QUALIFICATIONS

2005 - 2008
First Class, BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Cumbria

2004 - 2005
Foundation Studies in Art and Design, South Nottingham College



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
In the waiting room, Life Bioscience Centre, International Centre For Life
The waiting room, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne

2010
Breach Birth, Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
DNR, The Vault, Lancaster
Bricks and Mortar, Bath Spa University Gallery, Bath

2007
From the cradle to the grave, Bank_Gallery, Carlisle



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
Medical Miniatures, InSight 2: Engaging the Health Humanities, Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Canada, May 14 to June 8, 2013

2012
(di)ssection, 2 hour performance, Platform 00000012, Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne
PHARMACOPOEIA the art of popping pills, 3th Medical Art Meeting and Exhibition, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Death and Dissection, LET BE BE FINALE OF SEEM, Studio 41, Glasgow
Leonardo Da Vinci: Man and Machine, Life Bioscience Centre, Centre For Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Gallery Rooms, Braintree Community Hospital, Essex
Globe Gallery Fundraising Auction, Globe Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Time After, Touring exhibition at Gallery Kortil, Rijeka and Gallery MKC, Split, Croatia
At Play 3, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire
TotalKunst Art Auction, TotalKunst Gallery, The Forest, Edinburgh

2010
Freaks Exhibition, Shoreditch Town Hall Basement Gallery, London
Flesh and Blood, Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester
Minutiae, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
NewcastleGateshead Art Fair, The Sage, Gateshead
So what's different today? Globe OFFSITE, ThinkTank, Hoults Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne and North Shields, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Art in Unusual Spaces, Leeds Shopping Plaza, Leeds
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Bath Fringe Visual Arts Festival, Bath
Art in Empty Shops, Arcade and Eden Arts Project, Lowther Arcade, Carlisle
Dead Time and Negative Space, Goodenough College, St Pancras, London

2009
Eating Dust, Square Yard, Blandford House, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Inspiring Transformations: Applied Arts and Health, The University of Northampton, School of the Arts, Avenue Gallery, Northampton
On Reflection, Locus Arts, The Somerset Maugham Gallery, Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre, Whitstable, Kent
Salon, Temporary Art Space, The Piece Hall, Halifax
ENRAPTURE, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne

2008
Miniature Focus, The Focused Eye Gallery, The Art Works Galleries, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Northern Graduates 08, Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London
On Wednesday We Draw Monsters, BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, University of Cumbria, Carlisle



PROJECTS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, PUBLICATIONS

2013
'Picturing Diagnosis' conference paper, A Narrative Future for Health Care, King’s Guy’s Hospital Campus, London, June 19 to 21, 2013

‘Specimen Life (death) Drawing’ presentation & ‘Death and Dissection’ exhibition, Drawing in the University, International Meeting on Drawing, Image and Research, University of Oporto, Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Architecture, Portugal, May 31 and June 1, 2013

'Specimen Life (death) drawing' workshop for undergraduate medical students, School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University

'Picturing Diagnosis', workshop for undergraduate medical students, ACE Week, School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University

'The Art of Anatomy: A Crash Course', Explore programme, North East Centre for LifeLong Learning, Newcastle Arts Centre

'What’s so artistic about about science anyway?', Explore programme, North East Centre for LifeLong Learning, Newcastle Arts Centre

'When Artist meets Medicine: The role of visual art and Artist in Residence (AIR) in medical education and humane medicine', Creative Arts in Humane Medicine book, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Canada

Morbid Miniatures, exhibition of artwork for Art & Death Research Forum workshop, The Courtauld Institute of Arts, London

2012
Narrative of Medical Miniatures, poster presentation and exhibition of artworks for From the Classroom to the Clinic: Humanities and Education in Bioethics colloquium, Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire

Healing and Curing, exhibition of artworks for ‘Healing and Curing: Medieval to Modern’, two-day conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow

‘The Art of Illness', Body, Corporeality and Identity, one-day Postgraduate, Multidisciplinary Workshop, Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University

'Ignorance is Bliss: What contemporary artists want us to see', Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment, two-day International Conference, University of Edinburgh

Make it!, Centre For Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Freelance maker for Life workshops and community activities

2011 - 2012
Leonardo Da Vinci: Man and Machine
Funded by Newcastle Science City and facilitated by Charles Street Community Centre

Cultural Community Day, Scottswood Natural Community Garden, Newcastle Upon Tyne



RESIDENCIES, APPOINTMENTS

2012 - Present
Non-executive Director and Senior Artist Practitioner, dot to dot active arts, North East England

2011 - Present
Artist in Residence, anatomy laboratories at Durham University School of Medicine and Health, Northumbria University Anatomy Teaching Centre and Newcastle Anatomy and Clinical Skills Centre.

2011
Artist Residency, Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex, 6th - 24th August

2009
Artist Residency, Blessed are the cracks, 25SG, Newcastle Upon Tyne