EDUCATION

2014-17 BA (Hons) Fine Art, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK​

2013-14 BTEC Art and Design, Hereward College, Coventry, UK

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SELECTED COMMISSIONS​

2023 Everywhere and Nowhere - National Trust, Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, and University of Leicester, UK

​2020 The Full Light of Day - VAE Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 

​2019 THE IDLE INDEX - Phoenix Leicester Arts Centre/The Gallery - De Montfort University/Attenborough Arts Centre

2018-19 AB&B COMMISSION - Welcome Inn - , AB&B - Blackpool, UK

​2019 DMU Mentor Awards, De Montfort University

​2014 The Lodge Hotel - Hereward College​

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS​

2018 Solo show: Housing Crisis - Attenborough Arts Centre ​

2016 Solo show: Our Family  - BBC Leicester, 9 St Nicholas Place​

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS​

2021  The Cared For Network -  Careful Networks Online

​2021   Swinging in the Wind - The Gallery, DeMontford University Leicester, UK

​2021 / 2022    What You Do Not See - Hounslow Library, London, UK

​2020     Visions in the Nunnery - Visions 

2020 - Bow Arts, London UK

​2020      The Future is Loading - Shape Open 2020, Online 

​2019 THE IDLE INDEX - Phoenix Leicester Arts Centre/The Gallery - De Montfort University/Attenborough Arts Centre​

2017 LoveArt - New Walk Museum and Art Gallery

2017 Emancipation?  - Attenborough Arts Centre

2016 Outside In National: Radical Craft  - Alternative Ways of Making

​2013 Impact Art Fair. Block 336, Brixton, London

​2013 Outside In: Central  - Compton Verney Art Gallery

​2013 N22OPENSTUDIOS - The Chocolate Factory, Clarendon Road, London

​2012-13 Outside In: National -  Pallant House Gallery, Chichester​

2012 Shape Open -  Portobello Gallery 6 Thorpe Close London​

2012 Tight Modern - Touring 

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TALKS / LECTURES / CONFERENCES​

2023 Unseen: Archiving the Hidden Black Disabled Experience: In Conversation / Wellcome Collection London and Online

2023 Object Memory: Artist Talk / Phoenix Leicester

2023 Open College of the Arts & The Human LIbrary: Artist Talk  / Online

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2022 Unlimited Festival 2022: Artist Talk / Southbank Centre, London

2022 TATE MODERN LATES: Art Chats with Senior Creative Producer, Liat Rosenthal

2022 DANC Hybrid Networking event @ HOME Manchester

2022 Attenborough Art Centre: Artist talk

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2021 DANC Jennifer Gilbert / Disabled Artists Networking Community / Plus Tate Network​

2021Exploring Research: Nothing About Us Without Us, The Wellcome Collection

2021 ​Cities: The City in British Art Working Class British Arts Network

2021 ​Museums on Prescription National Portrait Gallery / Tate Online

2021 ​A Conversation on Sex with Cancer Sex With Cancer / Battersea Arts Centre

2021 ​The Creative Manifesto Assembly / University of the Arts London

2021 ​Artist’s Talk What You Do Not See / Hounslow Library

2021​ Critical and Creative Approaches to Disability / Illinois State University

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2020 Diversity in Architecture Loughborough University - Lu-arc Summer Discussion Series

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SELECTED PRESS & MEDIA​

2020      A Sleepless night, Enable magazine - January/February  ​

2019 Welcome Inn , Ian Youngs, BBC​

2019 Welcome to the Welcome Inn, Jo Verrent, We Are Unlimited​

2019 Blackpool's new Art B&B, Front Row, BBC Radio

2019      Accessibility issues with awkward, uncomfortable and vexing hotel room, Emma Lake, THE CATERER

2019      Room for improvement! World's most annoying hotel, Terri - Ann Williams, DailyMail ONLINE

2019      Accessible Housing? The Art Of Experiencing Life In An Unliveable Living Room, By Staff, AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACTION

2019      A hotel room that’s uncomfortable on purpose, Carol Hills, “THE WORLD,” FROM THE BBC WORLD SERVICE, WGBH, PRI, AND PRX

2019      Confronting Discomfort: VAE Exhibit Reframes Disability,  Colony Little - WALTER magazine

2019      Art B&B in Blackpool features a misshapen room to give guests an insight into the difficulty disabled people face, Dan Coles - Mirror