art education & qualifications

Diploma Contemporary Portraiture Art Academy London, 2019

MA Contemporary Art Practice (distinction) Kingston University, 1997

Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 1987-1990

Chelsea College of Art, London, 1986-87 

exhibitions

2023

November 12 – 23
Borders
POSK, 238-246 King St, London W6 0RF
Riverside Artists Group

September 9 – January 14 2024
RWA 170 Annual Open Exhibition
RWA, Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1PX

September 6 -10
SWISSARTEXPO
Artbox.Project Zurich 5.0
Zurich Mainline Station

June 13 – August 20
‘Displaced/Found 2’
Royal Academy London Summer Exhibition 2023

May 29 – June 21
‘Going Going’
Featured in ‘MAYDAY MAYDAY’ exhibition
24 artists from Riverside Artists Group on Instagram

2022

November 11 – 20
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition
Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1
Online until December 31

September 2 – October 2
Many Rivers to Cross
Riverside Studios, London W6 9BN
With Riverside Artists Group 

April 27 – May 8 
Postcards from the River’s Edge
Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on-Thames
With Riverside Artists Group

2021

Online July 7 – September 20
Figurative Art Now
Mall Galleries / Federation of British Artists
www.mallgalleries.org.uk

Online from May
‘response – at a distance’
www.riversideartistsgroup.com/response
A project devised by Grazyna Cydzik
Works by seven artists created in response to each other’s work over a period of 4 months in the latter part of Lockdown

March 1 – April 5
Messages from Somewhere.  A project on Instagram by 36 artists from the Riverside Artists Group
Each day within the allotted period one artist posted one image and one piece of text (which contained a randomly selected word from the Swadesh List)

December 2020 – June 2021
3 paintings
Huddle Winter Art Show

January – March
‘64 Days’ on HF ArtsFest website
https://www.hf-artsfest.com/project/64-days

2020

November 19 – December 31
Discerning Eye
www.discerningeye.org/exhibition/intro.php

Online from July 4 

Riverside Artists Group presents an online exhibition by 16 of its members which
went live on July 4 2020

The work originated in my proposal to RAG members during Lockdown to make one
drawing every day for four weeks beginning 25 April. To coincide with the first stage of
easing of Lockdown in England, the project was extended to 31 May. Read more

November 13 2019 – January 12 2020
Part of Riverside@Riverside
Riverside Studios

2019

July 11-14
Grad Show Contemporary Portrait Diploma
Art Academy London

‘dividing line’
Riverside Artists Group, Central Space Gallery, London

2012

‘salon 2012’
photography
Photofusion, London

2008

‘inside out’ group show
The Link Gallery, Winchester University

2007

group show
286 Gallery, London

2006

photography
2-person show
Dartmouth Arms, London

2005

photography
group show
Lichtaffen Gallery, London

1999

‘gap in the sea cliffs’
2-person show (with Peter Brooke-Ball)
Kingsgate Gallery, London

1998

‘adrenalin’
group show
Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury

‘follow up’
group show
Byam Shaw School of Art, London

‘boundaries of landscape art’
group show
Riverside Artists Group, Small Mansion Art Centre, London

1997

‘ma show’
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University

1994

‘turn round in anger’
group show
The Coventry Gallery, London

‘open studios’
The Gallery, Brick Lane, London

1993

‘open studios’
Martello Street, London

1992

‘she heard it on the radio, she read it in a magazine’
group show
Women’s ArtWorks, Watershed, Bristol, touring

commission

2011

photography commission for offices of Ovington Capital

talks

2008

talk and presentation of images of Hijra persons from Dai Welfare Society Mumbai, at University of York Gender Institute

1993

talk and presentation of ‘sugar’ work images to teaching staff at Kensington and Chelsea College, London

writing

2000

March review of ‘Detour’ in Public Art Journal, vol. 1, no.3

mail art

1998

contribution of one sugar perfume bottle to Ruth Pringle’s ‘Deep Frieze’ travelling exhibition of donated artworks; bottle placed in two locations in Qaqortoq, Greenland

display

2007

display of photographs
The Bridge Gallery, London

2006

display of photographs
Brompton Cemetery, London

1997

display of work completed on the MA Public Art project
Hackney Museum, London

workshops

1995

paper-making at two London hospitals and for HAFAD