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Curriculum Vitae
1974 born in Sheffield, lives and works in Whitby, UK
Academic Information
1999 MA Art in Context, University of Sunderland
1996 BA (hons) 3D Design (glass with ceramics), University of Sunderland
2004-2007 Visiting lecturer for the MA Glass course at the University of Sunderland
Selected Awards
2021’Time, Space, Money’, bursary from Artists Newsletter
2021 Print Bursary working with Northern Print, Arts Council England
2019 ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’, Arts Council England
2016 Fellowship with the National Glass Centre, Sunderland and the Barbican, London
2012 Queen Elizabeth Trust Scholar
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 ‘The Art of Trees’, The Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire
2024 ‘Earthly Treasures’, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales and the National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2022 ‘Natural Selection’, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne
2021 ‘12 weeks 12 artists’, Art at Home project Space, London
Residencies
2023 Residency exploring wearability and glass, North Lands, Scotland, the National Glass Centre, Sunderland and Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
Selected Exhibitions
2025 ‘Gravur on Tour’, Glass Museum Lette, Germany
2024 ‘Menagerie’, the National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2024 ‘The Glass Zoo’, the National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2023 ‘CO//ECT’, Somerset House, London
2023 ‘Uncommon Beauty- Objects of Curiosity and Wonder’, Craft in the Bay, The Makers Guild of Wales’ gallery, Cardiff
2023 ‘Gravur on Tour’, Glass Museum, Gernheim, Germany
2023 ‘Solid Matter (As Above, So Below)’, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2023 ‘From Little Acorns…’, jewellery collaboration with Emily Georgina Jones, the Reading Room, Whitby, UK
2022 ‘Fungi ‘Cast’ in Time’ a Fungarium of cast and gilded glass mushrooms, Armitt Museum and Library, Lake District to accompany Beatrix Potter’s watercolours of fungi
2022 ‘Coburg Glass Prize 2022’, Germany. The most important competition for Contemporary Glass in Europe
2022 ‘Inaugural International Bead Biennale’, jewellery collaboration with Emily Geogina Jones, part of the International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge
2022 ‘Earth Sea Sky’, London Glass Blowing, London
2022 ‘The Joy of Glass’, the Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds
2022 ‘The Art of the Exceptional’ Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust show, part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, Fortnum & Mason, London
2021 ‘NGC Glass Prize’, the first European glass prize at the National Glass Centre
2020 selected by the Michelangelo Foundation to be part of the new HOMO FABER guide, a digital platform dedicated to master artisans and rising talent in Europe
2019 Ireland Glass Biennale, Dublin Castle, Ireland
2019 ‘Useful/Beautiful, Why Craft Matters’, Harewood House, Leeds
2019 ‘QEST’ event, showing work with other scholars, V&A, London
2019 ‘NGC21’, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
2018 ‘Peace und Freedom’, Waldmuseum, Zwiesel, Germany
2018 ‘Loud & Clear’, the Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, UK
2017 ‘and they engrave happily ever after …’, Glasmuseum Immenhausen, Germany
2017 ‘In Bloom’, with Elizabeth Blackadder, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne
2016-2017 ‘Transparent Femininity’, I co curated this exhibition with Julia Stephenson for the long gallery at the National Glass Centre.
2016 ‘From Black to White and Back Again’, London Glassblowing, London, UK
2014 ‘Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass 2014’. Coburg, Germany.
2013 ‘New Glass – Ancient Skill, Contemporary Artform’. ‘Blackwell House’,Cumbria.
2010 ‘Remarkable Glass’. Contemporary Applied Arts, London.
2005 ‘Surface, Structure, Shape’, with the Crafts Council at the Axis Gallery, Tokyo.
2002 ‘Sacred Geometry’ solo show, Centre Culturel, Saint-Yrieux-la-Peche, France
Collections
Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighly, UK, with funding from the Contemporary Art Society
The Armitt Museum, Lake District, UK
The National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Various private collections in the UK and Europe.
Selected Participatory Projects
2020 ‘DesignLab Nation’, a partnership with the V&A and the National Glass Centre.
2013 ‘Writing Britain’, working in collaboration with Newcastle City library and the British Library and young people from the Skimstone Artists’ Collective.
Selected Commissions
2015 ‘Drawing by the Agency of Light’, St.Andrews University. I created a series of cast glass sculptural lenses set in granite that responded to a poem written by Jacob Polley.
2012 ‘A Canvas for St. Ann’s’. screen printed artwork that covered the side of the building, Nottingham. working with NHS Nottingham City. Architect: CPMG
2011 ‘Baddiley- Clarke’. I am created two cast glass sculptures for the Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology at Newcastle University. I also made a small sculptural piece for Nobel prize winning Paul Nurse who opened the building.
2011- 2016 Various sculptural projects for Marie Curie Hospices in Newcastle upon Tyne, Solihull and Penarth: Architect:JDDK
Selected Teaching
2020 Pâte de verre masterclass- 36 Lime Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
2019 Cast glass jewellery workshop, Harewood House, Leeds
2017 Casting Masterclass, week long course, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2017 ’Burnout’ Masterclass, 36 Lime Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
2015 ‘Layered Landscapes’, workshop, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Selected Publications
‘A Celebration of British Craftsmanship’, Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, QEST
‘Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass’, 2014 and 2022’, catalogues