Career Experience:
Ongoing experimental arts practice- practice based studio research
Artist Commission: Freshwater Renaissance by the National Trust. A series of artworks on rivers, ponds and futures for the Riverlands project in Norfolk. Collaborative workshops with farmers, conservationists and community members. (Sep-Nov 2025)
Lead Project Artist, Estuary Festival: ‘Vessels of Time / Landscapes in Motion’ (Apr–Jul 2025).
Artist in Residence at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. ‘Bridges Project’ (March–Dec 2025)
Awarded The Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice Grant 2024.
The project is an ongoing exploration into my Gaelic heritage, investigating place, land and identity. Culminating in a new creaitve workshop for young people around climate emotions.
Lead Artist: Roots of Connection
-Collaborative artwork/installation at Kew Gardens-February 2024-June 2024
Creative educator: The University of Cambridge Museums including The Fitzwilliam Museum, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and The Sedgwick Museum. Creating and delivering SEND workshops.
Designer: NAARCA (Nordic Alliance of Artist Residencies for Climate Action)- February 2024-April 2024.
Designing the pedagogy toolkit for the programme.
Designer: ‘Designing Together’ Young V&A- September 2023- December 2023.
Creative Coordinator: Bompas and Parr Design Studio August 2023-October 2023
Working on the Museum of Shakespeare design project
Designer and Schools Resource Developer: The Museum of the Home- July 2023-October 2023
Designer: Project Development for V&A Innovate programme October 2022-April 2023
Presenter and Panelist: V&A Innovate 2022: Talk on Design Methods for Teachers
Designer in Residence: Victoria and Albert Museum/ Young V&A- Inclusive and Participatory design residency
Artist: Lock Down Ladies- print initiative and art business 2020
Education:
Royal College of Art & Imperial College London
MA/MSC Global Innovation Design 2019-2021
University of Leeds
BA Textile Design, First Class Honours 2014-2018
Awarded: Foster Prize (Highest graded design dissertation of 2018)
Foundation diploma in Art and Design
UCA Epsom 2013-2014
Exhibitions & Residencies
‘Desert Walks’ Group exhibition at La Yareta Gallery, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. October 2024.
‘Doors through time, following the Rose Petals’ solo exhibition at Gallery L’Ecosse D’oc, France. September 2024- May 2025.
‘Roots of Connection’ public collaborative artwork displayed at the Royal Botanic Kew Gardens, London. Curated by Eleanor Cocks as part of the Community Open week 2024. May 2024.
‘Embodied Mindful Sounds’ solo exhibition marking the end of the 2022 residency at the Victoria and Albert museum, London. Curated by Simon Dodi and the Young V&A. July 2022.
“Lock Down Ladies’ solo exhibition at Hackney Downs Studios, London. Curated by Matt Hubner and in collaboration with Refuge UK and Solace Women’s Aid. July 2021.
Artist in Residence at La Wayaka, Chile. October 2024.
Artist in Residence at Cove Park, Scotland. April 2024.
Artist in Residence at Joya AIR, Spain. July 2023.
Publications & Press:
“Mind over Matter” interview with Eleanor Morgan featured in the V&A magazine- June 2022
Feature in the Sunday Times Style for Lock Down Ladies- May 2021
Conference presentation & Refereed paper
International Conference of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge in Tallinn, Estonia. Presenting the paper: “Deciphering the craft of the laser cutter” in collaboration with Jane Scott.
https://eksig2019.artun.ee/proceedings/
Print design displayed at LFW 2016 for Huishan Zhang https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2017-ready-to-wear/huishan-zhang
Bio
‘A Shared Social Arts Practice’
I am an artist, designer, researcher and creative educator. My work seeks to reconceptualise our collective emotions in areas of social impact, personal escapes and through community. Over the past 5 years I have dedicated my practice to understanding what it means to personally and collectively reconnect to place, to understand what it means to ‘be’ somewhere, to attune to, and to live within.
Through this exploration and curiosity of reconnection to place; landscapes, cities and communities, I have discovered the interconnectedness of ecological thinking and practice underpinning all of my work. Projects and works such as site specific ephemeral sculptures in the Atacama desert, to waste river guardian sculptures made with year 6 children on the Thames estuary, to collective printmaking practices using plants root knowledge, have all broadened my approach to the fusion of socially engaged arts practice, ecology and creative pedagogies.
Currently, I am dedicated to exploring ephemerality as a medium and methodology. It feels radical to create artwork that disappears, contradicting our minds built on certainty with dualities and temporalities. This year I aim to further this thinking through site specific works in landscapes, and continue to be inspired by the elemental forces and collective memories.
‘A Shared Social Arts Practice’ involves connecting with communities at every stage of my process. I have extensive experience in creative education, working alongside cultural institutions and focused on collaboration with young people, SEN participants and disadvantaged communities.
With an MA/MSc in Global Innovation Design (RCA/Imperial College) and a BA in Textiles (Leeds), I have exhibited at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, Estuary Festival, Victoria and Albert Museum, Young V&A, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, La Yareta Gallery, Gallery L’Ecosse D’oc and Hackney Downs Studios. Residencies in Chile, Scotland, and Spain have enriched my practice and fostered participatory opportunities with diverse communities.