• 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