Artist and Ph.D Researcher in Wood

CURRENT STUDY: 


First-year doctoral researcher at the University of Brighton in the School of Arts and Media. My Ph.D is entitled: “A Thousand Chips On Our Shoulders: A Collaborative Autoethnography With Wood.” 



EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D researcher, University of Brighton, School of Arts & Media.

  • Certificate in Environmental Arts Therapy. London Art Therapy Centre (2018-2019)

  • MA in Feminism & the Visual Arts. Leeds University  (1996-1999)

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Art Therapy, Herts College of Art & Design  (1989-1990)

  • BA (Hons) in Fine Art - 1st. West Surrey College of Art & Design (1984-1987)

ART PROJECTS &EXHIBITIONS:

  • Exhibiting artist at Beyond the Pastoral Conference, University of Brighton (Oct 2025)

  • Public commission - wood-carved Hare for McDermott Park, London SE15 (2019)

  • Accessible Edibles - Artist/Project Coordinator - Hillyard House Extra Care Home with Paxton Green Time Bank  (Jan 2017-18) £6000 Lambeth Wellbeing Fund/ London Community Foundation.

  • Artist Project Lead - “The Ache Garden” - Paxton Green Time Bank (Sept 2015-Sept 2016).£4000 funding Bromley Community Fund: horticultural arts project Crystal Palace Park (2016)

  • Artist and Exhibition organiser -Thomas Calton Adult Education Centre, SE15. (Jun 2014) Organised “CREATE”: exhibition of woodcarving, ceramics, African Dressmaking, history talk.

  • ‘Reimagining Old Chestnuts’: artists talk - Stuart Hall Library, INIVA, Hoxton. (2014)

  • Aethereal - group show curated with Yuki Miyake - Franklins, SE22. 

  • Lodgistics - group show curated with Yuki Miyake Dulwich Lodge, London, SE21 (2012)

  • Dulwich Open Houses - (2012)

  • Jenny Jones’ Coffee Morning - curated by Laura Godfrey Isaacs Salon, SE5 (2004)

  • Watch This Space - group show Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (2003)

  • The Doodlemuseum - solo show, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (2002)

  • Touching Matters - curated by Francoise Dupre - Swiss Cottage Library Gallery (1998)

  • Nitty Nora Head Explorer with Eva Wodjat - Conductors Hallway SE5 (1997)

  • Trans-smogrifications-solo - solo show - The Ecology Centre, Covent Garden (1996)

WRITING:

  • Conference Presenter:’ Everyday Resistance’ University of Brighton (Nov 2025)

  • Conference Presenter: ‘Beyond the Pastoral’, University of Brighton (Oct 2025)

  • Web writer - Londonart.co.uk (May 2012-17) Review: African Art Fair (2014)

  • Ghostwriter - LifebookUK (Sept 2012-2015) 

  • Freelance writer - Fiver (2012-15)

  • Article in N-paradoxa: ‘The Reproductive Work and the Creation of the Digital Image’ ed. Katie Deepwell. (Nov 1998/ Feb 1999) 

  • Freelance writer for MAKE: The Magazine of Women' s Art (1996-1999)

  • ‘Transfer Interrupted’: ISEA 98  Convergence the Journal of New Technologies (1998)

  • Author/Co-editor - “Art Therapy, Race and Culture” (Jessica Kingsley Publishing) 1998.