CV

Education 

  • MA Fine Art: The Royal College of Art, London. UK.
  • BA(Hons) Art & Design. Bradford School of Art, Design & Textiles, West Yorkshire.
  • Postgraduate: Developing Arts for Health. Staffordshire University.

Participatory commissions with Children & Young People  

  • 2022 4600 Gifts Craftspace; Core Education Trust (four Seconday Schools). West Midlands.
  • 2021. Commonwealth Communities. Birmingham Education Partnerships (BEP), West Midlands.
  • 2019 Children of the Forest Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, Staffordshire
  • 2018   Pressing Stillness  Selly Oak Trust Special School. West Midlands.
  • 2018   Drawing Resounding King Edward (VI) Five Ways School. West Midlands.
  • 2017   Stories of Bentilee Streetwise Youth Group.  Staffordshire
  • 2017   Little Angels Haden Hill House Museum.  West Midlands.
  • 2016   Old, Old Hill Old Hill Primary School. West Midlands.
  • 2015   Young Archivists Haden Hill House Museum.  West Midlands.
  • 2015   Look Deeper (III) Bournville Primary School.  West Midlands.
  • 2015   Netherfield Children’s Museum Netherfield Primary School, Nottingham.
  • 2013   Look Deeper (II) Netherfield Primary School, Nottingham.
  • 2012   It’s our world Colley Lane Primary School.  Birmingham.
  • 2011   Dark Lane Village Old Park Primary school. Telford.
  • 2011   Forging Links (Home of Metal) Multistory. West Midlands.
  • 2011   Self/My Precious Thing Bentley Drive Primary School. Walsall.
  • 2011   What Is Success? Colley Lane Primary School. Birmingham.
  • 2010   What’s the story? Wednesfield High School, Wolverhampton. 
  • 2010   Wow Wonderland Victoria Park Primary School. Birmingham.
  • 2009   Ambassadors for Learning Bishop Ullathorne Secondary School. Coventry.
  • 2008   Life As It Is St. Edmunds Secondary School.  Wolverhampton.
  • 2008   Our Natural World Pearl Hyde Primary School. Coventry.
  • 2018   Detectives, Explorers & Spies  St.George & St. Martins, Staffordshire.
  • 2007   Creative Maths Pool Hayes Community School. Willenhall.
  • 2007   Creativity and Space Pool Hayes Community School. 
  • 2006   Llandudno Costal Expedition Abbey Hulton Primary School. Staffordshire.
  • 2006   Building Platforms St. Thomas More Secondary School.
  • 2005   Building Bridges St. Thomas More Secondary School. 
  • 2005   Poetryscope Pool Hayes Secondary School. 
  • 2004 Creativestars Castle special school, Leightswood primary school & Deansfield secondary school. West Midlands. 

Participatory commissions in Heritage and Community Settings 

  • 2021 Memories of Wednesbury High Street Multistory, West Midlands.
  • 2019 Where’s Your Vote? Peoples Heritage Cooperative, Birmingham.
  • 2019   Echo Eternal Library of Birmingham.  West Midlands.
  • 2018   A Forest of Memories New Victoria Theatre.  Staffordshire. 
  • 2017   Bird Collecting  Haden Hill House Museum.
  • 2017   Painterly Interpretations  Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery.  
  • 2012   Identifying Marks LGBT in Wolverhampton. West Midlands.
  • 2012   Mountain People  Whyte Museum & Archives, Banff, Canada. 
  • 2011   My Dream For You Berries Children Centre. West Midlands.
  • 2009   Café Conversations International Dialogue Residency. Chania, Crete.
  • 2007   Seeing It Your Way Walsall Creative Development Team, West Midlands.
  • 2005   Keepsake Smethwick Surestart & The Public.  West Midlands.

Curating Commissions

  • 2022 4600 Gifts Library of Birmingham; Craftspace, West Midlands
  • 2022 We Are Birmingham Symphony Hall, Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham,  West Midlands.
  • 2021 The World According To Cradley Heath. Haden Hill House Museum, West Midlands.
  • 2021 High Street Stories Wednesbury High Street; Multistory, West Midlands.
  • 2019   Echo Eternal Library of Birmingham.  West Midlands.
  • 2017   Stories of Bentilee Harold Clowes Hall, Stafforshire.
  • 2016   Little Angels Haden Hill House Museum.
  • 2015   The Evidence Room Haden Hill House Museum.
  • 2015   Look Deeper (III) Bournville Primary School.  West Midlands.
  • 2011   Forging Links Haden Hill House Museum. 
  • 2011   Oomph! Festival, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
  • 2007   Stampede Periscope Artspace, Birmingham.

Arts related employment 

  • 2019-23 Project Co-ordinator. Cradley Heath Creative, West Midlands.
  • 2021-22 Project Manager. Craftspace, Birmingham, West Midlands
  • 2004-23   Freelance Creative Practitioner West Midlands. 
  • 2008-11   Creative Agent  Black Country Creative Partnerships. West Midlands.
  • 2007-08   Creative Evaluator Walsall Creative Development Team, West Midlands. 
  • 2006-7     Assistant Curator Periscope Arts Space. Birmingham. 
  • 2004        Project Coordinator ’Open’ Funded by Arts Council England.