Education
2007- 2016 – University of the West of England, Bristol. Doctoral Research – ‘Secular Relics: narrative objects and material biography in the museums of Darwin, Elgar & Holmes’
2001-03 – Dartington College of Arts, Devon. MA Visual Performance (Time Based Arts Practices)
1995-98 University of Plymouth, Exeter. BA Hons 2:1 Visual Arts
Arts Practice
Oct 05 – Jun 06 – Arts Matrix Mentoring scheme with Annabel Other
Exhibitions/Performances
February 2025 M&SWRJ 1 & 2, for Line(s) of Enquiry, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham
January 2025 Various works, in Corinium Creatives: work by staff and volunteers at Corinium Museum, Cirencester
September 2024 ‘Topographical Clews’ for Field Walking exhibition, Corinium Museum, Cirencester
December 2021 – Vestiges – Video – for Watermarks: a video assemblage of sixteen artists’ work curated by Walking the Land collective, The Edge UHI Virtual Conference
June 2021 – Light, Ground Level, Decay – mixed media – For Ground Works: Landlinks Exhibition – Three Storeys, Nailsworth
September 2019 – ‘Pinning & Fulling the Valley’ – hanging & teasel made from wool & pins. Ghost Mills, Stroud Valley’s Artspace. Part of the Wool & Water Festival.
April 2019 – Ac Sidu – video and enactment artefacts. Confluence – Walking the Land. Museum in the Park, Stroud
Mercian Enactment Society – Enactments/guided walks about rural folklore
Sept 2006 – Tract, Site specific live art and performance in Penzance – Re-enactment/pilgrimage
May/June 2006 – Transition, Site06, Stroud, Glos. Enactments at Betty’s Grave, Poulton & Tom Long’s Post on Minchinhampton Common. A new collaboration with Lorna Trupec – including artist multiples & corn sculpture.
Magpie Seven Museum of Curiosities Interactive performance installation
February 2007 – Prism, Mall Galleries, London.
July 2005 – Severn Valley Railway, Bewdley. In association with the Brunel Broderers.
Jun 2005 – Open Spaces Open Places, Northampton (Metro, Train Station, Gallery 58 and Abingdon Park)
May 2005 – Art of Permanence and Change, Sydenham Hill, London. Dulwich Festival.
Apr 2005 – Corinium Museum, Cirencester. Part of Cabinets of Curiosity Exhibit.
Feb 2005 – Haydonleigh Primary School, Swindon. – For World Book Day.
Oct 2004 – Fourth Expedition. (Invited by Red Gallery, Hull). Including Educational Lecture by the Custodian. Feren’s Art Gallery, 54˚ North (Parcel Office, Hull Train Station) & Platform 2 Hull Train Station.
Sep 2004 – ‘Packed’. Avon Valley Railway, Bristol.
May 2004 – Bath Fringe Festival. Magpie Seven Museum of Curiosities
Nov 2003 – Southerop, Glos. Creative Women Exhibition.
June 2004 Garden Party, Chedworth Glos – ‘Small Acts’. Various site & event specific memorials & an active installation.
Oct 2004 Response to Eden – South-West Textiles. Eden Project, St Austell & Exeter Phoenix Part of ‘Celebration of Birds’ – A nest – ‘Icarus Reformed’.
Nov 2002 – Dartington, Devon: ‘Crossing Time’. – ‘Wind-raiser’ – durational performance
magpie seven: peddler of talismans and relics’. Interactive mercantile performance installation.
Apr 2004 – Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery. As part of the ‘Working Together’ Symposium.
Aug 2002 – Tremenheere, Penzance, Cornwall. Field of Vision: PALP – temporary site-related art works
Sept 1998 Axiom Arts Centre, Cheltenham, Glos. ‘Ex Libris’ exhibition: Cheltenham Festival of Literature. – ‘Undecidables’- Framed digitally manipulated images.
Papers & Articles
May 2019 – Book Review – Historic house museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: a history, Museum History Journal,DOI: 10.1080/19369816.2019.1613787
March 2019 – ‘From Saints Bones to Dickens Monkey: A brief history of the Biographical Museum’ Evening Lecture Corinium Museum, Cirencester.
Jan 2018 – Paper – ‘Capturing & Manifesting the Dead: The Biographical Museum as Medium’. Research Seminar, University of West London.
Sept 2014 – Paper ‘“… [he] fit[s] like a snail to its shell.”: Darwin reflected in his museum home’ given at the Museums and Galleries History Group (MGHG) 2014 Conference – ‘Houses as museums, Museums as houses’ at the Wallace Collection, London
May 2013 – Paper ‘Biographical objects & the changing rhetoric of display in Nineteenth Century & early Twentieth Century’ for Long Nineteenth Century network Seminar Series.
Jul 2012 – Paper ‘Evoking creative and mental labour in Biographical display’ at International Society of Cultural History 2012 Lunéville conference, ‘Histoire Culturelle du Travail’.
Aug 2011 – Paper ‘Constructing ‘Lieux de biographie’: The construction of associative narrative in the creation of notable houses as biographical museums’ at International Society of Cultural History 2011 Oslo conference, History – memory – myth: Re-presenting the past.
March 2010 – Paper ‘So many things in an Overcoat’ – Cultural History Research Group seminar ‘Material culture, subjectivity and signification’ UWE.
Summer 2009 – Article on Doctoral research for Museums and Galleries History Group (MGHG) Newsletter.
Teaching
Sept 2012-May 2013 – Visual Culture Level 3 dissertation tutor (associate lecturer), UWE, Bower Ashton.