Education:   BA Hons  Ceramics  Westminster University  2005 - 2006
Dip HE  Fine and Applied Arts Ceramics  City Lit.   2003 - 2005
City and Guilds, Ceramics, City Lit.  2002 - 2003
MA Museum Studies, Leicester University 1996 - 1998
BSc Hons  Managerial and Administrative Studies, Aston University  1989 - 1993gai

Now and again it is refreshing to stop trying to impose order and let random chance take over – letting ideas, experiences and day dreams collide.  The objects I make are mementos of these random coincidences, pinned down like butterflies or photographs and preserving their memories – giving permanence to fleeting, chance events.   

The objects contain references to many aspects of my life experience.   The religious iconography reflects my love for Renaissance art and a childhood spent in Brazil surrounded by Catholic icons and Voodoo offerings.

A distrust of organisations clashes with a need to belong.  The pieces both celebrate the mainstream and also unsettle it – where all dolls are treated equally and Barbie’s legs are given the same respect as the Virgin Mary.

But it’s not all hard work – I hope the pieces reconnect you to a time when play was instinctive and rules couldn’t be broken as they were yet to be learnt.   There is a joy to the confusion and a celebration of the unexpected.  

Exhibition
March 2009        ASPEX, Portsmouth
Oct – Dec 2008        Barbican Art Gallery, London
Nov – Jan 2008        New Brewery Arts, Cirencester
Nov – Dec 2008        Hove Museum and Art Gallery
September 2008        Brighton Art FairEducation


July 2008        Liberty Gallery
Nov 2007 - Jan 2008         V&A Showcase in partnership with the Crafts Council
Dec 2007 – Jan 2008        Rare, MK-Artworks
Oct - Nov 2007        Paul McPherson Gallery, Greenwich (solo show)
27th - 30th September         Brighton Art Fair
July 2007         One Year On , Business Design Centre, Islington
August 2006        Art in Clay, Hatfield
    
Publications and Media
Ceramic Review        September 2008
Crafts Council Programme    November 2007
Ceramic Review        September 2007
Ceramic Review        November 2006
Radio 4 ‘You and Yours’     September 2006

Grants and Competitions
arc award, aspex gallery                                                             May 2009
Selected by Arts and Business for Visual                                   November 2008
Arts Council Grants for the Arts Award                                       September 2008