artist | cabinet specialist
My work stems from experiences as a child on remote African farms and more recently time spent in reading and travel and in local folk myths. The darkness, the trophies of a hunting culture, the 'otherness' of the local people and their customs, and the tensions that existed in the early 1950's Africa which infiltrated her imagination, are fundamental to her art. An anthropological eye is present in he ethnographical stories. The ancient and universal mind of homo sapiens distils experience, observations and emotions into art and cultures.
My work unearths locality and personality; these amass in a cultural study and sense of experience and conjecture at the pre-scientific mind in its attempt to make sense of the world. My works embody the energies of the relationships between man and their environments manifesting in the language of magic, superstition, belief ceremony which influences my choice of materials and furnishes the language for my work. Frequently there is an ephemeral, make-shift quality about the constructions and often there are contemporary reverberations echoing from political and social concerns. I set my work in series, taxonomies and collections, often resembling the anthropologist's concerns. I set my work in series, taxonomies and collections often resembling the anthropologist's concerns and the presentation often alludes to a collector's chaos.
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Education
2016 - 2018: Master of Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Arts
2014 - 2015 & 2015 – 2016: Advanced Practice in Art and Design, Mary Ward Centre
2014 - 2015: Foundation in Art and Design, Mary Ward Centre
2013 - 2014: Pre-foundation in Art and Design, Mary Ward Centre
1992 - 1993: MSc Applied Linguistics and Teaching English, Aston University
1979 - 1983: BA (Hons), History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Major in English Medieval Sculpture.
1966 - 1969: Certificate in Education, The Teachers’ College, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Major in Art specializing in Jewellery and Metalwork.
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Complementary Education
1983 - 1985: The Cass Institute, Life drawing.
1985 - 1987: The City Lit, Life drawing and painting from the imagination.
1987 - 2013: Mary Ward Centre, various classes including painting, drawing, jewellery making, stitch-craft, sculpture, printing.
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EXHIBITIONS
Forthcoming
2023: July 6-15 CROSSINGS: DIVIDES, Solo exhibition, Tension, London SE20 8LS
2023: September 26-30, spaces : marks ; things Safe House 2, London SE15 3SN
2023: Eco Ego, Cyclicmatter, Portugal (Group and Solo Exhibitions)
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Solo exhibitions
2018: Cast Bronzes, The Library, Wimbledon College of Arts
2017: Mes Pensées, OMNI Institute, Denver, Co, USA
2017: Animal Vegetable Mineral, Library, Wimbledon College of Art
2017: Series Vegetables 4/4, Raw Chocolate Shop, Crystal Palace
2016: Conflict, Five locations in Crystal Palace Triangle
2016: Pop-up Exhibition, Kings Cross
Group exhibitions
2022: Inside the Cage, Blue House Yard, London
2022: East West Pavilion, Denver, Co, USA with John Carpenter
2021: SFSA Painting Open, Deptford Foundry
2021: Absurd, fubar, the Crypt Gallery, Euston Road
2020: Uncovered Collective, 137/139 Copeland Road SE15, London
2019: 'Speculative Fiction', Candid Arts Trust, London
2019: fubar, The Crypt Gallery, Euston Road
2019: Ex Libris, The Ideas Store, Canary Wharf
2019: Shhh! Bentalls, Kingston-upon-Thames
2019: CABINET, Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green
2018: Forest Spirits, The Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne
2018: Being Human, Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green
2018: Survivors, Filia conference, Birmingham
2018: MFA Final Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Arts, London
2018: Symbiosis, Espacio Gallery, London
2018: Netflix and Chill, Flying Dutchman Gallery, East Dulwich
2017: One That Holds Everything, The Crypt Gallery, Euston Road
2017: Impasse, The Back Room, Peckham
2017: The Sentinal, The Brain Trust, Oxo Gallery, Southbank
2017: Life in a Shoebox, The Back Room, Peckham
2017: 17m2, UAL SUArts, Central Saint Martins
2016: Aurora, The Brain Trust, Oxo Gallery
2016: PEEP, Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green
2015: Nine Artists, 5th Base Gallery, London Bridge
2015: Foundation in Art and Design Final Show, Mary Ward Centre
2014: Pre-Foundation Final Show, Mary Ward Centre
1990 - 2016: Mary Ward Centre, group exhibitions in the Café and Staircase
1969: The Teachers’ College Final Exhibition, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
1967: The Teachers’ College Craft Exhibition Year 1, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
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CURATING
2019: CABINET, Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green (Review https://allaboutshipping.co.uk Cabinet: a wondrous group show at Espacio Gallery curated by Jenny Timmer)
2017: 17m2, UAL SUArts
2017: IMPASSE, The Back Room, London
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INTERVIEWS, INSTAGRAM, PUBLISHED, ACTIVISM/GUERILLA INTERVENTIONS
2022: A Gardener's Tale in Artists Responding to Summer 2022 With Sujata Majumdar and Ines Ferreira-Norman
2021: Lost Descendants in Artists Responding To Issue 11
2021: @craft_land_arts
2021: @art_and_artisans
2020: VOID 2020 for NHS Charities Together, Whitstable, Kent
2020: 64 Covid/Brexit/#BLM altered book pages (collage and words) from 'Oliver Cromwell, 1919
2020: Sewn Antidote, contributions to a quilt, London (now in the V&A Collections)
2020: Podcasts @cyclicmatter
2017: Interview Jenny Timmer https://m.facebook.com videos MFA Wimbledon Emerging Artists
2016, 2017 & 2018: A letter Mind postcard for sale, National Brain Appeal
I also make interventions (some anonymous) in my locality including Covid Clootie Tree; Ribbon Tree Gross misconduct while in public office; If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them
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AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019: Rodd Residency, Presteigne/Kington, Herefordshire
2019: Rodd Residency, Presteigne/Kington, Herefordshire
2018: Woodwork Residency, Canary Wharf, London
2018: Flow Sustainability Art Award (shortlisted)
1983: Birkbeck University Study Travel Award (Milan, Italy)
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TEACHING
2011 – 2012: Craft club, Grahamstown, South Africa
1998 – 2008: Therapy play room, School Project Manager and Volunteer, The Place2Be
1970 – 1971: Primary School Teacher, Fort Victoria Junior School, Rhodesia Zimbabwe
Art club coordinator
1994 – 1996: English for Specific Purposes, Christie's Education
1984 – 1986: Lecturer, Inchbald School of Design