Exhibitions

2026

The Shape of Acceptance – Hull Central Library
Mycodarium – Pier Street Hull
Existence is Resistance – Ground Gallery, Hull
Cabinets –  Top of the Stairs Art Gallery, Malet Lambert Hull

2025

Beverley Art Open  –  Beverley Art Gallery
The Critical Fish Trail  – Pier Street Hull
Warm The Outside Pool Up – HARI Hull
Cannons, Crown and Clover –  Pier Street Hull
UNFOLDED – Brynmor Jones Gallery, Uni of Hull

2024

UNFOLD – Pier Street Hull
What We Do – 87 Gallery Hull

2023

seeds of change (MA Show) – Prospect Gallery Hull

2009 – 22

Land Empathy Development Lab – Hull Artist Research Initiative
Trees and Water – Prospect Centre, Hull
Feral Reveal #4 – Humber Street Hull
Practice in Place – Humber Street Gallery Hull
Feral Reveal #2 – Humber Street Hull
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
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

The Critical Fish – UK / International

2026

TRANSECTS – University of Highlands and Islands/University of Hull, Hull
Tree Stories – Hull & East Riding Friends of the Earth
Queer Mycology Lab  (Inter-species creative collaboration research project) – University of Leeds, Hull
Entangled (Urban Agriculture and Multi-species Justice research project) – University of Leeds, Hull

2025

Going With The Flow – ReWilding Youth/Critical Fish, Hull
Agents of Change – Thorsby Primary/87 Gallery
A Mermaid’s Tale  (Water Heritage research project)– Uni of Hull / Hull Libraries
For The Love Of… – HERFoE 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  (Nature Kinship research project) – Scarborough Museums
Riverspeaking (Nature Kinship research project) – Hull Maritime / The Humber Recovery College
Where the Beings Are: Shorelines (A Perfect Storm) (Nature Kinship research project) – – Rights Community Action / Hull Friends of the Earth / Yorkshire Wildlife Trust / NICE

2012 – 22

Elloughton Primary School – East Yorkshire
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
Postbooks – The Critical Fish / Heads Together
Bags of Creativity – The Critical Fish / IVE Hull
Art, Migration and Mental Health (Migrant mental health research project) – University of Hull
Wellbeing Through Creativity – University of Hull
Recovery Through Art – Kardomah94 Hull
Painted/Stained-Glass Murals – Hull Psychiatric In-Patient Unit

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Regular Creative Facilitation

2025 – present – PlayHERD, The HERD Theatre
2025 – present
– Arty Bods, Absolutely Cultured
2025 – present
– Mary Wollstonecraft Society
2023 – present –
Explorers and Creative Connections, 87 Gallery
2022 – 2024
–  Streams, The Critical Fish
2016 – 2022 – NHS Humber Recovery College

Residencies

2026

TRANSECTS – University of Highlands and Islands/University of Hull, Hull
Creative Leven – Leven Library, East Yorkshire
Generation Hull – Malet Lambert School, Hull

2025

Interwoven – Fly Away Rugs, Hull
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

2018 – 22

RE:Locate – Hull Artist Research Initiative
The Art House – Wakefield
The Ideas Hub – Wellcome Trust, UK
ONE Book Residency – Online
Emergence @ Tate Exchange – Tate Modern London
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 organisations.
Creative and Arts-based Private Tuition and Home Education.

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

2021 – 22

Elloughton Primary School [Teaching] – East Yorkshire
Building Research Culture [Mentoring] – Leeds Arts University

Additional Roles

Ongoing

Co-Director (since 2017) – The Critical Fish
Arts Lead (since 2023) – Hull and East Riding Friends of the Earth
Committee Member, Production Designer and Jnr Chaperone (since 2024) –Hull Musical Theatre Company

Publications

2025

Cod – The Critical Fish Trail [printed and online]
A mermaid’s tail: Exploring water heritage in the city of Hull – SeaVoice Online V.7 [online]
Going With The Flow – ReWilding Youth/The Critical Fish
To Wild or ReWild?– ECO – HERFoE
For The Love Of… – HERFoE Hull
Regenerative Practices in Creative Collaboration with our More-Than-Human Kin  – Unearthodox [online]

2024

Talking to Trees: Wild Dialogue – ECO – HERFoE
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]

2016-22

Ethical Art-Making; Human Non-Human Creative Collaborations – The Critical Fish [online]
The Geopoetics of Drawing – The Critical Fish [online]
Living Lines – Carbon-Borders-Voices [online]
Genotin – Creeping Expansion; Happy Families (Issue One)
Emergence – Tate Exchange
Drawing inbetween the lines – The Critical Fish, Brill (Issue Two)
Editorial – The Critical Fish,
Anchovy (Issue One)
Place To Place – Double Negative [online]
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

2026/7

Tree Stories Project Manager – Hull & East Riding Friends of the Earth
Strategic Community and Partnership Development Officer – Hull Musical Theatre Company

2025

Community Hub Officer – West Hull Community Hub
Project Assistant – Pickering Park Community Orchard

2023

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

2012 – 22

Learning and Talent Development Manager – Absolutely Cultured
Recovery Strategy Project Lead – Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
(Senior) Recovery College Practitioner – Humber Recovery College (Humber NHS)
Activity Coordination – Various Public and Private Sector

Performances

2026

Plays – Time Flies (M.C / Mona) – Chameleon Players, Blank Space Hull
Play – Velveteeen (Jules) – Wolf Pack Theatre, PQ Space
Musical – We Will Rock You (Ensemble) – Hull Musical Theatre Company, Hull Truck Theatre
Musical – The Great British Bake Off (Ensemble) – Hull Musical Theatre Company, Cottingham Civic Hall
Musical – In The Air Tonight (as Max) – Dark Immersions, Hull Truck, Junction Goole and Pocklington Arts Centre

2025

Musical – Jesus Christ Superstar (as Pilate) – HMTC, Middleton Hall Hull
Musical – RENT (as Joanne) – Park Street Performing Arts Centre Hull
Film – “Special” (as Friend) – Tales & Scales/87 Gallery Hull

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Key Presentations

2025

Climate Labs: Creative Futures [Talk] –  Leeds University

2024

Where The Beings Are [Film Screening] – Marin County International Film Festival, California
Hull on the Rise: Art and Climate Change [Panel Discussion] –  Ferens Art Gallery Hull

2023

Climate Anxiety [Panel Discussion] –  Humber EcoFest
The Geopoetics of Drawing [Lecture] –  HARI Residency Hull

2018 – 22

Artist Research Practices [Lecture] – Leeds Arts University
Artist Talk, Flux/Us at Tate Exchange [Talk] – Tate Modern London
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

Media Appearances and Features

2025

Wassail [Oak King] –  Pickering Community Orchard Hull

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 [Orchard Flame] –  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

2019 – 22

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

2025

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

2009 – 19

Fine Art BA Hons (1:1) – Hull School of Art and Design / Open University
Skills for Community Arts Work Award – Artlink Hull
Art Therapy Foundation – Northern Art Therapy Programme Sheffield NHS
Award in Education and Training – Hull College
Creative Arts Fd Degree (Merit) – Barnet College / Middlesex University
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

2026

Class Acts Playwriting Programme – Middlechild, Hull

2025

Designing for Stage – NODA Summer School
ReWilding Practice – Feral Art School UK

2013 – 23

UNION 23 – UNION Arts: The Northern School for Creativity & Activism UK
Advanced Facilitation Skills – UNION Arts Cumbria
After Art – Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination Paris/Online
Painting – Feral Art School Hull
Edward Jenner Award – NHS Leadership Academy UK
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
Printmaking – Feral Art School Hull
Drawing Marathon – Royal Drawing School London
Working Creatively with Children – Scrapstore Hull