Exhibitions

2025

ReWilders ShowcasePier Street Hull

2024

ReWilding WIPs ExhibitionPier Street Hull
What We Do 87 Gallery Hull

2023

seeds of change (MA Show)Prospect Gallery Hull

2022

Land Empathy Development LabHull Artist Research Initiative
Trees and WaterProspect Centre, Hull

2021

Feral Reveal #4Humber Street Hull

2020

Practice in PlaceHumber Street Gallery Hull
Feral Reveal #2 – Humber Street Hull

2019

Rejects – Bean and Nothingness Hull
Drawing Breath Humber Street Hull
Thoughtful Planet 3 – Thought Foundation Birtley
Ones To Watch Sunny Bank Mills Leeds
Littoral Vistas – Hull Central Library

2009 – 2018

Ten Degrees – Fine Art BA (Hons) Degree Show Hull
Artist Takeover #1 – Queen’s House Showcase Hull
Fountain17 – Gladstone Pottery Museum Stoke-on-Trent
Hull in Paint – Hull
Wellbeing Through Creativity – University of Hull
Fountain 17 – Broderick Gallery Hull
Recovery Through Art – Kardomah94 Hull
FdD Creative Arts End of Year Show – Barnet London
Threshold – Barnet London
Fd Dip End of Year Show – Camberwell London

Community

Ongoing creative projects

The Critical Fish – UK / International
Streams – 87 Gallery Hull

2024

CloverLore – Hull
Sh*t Beach – Hull
The Room: Ukrainian Community Heritage Project and Exhibition – Our Big Picture Grimsby
Faces of Me: Young Women’s Eid Festival Exhibition – Peel St Project Hull
Kaleidoscope Festival: Thorseby Primary School – Hull
Eco-Artivism – HEY Volunteers Hull

2023

ReWild: A Space To Be – Scarborough Museums
Riverspeaking – Hull Maritime / The Humber Recovery College
Where the Beings Are: Shorelines (A Perfect Storm) – Rights Community Action / Hull Friends of the Earth / Yorkshire Wildlife Trust / NICE

2022

Elloughton Primary School – East Yorkshire

2021

Building Research Culture – Leeds Arts University
The Creatives Directory – The Critical Fish / Hull City Council
‘What Matters to Me?’ (Recovery Strategic Framework) – Humber NHS Fd Trust
Fishbowl Conversations – The Critical Fish / Absolutely Cultured / Creative Hull
Postbooks – The Critical Fish / Heads Together

2020

Bags of Creativity – The Critical Fish / IVE Hull

2012 – 2018

Art, Migration and Mental Health – University of Hull
Wellbeing Through Creativity – University of Hull
Recovery Through Art – Kardomah94 Hull
Painted/Stained-Glass Murals – Hull Psychiatric In-Patient Unit

Public Art

2025

Shorelines: A Perfect Storm (Part 2) – Hull, Bristol, Liverpool
Orb #5 – Hull

2023

Where The Beings Are – YWT Nature Garden Hull

Residencies

2025

AA2A York St John University

2024

RE:View – Acoustics– Hull Artist Research Initiative

 Connection A Little Piece of Land

2023

Broad Sailing – Norfolk Broads
TreeHouse – Norfolk
Crit Club: Ecology – EOP International

2022

RE:Locate – Hull Artist Research Initiative
The Art House – Wakefield

2021

The Ideas Hub – Wellcome Trust, UK

2020

ONE Book Residency – Online
Emergence @ Tate Exchange – Tate Modern London

2018 – 2019

Shape Arts Instagram Takeover – Online
Park Ave Studios Hull
Humber Street Sesh Hull
Easington Coast – East Yorkshire
Queen’s House – Hull

Teaching, Training and Mentoring

Ongoing

Teaching various creative workshops within private, corporate and third sector organsations.

2024

Faces of Me: Young Women’s Eid Festival Exhibition [Mentoring] – Peel St Project Hull
Kaleidoscope Festival: Thorseby Primary School  [Teaching] – Hull
Eco-Artivism
[Training] – HEY Volunteers Hull

2023

INTER_CHANGE 1:1 [Coaching] – Absolutely Cultured
Climate Activism [Teaching] – Driffield Primary

2022

Elloughton Primary School [Teaching] – East Yorkshire

2021

Building Research Culture [Mentoring] – Leeds Arts University

Additional Roles

Ongoing

Co-Director (since 2017) – The Critical Fish
CDE Hull Hub Co-cordinator (since 2023) – Culture Declares Emergency
Arts Lead (since 2023) Hull and East Riding Friends of the Earth
Hull Musical Theatre Company (since 2024) Committee Member

Publications

2025

Regenerative Practices in Creative Collaboration with our More-Than-Human Kin Unearthodox [online]

2024

In Conversation with… Lauren Saunders – Insights of an Eco Artist [online]
Equitable Making with Our More Than Human Kin – The Critical Fish [online]
Curly Wurly Research Practice – The Critical Fish [online]

2023

Submissions – Times V: Solidarity [online]

2022

Ethical Art-Making; Human Non-Human Creative Collaborations – The Critical Fish [online]
The Geopoetics of Drawing – The Critical Fish [online]

2021

Living Lines – Carbon-Borders-Voices [online]

2020

Genotin – Creeping Expansion; Happy Families (Issue One)
Emergence – Tate Exchange

2019

Drawing inbetween the lines – The Critical Fish, Brill (Issue Two)
Editorial – The Critical Fish, Anchovy (Issue One)
Place To Place – Double Negative [online]

2016 – 2017

Genotin – Untold Hull
A Picture of Health: an exploration into the relationships between visual art and meaningful mental health recovery – BA Dissertation
Holistic Health: The best kind of therapy? – OT News

Other Contracts

2025

Volunteer Coordinator – Pickering Road Community Orchard

2023

Artist Network Manager – East Riding Cultural Education Partnership
Inter_Change Coach – Absolutely Cultured

2022-23

Learning and Talent Development Manager – Absolutely Cultured

2020-21

Recovery Strategy Project Lead – Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

2016-22

(Senior) Recovery College Practitioner – Humber Recovery College (Humber NHS)

2012-16

Activity Coordination – Various Public and Private Sector

Performances

2025

Jesus Christ Superstar (as Pilate) HMTC, Middleton Hall Hull
RENT (as Joanne) Park Street Performing Arts Centre Hull

2024

Christmas ConcertHMTC, Cottingham Civic/Beverley Memorial
Tales and Scales Spooky Anniversary Celebration – Humber Street Gallery Hull

Roles We’ll Never Play HMTC, Cottingham Civic/Beverley Memorial
Velvet Voices – HOi Hull
Chanter Lands Freedom Choir, Freedom Festival Hull
Into the Woods (as Lucinda) – HMTC, Middleton Hall Hull
A-Z of Musical Theatre – HMTC, Cottingham Civic

2023

Tales and Scales Christmas Celebration – 87 Gallery Hull
Villains of Musical Theatre – HMTC, Cottingham Civic

Key Presentations

2024

Hull on the Rise: Art and Climate Change [Panel Discussion] –  Ferens Art Gallery Hull

2023

Climate Anxiety [Panel Discussion] –  Humber EcoFest

2022

The Geopoetics of Drawing [Lecture] –  HARI Residency Hull
Artist Research Practices [Lecture] – Leeds Arts University

2019

Artist Talk, Flux/Us at Tate Exchange [Talk] – Tate Modern London

2018

Research Presentation [Lecture] – BCUR Conference Sheffield
‘Portfolio Working’ [Lecture]– HCUK HE Conference Hull
Posters in Parliament [Presentation] – BCUR Westminster London

Prizes

2024 May Elliot Memorial Trophy
2018 Emergence Award
2018 David White Memorial Award
2018 Roland Box Prize
2018 BCUR Posters in Parliament Runner-Up

Appearances and Features

2024

Sh*t Beach [TV interview] –  BBC Look North
Sh*t Beach [TV interview] –  ITV Calender
Land of Promise [Poetry Reading] –  Shorelines Celebration Hull
Wassail [Reading] –  Pickering Community Orchard Hull

2023

Climate Anxiety [Panel Discussion] –  Humber EcoFest
Artist Practice [Podcast] – Humber EcoFest / Unsee the Future
Artist Interviews – Ecotime (5.6.23 and 21.08.23): BBC Radio Humberside

2022

Creatives Directory – David Burns Show (18.05.22): BBC Radio Humberside

2020

Postbooks – Re:UNION (21.10.20): East Leeds FM
About Art – Liveline with Wolfy (18.08.20): Hull Kingston Radio
In Conversation with… – Shape Arts [online]
A Q&A with… – artist-network [online]
Testimonial/Interview, Young Artists Speak Out; Passion, Compassion and Purpose in the Arts and Education – Prof. Peter Renshaw, ISBN: 979-8-62-763212-4

2019

Selecting Judge  – Beverley Art Gallery Open Art Exhibition
Creativity and Mental Health – BBC No Filter (23.09.19): BBC Radio Humberside
Mental Health Awareness Week – BBC No Filter (13.05.19): BBC Radio Humberside

Formal Training

2024-5

Permaculture Design Course for Artists and Creatives [Accredited] – Small Things

2023

MA Creative Practice (Distinction at 87%) – Hull School of Art and Design / University of Hull

2018

Fine Art BA Hons (1:1) – Hull School of Art and Design / Open University

2017

Skills for Community Arts Work Award – Artlink Hull

2016

Art Therapy Foundation – Northern Art Therapy Programme Sheffield NHS
Award in Education and Training – Hull College

2012

Creative Arts Fd Degree (Merit) – Barnet College / Middlesex University

2009

Art and Design Fd Diploma (Merit) – Camberwell College / University of the Arts London
Life Drawing, Illustration Skills, Visual Thinking and Narrative Structures – Camberwell College / University of the Arts London

CPD

2024-5

ReWilding Practice – Feral Art School UK

2023

UNION 23 – UNION Arts: The Northern School for Creativity & Activism UK

2022

Advanced Facilitation Skills – UNION Arts Cumbria

2021

After Art – Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination Paris/Online
Painting – Feral Art School Hull
Edward Jenner Award – NHS Leadership Academy UK

2020

Digital Storytelling – NHS England
Languages of Editing – Corridoor8 Liverpool
Fruit Factory Network – Absolutely Cultured UK
UNION 19 – UNION Arts: The Northern School for Creativity & Activism UK

2019

Printmaking – Feral Art School Hull
Drawing Marathon – Royal Drawing School London

2013

Working Creatively with Children – Scrapstore Hull