EDUCATION
2017 – MA Fine Art (Distinction), UCA Farnham
2007 – NVQ 4 BSL/English Interpreting
2002 – BA Hons Sociology, Durham University
GRANTS/AWARDS
2023 Arts Council England and National Lottery Project Grant: Woman Up Podcast Tour, with Amy Dignam
2021-2023 Arts Council England and National Lottery Project Grant: Conversations with Aldershot – Phase 2
2022 Outstanding Live Performance Award at the UoS Festival Digital Engagement | Pioneer Awards 2022 for Detangling the Knots Performance 3 with lead artist Barbara Touati- Evans and sound artist Akira Sileas
2020-2021 Arts Council England and National Lottery Project Grant: Conversations with Aldershot
2020 Creative Activity Award, Southampton University/John Hansard Gallery for performance Touch Cells (Detangling the knots), with Barbara Touati-Evans
2019 Curator Space Grant: Woman Up! Podcasts
2019 Arts Council England Project Grant: Practice Research and Development
2018 Arts Council England Project Grant: Statements in Semaphore
2017 Arts Council England Project Grant: Statements in Semaphore
SELECTED RESIDENCIES/PROJECTS/COMMISSIONS
Upcoming/Ongoing
Woman Up Podcast Tour with Amy Dignam. Funded by Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant
Woman Up Podcast series, Collaboration with Amy Dignam and in association with Womens’ Art Library.
2022
Conversations with Aldershot 2020-2022
2021
Windows into the Past – Aldershot Town Centre, Window Graphic commission from Rushmoor Borough Council
120 Hopes – Community Placard project (local schools), commissioned by West End Centre, Aldershot
Test Valley Tales – Research, development and photography/illustration commissioned by Amanda Kane Smith and Test Valley
STATIC MESSY – Interpreted Performance commissioned by Sarah Cole and Annis Joslin in their 360 Film development work
Detangling the knots – performance/film collaboration commission continued.
Tin Can Telephone – Film Commission with Katherine Smith, commissioned by Chapel Arts Studios. See Tin Can Telephone Film here
2019
Laboratory of Dissent 2 Winchester School of Art residency as Associate with CAS Artists (November -December 2019)
‘Detangling the Knots’ Invited to collaborate with Barbara Touati-Evan’s project across 2019-2020
Chapel Arts Studios (CAS) Andover: SAFE PLAY AREA summer residency
West End Centre, Aldershot – Associate Artist Residency (Funded with part of an award from Arts Council England as part of some R&D time)
Woman Up! Podcast Series developed with Desperate Artwives and in association with Women’s Art Library, Special Collections, Goldsmiths University. Presenting and Editing.
2018
Statements in Semaphore and Platform 1 Gallery Residency: ACE Artist Grant to fund ongoing project Statements in Semaphore
Wharf Residency: Floating Island Gallery Resident Artist
2017
Hollaback London: I was 1 of 16 Artists invited as part of the 16 days of creative action across London
Twelve Month Artist Residency with FiLia – ACE Artist Grant funded project Statements in Semaphore
What does it mean to be Artist in Residence of a Place?: LADA DIY 14 workshops, Lead Artist with Bridget Floyer.
2016
MOTHERHOUSE (Pilot): month long residency at IKLECTIK Art Lab , London.
Building a Better World: Creative Residency Project with UCA Archives, bookRooms and The Working Press Archives.
In Our Minds: Collaborative project and touring exhibition with UCA and National Archives
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCE
2023
Woman Up Tour:
- Exeter Phoenix
- Manchester Art Gallery
- Rogue Studios, Manchester
- Newbridge Project, Newcastle
- Artlink Hull
- Quiet Down There, Brighton
- Friction Arts, Birmingham
- Liminal Gallery, Margate
Shape and context, Chapel Arts Studios, Andover
Conversations with Aldershot, Chapel Arts Studios, Andover
Conversations with Aldershot Exhibition and archive launch, West End Centre, Aldershot
2022
Misplaced Women? Exhibition and Performances, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2021
Misplaced Women? Exhibition and Conference, Belgrade
What Makes Another World Possible, Tallina Kunstihoone, Estonia – As part of the Misplaced Women? Project by Tanja Ostojic’
Conversations with Aldershot project exhibition, West End Centre, Aldershot
Detangling the Knots, Sound and Visual Performance, Southampton Science Festival, part of Barbara Touati Evans project of the same name. Watch here
Chapel Arts Studios and YellowFields online programme ‘Talking with Electricity’, Film Commission (CAS) and Talk with Katherine Smith. See Tin Can Telephone Film here
2020
Detangling the Knots Exhibition, Red House Museum, Christchurch
Touch Cells: Remember Forget digital performance, Southampton Digital Science Festival
Saturated Space Exhibition, Sandham Memorial Chapel (National Trust), CAS Artists
2019
#ConversationswithAldershot West End Centre, Aldershot
SAFE PLAY AREA Chapel Arts Studios, Andover
Clothing Exchange #5, Womans House – Revisited, Hackney, London
Clothing Exchange #4, As part of Victoria Day wiht West End Centre, Aldershot
Unperforming 14 by Louise Ashcroft, part of Sigma, Sigma, Sigma by Emma Cousins, Milton Keynes Arts Centre
Clothing Exchange #3, Desperate Artwives M-Word Exhibition, One Paved Court, Richmond
Unperforming 13 by Louise Aschcroft, Arts Admin, Toynebee Studios, London
2018
A Series of Events – Part 2, (Including Clothing Exchange #2)Statements in Semaphore project, Princes Hall, Aldershot
100 Women Artists, FiLiArt Exhibition, Manchester
A Series of Events – Part 1, (Including Clothing Exchange #1) Statements in Semaphore, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth, London
Inside Out DAW Takeover, Leyden Gallery, Spitalfields, London
DAW Public Takeover, Group Action, Online and in Bank, London
Echo.Control UCA Farnham MA Alumni Show, Division of Labour Gallery, London including Live streamed 1.5 hour performance walk from ex Holloway prison site – to Division of Labour Gallery
Holloway, Curated by Bod Jaman, Islington
2017
Hollaback London, Live Action Waterloo Station, London
FiLiArt 2017 Exhibition, IOE, London
MA Grad Show, UCA Farnham
DAW Public Takeover, Group Action, Online and outside Tate Modern
Listen, A two day collaborative residency, performance and exhibition with Angela Alexander-Lloyd at Kunsthal 45, Den Helder, Netherlands
DAW Midsummer Madness Takeover, Leyden Gallery, Spitalfields, London
The Waiting Room, MA Group Show, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth Common Station, London
In Our Minds Touring Group Exhibition, UCA Canterbury, UCA Farnham, National Archives in Kew, and in Bristol
Nasty Women Cambridge, Group Exhibition, Cambridge version of the International Exhibition
Nasty Women Newcastle, Group Exhibition, Byker Grove Community Centre, Newscastle version of the International Exhibition
Iris Turns, BA and MA UCA Group Show, Bargehouse, London
Semaphore Aerobics, as part of the ‘Desperate Artwives Takeover’, Leyden Gallery, London
Statements Group exhibition, Atellier Tammam Studio, Hastings Street, Bloomsbury, London
Desperate Artwives 5th edition Group Exhibition, 114-118 Lower Marsh, London
2016
FiLiArt – Group Exhibition at Oxford House, Bethnall green, London
Motherhouse Group Exhibition, Iklectic, London
Building A Better World Group Exhibition, UCA Farnham
Bound|Lines, Group Exhibition, IKLECTIK Art Lab, Old Paradise yard, London
2015
Procreate project launch, Photozine exhibition, Women’s Arts Library, Goldsmiths, London (part of the Women’s Arts Library touring Archive that will visit Nottingham and New York in May 2016)
She’s in a Nightie and So Forth!, Performance, Unperforming 6, 43 Inverness St Gallery, Camden, London
Rethinking The Body, Elaine Thomas Library, UCA Farnham
FILIA, Feminism in London Conference, Hilton Hotel, London
NOA 2015 Moving Image Gallery with ‘Yesterday’ animation.
Off d’ shelf Artist Books, Iklectik, London
Music, Art and Passion, I’klectik, London
2014
Group Exhibition, Feminism in London Conference
Feminism in Art Exhibition, Iklectic Gallery, London
Skin, Street Art using Cosmetics outside Boots in Guildford http//:youtu.be/2Mj1rQduYKM
PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCE
Social Research Association Online Conference (Autumn 2021)
Housebound, Catalogue Chapel Arts Studio Book (2021)
Sluice Magazine, Article by Susan Francis on the Chapel Arts Studios project Chapters (Autumn 2020)
Curator Museum Journal (May 2020) Ann Chow Article on the ‘In Our Minds Project’
ICA Daily Newsletter (7th May 2020)
GWAK Guides – A mini guide to Socially Engaged Art 2020
Neuroscience Conference 2020
Alzheimers Conference 2020
RISE: With your class not from it, bookRooms publication 2017
ArtLyst (Feb 2017) Review of Desperate Artwives Gallery takeover – Leyden Gallery
Artlyst (Jan 2017) Review of Desperate Artwives Exhibition
ILLUSTRATION
2021
Test Valley Tales – project with Amanda Kane-Smith and Maija Liepins
2015
Editorial illustrations for The Mother Magazine
2014
Colouring Book for The Mother Magazine
Welldone Publishing Nursery Range
Illustrations for Starflower Press
Illustrations and Images for The Mother Magazine
Private commissions for three authors
Commissioned to create charity cards for AIMS association
Produced illustrations for a new book ‘Cycle to the Moon’ by Veronika Sophia Robinson. Published by Starflower Press, 2014
2013
Illustrated Children’s book “Blue Jeans” by Veronika Sophia Robinson, published by Starflower Press Feb 2014
Illustrated Children’s picture book “What A Lovely Sound!” By Starr Meneely, published by Starflower Press Dec 2013-2016