CV
Personal Profile
I am an experienced community artist who has worked with a wide range of ages from 2 to 80yrs old, with very mixed abilities. I am an energetic, thoughtful and passionate artist and have excellent communication, organisational and management skills. I am competent at doing budgets, fundraising proposals and business plans. I have a current enhanced CRB, Public Liability insurance up to £5m and hold a St Johns Ambulance First Aid qualification.
Education
2003 - 2009 BA (Hons) 2.1 Fine Art at AUCB
2007 - Filmmaking, Bournemouth University
2005 - 2007 Advanced Printmaking at AUCB
2003 –2005 City & Guilds IT skills. Bournemouth College
2001 - 2003 Foundation Diploma, Art and Design at AUCB
1990 –1991 Aromatherapy Dip. Shirley Price School, London.
1989 - 1990 Reflexology Dip. Nicola Hall School, London.
1973 –1976 Reg. Nurse Mentally Subnormal
1973 –1975 2 A levels: Eng, Sociology. Southport Tech Coll
1970 –1972 N.N.E.B. Mabel Fletcher College, Liverpool
1964 –1969 5 O levels. Crosby Manor High, Lancashire
Solo Exhibitions
2010 The Conference of the Birds, Larmer Tree Festival
2008 Entre Chien et Loup, BNSS
2006 Glass Slipper, Design Collection Museum, AUCB
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Concrete, BA Fine Art Degree Show, AUCB
2008 Fusion, Lighthouse, Poole.
2007 Artifice, Bournemouth Gardens.
2004 Just Pencil, Bournemouth Central Library. Drawing
2003 Traces, Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth. Drawing
Curatorial Projects
2010 Kinson Library opening exhibition
2009 Fools’ Experiments. Initiated, organised, and curated. Partnered by AUCB, Bournemouth Arts Development, and Bournemouth Library. Contemporary artists were invited to respond to a private natural history collection and Darwin’s theories of Evolution. This resulted in two exhibitions – one at Bournemouth Central Library and one at Bournemouth Natural Science Society, opening up a new and unique venue for exhibitions.
2009 Investigating the possibility of opening of two permanent artist led exhibition spaces in Bournemouth in unused council buildings, in public toilets and a chapel in a cemetery.
2008 Fusion. Co-curated group exhibition at Lighthouse, Poole
2007 Artifice. Co-curated group exhibition at Bournemouth Gardens
Additional qualifications/short courses
2010 Safeguarding training for artists Dorset County Council
2009 Child Protection Training AUCB
2009 Disability Arts Awareness Training.
2008 Art and the Psyche Conference, San Francisco
2007 Filmmaking, scriptwriting, editing, BU
2007 Reminiscence Training, Bournemouth Council
2006 Printmaking, Arts Institute of Bournemouth
2005 Printmaking, Arts Institute of Bournemouth
2005 Oil painting, Private tuition
2004 Printmaking, Arts Institute of Bournemouth
2003 Life drawing, Private tuition
2003 Watercolour painting, Private tuition
2002 Life drawing, Private tuition
1990 Ceramics, LEA
I am an experienced community artist who has worked with a wide range of ages from 2 to 80yrs old, with very mixed abilities. I am an energetic, thoughtful and passionate artist and have excellent communication, organisational and management skills. I am competent at doing budgets, fundraising proposals and business plans. I have a current enhanced CRB, Public Liability insurance up to £5m and hold a St Johns Ambulance First Aid qualification.
Education
2003 - 2009 BA (Hons) 2.1 Fine Art at AUCB
2007 - Filmmaking, Bournemouth University
2005 - 2007 Advanced Printmaking at AUCB
2003 –2005 City & Guilds IT skills. Bournemouth College
2001 - 2003 Foundation Diploma, Art and Design at AUCB
1990 –1991 Aromatherapy Dip. Shirley Price School, London.
1989 - 1990 Reflexology Dip. Nicola Hall School, London.
1973 –1976 Reg. Nurse Mentally Subnormal
1973 –1975 2 A levels: Eng, Sociology. Southport Tech Coll
1970 –1972 N.N.E.B. Mabel Fletcher College, Liverpool
1964 –1969 5 O levels. Crosby Manor High, Lancashire
Solo Exhibitions
2010 The Conference of the Birds, Larmer Tree Festival
2008 Entre Chien et Loup, BNSS
2006 Glass Slipper, Design Collection Museum, AUCB
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Concrete, BA Fine Art Degree Show, AUCB
2008 Fusion, Lighthouse, Poole.
2007 Artifice, Bournemouth Gardens.
2004 Just Pencil, Bournemouth Central Library. Drawing
2003 Traces, Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth. Drawing
Curatorial Projects
2010 Kinson Library opening exhibition
2009 Fools’ Experiments. Initiated, organised, and curated. Partnered by AUCB, Bournemouth Arts Development, and Bournemouth Library. Contemporary artists were invited to respond to a private natural history collection and Darwin’s theories of Evolution. This resulted in two exhibitions – one at Bournemouth Central Library and one at Bournemouth Natural Science Society, opening up a new and unique venue for exhibitions.
2009 Investigating the possibility of opening of two permanent artist led exhibition spaces in Bournemouth in unused council buildings, in public toilets and a chapel in a cemetery.
2008 Fusion. Co-curated group exhibition at Lighthouse, Poole
2007 Artifice. Co-curated group exhibition at Bournemouth Gardens
Additional qualifications/short courses
2010 Safeguarding training for artists Dorset County Council
2009 Child Protection Training AUCB
2009 Disability Arts Awareness Training.
2008 Art and the Psyche Conference, San Francisco
2007 Filmmaking, scriptwriting, editing, BU
2007 Reminiscence Training, Bournemouth Council
2006 Printmaking, Arts Institute of Bournemouth
2005 Printmaking, Arts Institute of Bournemouth
2005 Oil painting, Private tuition
2004 Printmaking, Arts Institute of Bournemouth
2003 Life drawing, Private tuition
2003 Watercolour painting, Private tuition
2002 Life drawing, Private tuition
1990 Ceramics, LEA