Education                  

BA (Hons) Fine Art (1:0 & Awarded annual NCAS prize)

Norwich University of the Arts (2009-2012)         

BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Distinction)

Cambridge Regional College (2008-2009)

 

Professional Experience 

Salt firing, Wiveton, Norfolk (2023)

Anagama firing lead (All women firing), Wytham Woods (2023)

Anagama firing, Wytham Woods, Oxford (2022)

Train kiln construction, Brittany, France (2022)

Anagama firing, Wytham Woods, Oxford (2022)

Anagama firing, Montingnac-le-coq, France (2022)

Anglo Saxon Kiln Project (with Suffolk County Council Archeological services), Hands on Heritage, Suffolk (2022-2023)

Anagama firing, Wytham Woods, Oxford (Sept-Oct 2021)

Head technician at Wensum Lodge Ceramics Department (2020-2021)

Mckinney Fine Art Foundry, Norfolk (2019-2020)

Temporary assistant to Sculptor Neal French, Dereham (2018)

Temporary assistant to Potter AnneMette Hjortshøj, Denmark (2018)

 

Teaching & LSA work

Slow Clay, Trory Street, Norwich (2023-present)

Ceramics Tutor, Helgate Pottery, Norwich (June 2023 - present)

Evening Ceramics Tutor, NCC Wensum Lodge, Norwich (Jan 2020 - July 2023)

Artist Associate, SCVA, Norwich (Oct 2019 - present)

Sea Fodder: A homage to the sea with Suffolk Libraries, Firstlite Festival, Lowestoft (June 2022)

Roman face pots (as part of Art Space at Gainsborough Library), Suffolk Libraries (June 2022)

Saggar firing (as part of Art Space at Great Conard Library), Suffolk Libraries (March 2022)

Concrete and plaster casting workshop, Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich (April 2021)

How to Build a Labyrinth – A tutorial, Suffolk Libraries (Aug 2020)

Making Ink from Flora & Fauna - A tutorial, Suffolk Libraries (Aug 2020)

Sculpting salt-dough Seaweed - A tutorial, Suffolk Libraries (July 2020)

Free wild clay workshop as part of Cley19, Cley-next-the-sea (2019)

A short series of workshops - primitive pottery and paper porcelain, Easton Pottery, Norwich (2018)

Private tuition in Pottery & Life Sculpture, Norwich (2017-present)

Pop up pottery workshops, Dove Street Studios, Norwich (2017)

Tutor of Life and Portraiture Sculpture, Anteros, Norwich (2014-2016)

1 year as Student Support on Art Foundation Diploma, 

LSA to adults with learning difficulties and disabilities, Wensum Lodge, Norwich (2013-2016)

LSA to 16-18 Step-On Programme, Norwich, Great Yarmouth & Gorleston (2013-2016)

Drawing Light Workshop, Netherhall School and Sixth Form College, Cambridge (2012)

 

Solo & Group Exhibitions

Archival, The Assembly House Trust, Norwich (2023)

OKI, Gallery 1+5, Oxford (2023)

Ash Ember Flame: Continued, Oxford University, Oxford (2022)

Ash Ember Flame: A Japanese Kiln in Oxford, The Japanese Embassy, London (2021-2022)

Kunsthalle Cromer at the Collector’s Cabin (curated by Sarah Lowndres), Cromer (2021)

Summer Open, The Assembly House Trust, Norwich (2021)

Weathering: New Art from East Anglia, The Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth (2021)

Series of Spaces, Center of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea (2020)

Cley 19, Cley-next-the-sea, UK (2019)

Ecstasy in Norwich, Lower Green, Norwich, UK (2019)

Collaborative show with Kyle Klaverstjn, Craftco, Southwold, UK (2017)

End of Beginnings, Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich UK (2016) 

Norfolk and Norwich Open Studios Taster Exhibition, Norwich, UK (2015-2017)

Pot Bleu, The Bicycle Shop, Norwich, UK (2015) Solo

SAVORR VII, Norwich, UK (2014)

Red Nose, The Barn and Stables, Walberswick Suffolk, UK (2013)

Progress through Process, The Bicycle Shop, Norwich, UK (2013) Solo

SAVORR Selects, The Other Art Fair, London, UK (2012)

A Space in a Space of the Unknown, Changing Spaces, Cambridge, UK (2012) Solo

SAVORR V, Norwich, UK (2012)

Process, The Apple Yard, Norwich, UK (2012)

Draw, Stew Gallery, Norwich, UK (2011)

 

Residencies & Research 

Clay Research Group Tutor, Helgate Pottery, Norwich (2023-present)

Unbloc Home Residency, Norfolk (2021)

Unbloc Home Residency, Norwich (2020)

Autumn BLOC LAB, Lowestoft Library (2019)

Wild clay research, Bornholm, Denmark (2019)

Wild clay research, Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK (2018-present)

Saltunavej Residency, Bornholm, Denmark (2018)

 

Collaborations & Private Commissions

Privately commissioned series of ceramic works, Suffolk, UK (2018–2020)

Work-wear collaboration with LaneFortyFive, London, UK (2018)

Run of Cups commissioned to sell alongside Radical Russian Exhibition, SCVA, Norwich, UK (2017)

Photography collaboration with Crista Leonard, Barcelona, Spain (2017)

Product collaboration with DohmShop, Nottingham, UK (2016)

 

Awards & Funding

Norfolk Arts Project Fund (2020)

Norfolk Contemporary Art Society Prize, Winner (2012)

NADFAS Young Arts Competition, Highly Commended (2007)

 

Open Studios & Organised Events

Ceramic School Trip, Norwich to Cambridge (2023)

Christmas Pottery Opening with Symy Ong, Easton Pottery, Norwich (2022)

Easton Pottery live-in Ceramic Residency awarded to Emma Newton (2022)

Mayday celebration, An Online Gathering, The internet (2020)

Open Pottery (September & December), Easton Pottery, Norwich (2018)

Easton Pottery live-in Ceramic Residency awarded to DYAD CREATIVE (2018)

Easton Pottery Open House – Exhibiting myself and 5 other artists, Norwich (2017)

Norfolk and Norwich Open Studios (2015-2017)

St Augustine’s Christmas Fair – Exhibiting myself and 30+ stallholders and artists, Norwich (2015)

Fine Art Auction, Duke Street Library, Norwich (2012)

 

Publications

Site Writing, Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts (2022)

Fortified (2019)

Beyond, NUA Alumni Magazine (2017)

Drawing Paper #5 (2012)