I am a Manchester based artist whose practice encompasses drawing, printmaking, animation and installation. My work engages with mapping and visualisation technologies. Residencies and research within scientific institutions regularly inform my practice; they include The Christie Hospital (2010), Neuroscience at Kings College (2014), and Imaging Science at the University of Manchester (2016). I’m intrigued by what remains immeasurable, illusive and unseen, despite our increasing capacities to visualise and gather data about the world around us.
The process of drawing – with its simplicity, immediacy and directness – remains at the heart of my practice. I experiment with materials that are unstable and fugitive such as animal fat, vellum and clay, to investigate ideas about unpredictability and the unknown, as well as working with graphite on paper to examine the relationship between drawing and measurement. I’m interested in exploring what a drawing can reveal, that a scientific visualisation cannot.
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2018
Watermans Art Centre, London, ‘Biorhythmic drawing’ solo show
‘Beyond’ residency, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Hexham
V&A museum, ‘Noise+Signal’ bio-sensor participatory drawing event
2017
ING Discerning Drawing Bursary Prize, Mall Galleries, London, group show
‘A Grand Exposition’, Manchester, group show
RWA Open, Bristol, Animation ‘All of a sudden’ selected for group show
[email protected], Manifest Arts Biennial, Manchester, group show
‘Pani’, Horniman Museum, London, artist commission, solo show
‘Signal/Noise: Imaging/Drawing’, LifeSpace gallery, Dundee, solo show
2016
Women Artists: From 1861- 2015, Touchstones Rochdale, group show
2015
Paper, Wall, Table and After, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, group show
Cravings, MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester), group show
Noisy Bodies, John Rylands exhibition, solo show
Arts Science Collaborative residency, University of Manchester
2014
Slippage: The Unstable Nature of Difference, Contemporary Art Space Chester, group show
Bodytopos, Touchstones Rochdale, solo show
Dust, Paper Gallery, Manchester, solo show part of Manchester Science Festival
Cottonecropolis, Imperial War Museum North installation, part of Asia Triennial Manchester
Painting the Pixel, Gallery North, Newcastle, group show
2013
Noise+Signal bio-mapping events, FACT, Liverpool and Cornerhouse, Manchester
Baltic 39, Newcastle, ‘Digital Sensations’ exhibition, group show
Brains: The Mind as Matter, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, an interdisciplinary art/science Wellcome Trust exhibition
Centro Cultural Raiano Museum, Portugal, installation and drawings, group show
Android, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, group show
Gallery North, Newcastle, ‘Mind Wandering’ animation screening, group show
2012
FACT Liverpool, open call for The Wall, solo show
Centre for Life, Newcastle, group show
Drawing Paper 5, publication: http://drawing-paper.tumblr.com
2011
Diffusion, Asia Triennial Manchester, Public arts commission,
Piccadilly train station, Manchester
Micro commission, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Whisper Residency, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
Laboratory Life Residency, Lighthouse, Brighton
Altered States, Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester
2010
Latitude, Manchester Modernist Society
Analogue is the New Digital, AND festival, Manchester
The Christie Hospital residency, radiology department, Manchester
2009
The Courtyard Gallery, Hereford, Solo show
Histories of Healing, The John Ryland University Library, Manchester
2008
Art of Sound: Sound of Art, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Origins of Nine, Islington Mills, Manchester
Internal Spaces, Central Art Gallery, Ashton under Lyne, Solo exhibition
2007
School of Art Fafa Gallery, Helsinki, group show
Harris Museum and Gallery, Preston, Solo show in the projects space
ART EDUCATION
2011 Awarded AHRC funding for practice-led PhD (on going), Northumbria University, Newcastle
2006-2008 MA Fine Art , AHRC funded, Manchester Metropolitan University
2000-2003 BA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
AWARDS AND COLLECTIONS
Arts Council Grants for the Arts funding for ‘Diffusion’ project, 2011
Paul Hamlyn Micro Commission, Cornerhouse, 2011
Arts Council Grants for the Arts funding for professional development, 2006
Collections – The Christie Hospital, Manchester 2010
TEACHING
2008 – present, Associate Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University (contextual studies programme)
2006- present, Freelance workshop leader (Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum, Gallery Oldham, Mid Pennine Arts and schools throughout the North West)
