Lives and works in Norwich, UK. Studied at Central St. Martins, UWIC Cardiff and Kingston School of Art 

Exhibitions & Projects
2024 ‘Plates with Purpose’ Messums West, Wiltshire 2024 ‘As Self As Self As’ Asylum Studios, Suffolk 2023 ‘Safehouse 2’ curated by Jagger & Johnson, Peckham Festival, London 2023 ‘Making Good’ Kingston University Archive, Kingston 2022 ‘Slippery Material’ Caroline Fisher Projects, Norwich 2022 ‘A Plot, Hatched by Two’, curated by Robyn Graham, Warlbling Collective, Yorkton Workshops, London 2021 ‘A Generous Space’ Hastings Contemporary 2021 Assembly House Open, Norwich 2020 ‘Language’ curated by Loosenart, Millepiani, Rome 2019 'Another Land: Experimental Visualisations of Place’, Kingston Museum, Kingston 2018 ‘Evolution' Hockney Gallery, RCA, London 2017 ‘Strange Pilgrimage: Elements of a Narrative' (with Emily Mitchell, Leah Fusco and Mireille Fauchon) The Beaney, Canterbury 2017 ‘Members Show' selected by Andy Holden, Outpost, Norwich 2016 ‘Adaptation’ (with Jackie Chettur and Gerbrand Burger) Transition Gallery, London 2015 ‘Critical Messages', Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth 2015 ‘Hidden In Plain Sight’, NUA Gallery, Norwich 2013 ‘Library of Lost Books’ Library of Birmingham, Birmingham 2012 ‘It was never going to be straightforward, g39, Cardiff 2011 ‘Imagined Machines’ TestBed space, Oriel Davies, Powys 2009 National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bala 2008 'Conduits, Schemes & Spheres', George Rodger Gallery,  Kent 2008 ‘If You Build It, They Will Come’, g39, Cardiff 2008 ‘The Rise and Progress of Superstition’, Brecknock Art Gallery, Powys 2006 ‘Surface’, Oriel Davies Gallery, Powys 2005 ‘Begining, Middle & End’, g39, Cardiff 

Publications / Press 
2023 ‘Good’  Hoof & Claw Press 2021 ‘Deep Ends: a Ballardian Anthology’ edited by Rick McGrath, The Terminal Press 2021 ‘To Call’ No. 14  PSW Gallery (Petra Schulze-Wollgast) 2020 'Living British Cinema' Garageland 23 'Aphrodite 80 (Unfinished)' 2016 'Remake Remodel' Garageland 20 2016 'Myths of the Near Future’ Varoom 32 2014 ‘Contradictions of Style' Varoom 26, AOI 2014 ‘Visible Folly’, Folio Journal 2013 'Library of Lost Books' Birmingham Library. 2012 'The Authorial Illustrator', Atlantic Press 2012 ‘It was never going to be straightforward, g39, Cardiff  2011 Printmaking Today, ‘First Folio’ Vol. 20 

Awards
2016-23 AHRC (LDoc) Funding for a practice-based PhD, Kingston School of Art 2012 V&A Illustration Award, London 2011 Folio/House of Illustration Award 2010 V&A Illustration Award, London 2008 NAN New Collaborations Bursary, a-n, The artists information company 2007 AOI Silver  for ‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson 2006 AOI Gold for ‘In Evil Hour’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2005 AOI Bronze  for ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

Work
2018-19 Royal College of Art, Lecturer 2012-19 Norwich University of the Arts, Lecturer 2007-12 Oriel Davies Gallery, Designer 2009-10 Central St Martins, Visiting Lecturer 2008 UCA Maidstone, Visiting Lecturer 2004-06 Hereford College of Arts, Lecturer 

Conferences
2024 ‘Experimental Archives’ Kingston School of Art 2017 'JG Ballard and Making' Birmingham City University 2015 'Adaptation and the Metropolis', University of London 2014 ‘ A Palimpsest of Foolery’ ‘The Itinerant Illustrator’, Srishti School of Art, Bangalore 2010 'The Untamed Tiger', University College Falmouth

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