Selected Biography

2010

Invisible Nipple, paper collage shown in 'Equinox' the last group show at The Foundry, London. Other artists included David Medalla, Richard Niman and Jo Roberts.

2010

SEGRIO Young Artists Award. Collaborating as an artist with a group of young people to create three art works on the theme 'The World Of Work', to be shown in a special exhibition at the Royal Society of Artists.

2009

6 Days Goodbye Poems of Ophelia, an interactive video installation inviting the public to leave answer phone messages to the character of Ophelia. This long term project was originally funded by The Wellcome Trust and uses stop frame filming of bacteria to animate an image of John Millais' famous Ophelia painting to tell a story of her death and transformation.

Please participate in this project by leaving songs or poems to Ophelia on her voice mail at: +44 (0) 20 7183 9366 (standard land line rates in the UK). More information about this project can be found here.

2006-2009

Work in progress shown at:

  • The Wellcome Trust Gallery, New Compounds Gallery.
  • National Poetry Day Celebration, Camden Town Hall, London.
  • Fresh Abstractions Film Festival, SF World, Bangkok.
  • Ghost 11, London. Curated by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal.
2009

Invited by writer Marina Warner and The Last Tuesday Society, London, to perform JoWOnder And The Psychic Tea Leaves, which used projected animation, live performance and prints to explore the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale.

2009

Founded the British Women Artists website to celebrate International Women's Day.

2009

Square Up the Decade shown at the Noid Gallery London and at Druckdealer, Hamburg Karolinenviertel.

2008

AQFFIN Gallery, London, solo show of oil paintings, The Gynaecologist and the Patient

2008

La Bete of the Object of Desire, T1+2 Gallery, London, UK. Don't Submit to a Moments Passion With a Stranger installation.

2007

Guildford Cathedral, Flatlanders installation. A High Definition animated video installation made as a tribute to the monumental experiment at CERN. A debate on The God Particle: Is Science the New Religion? accompanied the installation.

2007

/seconds, Teedale St, Gallery, London, Flatlanders installation. Flatlanders was also exhibited at The New Future exhibition, Washington DC Arts Centre USA.

2006

Cobravision award for Walking, which was broadcast on ITV2, UK.

2006

Artist in residence at Lewisham College. Created the large wall hanging Life is Like.

2004

5 Men film installation at the Intimacy event, Goldsmiths University, London.

2004

Screening of 5 Men film installation at Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy.

2003-2004

Two Children Threatened By A Nightingale shown at The Festival de Alcala de Henares, Madrid and at the Annecy International Festival.

2002-2003

Sally Down The Plug Hole shown at the Williamsburg Art And Historical Centre, USA. Also exhibited at the ICA, London, 291 Gallery, London, Orleans House Gallery, London, Brave Destiny Master Surrealist Exhibition, Brooklyn, USA.

2000

Invited artist at the Centre d'Art, Chamalières, France. Created the International Michelin paintings.

1998-2000

Artist's residency with bursary place at The Fire Station, Tower Hamlets, London.

1997

The Cat broadcast on Carlton Television as part of their showcase for artists film and video.

1996

Sawdust for Brains and the Key of Wisdom broadcast on Channel 4 Television. Also shown at the Stuttgart film festival, Germany, Krakow Festival, Poland, Women Call The Shots, Canada and other places.

1995-1996

Screen Writing Award given by the London Production Fund; Screen Writing Award by The British Film Institute.

1992-1993

The Weatherhouse shown a the ICA, London. This was also broadcast on BBC Television, UK.

1992

The Weatherhouse was the winner of the, Federico Garcia Lorca prize for a fantasy film, Spain.

1990

The Brooch Pin and the Sinful Clasp shown at the Stuttgart film festival, Germany. Also broadcast on Channel 4 Television and screeen at the Annecy Festival, France, Krakow Festival, Poland, LA Femme Film Festival, France.

1990

The Brooch Pin And The Sinful Clasp, Winner of The Grand Prix Zagreb Animation Festival, Croatia. Also won the Cardiff Festival, New Directions Award, The Most Promising Newcomer award, and it was included in the UK Arts Council program Between Imagination and Reality.