ABOUT ME/ CV
An Artist, Designer and Ceramicist with a Nomadic Local practice.
BIO
I’m a creative practitioner with a diverse practice and a focus on participation. Much of my work is experiential and delivered through workshop or residency programmes, however, with a specialism in ceramics, I often work in clay.
I am currently employed as a Lecturer in Design and Making at Goldsmiths, University of London, where I teach on MA Design: Expanded Practice. At Goldsmiths, my role ranges massively from delivering course content, to providing project and studio support, to managing the workshop.
More widely, I have undertaken long and short term residences and worked as an Arts and Heritage Officer in the voluntary sector, Workshop Facilitator, Freelance Ceramicist and Technician. My work has been displayed in multiple exhibitions, Crafts Magazine and is featured in Potclays’ online Gallery.
EDU*CLAY*TION
I was born in West Yorkshire in 1994 where I lived throughout Primary and Secondary school. With the help of a wonderful teaching staff including ceramic sculptor James Oughtibridge, I found a love for clay.
in 2013 I attended Leeds College of Art (now Leeds Art Uni) for my Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. After a great year on the Object and Spatial Design) pathway, university beckoned.
For the next three years I studied Three Dimensional Design at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. Whilst there I cemented my passion for social engagement and began working on the throwing wheel.
After a year developing a portfolio of new skills, working freelance in Manchester, I moved to Study Design: Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths College, London. The post disciplinary course was intense and fast paced, pushing me to take up a holistic approach as I developed a new understanding of my own practice. To find out more about the current standing and development of my practice, head back home via this link.
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
2023-present Lecturer in Design Practice and Making, Goldsmiths University
2021-2023 Artist in Residence, Marylebone boys’ School
2020-2021 Art and Heritage Officer, Learning Through the Arts
2018-2019 Part-Time Sales Co-Worker (Bedrooms) Ikea, Greenwich
2018 Ceramics Technician at Blessed Thomas Holford College Teaching School
2017-2018 Part-time Ceramics Technician and ceramicist in residence at Plant NOMA
2016- 2018 Member of the Makers Dozen collaborative (Most Recent Project: Make With the Manufacturer Workshops at Festival of Making, Blackburn)
2016- 2017 Leader of Play with Clay – Paid ceramics workshops at Plant NOMA
2017 Lead Maker of Winterlast bar, Plant NOMA
2017 Workshop Deliverer for Saturday Club via MMU
2017 Mentor during Creative Media Camp with Twentieth Century Fox via Ideas Foundation
2017 Workshop facilitator for the Crafts Council’s Hey Clay and Make:Shift:Do
2016-2017 Weekly craft workshops at Barnabus homeless charity, Manchester
2016 Facilitator of Winter workshops at Sadler’s Yard, Manchester
2016 Lead deliverer at WARP Festival Workshops
2011- 2014 Leisure attendant/ Lifeguard at Ilkley pool and lido
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2018-2020 MA Design: Expanded Practice (Distinction)- Goldsmiths, University of London
2014-2017 BA Hons Three Dimensional Design- Manchester (First Class)- Metropolitan University
2013-2014 Foundation diploma in Art and Design (Merit)- Leeds College of art
2006-2013 South Craven School:
A-Levels- Applied Art and Design (double award) AB Biology B
GCSE- 9 including English, Maths, Science, Art and Design and Product Design
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
2020 Arts Award Discover and Explore Adviser training
2020 Multiple Safeguarding for vulnerable adults and children
2021 Level 3 Award in Teaching and Training
2021 Emergency First Aid at Work delivered by St John Ambulance
2021 Core Health and Safety Training (SCHS) accredited by the Design and Technology association
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2015-present Various exhibitions including:
Confluence, Goldsmiths College London; Design For MSK, Talbot Mil, Manchester; Public Disengagement at Marketplace Studios, Stockport; Fresh, Rural Arts Thirsk, Thirsk; Journeys In Mind, Bluecoats Display Center, Liverpool; Firing to the Extreme at The People’s History Museum, Manchester.
2016-2021 Multiple residencies including: Marylebone Boys’ School; Pro Patrimonio, Țibănești, Romania; Three DDIR Residencies including Firing to the Extreme, Manchester; Object Identities in collaboration with Emmaus Mossley.
AWARDS
06/2017 Potclays Graduate Award Manchester School of Art
06/2017 Spotted by Manchester Contemporary Craft Centre
05/2017 Student Volunteer of the Year Manchester Metropolitan University