Exhibitions & Artworks                                 

                                  

March 2012 This is the Point curated by Mona Casey as part of the FlatPack Festival, Birmingham, ‘Reading Agatha Christie’

April-May 2011 The Hive Arts Centre, Shropshire ‘Wrapping Susie’ in ‘Surfaces’  group exhibtion

Jan 2010 – Current ‘Endless Conversations’ video on Multistory website

Aug-Sept 2009 BIAD,Birmingham MA Show ‘Endless Conversation’ video installation including ‘Ahmet’s Bricks’ (looped video)

Nov 2008 Medrar for Contemporary Art Film Festival, Cairo, Egypt: ‘Reading Agatha Christie’ video

Nov – Dec 2008 ‘Lle y dan, Artur?’ Curated & exhibited new media & sound installation in Polish/English /Welsh; Wrexham Museums, Clwyd, Wales; working with economic migrant groups in North Wales

June 2008 New Generations Birmingham Q Club Group Show curated by Mona Casey; new media installation ‘Look into My Eyes’: funded by BCU & Birmingham City Council

April 19 – May 20th 2008 Oriel Davies, Newtown, solo exhibition of ‘But you Promised’ & ‘Reading Agatha Christie’ video installations

Feb-28th-March1st 2008 Open Ended Festival of Time Based Media University of Richmond, Virginia, USA group show, video ‘Reading Agatha Christie’

Aug 2007 Music in the Square digital / video ‘light show’ using pre recorded and real time material; Shrewsbury Summer Season (with Andy McKeown)

Feb20th – 24th 2007 The Identity Parade, The Custard Factory, Birmingham Group show; Video ‘Jinx’ & ‘In Disguise’ slideshow

Feb 2007 FlatPack Film Festival, The Electric Cinema, Birmingham; screening of ‘Jinx’

November 24 – 27 2006 The Chocolate Factory London Solo exhibition (with Andy Mckeown), new-media, interactive and video

June –Sept 2006 ‘Unnatural Selection’ International Open, Shrewsbury, ‘Dear Maurice’, interactive digital installation with Andy McKeown,

24 June – 5 August 2006 Oriel Davies Newtown Open: looped video; ‘Calling’

May 2006 MediaMaker Review: Solo Exhibition; video installations, The Music Hall Gallery, Shrewsbury; videos ‘Hole in the road, Dublin’, ‘Plucking’, ‘But you promised’, and others

July 2005 ‘Empty Swept & Garnished’, Shoplatch, Shrewsbury: Group show: video installations, ‘Jinx’,’ But you promised’, Scumbag Art’

Awards

ERSC Award & bursary from Imagineer Productions for f/t PhD research into impact of creative community projects on community wellbeing, School of Human Geography, Coventry University 2011- 2013

AHRC Award for p/t MA Fine Art (£4,000 pa for 3 years) 2006 -2009

Nominated for MAXMARA Prize by Cornelia Parker 2007

The Emma Jessie Phipps Award for Outstanding Graduating Student UCE Arts 2007, June 2007

The Ikon Gallery Award for best in Final Show BIAD June 2007

Whittingham Riddell Regional Prize August 2006 for ‘Dear Maurice’ ‘Peoples Choice’ Award Sept 2006 for ‘Dear Maurice’ in ‘Unnatural Selection’

Gertrude E Griffin Award May 2004 for highest overall mark in student BA year at BIAD

Whitworth Wallis Marine Prize Second Prize February 2004 Birmingham, for Lancaster Sands’; oil painting/installation about Morecombe Bay Cockle Pickers

In my action-research PhD I’m currently working with community arts projects in Coventry, Wolverhampton, Birmingham & Shropshire

Community Arts

August 2011 – current Consultant with Frilly artist-led company on evaluation of creative community or participatory arts projects in Manchester and London

August 2011 Coordinating Artist at Low Hill Childrens Centre, Wolverhampton producing artwork, sound and video working with women survivors of domestic violence for professional conference

April 2011 Digital Content Development Artist for Cultural Olympiad/Museums Service, Shropshire County Council; films for ‘smart phone’/GPS functions, based on 430million-year-old coral fossil.

Jan – Dec 2011   Millennium Award action-research with UnLtd, into the use of mobile phone / internet social networking for community arts project feedback and evaluation; with technical support from Coventry University’s Serious Games Institute.

Feb –  end March 2011  Community project developer with Hybrid Arts, Birmingham, for Birmingham City Council Youth Team – using creative activities in non-arts work with young people in community organisations (currently, Birmingham & Solihull Women’s Aid).

Sept – Nov 2010   Coordinating Artist for Birmingham & Solihull Women’s Aid ‘Hearing Unheard Voices’ project with Dilwara Begum & Adrienne Francis (Frilly); making freestanding cutouts, drawing & text for event at Birmingham City Football Club.

Summer 2010 Artist for Lucida: mobile Camera Obscura workshops for adults, teens and children, drawing in a magic space (with Antonio Farelli)

April 2010 – Current Coordinating Artist for Aman, Muslim Women’s Network Video Training and Arts workshops one-year project, with exhibition at the Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham in 2011
April 2010 Coordinating Artist Impact Women’s Art Residential,Woodbrooke Centre, Birmingham; South Asian/Black Country women’s art project
March 2010 – June 2010 Coordinating Artist for Wolverhampton PCT, arts project at Bilston Early Learning Centre & exhibition Bilston Health Centre
Feb 2010 – Current Video Artist for Hearing Unheard Voices, UK Youth & Acorns Hospice project with terminally ill teenagers and young people in care for major exhibition at The Public, West Bromwich and touring
Dec 2009 Lead artist ‘Healing & Saying’ Arts Workshop at The Drum, Birmingham, Conference on Domestic Violence (with Ruth Gibson & Shaheen Ahmed)
Nov 2009 – Feb 2010 Joint Artist with Shaheen Ahmed ‘documenting collaboration’ online project for Multistory (Longhouse Bursary) exploring cross cultural work
Nov 2009 Digital Projections for Birmingham LGTB SHOUT Festival
Sept 2008 – Dec 2009 Lead artist with Andy McKeown ‘Lighting Up Time’ Arts Council WM funded (£24k) new media & mixed media public art commission, Shrewsbury to celebrate Darwin’s Origin of the Species, community& youth participation; video, mixed media, animation
March 2008 – April 2008 Coordinating Artist for Multistory (ex Jubilee Arts) 3-5 year olds language development project in West Bromwich schools & pre-school provision
Oct 2007 – April 2008 Workshop Leader for Wolverhampton City College/Wolverhampton Art Gallery joint Youth Photography project
Feb2008 – May 2008 Photographer for Big Picture at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 350 community images & Gallery exhibition in June 2008
Feb 2007 – Sept 2007 New Media Artist for Blue Remembered Hills permanent exhibition; (as Alight Artists Collective); community collection of images, data & sound for artistic interpretation & creation of permanent and touring exhibitions at AONB Secret Hills Centre, Shropshire

Oct – Dec 2007 Video Artist with The Baran Centre, Hockley, Birmingham (working Kurdish refugees)
Sept 2005 – Sept 2006 Coordinating Artist Impact Plus :wrote bid and managed £21k Arts Council WM Black Country community project (partners Wolverhampton Art Gallery) to mount Inside/Outside Group Exhibition at Bantock House, video installation, mixed media, with nine South Asian/local women;

Feb 2006 to Sept 2006 Video Artist, ‘Right from Scratch’ – for Shropshire Youth Service & New Roots Music project, music videos with 16-18yr olds

Sept 2005 – May 2006 Videomaker & project coordinator for ‘Café Surprise’ , Shropshire Social Services, videomaking project with adults with learning disability leading to screening and dissemination event

Oct 2005 – Jan 06 Arts & Leisure Arts Development worker p/t Telford & Wrekin Council Arts Team

August-Sept 2005 Six-week Residency Belmont Art Centre, Shrewsbury; youth, women’s videomaking workshops; public art events & show

Aug 2005-2007 contracted & sessional freelance Community Arts Worker Belmont Arts Centre (now The Hive) with ‘hard to reach’ groups

May 2005 & May 2006 ‘Impact’ Documentary & teaching/learning videos Home Office funded Black Country Active Learning for Active Citizenship, for ‘Changes’ community development consultancy, Wolverhampton

Qualifications

2011-2013 F/T PhD research into impact of creative community interventions on community welbeing, Coventry

University School of Human Geography and School of Art2007 – 2009 P/T BCU Birmingham Institute of Art & Design MA Fine Art Commendation

2003 – 2007 UCE Birmingham Institute of Art & Design BA Hons Fine Art First Class
2006 June Arts Council, Arts Award Advisor, Belmont Arts Centre, Shrewsbury
1996 – 1998 University of Wolverhampton (p/t) MA Communications
1991 – 1993 University of Wolverhampton (p/t) PGCE (F & HE)
1984 Westminster College, London (p/t) RSA Adult Literacy Tutor
1973 – 1977 University of Essex (f/t) BA(Hons) 2:1 Sociology

Other Employment (Summary)

Feb- Sept 2009 Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology part time Professional Practice Lecturer Foundation Fine Art BA; Drawing & Photography lecturer Fine Art Foundation & OCNW Photography

April 2008 – Jan 2009 Glyndwr University, School of Arts, Wrexham f/t Lecturer; Study Support & Research Methods BA Fine Art, Vis Com, Applied , Digital Media; MA FA research and essay support; funded by Widening Participation in HE

Sept 2007 – April 2008 Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology part time Drawing & Photography lecturer Fine Art Foundation & OCNW Photography

Feb 2007 – April 2008 pt self employed ESOL teacher including at Eurofilms Extrusions, Telford & in Shropshire, teaching English to economic migrants & refugees; groupwork & 1:1

Feb 2002 – Sept 03 Workers Educational Association Full Time Programme Area Manager, Tutor organiser developing & managing LSC Widening Participation programme of adult & community learning in areas of disadvantage in Telford to Learning Outcomes & targets; 8 staff; 21 sessional tutors & Study Centre/UK Online; ESF, LEA & NLCB funded projects; Adult Learning Inspection; OCN, ECDL

1998 – 2002 The Green Wood Trust (national craft skills teaching charity); Full TIme Director Responsible for management of Charity including craft teaching, £350,000 National Lottery community arts development & widening participation project in Telford; 12 staff, 40 sessional coppicing & craft & art tutors, 140 volunteers; commercial carpentry workshop / staff & trainees; 14 audited public & private funding streams; accountable to Board of Trustees, Charity Commission, funding partners and community project participants; organized National Coppice Training Conference & apprenticeship schemes (gaining LSC & LANTRO support); managed site specific sculpture (Donnington Wood, Telford) & local Carnival arts project in Woodside, Telford; Mosque building project
1996 – 1998 Shropshire Chamber of Commerce, Training and Enterprise Council (now LSC), Telford. Shropshire Education Business Links Manager, then Education & Training Development Manager; resp. for staff training, business planning, financial management of funded projects, ESF, SRB, ERDF; set up education centre in local engineering factory; managed CITB & Engineering industry links

Jan 1996 – Aug 1996 University of Wolverhampton Rural Broadnet Project, Project Manager, rural Widening Participation community /small business development project using ICT in South Shropshire

1990 – 1996 Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology, Lecturer and Course Tutor Levels: Access to HE; GNVQ;NVQ;BTEC; A Level; GCSE; Special Needs; Subjects: Sociology; English; Basic Skills-numeracy/literacy ; Vocational Foundation; Vocational Communications

1988 – 1990 Shropshire LEA, Madeley Court School, Telford Research & Development Assistant, Technical Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI); incl ‘Girls into Science project; editor of TVEI magazine for teachers

Training

Date Organiser Course Title Length
2002 WEA Intro to Disability Discrimination Act (1 day)
2002 BSA Adult Literacy & Numeracy Core Curriculum (3 days)
2001 Telford&Wrekin Cultural Awareness & Anti-oppressive practice (2 days)
2000 Green Wood Trust Environmental/practical greenwood craft courses (16 days)
1999 Telford&Wrekin Introduction to Community Development Work (6 days)
1998 TEC in house Appraisal ; Selection and Recruitment ( 1 day)
1998 Edict Training External Funding Sources (1 day)
1997 Edict Training Influencing Skills (2 days)
1997 Spectrum Management Training Project Management (3 days)
1997 TEC in house Quality Assessor (Supplier management and ISO) (1 day) m/f
1997 TEC in house Raising Matched Funding (Joint with business partners) (1day)
1995 TUC, London Negotiating Skills (NATFHE) (3 days)
1993 Walsall College Equal Opportunities in FE (2 days)
1981 TUC, London Equal Opportunities at Work (2 days)
1980 TUC, London Using Broadcast Media (3 days)
1980 WEA, London Working with Groups (2 days)

Publications

2007 August Book Review Community Development Journal
1997 ‘Electronic pathways’ (Chapter in ‘Adult Learning and the New Communications Technologies’ pub. NIACE)
1996 ‘Widening Access in Rural Communities’ (Chapter in Conference Report pub. European Distance Learning Network)
1991 Research report ‘Communication Needs of College Staff, SCAT
1990 – 1996 Various feature articles in THES on FE & Women’s Training issues
1984 Edited ‘Equal Opportunities Employment Handbook’ for GLC
1983 Research report ‘Paid Educational Leave for Manual Staff’ University of London