Curriculum Vitae
Community Based Projects, Workshops and Commissions
Nov- Dec 2022 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Art MIx programme for young people
August- Sept 2022 Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Commissioned Artist for Commuity and Schools Programme Mini MAW - The
People's Plinth, workshops and exhibtion at Pinapple Black Gallery Middlesbrough
April 2022 Appointed to BALTIC Centre of Contepmorary Art Freelance Artists Team
Feb 2022-July 2022 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, community workshops across the North East in support of the BALTIC Bus, travelling exhibition 'What's for Tea?'
Jan 2022-April 2022 HELIX Arts, Story of Place Residency, comissioned artist working with primary and SEND schools in Wallsend,
exploring the impact of COVID 19 on children, young people and families, sponsored by Save the Children
Oct 2021-July 2022 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Commissioned Artist, 'Meet and Make' Family Arts Workshops
Sept-Oct 2021 Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Freelance Artist, delivering creative engagement workshops for Middlesbrough
families and schools
Sept 2021-July 2023 Newcastle Cultural Learning Partnership, Commissioned Artists, Embedding Creativity Across the Curriculum, SMART Academies Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne
July 2021-July 2022 DesignLab Nation, Lead Artist, raising aspiration programme for secondary students to increase progression
within Design and Technology fields, with National Glass Centre, Sunderland and V&A Museum, London
June-Sept 2021 Sunderland Culture, Commissioned Artist, Sculpture in Schools with National Glass Centre, Northern Gallery for
Contemporary Art, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens and The Arts Council England Collection
May 2021-Oct 2022 Pennyman Primary Academy, Commissioned Artist for sequence of educational wall murals
Jan-Mar 2021 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Commissioned Artist, Family Days Art Trail, blended learning for families
Dec 2020-Nov 2022 The Cultural Spring, Freelance Artist, delivering creative workshops for schools and communities across south
Tyneside and Sunderland, including The Stephenson Trail project.
Nov 2020 The NewBridge Project ,Freelance Artist, Shieldfield Youth Programme online workshop
July 2020-Feb 2021 The Start Studio, Freelance Artist, delivering creative on line workshops and Facebook Lives for families
March 2020 Helix Arts, Freelance Artist, delivering Arts Award Workshops
Jan 2020-Mar 2020 Durham Federation, Freelance Artist Consultant, Raising Achievement in GCSE Art and Design
Oct 2019-Feb 2021 Tees Valley Cultural Partnership, Freelance Artist Consultant, Embedding Creativity in the Primary Curriculum at
Dormanstown Primary Academy and Pennyman Primary Academy
Oct-Dec 2019 Sunderland Culture, Commissioned Artist for Stained Glass Window-scape and Student Workshops at Usworth
Colliery Primary Academy
May-Sept 2019 The Creative Seed, Community Workshops for adults with additional needs and combatting loneliness in the
elderly
May-Aug 2019 East Herrington Primary Academy, Commissioned Artist, Large Wall Mural and Student Workshops
May-Aug 2018 Sunderland Culture, Lead Artist, Community Open Access Commission for the Tall Ships Race and subsequent
exhibition
Nov- Dec 2022 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Art MIx programme for young people
August- Sept 2022 Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Commissioned Artist for Commuity and Schools Programme Mini MAW - The
People's Plinth, workshops and exhibtion at Pinapple Black Gallery Middlesbrough
April 2022 Appointed to BALTIC Centre of Contepmorary Art Freelance Artists Team
Feb 2022-July 2022 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, community workshops across the North East in support of the BALTIC Bus, travelling exhibition 'What's for Tea?'
Jan 2022-April 2022 HELIX Arts, Story of Place Residency, comissioned artist working with primary and SEND schools in Wallsend,
exploring the impact of COVID 19 on children, young people and families, sponsored by Save the Children
Oct 2021-July 2022 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Commissioned Artist, 'Meet and Make' Family Arts Workshops
Sept-Oct 2021 Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Freelance Artist, delivering creative engagement workshops for Middlesbrough
families and schools
Sept 2021-July 2023 Newcastle Cultural Learning Partnership, Commissioned Artists, Embedding Creativity Across the Curriculum, SMART Academies Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne
July 2021-July 2022 DesignLab Nation, Lead Artist, raising aspiration programme for secondary students to increase progression
within Design and Technology fields, with National Glass Centre, Sunderland and V&A Museum, London
June-Sept 2021 Sunderland Culture, Commissioned Artist, Sculpture in Schools with National Glass Centre, Northern Gallery for
Contemporary Art, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens and The Arts Council England Collection
May 2021-Oct 2022 Pennyman Primary Academy, Commissioned Artist for sequence of educational wall murals
Jan-Mar 2021 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Commissioned Artist, Family Days Art Trail, blended learning for families
Dec 2020-Nov 2022 The Cultural Spring, Freelance Artist, delivering creative workshops for schools and communities across south
Tyneside and Sunderland, including The Stephenson Trail project.
Nov 2020 The NewBridge Project ,Freelance Artist, Shieldfield Youth Programme online workshop
July 2020-Feb 2021 The Start Studio, Freelance Artist, delivering creative on line workshops and Facebook Lives for families
March 2020 Helix Arts, Freelance Artist, delivering Arts Award Workshops
Jan 2020-Mar 2020 Durham Federation, Freelance Artist Consultant, Raising Achievement in GCSE Art and Design
Oct 2019-Feb 2021 Tees Valley Cultural Partnership, Freelance Artist Consultant, Embedding Creativity in the Primary Curriculum at
Dormanstown Primary Academy and Pennyman Primary Academy
Oct-Dec 2019 Sunderland Culture, Commissioned Artist for Stained Glass Window-scape and Student Workshops at Usworth
Colliery Primary Academy
May-Sept 2019 The Creative Seed, Community Workshops for adults with additional needs and combatting loneliness in the
elderly
May-Aug 2019 East Herrington Primary Academy, Commissioned Artist, Large Wall Mural and Student Workshops
May-Aug 2018 Sunderland Culture, Lead Artist, Community Open Access Commission for the Tall Ships Race and subsequent
exhibition
Arts Production, Residencies and Workshops
Oct 2022-Dec 2024 MOTHEROTHER, Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant funded initiative for artist caregivers
Oct 2021 The NewBridge Project, Freelance Artist, workshop facilitation The Collective Studio
March 2021 University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Guest Artist, Architecture and Town Planning BA Hons
Jan 2021 The NewBridge Project, Freelance Artist, delivering online workshop for the emerging artists
Jan-March 2020 Pineapple Black Gallery, Organisational Lead/Curatorial Support, Collective Studio Group Show: Scramble
Sept 2019-Dec 2020 Sunderland Culture, Creative Development Fellow Fellowship
June-July 2019 Mackie's Corner Contemporary Art Space, Organisational Lead/Curation, Body of Work
Nov 2018-July 2019 Norfolk Street Arts, Artist in Residence
Nov 2018-Jan 2019 Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Team Member/Exhibitor, What would Leonardo Make Today?
June-Oct 2018 University of Sunderland, Organisational Lead/Sponsorship, MA Degree Show, IX
June-Aug 2018 Mackie's Corner Contemporary Art Space, Organisational Lead/Curatorial Support, EMC>3
Jan 2018 Priestman Gallery, Organisational Lead/Co-curator, One Fourteen Fourteen
Oct 2022-Dec 2024 MOTHEROTHER, Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant funded initiative for artist caregivers
Oct 2021 The NewBridge Project, Freelance Artist, workshop facilitation The Collective Studio
March 2021 University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Guest Artist, Architecture and Town Planning BA Hons
Jan 2021 The NewBridge Project, Freelance Artist, delivering online workshop for the emerging artists
Jan-March 2020 Pineapple Black Gallery, Organisational Lead/Curatorial Support, Collective Studio Group Show: Scramble
Sept 2019-Dec 2020 Sunderland Culture, Creative Development Fellow Fellowship
June-July 2019 Mackie's Corner Contemporary Art Space, Organisational Lead/Curation, Body of Work
Nov 2018-July 2019 Norfolk Street Arts, Artist in Residence
Nov 2018-Jan 2019 Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Team Member/Exhibitor, What would Leonardo Make Today?
June-Oct 2018 University of Sunderland, Organisational Lead/Sponsorship, MA Degree Show, IX
June-Aug 2018 Mackie's Corner Contemporary Art Space, Organisational Lead/Curatorial Support, EMC>3
Jan 2018 Priestman Gallery, Organisational Lead/Co-curator, One Fourteen Fourteen
Qualifications and Artist Development Programmes
Feb/July2021 THE EXCHANGE, Eastside Projects (EOP), CAMP, G39 (WARP), The NewBridge Project, Spike Island (Spike Associates),
and Turf Projects
Oct/Nov 2020 STUDIOBOOK: ONLINE, Mark Deveraux Projects,
2019-2020 The Collective Studio, Programme for Early Career Artists, NewBridge Project
Sept 2019 Make It Happen, Programme for the Development of Social Arts Practice, HELIX Arts
2017-2018 MA Fine Art, University of Sunderland
1996-1997 PGCE Secondary Art and Design, University of Reading
1992-1996 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Feb/July2021 THE EXCHANGE, Eastside Projects (EOP), CAMP, G39 (WARP), The NewBridge Project, Spike Island (Spike Associates),
and Turf Projects
Oct/Nov 2020 STUDIOBOOK: ONLINE, Mark Deveraux Projects,
2019-2020 The Collective Studio, Programme for Early Career Artists, NewBridge Project
Sept 2019 Make It Happen, Programme for the Development of Social Arts Practice, HELIX Arts
2017-2018 MA Fine Art, University of Sunderland
1996-1997 PGCE Secondary Art and Design, University of Reading
1992-1996 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Art Teaching/Educational Leadership Experience
2003-2011 Head of Art and Associate Member of Leadership Team, Stokesley School, North Yorkshire
2001-2003 Teacher of Art, Whitley Bay High School, North Tyneside
1999-2001 Coordinator of Art and Design, New Cairo British International School, Egypt
1997-1999 Teacher of Art, Durham Johnson, Durham
2003-2011 Head of Art and Associate Member of Leadership Team, Stokesley School, North Yorkshire
2001-2003 Teacher of Art, Whitley Bay High School, North Tyneside
1999-2001 Coordinator of Art and Design, New Cairo British International School, Egypt
1997-1999 Teacher of Art, Durham Johnson, Durham
Recent Group Exhibitions
2022 Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough Art Weekender - The People's Plinth
Segedunum, Wallsend - Story of Place
2021 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead – Open Submission
Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne - Now that's what I call Art
2020 The NewBridge Project, Virtual Exhibition, Third Wave
Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough - Scramble: NewBridge Collective Studio Members Show
Ex-Libris Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne - Insert Exhibition Title Here
2019 Newbridge Project, Gateshead - Collective Studio Open Studios
Citizens House, Durham - Processes, Conny Art Festival, Durham
Base Camp, Middlesbrough - Hun, Middlesbrough Art Weekender
Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough - Pick 'n' Mix
2018 Atkinson Gallery, Sommerset - MA and Other Post Graduates
Whitestone Gallery, York – FRESH
Priestman Gallery, Sunderland – One Nineteen Nineteen: collaboration with Jessica Brown
2022 Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough Art Weekender - The People's Plinth
Segedunum, Wallsend - Story of Place
2021 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead – Open Submission
Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne - Now that's what I call Art
2020 The NewBridge Project, Virtual Exhibition, Third Wave
Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough - Scramble: NewBridge Collective Studio Members Show
Ex-Libris Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne - Insert Exhibition Title Here
2019 Newbridge Project, Gateshead - Collective Studio Open Studios
Citizens House, Durham - Processes, Conny Art Festival, Durham
Base Camp, Middlesbrough - Hun, Middlesbrough Art Weekender
Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough - Pick 'n' Mix
2018 Atkinson Gallery, Sommerset - MA and Other Post Graduates
Whitestone Gallery, York – FRESH
Priestman Gallery, Sunderland – One Nineteen Nineteen: collaboration with Jessica Brown
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Mackie’s Corner, Sunderland - Body of Work
2018 Shaun Project Space, Sunderland – Anthropocene
2019 Mackie’s Corner, Sunderland - Body of Work
2018 Shaun Project Space, Sunderland – Anthropocene
