Overview
After completing my MA Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art London, I opened a new contemporary art project space above the infamous nightclub, The Blue Note, Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London. I was fortunate to work with many exciting artists, for example, Tracey Emin, Cornelia Parker and Gary Hume. I have also exhibited and curated widely, for example at the ICA London and at 6 d.o.g.s. Athens, Greece.
My art and teaching practice have synchronised to devise collaborative projects where students and tutor co-create for exhibition and residency opportunities. I have also initiated a series of student global network projects that are integrated into our Fine Art degree.
I am currently an educational doctoral researcher exploring insights into the richly entangled learning processes that occurred between students and educator when co-creating during a collaborative contemporary art project I designed called Sonic Camouflage.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MA Fine Art Painting (Chelsea School of Art, UAL)
- BA (Hons) Fine Art from (Cardiff School of Art, Cardiff Metropolitan University)
Teaching Qualification
- Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Teaching
Enriching the student experience is central to everything I do – it’s the reason why I entered education and it's still the driving force. It really is thrilling to see students develop and succeed. I work into all years of the Fine Art degree.
During my career, I have led several large courses and managed an art and design faculty. I have taught a range of topics, from drawing and painting to lens-based media and software skills.
Gaining valuable experience at several educational institutions, I have enjoyed my time working at Cardiff, Plymouth, Swindon and Derby. I have been the AUB BA (Hons) Fine Art course leader for 10 years and am fortunate to work with an outstanding team of staff to help design the curriculum for an excellent learning experience.
Research
Research Interests and Projects
My research interests are being channelled through a PhD in education, this is called an educational doctorate, I am in my sixth year of part-time study. I also pursue a painting practice and undertake site-specific painting commissions.
Draft title and abstract for the Educational Doctorate:
Microcultures of Collaboration: Entangled Artistic Pedagogies for Students and Educator.
This research reveals insights into the richly entangled pedagogic processes that occurred between students and educator when co-creating during a collaborative contemporary art project called Sonic Camouflage. Sonic Camouflage presents a multi-faceted PBL environment to boost and intensify learning for students and tutor, along with a useful integrated and re-energising tri-role for undertaking art practice, education practice and research practice.
Many intrinsic learning nuances were discovered within what I term the Microcultures of Collaboration. These include new perceptions about improvisation, cultural instigators, scales and location of learning, the tri-role of artist, educator, researcher and documenting live art practice. Further findings showed that Sonic Camouflage generated a sense of belonging to a project-based learning community by improving participants’ mindfulness and active listening skills. It also instilled an empowering resilience for participants’ future art practice. There is little research which reviews higher education art and design curriculum content (Bridgstock, 2019) therefore I contribute to this area by reviewing the content of Sonic Camouflage.
Research Supervision
I am able to supervise as I have completed the required training and qualification, so I welcome research applications investigating areas of arts pedagogy.
Professional Engagement
Professional engagement:
- 2024 – British Council Mentor for Venice Biennale Student Research Fellows
- 2020 – Aesthetica Magazine Future Now Symposium at York St. John Uni. Chaired panel discussion titled ‘how to get ahead as an emerging artist’ and conducted public portfolio review session
- 2020 – Manchester Met’ – State Uni. New York - AUB 'Paint Exchange'; collaborated with colleagues to devise a triangulated inter-university project, large canvases are rolled and mailed to each Uni. with painting instructions created by students for their peers to react to in groups
- 2019 – UAL LCC Presentation on working alongside research at Creative Methods in Educational Research conference
- 2019 – Royal Academy London Joint paper about painting pedagogy with Dominic Shepherd at Painting the New conference 2019
- 2019 – British Council - created research document, ‘Prompts and Ideas’ for the 60 UK Venice Biennale fellows to use on a 4-week residency in the British Pavilion.
- 2018 – Chapter in book, Professional Practice: 20 Questions, Q Arts, Ed. Allen and Rowles
- 2018 – Bournemouth Emerging Art Fringe Selection panel member (ongoing)
- 2017 to present – Council Higher Education Art Design AUB representative attending yearly conference
- External Examiner at University for the Creative Arts for MA Fine Art and MA Curatorial Practice.
- External Examiner Foundation Art and Design for five years at Falmouth, Truro, Swindon, Bristol Filton and London College Communication.
Exhibitions and curation:
- 2024 - Commissioned Mumasha, a Hunger, an Endless Flow Group exhibition, Super Otium, Naples
- 2023 - Curated Genius Loci Group exhibition for Bridport Arts Centre
- 2022 - Painting Commision Penumbra for AUB student services building
- 2020 – AUB Gallery curated Camouflage celebration review marking the 6th year of the international video art competition
- 2020 – Milan VPK Gallery since 2014 Camouflage Inter-Uni. Video Art Competition, commissioned by R Waring, screened in VPK and then for a month on www.visualcontainer.org
- 2020 – Milan Via Farini residency for two L6 students commissioned by R Waring
- 2019 – AUB Gallery ‘Response to Dazzle’ commissioned collaborative sonic performance
- 2019 – ITV Artist Commission Ident: ‘Collaborative Drawing Action’
- 2018 – Athens 6 Dogs Gallery ‘Idiot Joy Showland’ exhibited in group exhibition
- 2018 – Venice Biennale British Pavilion 'Drawing Boundaries’ group exhibition
- 2017 – Transmission collaboration with Sian Hutchings, Arts Council England and AUB commission, at Poole Quay Caro Sculpture
- 2016 – Universal Studios ‘Homage to Johns’ commissioned painting appeared as featured prop’ in Jason Bourne 5 film
- 2015 – Bournemouth ‘Absolutely Elsewhere’ Shelley Manor group exhibition
- 2012 – London Space Studios commissioning space solo exhibition
- 2005 – London ICA ‘Performance Pop 1’ curated collaborative multi performer event
- 2004 – Plymouth Viewpoint Gallery solo exhibition
- 2003 – Nottingham Angel Row Gallery curated launch for touring exhibition Air Guitar
- 2002 – London Tabula Rasa exhibited spit in group exhibition
- 2002 – Hotchpotch curated group exhibition for Uni. Derby
- 2001 – Dust Gallery solo exhibition London
- 2001 – Blue Note Gallery Hoxton Square Shoreditch curated monthly exhibitions for 2 years London
- 1998 – Colville Place Gallery group exhibition London
My Professional Engagement Gallery
Memberships
Advance HE Membership
- Senior Fellow (SFHEA)
Professional Memberships
- National Association Fine Art Educators