Commissions, publications, awards and exhibitions
- Commissions
- January – May 2019, A commission from Heritage Solutions, Sanctuary and Surrender, Working with a group of volunteers in Harwich. ‘196 jumpers, a community textile artwork commemorating the kinder transport’
- July 2017 - September 2018, A commission from Acorn Villages supported by Essex County Council, Acorn Village and Essex & South Suffolk CRP, working with artists with learning difficulties, Manningtree Railway Station ‘On Tracks and Art in the Tunnel’, received 3rd Price for involving diverse groups.
- July 2015 - June 2016, A Commission for The Othona Community, Redesigning and old Pigsty as an outdoor Classroom, including artworks and redesigning the landscape.
- Publications and Awards
- Spring 2021 - DYCP grant award for research project ' Swimming the Nuclear'.
- Spring 2018 - publication of 'Anna's Dress' article in The Phycologist Number 94,
- January 2018 - Talk and exhibition at The British Phycological Annual General Meeting in Southend
- July 2017 - received Bursary from the collector’s group First Site to develop the process of blue printing on a large scale.
- January 2016: presented a talk about the Othona Coastal Park project at Sir John Cass School of Art, London.
- 2016 - Othona Coastal Park receives Conservation and Design Award from Maldon District Council.
- 2016 - Art Exchange, Essex University gallery, the cyanotype, ‘Othona reeds’ awarded first prize in the current student entry.
- 2015 - First Site Open Exhibition Cyanotype ‘Othona Reeds’ selected by Andrew Nairne, director of Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Deborah Kermode, Deputy Director, IKON Gallery, Birmingham and Victoria Pomery OBE, Director, Turner Contemporary, for the spectator’s gallery, Colchester
- Exhibitions
- 2023 - Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Radiant objects: encounters in the nuclear age
- 2018 - The Tower Walton on the Naze, Blue prints, Berm plants.
- 2018 - Open gardens Exhibition, blue prints, Old House Farm, Great Horkesley
- 2017 - Tower at Walton on the Naze September 2017, Ode to Anna Atkins Victorian Botanist and Photographer.
- 2016 - MA show, The Minories Art Gallery, Cyanotype Prints and presentation of The Othona Coastal Park Project, Colchester
- 2016 - Art Exchange, Essex University, Cyanotype Print.
- 2015 - Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve, Oil Paintings
- 2015 - The Minories gallery, MA show, Cyanotype prints, Colchester
- 2015 - Firstsite Open Exhibition, ' Othona Reeds '