A bit about me:

I am a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, photography, film, animation, drawing and object-making. I explore themes of identity, aging, and societal expectations of women, often using humour and exaggeration to disrupt preconceived notions about how an older woman should present herself and behave.

Training

 1982-85- BA(Hons) Fine Art, Canterbury College of Art

2015-17- MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts

2023 – 28 – undertaking Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at University of East London

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

 2021: Lived Space, Artists for Affect, Bournemouth Emerging Arts Festival

2020- Stuff and Nonsense, Small House Gallery, online

2019- Forest, b-e-a-f, Royal Arcade, Bournemouth, Dorset

2017- Shifting, Chelsea College of Arts, London

2015- Gridwork, The Art Works, Poole, Dorset

2014- Art Loan, Bournemouth University, Dorset

2013- Demeter Dykes, Jersey Arts Centre, Jersey, CI

Selected Group Exhibitions:

 2025- Collins Pop Up Series, ArtHouse Jersey, collaboration with Lee White

2024-  Redux, Small House Gallery, London

2023- Self Portraits Make Me Smile, Shipley Underground Market, West Yorkshire

2022- MUSE, Candid Arts Gallery, London

2021- Make Something That Makes You Feel Good, Group Show, LUVA/LDVA, online

2020- Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, touring exhibition

2017- On the Rocks, Space 7 Gallery, Folkstone, Kent

            Make-Up, Mills Centre Gallery, London

            Nasty Women, MAFA Gallery, London

            Glitch; The Aesthetics of Failure, Isherwood Gallery, Wigan

2016- Susak Expo, Susak, Croatia

            Shift 3: Home Is Where The Heart Is, Six Project Space, Dorset

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 Publications:

2023- Haus_a_rest, Issue 37, Alter Egos

            WomenArt/Special Edition, Collect Art, Tbilisi

 Other:

2013 to current- Lecturer, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Arts University Bournemouth, Dorset UK