Farnham
2012
The Art of Celebration, Public Engagement project using ceramics and visual storytelling to create a large scale celebratory installation at Ordsall Hall, Salford
2011
Festival Makers Award in Association with The Making to create a large-scale public artwork working with children at a Basingstoke Primary School
2010
Monoprinting Workshop at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for members of the public in association with Craftspace
Craft Social Enterprise Residency Artist in Association with Craftspace and The Community Integration Partnership, Birmingham
2009
Teacher of pottery apprenticeship to young adults in Jinja, Uganda, in association with Soft Power Education
EXHIBITIONS
2019
Unbounded, Group Show curated by FieldNotes and Eden Project, Eden Project, Cornwall
Break Us Gently, Portmeor Studios, St Ives, with Liam Jolly and Georgia Gendall
The Lost Rock Library, Goonhilly Village Green, Goonhilly Downs, Cornwall
2018
Grays Wharf Opening Group Exhibition, Grays Wharf, Penryn
Where It Is, There It Is, group exhibition co-produced with Liam Jolly at Auction House Art, Redruth, Cornwall as part of Groundwork
2016
These Walls Must Fall, exhibition and charity art auction, co-curated and produced with Ester Svennson, Geddes Gallery, Kings Cross. Exhibition included a collaborative installation produced by Ester and myself, alongside the work of John Radcliffe Studio, Rob Pinney, Bina Mohammed and Anne-Laure Cano. Auction featured the work of over 40 artists and makers, and raised money for Articulate and Hummingbird, two charities working together to provide art workshops in the Calais camp.
2015
Propeller Foundry Open Studios, ACME studios, Childers Street
MAKE/CREATE, A Griffin Gallery and QEST collaboration, The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church
2014
No One Owns The Land, site specific collaborative installation with Ester Svensson for HOUSE 2014, Brighton and Hove Visual Arts Festival, Regency Town House Basement
Oriel Davies Open, Oriel Davies Gallery
Black and White, Ceramic Creative Centre, Korea
2013
And Then This, ROCA London Gallery, Chelsea
SHOW RCA 2013, Royal College of Art
Coronation Festival, Bendicks Shop, Buckingham Palace Gardens
2012
Point of Departure, Great Western Studios, London
Look Less, Feel More, Collaborative Participatory Exhibition, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art
2011
Portraits in the Making, Craft Council Collective Hothouse Group Exhibition, Pitzhanger Manor, London
Grafika, RBSA Craft Gallery, Birmingham
New Territories, Associate Member Exhibition, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey
Talente, International Trade Fair, Munich
TALKS
2020
Traces of Unbounded, Laura Hopes and Rosanna Martin, Lunch Break Talks at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives
2019
Artist Talk, Falmouth University
Bricks and China Clay, an evening of talks and discussion, CAST, Helston
Clay, Terracotta and Brick in Art, Architecture and Archeology, organised by British School at Rome at The Royal Society of Sculptors Restating Clay Symposium: Ceramics Communities, on behalf of Brickfield, Whitegold, Cardiff School of Art and Design
FUNDING / COMMISSIONS / RESIDENCIES / PRIZES
2019
Shortlisted for Whitegold International Ceramics Prize
2018
Invisble Worlds Residency, in association with FoAM, Eden Project, Wellcome Trust and Zeiss Microscopy
2017
The Cornwall Workshop - week long intensive residential workshop led by Christina Mackie, Kestle Barton
2016
Shortlisted for the Perrier Jouet Arts Salon Prize by Annie Cattrell
2015
Shortlisted for the Jessica Wilkes Studio Award, ACME
2013
The Tom Bendhem Drawing Prize for life drawing
Distinction Dissertation, Royal College of Art
Participant Artist of the 6th ARS Dissection Drawing Marathon, Antwerp
Sculpture Commission for the Bendicks shop at the Coronation Festival, Buckingham Palace
2012
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust funding, sponsored by Bendicks Mints
Participant Artist of the 5th ARS Dissection Drawing Marathon, Antwerp