Biography
My practice is in ceramic sculpture and installation. I work speculatively; re-imagining the purposes of everyday objects and their functioning, and crucially, exploring the compelling role of ceramics and making in contemporary art. Wall-based sculptures and paintings hold a visual conversation within the endlessly shifting, creative space between what we perceive as us - inside - and others, or the world, outside. My work plays in this zone - a space of becoming, myth, imitation and echoes. Working with ceramics; the fired, reactive and barely controllable qualities of materials subjected to heat can be a revelation, which takes place out of my direct control. My wall-based sculptures speak about a human and more-than-human, and about memory, cultivation and curiosity.
Education:
2008 - 2013: UCL IoE MA, Education in Museum and Galleries
1987 - 1989: Royal College of Art, MA Painting (Tapestry)
1984 – 1987: Canterbury College of Art, BA Hons Fine Art
1983 - 1984: Cardiff College of Art, Foundation Course
Exhibitions 2017 to the present:
2026 Purchased and commissioned by set dresser Charlotte Dirickx, my ceramic sculptures feature in ‘Cathy’s
Bedroom’, one of the sets for Emerald Fennell’s film “Wuthering Heights”. Released 14-02-26
Work selected for Odyssey, the Sussex Open, Hastings Contemporary, East Sussex, March 2026
Paint-Thing, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University, March 2026
One Artist. One Work. One Wall. Unit 1 Gallery Workshop. In conversation with Stacie McCormick
2025 Between the Floor and the Wall Thames-side Studios Gallery.
Family Secrets A site-responsive installation of ceramic sculptures for the souvenirs cabinet, Hastings
Museum & Art Gallery. Invited by artist Kim L. Pace.
A Goodly Company, The Handbag Factory, ASC, SE11. Curated by Marianne Walker.
‘Restless’ A site-specific sculptural installation, commissioned by Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di
Cogliandrino (MACC), Basilicata region, Italy. Installed from 6th September through to late October.
Phantasmagoria 2, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University. Curated by John Bunker
The Whole World in Their Hands, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London.
Lost and Found, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London. Curated by Andrew Ekins.
Clinging On Curated by Hermione Allsopp, Poppy Whatmore & Erika Trotzig. Artists’ talk chaired by Paul
Carey-Kent. Glassyard Studios, London SW9.
Shadders Project 78 Gallery, St-Leonards-On-sea. Curated by Jane Millar
2024 The Miniatures Challenge, Canal Boat Contemporary, multiple locations.
All That Glitters, Ubicua Gallery, London. Curated by Belinda Worsley.
Tipping Point, Bell House, Dulwich Festival. Co-curated by Jane Millar and Sarah Sparkes.
2023 The Dreaming, work selected for the Women In Art Gallery Open, Lewes, E Sussex.
Champs Noir, Terrace Gallery, curated by Simon Leahy-Clark
Windows and Thresholds: It’s Coming from Inside, Bell House, Dulwich Festival.
2022 BLINK, Room Share 4, Safehouse 1, Peckham. Selected by Min Angel.
Clay in Conversation 2: Body. Part 2 of artists’ conversations at Somerset House, curated by Julia
for Makerversity, with artist Kim Pace, & chaired by Tessa Peters. 16/09
2021 In (Matters of the Soul) ASC Gallery, curated by Darren O'Brien
Artist in Residence, Hogchester Arts. Selected by Domo Baal and Clare Burnett
Pilgrimage Southwark Cathedral, with Associated Clay Workers Union members.
Supastore Southside, Slingbacks & Sunshine, curated by Sarah Staton, South London Gallery. 9th July to
5th September.
Can We Ever Know the Meaning of These Objects? , Gallery 46, Whitechapel, London.
Pretty Ugly, Thameside Studios Gallery. Curated by Andrew Ekins.
2020 Fuzzy Objects, San Mei Gallery, Brixton. Three person show (with Nicky Hodge and Janet Currier).
2019 Creekside Open 2019, selected by Brian Griffiths, APT Gallery, Creekside, Deptford
We Can Only Have Fun On Certain Days, Warbling Collective, Stour Space, Hackney
Slow Life Solo show, Coffee is my Cup of Tea, Hackney. Curated by Richard Ducker
2018 40 Celsius - ASC Open, selected by Tabish Khan, Visual Arts Editor for the Londonist, Grafton Quarter
Exhibition space, Croydon.
Space Shift, APT Gallery, Deptford. Curated by Sarah Kogan.
Ghost Tide, curated by Monika Bobinska and Sarah Sparkes, Thameside gallery, Woolwich.
Cosmic Perspectives, Lumen Group Open, Ugly Duck, Bermondsey, London.
Votive, Southwark Cathedral, for the Thames Festival, with the Associated Clay Workers Union.
More in Common, APT Gallery, Deptford. Curated by Deborah Gardner
2017 The ING Discerning Eye 2017, Mall Galleries, London
Creekside Open 2017, selected by Alison Wilding