C.V.
EDUCATION:
MA Museology, University of East Anglia
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Bath Spa University
BTEC Diploma Art and Design, Kent Institute of Art and Design
Awards & Prizes:
Digital Black Dance Ecologies, Imaginal Cells, AHRC, 2024
National Lottery Project Grant, The Colour of Transformation, Arts Council England, 2022
‘Hidden Credit’, Mayor of London, International Women’s Day, 2019
Visions of Science, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, 2018
Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, 2016
Trevor Walden Travel Award, National Museums Kenya, 2011
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Orleans House Gallery, Richmond Borough Art Collection
Research & residencies:
Melting Metropolis, University of Liverpool and Wellcome, 2023 - 2028
British Council Circular Culture Programme, Trinidad, 2023
Corbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Tobago, 2023
DECIDE project, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, 2022
Cultural Reforesting, Orleans House Gallery, UK, 2021
Artist Research Lab, Fusion Arts Oxford, UK, 2021
SELECTED Press, Publications, PODCASTS:
Creator of the Month, The Great Outdoors Magazine, August 2024
Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You, Right to Roam, Bloomsbury, 2024
How can art transform our relationship to nature?, Black Earth Podcast, May 2024
Taking Space in Nature: The Power of Change, Environment Magazine, March 2023
The Dataset’s Dream, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, March 2023
The Colour of Transformation, Where The Leaves Fall, February 2023
Green Visions: When artists and ecologists meet, The Niche (British Ecological Society), Autumn 2021
Life Lines, bind collective, May 2021
Bloom where you are planted, Jackson’s Art, July 2020
The Rebel Zine, Edition 1, Newham Extinction Rebellion, 2020
Framing the Conversation, Technology, Design & the Arts: Opportunities & Challenges, Springer, 2020
SELECTED Installations / commissions:
Imaginal Cells, seed commission, Digital Black Dance Ecologies, AHRC & Royal Society of Geographers
Alkemy of Sound: Planting Dirt, British Council Americas, A K U Z U R U & COCO Dance Festival
The Colour of Transformation, Arts Council England, Butterfly Conservation & William Morris Gallery
The Dataset’s Dream, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and UKRI
Broad Meadow, LDA Design & Oxford City Council
Take the Time, Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, Orleans House Gallery & Octopus Energy
Tributaries of Knowledge: Still We Rise, The World Reimagined, Liverpool & London
Turnpike Lane Shutter Gallery, Haringey Council, London
Freeling Street Pocket Park, Islington Play Association
Biophilia, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Fern Protection, Rape Crisis England & Wales
Interconnected / Thank You, Fusion Arts Oxford & Oxford City Council
Follow the Lichen, Zero Emissions Network & Islington Council
Love Your Space, St Mungo’s Homeless Shelter
Botanical Bentley, Bentley Priory Museum & Arts Council England
Selected Group shows:
Right to Roam Kernow, Falmouth, 2024
COZY: Comfortable in my skin, Gallery OCA, London, 2023
TRACE, Chilli Art Projects, London, 2023
Lines of Dissent, Orleans House Gallery, London, 2022
Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, 20 21 Visual Arts Centre, North Lincolnshire, 2022
Spaces In Between, W1 Curate & Everyday Racism, London, 2022
Some Of Us Are Brave: The Feminine, Form and Function, CasildArt, Oxford, 2022
Remember The Future, Orleans House Gallery, London, 2021
Black Box, Disrupt Space, London, 2021
Six predictions of Edinburgh’s future green spaces, British Ecological Society, Edinburgh, 2021
Visions of Science, The Edge Gallery, University of Bath, 2018
The Other Art Fair, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 2016
Solo Exhibitions:
Anima, Campbell’s Art Gallery, London: April - May 2022
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:
Fresh Perspectives: Future of London: Climate Resilience & Equity, RSA, 2024
Imaginal Cells with Digital Black Dance Ecologies: Royal Society of Geographers AGM, 2024
Embodying climate through art, space and time, World Congress of Environmental Humanities, Oulu, Finland, 2024
Drawing the Melting Metropolis, Future of London Conference: Climate Resilience and Equity, 2024
Professional membership:
The Place Collective
Honorary Associate, Department of History, University of Liverpool
UK Climate Reframe Network
Visiting Scholar, Queens College CUNY, New York
Community of Practitioners (CoP), Orleans House Gallery
Curatorial roles (2009-2020):
Public Engagement Manager, The Francis Crick Institute
Exhibition Registrar, Wellcome Collection
Interpretation Manager, Easy Tiger Creative
Curator, The Women’s Library
Exhibitions Officer, Brent Museum and Archives
Curatorial Fellow, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Curatorial consultancy: V&A Museum of Childhood, National Trust, Disrupt Space, Black Cultural Archives.