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Awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship in 1996 led to an extensive study of the use of ceramics in public art. The journey through the USA, Spain, Mexico and Guatemala combined my passion for landscape with an opportunity to research successful public art works.
My art practice explores movement of sea, of goods, of people, of shoreline, and of satellites; and the work produced sets points in time, points of view, sets places, and sets details. A recurring theme is a particular fascination with mapping transient details by direct casting, such as the movement of material by the sea.
Prior to graduating from Central St Martins in 1990, my fascination with geography and ecology gained experience and technical qualifications as a cartographer and surveyor for Birkbeck College, University of London. It is this academic background that informs my current practice.
|  |  | Bellenden Map Terrace, funded by much publicised Bellenden Renewal Project, mapped the local area. Through a series of artist led workshops the local community were involved in selecting detail elements from their locality to punctuate the terrace with relief images. The resulting work is a café terrace that engages users with empathy and sensitivity to its surroundings, and an invitation to look more closely at the detail of the local environ.
Recent work for Trust Arts Projects (2000-2003) has involved commissions for works on paper, and tile panels for the NHS. In addition to artist led workshops I have a wide variety of teaching experience from special needs groups to visiting tutor at Central St Martins and Camberwell Colleges of Art.
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