1987 -1990
Since graduating from Art school in 1990 I have travelled from Fine Art to Multimedia, through teaching and now back to Fine Art and making sculpture again.
At first I worked as a sculptors assistant for Projects Environment in Manchester. I carved stone, wove willow and facilitated workshops on a range of projects.
I moved to London in ‘94 and had a residency at the Florence Trust Studios for two years, and there I made installations from various found materials and sculptures from car innertubes.
I started using computers to make drawings and collages, which led to work on a variety of Multimedia projects and I taught on the Multimedia Design degree course at Southampton Institute (‘98 - ‘01) and on Multimedia courses at Isleworth Further Education College (‘01 - ‘03) while I was studying for my Digital Moving Image MA.
This time of working with Multimedia also marked the time when I started dancing the 5 Rhythms, which has been a profoundly transformative force in my life. Over the years I have become committed to the 5Rhythms practice and I have recently been accepted onto the teacher-training course, when I shall be apprenticed to Gabrielle Roth.
2005
'Heartbeat' bronze figures
Review
by Meriel Goss
2003
Digital Moving Image - stills from MA project. Poem Video - 'Rhythm Rainbows'
2001
Stills from 'The Wave' animation - inspired by the 5 Rhythms of Gabrielle Roth. Computer manipulated live action and drawn animation.
2001
Created for Cycles 5 Rhythms Ongoing - writing on body scans
1999
London Guildhall University. Digital Moving Image MA project unit. 'Approaching the Millennium'.
1994 - '96
Life drawings during my residency at the Florence Trust Studios
1996
Florence Trust Studios. Sculptures made from car tyre innertubes. With this series of sculptures I was interested in the material itself and the processes of making sculpture with this material: binding, stacking, squashing, layering, stretching, sorting, cutting, lifting, dropping.
1995
Florence Trust Studios. Installation - pink balloons filled with clay and tied with flex. Constructed shapes made from pvc, using balloons as moulds.
1990 - '92
SIGMA (Sculptors in Greater Manchester Association) and Projects Environment. Sculptures made from found materials and/or constructed using the material itself (ie, no nails or glue)
1991
Carvings from blocks of plaster with paint swirled into the plaster before it set.
1987 - '90
Sculpture BA. Manchester Polytechnic. Sculptures constructed from conifer foliage, bound tightly with fishing-line.
Exhibitions
of Sculpture
(Forthcoming) From July 2007
The Chalk Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex.
June 8th-12th 2007
As part of the South East Open Studios.
December 2006
“Five at Fovea”. Fovea Gallery, Harrow, London.
1997
Akel Minott Elia Gallery, London. Solo show.
1995
Collier Bristow Gallery, London. Solo commission and group show.
The Florence Trust, London. Open Studio group show.
The Ecology Centre, London. Two woman sculpture exhibition.
1992
Trafford Ecology Park, Manchester. Solo show.
Expressions Gallery, Manchester. Group show.
Rossendale Groundwork Trust, Manchester. Group show.
1990
The Craft Centre, Manchester. Solo show.
Screenings
of Animation
2003
93feetEast, London. Screening of animation.
London Metropolitan University. Screening of animation.
2000
London Metropolitan University. Exhibition and screening of animation.
The ICA, London. Screening of animation, part of Click Club Night.
The 291 Gallery, London. Screening of animation.
The Gallery in Cork Street, London. Screening of animation.
