2022-
Grants, Bursaries and Residences
2021-22 Commission from Disability Arts Online for Painting Poetry - physicalising the art-making process. 2020 - Arts Council Funding to set up ND led Magical Women to showcase and create art with ND (autistic/ADHD) women artists (£15k and under, ends Feb 8th 2021).
2020 - Artist Residency (Paid) at Drake Music (March - Dec 2020)
2020 - Unlimited, Shape Arts Micro Grant (Full amount awarded)
2017/18 - Heart of Glass Bursary (Women Artists Only)
Recent paid work experience
2021 - 22 Diving Deeper (Access in the Arts) - Daryl Beeton Productions, approached as a Neurodivergent/autistic contributor and consultant on access training for arts organisations
2021 - Oily Cart Theatre - I edited/filmed/scripted a video on Disability and Access for them.
2021 - 22 - Jo-anne Cox and Blurring the Boundaries - Define Your Journey - Voice over to all of Jo-anne’s films and audio description.
Key Speaker Events
2021 - University of Kent - “Stimming in Artmaking - the power of Magical Women”
2021 - CornerHOUSE Arts Centre “The Magician: Stimming in Artmaking - the power of presence”
2017 - “Can Inclusion truly exist?” Annual Conference for National Association of Disability Practitioners
2008 - Heidelberg University - “Setting up a Volunteering Organisation, running schools for d/Deaf and disabled children and renovating/supporting a State run Orphanage in China at 21.” (A Talk on my work in China 2005-2010).
Performances (incl. festivals)
Coming up - Painting Poetry for Disability Arts Online Date TBC (February/March 2022)
2021 Nov “To Exist Beyond the Glass”, Hammersmith Lyric Theatre
2020 Dec - Magical Journeys - Live Soundscapes to Jo-anne Cox’s live cello music
2019 Nov - Poetry Open Mic, Survivor Poets, Covent Garden, Poet Society Cafe, London UK. March - August 2019 Two Million More, Curated/Directed by Kathryn Stamp (PHD) Dance and Disability research, London UK
April 2019 - Wandsworth Fringe, Poetry Performance (as part of a line up), Battersea, London, UK June 2019, “Outside my hands are clapping”, Live Art Solo Performance, H&F Arts Festival, produced by Turtle Key Arts, London, UK
Mar 2019, "Into the forest" poetry performance, The Unfamiliars, Minories Galleries, Colchester, UK.
Feb 2019, "Painted Conversations," Live Art Durational Performance, Yard Theatre, London UK.
Dec 2018, Sketch Comedy Sharing (writer/performance), Soho Theatre, London, UK
April 2018, "Do We Seem Different When We Drown?" Performance, Scratch, Battersea Arts Centre
January 2018, "Way to the Pretty" (writer/director, performance poet), Calm Down Dear, Feminist Festival, Camden People's Theatre, London, UK
June 2017, Jamie's Lighthouse (Writer), Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, London
Exhibitions
2021 - November - December - CornerHOUSE Arts Centre Surbiton, Solo Exhibition “The Magician”
November - Fulham Library - Group Exhibition
2020- Spring - Fulham Library - Group Exhibition
2019 - December - Pop Up Gallery, Ad Lib, Fulham Road, London, UK. Curator: Dylan Roberts
December 3rd - 13th Solo Exhibition, EU Communities, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
November 11 - 19th, Autumn Group Exhibition, Society of Fulham Artists, Fulham Library, London UK.
October 28, 2019 - January 1 2020 - Outside In Exhibition, Judged by Grayson Perry RA. Piano Noble Gallery founder Robert Travers, Cathie Pilkington, RA. Gallery Piano Noble, Kings Place, London UK.
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020 "Contested Spaces," A Place for Change, The Foundry, Vauxhall London UK. May 2019, Fulham Society of Artists, Group Exhibition, Fulham Library, London, UK March 2019,
“In the forest” video installation for Group Exhibition: On Wonder, Curator Gemma Abbott, Minories Galleries, Colchester, UK
November 2018 - At the Windows (Video art), Shape Open's showcase at Hoxton Arches. April 2018, Like Breath Not Breathing (film)
Women SRSLY, The Yard Theatre, London UK March 2018
At the Window (film), Shape Open, Art Pavilion, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK January 2018
The Girl, Poetry Performance (reading), Group Poetry/Fiction Reading, Tate Modern
February 2017 - Showered and Dressed (film), SXRXVE, NYC, USA
October 2017 - "What do We do When we get There?", Film Festival: Safety at home, Home, Curated by Random Artists, Ex- Fed Ex London
October 2017 - Showered & Dressed, Modern Panic VIII, Curated by James Elphick of Guerrilla Zoo, Apiary Studios, London
February 2014, East London Art Therapy Art Exhibition in a Church (Group), London, UK June 2012 - Within Blue, Solo exhibition, Matteo's, Putney
June 2012 Colours of the Core Group Show, The Art Therapy Centre, Archway, London June 2012 Art Therapy Final Group Show, Whitelands, London UK
August 2008 - Of Light, solo show, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
June 2008 – Final Postgraduate Diploma Group Show, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK
April 2008 - Binocular Group Show, Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK
2005 - 2007 - Various art exhibitions and performances in China, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province.
Awards and Selections
2020 - 5 pieces of work selected for “Squares Part 2”, Shipton St Gallery, Shoreditch, UK
2019 - 4 pieces of filmed performance work selected for "Contested Spaces" Disability Arts Online, 6 month exhibition at The Foundry A Place for Change
2019 - Painting selected for Outside In Exhibition Judged by Grayson Perry.
2017-2018 - Tate Modern x Shape Arts Performance writing
2018 - Shape Arts Showcase, Retrospective, Hoxton Arches, London
2017 - 1st Prize winner (1200 submissions), ello x Wetransfer Art Competition “Flow" 2017 - Shortlisted top 5, from 600 submissions for a Residency, People's Palaces, Brazil, Funded by the British Council
2017 - Selected to develop my playscript “Jamie’s Lighthouse” with Omnibus Theatre, Clapham UK 2015 - 2nd Prize Poetry Winner, Sutton Writers
2014 - 1st Prize, Poetry Winner, Sutton Writers
2000, 2001, 2002, Art Award, International School Luxembourg
2000 - Harvard University & New York Film Academy Presents Film Screenings, USA. 2000 - Key Speaker at the National Conference for Community Justice, Boston, USA. 2000 - Human Rights Award, International School Luxembourg
Workshops and Training
2018 Comedy Sketch Lab (10 weeks), Soho Theatre, with Lee Griffiths, London, UK
2017 -2018 - Disabled Writers' Workshops, Shape Arts and Tate Modern Collaboration
2017 Deep Listening Workshop (attendee), Mile End, London
2017 Omnibus Theatre, Writing Workshops, Clapham, London
2017, Animation Documentary Symposium (attendee), Royal College of Art, London UK
2015-2016, Disability Arts Online Viewfinder 12wk Writing Workshops, Goldsmiths Uni w/Bella Todd,
2013, Psychoanalysis in Film Symposium, Freud Museum, London
Education
BA (hons) Film and Television studies Joint Performance studies
Aberystwyth University of Wales, UK.
Features Editor of University Magazine 2003-2005, Vice-Chair of Volunteering Society 2003-2005
PGDip Fine Art
Byam Shaw, Central St Martins, University of Arts, London, UK
PGCE Primary Education and SEN
Forest Independent Collegiate - Affiliated with Middlesex University
Masters Art Psychotherapy
Roehampton University
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