Introduction
My practice is inter-disciplinary, working across drawing, painting, collage, film/animation, sound and installation this is in order to allow for a flexibility to material and research. I approach the process of making in a contemplative and meditative manner, which carefully considers the use of various found materials, images, objects and thoughts (often from intimate moments in my domestic or natural environment) as elements that can be weaved into narrative constellations which references both visual and acoustic ambience and resonance. My work seeks to understand how the composition of ‘parts’ may reflect a ‘whole’ – a form of constructing art that uses both logic (pattern, repeat, association) and imagination (chance, memory, motifs). This very process of piecing together my work is key to my practice, and so rather than use a linear method of production, I follow intuitive decisions as a means to think through ideas ‘by hand’, meaning my work is often cannibalised and from this entropy reformed into ‘new’ works that contain an internal logic. Collage therefore, in its broadest sense (as a means to orchestrate and layer disparate parts into a textual experience for the viewer), is important to me.
Collaborations
I am a member of the female quartet Collectress dealing with performance, sound, body in space, object and body, composition, collaboration, and improvisation. Much of the work developed in Collectress has been within that framework for example responding to the Martina Bergman Osterberg Archive at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, or Improvising Composition to the Surrealist Film Archive at the National Gallery in association with the Man Ray Exhibition. We have worked in collaboration with Rambert creating music for perfomance for the new choreography platform. We have also worked with Rutter and Bennet developing costume designs for performance. I am the Cellist in Penguin Café and have travelled widely on international tours and performances.
Biography
2003 – 2005 University of Reading Master of Fine Art
1997 – 1998 University of Brighton Post Graduate in Education Art and Design
1991 – 1995 Falmouth School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art
Exhibitions and Selected Performances
2022 - Kent Artists Open Selected Works Turner Contemporary Margate
2020 – Commonplace Exhibition Herbert Read Gallery Canterbury
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2019 – Performing the Object Mixed Media Installation UCA Project Space Brewery Tap Folkestone
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2018 – Collectress Light Dial part 3 re performed at Leaf Hall Eastbourne as part of Devonshire Collective guest curation programme
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2018 - Performing the Object Mixed Media Installation Crate Project Space Margate
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2017 – Collectress Light Dial part 2 re performed for Digital Materials Conference UCA Rochester
2016 - Collectress Rambert New Choreography ‘In The Making’: premiere of new work Light Dial w dancer Miguel Altunaga & special guest Lauren Doss (Mechanical Bride) Rambert Southbank London
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2016 - Collectress Rambert Revealed open rehearsal feat. new collaboration w dancer Miguel Altunaga Rambert Southbank London
2014 - Collectress “Women of the World Festival” Southbank Centre London
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2013 - Collectress“Man Ray Retrospective” Live soundtrack composed for showing of surrealist film National Portrait Gallery, London
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2013 - Collectress Circa 69 and Collectress Collaboration performing compositions written to The Sound of the Wind in the Trees The Old Market, Brighton, Roundhouse, London
2012 - Collectress Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London “The Body and the Archive” Work developed in response to the Martina Bergman Österberg (1849-1914) archive in Dartford
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2012 - Collectress National Maritime Museum, London - Performance proposed for 1day symposium in connection with “The Body and the Archive” Exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery
2012 - Collectress - New site-specific sound project proposed as part of the Late Shift after hours sessions at the National Portrait Gallery London
2011- Open Studios Bow Arts London
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2010 - “Collage of Life” Manifesto, London Site-specific installation as part of a mini festival in Highbury at The Nave
2009 - Collectress - Site specific Time Piece for the Pump House Gallery Indian Summer Party Battersea Park London
2009 - Collectress - Import for the night for the poetry cafe at The Whitechapel Gallery London
2009 - “Its Still Life” Bird Cage Gallery London Solo Show taking home to gallery space with collaboration with Live Work Bow Arts
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2008 - “Housewerke” London Solo Show using the home as exhibition space connected with Bow Arts Live Work Space London
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2007 - “Art in Churches” Hoo Peninsular, Kent Exhibition working with Medway Council and UCA to produce site-specific works in Churches linked with Arch Art in Churches
Discography
2011 Music from the Penguin Café “Matter of Life”
Label: Penguin Cafe
2014 Music from the Penguin Café “The Red Book”
Label: Penguin Café
2017 Music from the Penguin Café “The Imperfect Sea”
Label: Erased Tapes
2019 Music from the Penguin Café “Handfuls of Night”
Label: Erased Tapes
2023 Music from the Penguin Café “Rain Before Seven”
Label: Erased Tapes
2014 Collectress “Mondegreen”
Label: Peeler Records
2020 Collectress “Different Geographies”
Label: Peeler Records
Funding and Awards
University for the Creative Arts Research Fund
2016 and 2017
PRS for Music Foundation
Women Making Music Award
The Presidents Fund Edinburgh
Associations of University Women
Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Grant
Teaching
I have over 20 years teaching experience within the creative arts and have created projects and resources for a range of art and design subject areas and levels within Further and Higher Education.
My teaching has been considerably enhanced by my varied research practices and my awareness of diffuse applications for my work that might not occur without particular elements of collaboration. Much of my research has the potential to play an important role in reflecting the current developments in creative industry education for particular courses that deal with performance, sound, design for performance and textiles as well as fine art. My research supports and aims to develop teaching and learning that represents the cutting-edge of thinking around the discipline of fine art, 3 dimensional creative practice, performance, moving image and music.
Teaching Experience
University for the Creative Arts Programme Director
2020 - 2023
University for the Creative Arts Senior Lecturer
2005 - 2020
University of Reading Postgraduate Sessional Lecturer
2004 – 2005
Reigate College Lecturer
1999 – 2003
My practice is inter-disciplinary, working across drawing, painting, collage, film/animation, sound and installation this is in order to allow for a flexibility to material and research. I approach the process of making in a contemplative and meditative manner, which carefully considers the use of various found materials, images, objects and thoughts (often from intimate moments in my domestic or natural environment) as elements that can be weaved into narrative constellations which references both visual and acoustic ambience and resonance. My work seeks to understand how the composition of ‘parts’ may reflect a ‘whole’ – a form of constructing art that uses both logic (pattern, repeat, association) and imagination (chance, memory, motifs). This very process of piecing together my work is key to my practice, and so rather than use a linear method of production, I follow intuitive decisions as a means to think through ideas ‘by hand’, meaning my work is often cannibalised and from this entropy reformed into ‘new’ works that contain an internal logic. Collage therefore, in its broadest sense (as a means to orchestrate and layer disparate parts into a textual experience for the viewer), is important to me.
Collaborations
I am a member of the female quartet Collectress dealing with performance, sound, body in space, object and body, composition, collaboration, and improvisation. Much of the work developed in Collectress has been within that framework for example responding to the Martina Bergman Osterberg Archive at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, or Improvising Composition to the Surrealist Film Archive at the National Gallery in association with the Man Ray Exhibition. We have worked in collaboration with Rambert creating music for perfomance for the new choreography platform. We have also worked with Rutter and Bennet developing costume designs for performance. I am the Cellist in Penguin Café and have travelled widely on international tours and performances.
Biography
2003 – 2005 University of Reading Master of Fine Art
1997 – 1998 University of Brighton Post Graduate in Education Art and Design
1991 – 1995 Falmouth School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art
Exhibitions and Selected Performances
2022 - Kent Artists Open Selected Works Turner Contemporary Margate
2020 – Commonplace Exhibition Herbert Read Gallery Canterbury
2019 – Performing the Object Mixed Media Installation UCA Project Space Brewery Tap Folkestone
2018 – Collectress Light Dial part 3 re performed at Leaf Hall Eastbourne as part of Devonshire Collective guest curation programme
2018 - Performing the Object Mixed Media Installation Crate Project Space Margate
2017 – Collectress Light Dial part 2 re performed for Digital Materials Conference UCA Rochester
2016 - Collectress Rambert New Choreography ‘In The Making’: premiere of new work Light Dial w dancer Miguel Altunaga & special guest Lauren Doss (Mechanical Bride) Rambert Southbank London
2016 - Collectress Rambert Revealed open rehearsal feat. new collaboration w dancer Miguel Altunaga Rambert Southbank London
2014 - Collectress “Women of the World Festival” Southbank Centre London
2013 - Collectress“Man Ray Retrospective” Live soundtrack composed for showing of surrealist film National Portrait Gallery, London
2013 - Collectress Circa 69 and Collectress Collaboration performing compositions written to The Sound of the Wind in the Trees The Old Market, Brighton, Roundhouse, London
2012 - Collectress Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London “The Body and the Archive” Work developed in response to the Martina Bergman Österberg (1849-1914) archive in Dartford
2012 - Collectress National Maritime Museum, London - Performance proposed for 1day symposium in connection with “The Body and the Archive” Exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery
2012 - Collectress - New site-specific sound project proposed as part of the Late Shift after hours sessions at the National Portrait Gallery London
2011- Open Studios Bow Arts London
2010 - “Collage of Life” Manifesto, London Site-specific installation as part of a mini festival in Highbury at The Nave
2009 - Collectress - Site specific Time Piece for the Pump House Gallery Indian Summer Party Battersea Park London
2009 - Collectress - Import for the night for the poetry cafe at The Whitechapel Gallery London
2009 - “Its Still Life” Bird Cage Gallery London Solo Show taking home to gallery space with collaboration with Live Work Bow Arts
2008 - “Housewerke” London Solo Show using the home as exhibition space connected with Bow Arts Live Work Space London
2007 - “Art in Churches” Hoo Peninsular, Kent Exhibition working with Medway Council and UCA to produce site-specific works in Churches linked with Arch Art in Churches
Discography
2011 Music from the Penguin Café “Matter of Life”
Label: Penguin Cafe
2014 Music from the Penguin Café “The Red Book”
Label: Penguin Café
2017 Music from the Penguin Café “The Imperfect Sea”
Label: Erased Tapes
2019 Music from the Penguin Café “Handfuls of Night”
Label: Erased Tapes
2023 Music from the Penguin Café “Rain Before Seven”
Label: Erased Tapes
2014 Collectress “Mondegreen”
Label: Peeler Records
2020 Collectress “Different Geographies”
Label: Peeler Records
Funding and Awards
University for the Creative Arts Research Fund
2016 and 2017
PRS for Music Foundation
Women Making Music Award
The Presidents Fund Edinburgh
Associations of University Women
Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Grant
Teaching
I have over 20 years teaching experience within the creative arts and have created projects and resources for a range of art and design subject areas and levels within Further and Higher Education.
My teaching has been considerably enhanced by my varied research practices and my awareness of diffuse applications for my work that might not occur without particular elements of collaboration. Much of my research has the potential to play an important role in reflecting the current developments in creative industry education for particular courses that deal with performance, sound, design for performance and textiles as well as fine art. My research supports and aims to develop teaching and learning that represents the cutting-edge of thinking around the discipline of fine art, 3 dimensional creative practice, performance, moving image and music.
Teaching Experience
University for the Creative Arts Programme Director
2020 - 2023
University for the Creative Arts Senior Lecturer
2005 - 2020
University of Reading Postgraduate Sessional Lecturer
2004 – 2005
Reigate College Lecturer
1999 – 2003