Artist's statement

I like working with fire and metal.
Copper attracts and excites me for its workability with heat and hand and the spectrum of colours you can coax out of it. Lead has had me in it’s grip for some years now. I like the texture, the weight, the colours and the magic of pouring it from a crucible. Casting, pouring, welding, hammering and filing. Just when you think it’s under control, then it isn’t.
A lot of my printmaking has been collagraph where I enjoy the sculptural feeling of making a plate. The plate often being more exciting than the print.

Exhibitions

2023 Made, Morley Gallery
lead and copper sculpture 'Lead Head 3'
2023 'Future memories' at Espacio gallery South London Women Artists
co-curated and exhibited, installation ‘Tyranny of the table' cast lead pieces, lace

2022-23 LCA gallery London Contemporary Art, Pimlico
lead sculptures, Heads 1 and 3 and Medusa, showcased at the gallery for 4 months
www.londoncontemporaryart.co.uk
2022 Morley college reception student show
'Place setting' Lead and lace
2022 'I am woman hear me roar' SLWA, AMP gallery Peckham
Lead and copper sculpture 'Medusa'

2021 'She answered, “Art” The Curator’s Salon online exhibition
Monoprint and print with cut outs

2020 Made, Morley Gallery online show
lead and copper sculpture ‘Breathtaking Assault’
2020 Equinox, St Marylebone Church crypt, SLWA
Collagraph print
2020 Winter Salon, Dulwich
Collagraph print

2019 ‘Still Life’ Asylum Chapel, SLWA
Copper and steel sculpture installation ‘Lungs’

2018 ‘Strong and Stable’Asylum Chapel, SLWA
Collagraph print
2018 Made, Morley Gallery, Print and Sculpture show
Steel sculpture 'strainer'

2017 'My Place' at Briston East gallery South London Women Artists (SLWA)
‘A place at the table’ Installation of steel sculpture and lace.
2017 ‘Blink’ Art show Peckham, South London Women Artists
prints and steel sculpture 'silver spoon'

2016 Made, Morley gallery Print and Sculpture show
Copper and silk sculpture 'What's left behind”

2015 – present day
Open Studio Pimlico
Bi-annual show of prints at Faye Haskins Arts studio.
2015 Peckham Platform Open, London
Etching 'Walk on the Rye'
2015 Zeitgeist Arts summer show, Bondhouse gallery, London
Collage 'And crow went on laughing'
http://www.zeitgeistartsprojects.com
2015 Residencia Corazon, La Plata, Argentina
Artist in residence programme, solo show
‘Lost networks; things fall apart’ and ‘Left behind’ Telephone wire and rust prints.
www.residenciacorazon.com.ar

2014 Peckham Platform Open, London.
'Peckham People' screen print.
http://www.peckhamplatform.com/whats-on/exhibitions/open-2014
2014 Sustrans Pocket places, Street art installation commission
‘Peckham people’
2014 The Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace, London – Home front exhibition.
''Shattered Mind; things fall apart' textile installation on satins and net
http://www.gardenmuseum.org.uk/page/home-front

2013 Morley Gallery, London. The CAMAC Design and Warner Archive Student textile challenge, part of the London Design festival 2013
screen print and sketchbook inspired by the Bartholomew’s map archive.
http://www.textilesociety.org.uk/events/news-details.php?textile-news=141
2013 Morley Gallery, London. Textiles Foundation final show
'Things Fall Apart: a portrait of Rye Lane Peckham' installation using giant knit, screen print and heat press, cardboard boxes and mirrors.
http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/morley_gallery

Education

2017 to present Morley college, Pelham Hall, metal sculpture classes and workshops
2012-13 Foundation in textiles with distinction Morley College, London
2003 to present A range of short courses in printmaking, (etching, photo etching, monoprint, collagraph, screen printing), glass fusing, painting and drawing, at Glasgow School of Art, West Dean College, University of the Arts (Camberwell and Chelsea) as well as Morley College.
2000-2003 Diorama Arts, Euston, painting and drawing weekly workshop
1970 – 1980 Degree and Diploma in Architecture from Edinburgh University (B.SC Soc Sc, Dip.Arch.Edin) and Graduate diploma in Housing from Architectural Association (Grad Dipl AA) bursary student, thesis 3rd world housing policy

Residencies

2015 Residencia Corozon, La Plata, Argentina
Artists residency working and living alongside other artists, exploring new work in wire and rust with the city for inspiration.
www.residenciacorozon.com.ar

Commissions

Pocket Places Peckham, Sustrans in partnership with Southwark council
Street art installation 'Peckham people' June to Oct 2014
Street art installation using own artwork printed to very large size and papered to wall on Rye Lane. Including a participatory piece of artwork linked to themes of the original screen prints engaging local community.
https://pocketplacespeckham.wordpress.com

Prizes

The CAMAC Design and Warner Archive Student textile challenge, part of the London Design festival 2013 winner of the sketchbook prize. Judged by Mary Schoeser, president of the UK textile society.

Memberships

South London Women Artists 2016 to present
www.southlondonwomenartists.co.uk
Zeitgeist arts (no longer operating)
http://www.zeitgeistartsprojects.com

Collections

Work in private collections in the U.K.and Colombia

Employment

2000- 2012 London Borough of Camden;- project management of urban regeneration programme, supporting partnership of voluntary, public and private sector. Work included setting up community arts projects. From 2010, manager Placeshaping team.
1991-99 South London Family Housing Association (now AmicusHorizon)
Project management of new and rehabilitated housing for black and ethnic minority clients, managing their own cooperative organisations, general coops and mainstream projects.
1986-91 La Gaitana Housing Cooperative, London – Development worker for cooperative run by Latin American migrants and refugees. (short life and permanent)
1983-85 University of Darmstadt, Germany, consultant on joint research project “Self-help housing programmes in Latin America'
1981-83 Corvisol, Corporacion de Vivienda Solidaria, Medellin, Colombia, co-designer of large low cost self build housing, site supervision, coordination of building brigades, feasibility study of community services.
1977-80 OMPU, Oficina metropolitana de planeamiento urbana, Caracas, Venezuela. Developed regulations to protect and stimulate areas of traditional housing and old communities, left as pockets of decay in a largely redeveloped city