• Workshops

CREATIVE ENCOUNTER, GESTALT
Workshops & sessions informed by Gestalt Art Therapy techniques and philosophy for groups (2 hours) and individuals (1.5 hours). Currently in training with Escuela Hephaisto in Barcelona.

VISUAL THINKING & INFORMATION DESIGN
Workshops and mentoring for visual thinking, visual communication and graphic recording. 

2019 – 2020 – Teaching expressive drawing at Barcelona Academy of Art.

•  Press

2020, February – Frikifish, Review of exhibition with One Wall Gallery & Amuleto, Barcelona, Spain.

2020, September – Solo exhibition, Barcelona, Spain – Documentary by Mikhail Chernikov 

2019, June – Interview with ALTart BCN, Barcelona, Spain – Video (English) / Written interview (Spanish)

2019, May – Interview with Femme Sapiens  – Barcelona (English/Spanish)

2018, February – Artwork published in Elbow Room publication

2016, February – Interview with The London Y – London

•  Exhibitions & Projects 

2022, September – October – Solo exhibition: In The Garden: Subterráneo, Atelier Güell Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

2021, December – Solo exhibition of Mythologies, NY, USA.

2020, September – Solo Exhibition: Songs For Sight, Barcelona, Spain – Video & Artworks

2020, February – March – Group exhibition for ‘Who is Interested in What?‘ and the One Wall project presented by Amuleto Art, Barcelona, Spain. Representation by Amuleto Art Gallery

2019, May-June, Curation of MISNōMA #3 The Wild & The Tame – Organising the inauguration and closing event, hosting a panel discussion and partaking in the group exhibition. In collaboration with Barcelona Academy of Art and the MEAM.

2018, December – Curation of MISNōMA #2 Art Market & Art Festival

2018, June – Curation of MISNōMA #1 – Group exhibition and Art Festival involving interactive discussions, activities and performances including dance & poetry and an art fair. This role included project management, fundraising and sponsorship, coordinating volunteers, communications with; clients, artists, performers, sponsors and venue, logistics; organising venue and installation of artworks.

2018 – Founded MISNōMA – A platform for exhibitions and art festivals. For more information and future projects visit MISNōMA•bcn

 2016, November – ‘Tide Take Him‘ Exhibition and launch of Various Guises Debut EP, London. I curated a group exhibition on the theme of the title track and exhibited the original and concept artwork for the EP as well as musical themed etchings. The EP artworks link together in a narrative line that echoes the songs.

2016, November – ‘Collage Mind‘ Solo exhibition at Creative Connection Studios, London.

2016, March – ‘Make Ready‘ Group Exhibition at Attico Arts, London. Exhibiting two works drawn from the songs of my folk duo Various Guises.

2015, December – 2016, January – Working with the Jagriti Yatra. A charity that runs an anual train journey around India, inspired by the train journey Gandhi took after returning from South Africa. It takes 400 young Indian social entrepreneurs to meet role models and experience the diversity of their own country from the biggest cities to its most rural outposts. They explore the strengths, weaknesses and challenges their country faces, land look for avenues of positive social change. Working in partnership with Temujen Gunawardena I lived on the train with the Yatri’s and created a 10 metre long mural capturing the content and experience of the journey.

2015, December – ‘Drawing Intensive’ group exhibition with other students of the Royal Drawing School at Mercer and Chance Gallery in Hoxton.

2015, September – Group exhibition at the VGCC with Miscilânia Art Club. Exhibiting a series of figurative illustrations with cut-up text, an emerging series that’s still in progress and a cousin of the Mistakable Bodies series.

2014, November – ‘The Herodotus Debate’ live and large-scale, narrative illustrations for collaborative, multimedia workshops spanning the arts, academia and interactive theatre. Funded by APGRD & Arts and Humanities Research Council.

2014, September – group exhibition of live drawings commissioned by Nicoline van Harskamp for her project based around a live translation of George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion‘ from multiple languages at the Kunstraum Gallery in Hoxton, London. The resulting illustrations were also used in the publication of the transcript by Onomatopee.

2014, June – Group exhibition ‘Obsession: Love, Ritual, Collection’ at the Embassy Tea Gallery, London.

2013, December – 2014, December, Artist in Residence for the Caravanserai.

2013, December, Group exhibition ‘Rubbish‘. My work concerns the natural life and beauty that joins the debris in city streets and falls into the category of ‘waste’.

2013, November, Exhibition of large-scale work with Project 21 at the Caravanserai in Canning Town. A mural/cityscape work in relation to the area and it’s regeneration.

2013, September, Artist in residence & exhibition of Musicians, Writers & Philosophers series at Spiritual venue and gallery, Camden Town.

2013, August, Illustrations commissioned for Shambala Festival.

2013, January – April, Represented by Touché gallery, Royal St, New Orleans.

2012 Summer –  Founder of children’s arts club: Camden’s Creative Creatures.

2012, July – Illustrations commissioned for House of Fairy Tales.

2012, July – working with Body Action Campaign charity running puppet making workshops for children in Tooting/Battersea.

2012 –Stars Trust charity and running English & art workshops for the children.  

2012 – Art workshops with children at Emerson Private Academy.

2011 – 2012, Working with House of Fairy Tales on a variety of children’s arts events running immersive creative experiences for children.

2011, June – Collaborative exhibition with Dark Mountain Project in Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. My exhibition called ‘Waste (Not)’ focused on challenging the categorisation of objects as waste.

2010 – Illustrations for children’s book ‘Aurora Stanhope’.

Education

Barcelona Academy of Art, 2017 -2019, Scholarship – Working in a traditional atelier to explore ‘old master’ draftmanship and oil painting techniques within the western traditions of realism.

Royal Drawing School, London, 2015 – Three month Drawing Intensive course.

Blake College, London 2011 – 2012 Foundation in Art and Design (Distinction, work selected as exceptional). My work explored a blend of verbal/worded and visual/abstract communication, the build and residue of ritual, and the ways to grow individual and communal expression and interpretation. Veils and Stones Project.

Reed College, USA 2009-2010 as part of the Literature degree below. At Reed I studied mainly painting and short stories, leading me closer and closer to my interest in folk tales and oral culture.

UEA , Norwich 2007-2011 – American Literature and Creative Writing (1st) with broad smatterings of history, philosophy and painting. Focusing in my latter years on Native American and Afro-American literature, film and traditional folk-tales and oral culture.

And the last note on education is that gained, informally, from all the people I’ve met in, and in-between, all the above places.