CV
Recent Highlights
International e-residency with FAVELab Athens culminating in video and new work on show during Schmuck and Munich Jewellery Week 2022 at Bayerischer-Kunstgewerbeverein and Weltraum Galleries.
Collect 2020 at Somerset House, London
Hothouse 2020 participant – Crafts Council creative business development programme
Invited to become a member of Klimt02, the international art jewellery forum based in Barcelona
Exhibitions
2024
Mar-Apr Local landscape - Jonathan Mulvaney, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator]
Apr-Jun Joined Up, Makers Guild in Wales [co-curator & exhibitor]
May-Jun Dorset Art Weeks, Sandy Hill Studios, Corfe Castle
Jun Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracy
Jun Helios, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator & exhibitor]
Sep Porth, 44AD Bath [curator & exhibitor]
Sep-Oct Porth, The Net Loft, Porthleven [curator & exhibitor]
Oct Art to Art, Bradford on Avon [curator]
Nov 4 Days Only, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator & exhibitor]
2023
Feb-Mar Darkness to Hope, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset
Apr-Jun Facets; Le Bijou Céramique, Giroussins's Contemporary Ceramic Centre, Tarn, France
Apr Primavera, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator & exhibitor]
Apr-Jun Spotlight, MAKE Southwest
Jun Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey
Jul-Sep Design-Nation at the Platform, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
Oct Art to Art, Bradford on Avon [curator]
Oct-Nov Ever Present, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator & exhibitor]
Nov-Dec Future Present, Bridport Arts Centre
Nov-Dec Joined Up, Carmarthen School of Art [co-curator & exhibitor]
Dec SSW Xmas Art Fair, Symondsbury [curator & exhibitor]
2022
Jan-Apr Design-Nation: Our Journey, The Hub, Sleaford
Feb-Apr Metamorphoses, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich
June Contemporary Craft Festival, Bovey Tracy
July SMCK on Reel, Weltraum Gallery, Munich
July Flotsam Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator/exhibitor]
Sept Flotsam Too, The Beachcomber, Teignmouth [curator/exhibitor]
Oct Winsley Art Group Show, Bradford on Avon [curator]
Nov-Jan Shine, Create Cornwall, Bedruthan [co-organiser/exhibitor]
Nov-Dec Future Present, Bridport Art Centre
2021
May-Jul Time-Lapse at Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. [Joint co-ordinator/exhibitor]
Mar Painful Hope Alliages at Munich Jewellery Week
Sep Radiant Pavilion (virtual) Australia
Jun-Sep Precious Things in Times of Uncertainty, Alliages, Lille
Jul-Sep Making It, Devon Guild
Sep Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey, Devon
Oct London Craft Week (virtual)
Oct-Nov Precious Things in Times of Uncertainty, Madrid
Nov-Dec Elements, Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis [curator/exhibitor]
Dec-Mar Material Matters: introducing Design-Nation Cornwall & Devon, Devon Guild [co-ordinator/exhibitor]
Dec Cluster Jewellery Edition, London
Past Exhibitions
2020 Actual
Dec-Feb 21 Painful Hope at Alliages, Lille
Feb Collect 2020 at Somerset House, London
2020 Virtual
Cluster-Crafts London
Prism In Search of Impossibilities
Marshwood Art Awards
2019
Nov Marshwood Arts Awards, Bridport
Oct-Dec Shades of Clay at Kunsthuis Gallery, York
Oct Fragility pt2 at RBSA, Birmingham
Sep Cluster Jewellery at The Old Truman Brewery, London
Devon Open Studios, Cotleigh
Taster Show at Artizan Gallery, Torquay
Jul-Sep Jewellery // Sculpture at BACHT showroom, Vienna
Jun-Sep Précieux !? at Alliages, Lille
May-Jun Fragility at Hoxton Arches, London
Selected Exhibitions
Also
Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
RBSA, Birmingham
Black Swan Arts, Frome
44AD Gallery, Bath
Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge - First Prize winner Trowbridge Open
Whitstable Museum & Art Gallery, Kent
Poole Museum, Dorset
The Mall Galleries, London
Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset
Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth
Holburne Museum, Bath
Avalon Gallery, Marazion
Walford Mill, Wimborne, Dorset
Strangeways, Covent Garden
Galleries
GroundWork Gallery, King's Lynn
Awards
Short listed, Chaiya Arts Award 2020
Highly Commended, Marshwood Arts Open 2019
First prize, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge Open Competition 2017
Work in Collections
Ahmansen Collection, USA
Sorensen Collection, Bath
Priest House Museum, Wimborne
Residencies
Talks
Beachcombing with rue Pigalle, Devon 2021
Agile Structures conference, Cornwall 2020
Artist Talks, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge 2018
Publications
Cluster Crafts. (2021) Sky Surface Soil. London: Cluster Crafts
Ludvig Rage. (2020) Alba Longa. Amsterdam: Ludvig Rage Club.
Cluster Jewellery Journal feature on Alison Brown (2020)
Hale, J. ed. (2011) 500 Felt Objects. New York: Lark Crafts.
Salamony, S. & Brown, GM. (2010) 1000 Artisan Textiles. Beverley, MA: Quarry Books.
Membership
Design-Nation UK - Cluster co-ordinator for Cornwall & Devon
ACJ Association for Contemporary Jewellery
Education
MA Ceramics, Bath Spa University - Distinction
BA(hons) Ceramics, Camberwell School of Art and Crafts - 2:1
Art Foundation, Middlesex Polytechnic
Art Experience
2023 - Social media & marketing, Sou'-Sou'-West Gallery
2018 - Self-employed artist and educator
2018 Organiser, MA Ceramics degree show at 44AD gallery
2015 - 16 Assistant, Acanthus Gallery, Wareham, Dorset
2008 - 16 Committee member – Secretary / Retail, Prism International Textile Group
2004 - 05 Co-ordinator, Purbeck Film Festival
2003 - 05 Administrator, Dorset Art Weeks
2003 - 05 Co-founder, Boilerhouse Gallery artists’ co-operative, Corfe Castle, Dorset
2002 - 08 Co-founder, Purbeck Art Weeks
2001 - 05 Ceramics and textiles teacher, Old Malthouse School, Dorset
1993 - 02 Office Manager for Ciantar Associates, Conservators of Works of Art on Paper
1993 Arts Programmer, The Nave Arts Centre, Uxbridge, Middx
1986 Artist in Residence, Wembley High School, Middx