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Recent Highlights      

International e-residency with FAVELab Athens culminating in video and new work on show during Schmuck and Munich Jewellery Week 2022 at Bayerischer-Kunstgewerbeverein and Weltraum Galleries.

Collect 2020 at Somerset House, London

Hothouse 2020 participant – Crafts Council creative business development programme

Invited to become a member of Klimt02, the international art jewellery forum based in Barcelona 

Exhibitions 

2024

Mar-Apr       Local landscapeJonathan Mulvaney, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis                      [curator]

Apr-Jun        Joined Up, Makers Guild in Wales [co-curator & exhibitor] 

May-Jun      Dorset Art Weeks, Sandy Hill Studios, Corfe Castle

Jun              Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracy   

Jun              Helios, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator & exhibitor]   

Sep             Travelling West from 44AD, Bath 

2023

Feb-Mar   Darkness to Hope, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset

Apr-Jun   Facets; Le Bijou Céramique, Giroussins's Contemporary Ceramic Centre, Tarn, France

Apr             Primavera, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator & exhibitor]

Apr-Jun     Spotlight, MAKE Southwest

Jun            Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey

Jul-Sep      Design-Nation at the Platform, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe

Oct            Art to Art, Bradford on Avon [curator]

Oct-Nov    Ever Present, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator & exhibitor]

Nov-Dec   Future Present, Bridport Arts Centre

Nov-Dec   Joined Up, Carmarthen School of Art [co-curator & exhibitor]

Dec           SSW Xmas Art Fair, Symondsbury [curator & exhibitor]

2022

Jan-Apr     Design-Nation: Our Journey, The Hub, Sleaford

Feb-Apr    Metamorphoses, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich

June         Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracy

July           SMCK on Reel, Weltraum Gallery, Munich

July           Flotsam Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator/exhibitor]

Sept          Flotsam Too, The Beachcomber, Teignmouth [curator/exhibitor]

Oct            Winsley Art Group Show, Bradford on Avon [curator]

Nov-Jan    Shine, Create Cornwall, Bedruthan [co-organiser/exhibitor]

Nov-Dec   Future Present, Bridport Art Centre

2021

May-Jul   Time-Lapse at Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. [Joint co-ordinator/exhibitor]

Mar          Painful Hope Alliages at Munich Jewellery Week

Sep          Radiant Pavilion (virtual) Australia

Jun-Sep  Precious Things in Times of Uncertainty, Alliages, Lille

Jul-Sep   Making It, Devon Guild

Sep         Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey, Devon

Oct          London Craft Week (virtual)

Oct-Nov  Precious Things in Times of Uncertainty, Madrid

Nov-Dec  Elements, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator/exhibitor]

Dec-Mar   Material Matters: introducing Design-Nation Cornwall & Devon, Devon Guild [co-ordinator/exhibitor]

Dec          Cluster Jewellery Edition, London

 

Past Exhibitions

2020 Actual

Dec-Feb 21  Painful Hope at Alliages, Lille

Feb              Collect 2020 at Somerset House, London

 

2020 Virtual

Cluster-Crafts London

Prism In Search of Impossibilities

Marshwood Art Awards

 

2019

Nov            Marshwood Arts Awards, Bridport

Oct-Dec     Shades of Clay at Kunsthuis Gallery, York

Oct             Fragility pt2 at RBSA, Birmingham

Sep            Cluster Jewellery at The Old Truman Brewery, London

                  Devon Open Studios, Cotleigh

                  Taster Show at Artizan Gallery, Torquay

 Jul-Sep     Jewellery // Sculpture at BACHT showroom, Vienna

Jun-Sep     Précieux !? at Alliages, Lille

May-Jun    Fragility at Hoxton Arches, London

 

Selected Exhibitions

Also

Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

RBSA, Birmingham

Black Swan Arts, Frome

44AD Gallery, Bath

Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge - First Prize winner Trowbridge Open

Whitstable Museum & Art Gallery, Kent

Poole Museum, Dorset

The Mall Galleries, London

Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset

Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth

Holburne Museum, Bath

Avalon Gallery, Marazion

Walford Mill, Wimborne, Dorset

Strangeways, Covent Garden

Galleries

GroundWork Gallery, King's Lynn

Awards 

Short listed, Chaiya Arts Award 2020

Highly Commended, Marshwood Arts Open 2019

First prize, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge Open Competition 2017

 

Work in Collections 

Ahmansen Collection, USA

Sorensen Collection, Bath

Priest House Museum, Wimborne 

Residencies

Flotsam Too at Teignmouth - The Beachcomber. Sept 2022
Metamorphoses International e-residency with FAVELab, Athens. Video and new jewellery on show from 24 Feb - 4 Apr 2022 at Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein Galerie for Schmuck and Munich Jewellery Week

 

Talks

Beachcombing with rue Pigalle, Devon 2021

Agile Structures conference, Cornwall 2020

Artist Talks, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge 2018

 

Publications

Cluster Crafts. (2021) Sky Surface Soil. London: Cluster Crafts

Ludvig Rage. (2020) Alba Longa. Amsterdam: Ludvig Rage Club.

Cluster Jewellery Journal feature on Alison Brown (2020)

Hale, J. ed. (2011) 500 Felt Objects. New York: Lark Crafts.

Salamony, S. & Brown, GM. (2010) 1000 Artisan Textiles. Beverley, MA: Quarry Books.

 

Membership

Klimt02

Design-Nation UK - Cluster co-ordinator for Cornwall & Devon

Crafts Council Directory

Cluster Crafts

MAKE SW Associate

ACJ Association for Contemporary Jewellery

Education

MA Ceramics, Bath Spa University - Distinction

BA(hons) Ceramics, Camberwell School of Art and Crafts - 2:1

Art Foundation, Middlesex Polytechnic   

Art Experience

2023 -      Social media & marketing, Sou'-Sou'-West Gallery 

2018 -      Self-employed artist and educator

2018        Organiser, MA Ceramics degree show at 44AD gallery

2015 - 16 Assistant, Acanthus Gallery, Wareham, Dorset

2008 - 16 Committee member – Secretary / Retail, Prism International Textile Group

2004 - 05 Co-ordinator, Purbeck Film Festival

2003 - 05 Administrator, Dorset Art Weeks

2003 - 05 Co-founder, Boilerhouse Gallery artists’ co-operative, Corfe Castle, Dorset

2002 - 08 Co-founder, Purbeck Art Weeks

2001 - 05 Ceramics and textiles teacher, Old Malthouse School, Dorset

1993 - 02 Office Manager for Ciantar Associates, Conservators of Works of Art on Paper

1993        Arts Programmer, The Nave Arts Centre, Uxbridge, Middx

1986        Artist in Residence, Wembley High School, Middx