Short story:
I am looking to specialise in editorial design for the arts but I am interested in exhibition design and design for print more broadly.
I have a background in fine art, and have exhibited work around the UK and Europe.
MA Communication Design, Norwich University of the Arts (2023)
MRes: Humanities and Cultural Studies, London Consortium (2010)
First Class BA (Hons): Modern and Medieval Languages, King’s College, Cambridge (2008)
Long Story: Education & Experience
I always wanted to make art but I got an offer to study languages at Cambridge. I graduated from King’s College in 2008 with a First Class BA Hons in French and Italian. Whilst there, I did the visuals for the end of year party known as King’s Affair - more ‘sweat dripping off the cellar ceiling to drum and bass’ than ‘black tie and strawberries on the lawn’.
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After living in Rome for a year (working as a PA to a film producer and getting involved in photography projects), I moved back to the UK to complete a Masters by Research (MRes) at the now sadly permanently closed London Consortium. (The Consortium was a collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Science Museum and TATE).
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I graduated from the Consortium in 2011, and rented a studio at Bloc Studios, Sheffield. I continued to mess around with paint and wood, exhibiting my paintings and assemblages around the UK and Europe including at the Mall Galleries, London in 2015 and at Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid in 2018. I organised and took part in group shows and got involved as a trustee at Bloc Projects.
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In 2016 I won Arts Council Funding for my solo project BOAT (for Peter) based on Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera Peter Grimes. Working with music academic Dr Katy Hamilton, I created a visual response to the score and exhibited my work in a solo show at Snape Maltings during the Aldeburgh Festival of 2017.
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An opportunity at the University of East Anglia, to design a public programme for Our Subversive Voice - a research project into the history and politics of the English Protest Song - allowed me to develop my interest in editorial and exhibition design. I made a zine, a songbook of protest songs and a programme to showcase the research. I made displays for indoor and outdoor exhibitions including Cecil Sharp House, Norwich Arts Centre and Latitude Festival.
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In 2022 I began a full-time MA in Communication Design at Norwich University of the Arts. I’ve studied design for the arts in a broad sense and have focussed on editorial design, design for print and visual storytelling. I’ll be open to opportunities for work from summer 2023.
