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Education
2019 - 2020 Offsite Programme, Turps Art School
2006 - 2009 Human Sciences Bsc, UCL
2005 - 2006 Art Foundation with distinction, Wimbledon School of Art
Exhibitions
2024 Fierce Scandal, The Lido Stores, Margate
Insert Art Here, Lansdown Gallery, Stroud (collab with Layla)
A Daughter and Feral Mothers, AMP Gallery, London
Who Cares? Newark Works, Fringe Arts Bath
Summer Exhibition, Mrs Jones Gallery and Art Shop, Shrewsbury
A Man Walks into a Pub, Woodshedding, Somerset
2023 The Incorrigible Drawing Club, online show, Ladies Drawing Club
Candid Arts Fair, London
Inspirational Women Artists, A Space Arts, Southampton
Procreate Project Archive show, Ovada Gallery, Oxford
Stretch, Somers Gallery, London
(Co-curating) Play & Compassion, Kingshill House, Dursley
Formula for Care? Tonic Arts x Spilt Milk, Edinburgh
Goddesses: A Love Explosion: Terrace Gallery, London
Spaces, Places: NOHAT, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth
My Body in my Hands, SVA John Street Gallery, Stroud
SAC Annual Summer Show, Lansdown Gallery, Stroud
Maternal Bodies Conference, University of Birmingham
Small and Mighty Club, online show, Ladies Drawing Club
Conart’s Second Show, Sky Lounge, London
Mrs Jones Open, Art Shop and Gallery, Shrewsbury
Studio 18 Open, Stroud
this is our love and it knows no division, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Goddesses: A Love Explosion: Part Two The Lido Stores, Margate
Mother of All, Blue on the Hill Gallery, London
A Letter in Mind, Different Gallery, London
A Show of Hands, Stroud
Do you hear us…are you listening? Spilt Milk, online
Troubling Postures, Starting the Line, Kennington Courthouse, London
2022 Hope, The General Office Gallery, Stourbridge
Mixtape No. 1, Cultivate, online show
Lullabies in Lockdown, Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds
Crouch End Open Studios, Harringay Arms and The Original Gallery, London
I Felt That, The Tub, London
Agony & Ecstasy, The GoalHanger Gallery, London (solo show)
Whose story is it? Edinburgh Palette
Mind; Be Here, Be Present, Kingshill House, Dursely
2021 Bees Don’t Make Lemonade, Kitchen Gallery, Birmingham
PoArtry 21, online exhibition
Off-Site Turps Programme Leavers 2020-21, Thames-Side Gallery, London
2020 Women’s Lockdown Art, Zabludowicz Collection, London (physical show cancelled due to Covid 19)
Society of Women Artists 159th Open Exhibition Online (normally at Mall Galleries)
Cultivate: Nothing is square part 2, Shipton Street Gallery, London
2019 Person Shaped, Loven Presents, London (solo show)
Group Summer Show, General Office Gallery, Stourbridge
Approach, Gaunson House, London (first solo show)
A Work of Art, The Old Biscuit Factory, London
2018 Islington Art Society Autumn Exhibition, The Original Gallery, London
IAF Summer Salon, Islington , London
Islington Art Society Spring Exhibition, Stoke Newington Gallery, London
The Nude, Candid Arts, Islington, London
Bunhill Exhibition, Islington Museum, London
Loop, Finsbury Square, London
Selfie Exhibition, Candid Arts, Islington, London
2017 Islington Art Society Autumn Exhibition Ply Gallery, London
2014 Splitpin Presents Art in the Crypt pt 3 'Ep=mgh: The Obstruction of Obliteration', London
Islington Exhibits @ Blighty Cafe, Islington, London
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Ache Magazine x I Felt That
2023 FAD Magazine - feature on Stretch
2022 Freelands Foundation FOCUS magazine March edition Issue 5
2022 Spilt Milk Featured Artist
2021 Round Lemon: Artist Interview
2021 Bees Don’t Make Lemonade: Kitchen Gallery Exhibition, Round Lemon
TALKS
2021 Spilk Milk Gallery opening night for Acting Balance[d]
GROUPS
2023 Stretch/ Show of Hands/ AWPA
2022 Ladies Drawing Club
2021 Spilt Milk
2020 Freelands Foundation Artisteacher Network
2020 Zone Arts
RESIDENCIES/ AWARDS
2024 Longlist for Acts of Creation Competition selected by Hettie Judah
2023 Ruth Smith Gallery, Devon