C.V.
EDUCATION:
MA Museology, University of East Anglia
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Bath Spa University
BTEC Diploma Art and Design, Kent Institute of Art and Design
Curatorial roles:
Public Engagement Manager, The Francis Crick Institute
Exhibition Registrar, Wellcome Collection
Interpretation Manager, Easy Tiger Creative
Curator, The Women’s Library
Exhibitions Officer, Brent Museum and Archives
Curatorial Fellow, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Curatorial consultancy for V&A Museum of Childhood, the National Trust, Disrupt Space & Black Cultural Archives.
Research & residencies:
Research Artist, Melting Metropolis, University of Liverpool, 2023 - 2028
British Council Circular Culture Programme, with COCO Dance Festival, Trinidad, 2023
Corbin Wildlife Sanctuary residency, Tobago, 2023
The DECIDE project residency at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, 2022
Cultural Reforesting Artist-in-Residence, Orleans House Gallery, UK, 2021
Artist Research Lab, Fusion Arts Oxford, UK, 2021
Awards & Prizes:
National Lottery Project Grant, The Colour of Transformation, Arts Council England, 2022
‘Hidden Credit’, Mayor of London, International Women’s Day, 2019
Visions of Science, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, 2018
Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, 2016
Trevor Walden Travel Award, National Museums Kenya, 2011
SELECTED PUBLIC Installations:
The Colour of Transformation / Alchemy of Sound: Planting Dirt, project supported by British Council Americas
The Colour of Transformation, film supported by Arts Council England
The Dataset’s Dream, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Tributaries of Knowledge, The World Reimagined, Liverpool & London
Turnpike Lane Shutter Gallery, Haringey Council, London
Somers Town Seasons, Camden, University of Liverpool
Wild Drawing Through Lockdown, St Pancras & Somers Town Living Centre
Take the Time, Grantham Institute at Imperial College London & Octopus Energy
Broad Meadow, Broad Street, Oxford City Council & LDA Design
Freeling Street Pocket Park, Islington Play Association
Biophilia, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Interconnected, Fusion Arts Oxford and Oxford City Council
Follow the Lichen, Zero Emissions Network & Islington Council
Love Your Space, St Mungo’s Homeless Shelter
Not a Wallflower, Greenwich
Botanical Bentley, Bentley Priory Museum
Fern Protection, Rape Crisis Bradford
Solo Exhibitions:
Anima, Campbell’s Art Gallery, London: April - May 2022
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Shadow Dance triptych, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond Borough Art Collection
Selected Group shows:
COZY: Comfortable in my skin, Gallery OCA, London, 2023
TRACE, Chilli Art Projects, London, 2023
Lines of Dissent, Dzifa Benson and the Genealogy of the Richmond Borough Art Collection, Orleans House Gallery, 2022
Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, 20 21 Visual Arts Centre, 2022
Spaces In Between, W1 Curate & Everyday Racism, London, 2022
Some Of Us Are Brave: The Feminine, Form and Function, CasildArt, Oxford, 2022
Remember The Future, Orleans House Gallery, London, 2021
Black Box, Disrupt Space, London, 2021
Six predictions of Edinburgh’s future green spaces, British Ecological Society, Edinburgh, 2021
Visions of Science, The Edge Gallery, University of Bath, 2018
Handmade at Kew, London, 2016
The Other Art Fair, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 2016
Press & Publications:
Belonging chapter, Wild Service: A Culture of Connection and Care, Edited by Nick Hayes, Bloomsbury 2024
Taking Space in Nature: The Power of Change, ‘Women Changing Our World’ interview in Environment Magazine, March 2023
The Dataset’s Dream, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, March 2023
The Colour of Transformation in REBIRTH / ROOTS / RIGHTS, Where The Leaves Fall, February 2023
Green Visions: When artists and ecologists meet, The Niche, British Ecological Society, Autumn 2021
Life Lines, bind collective, May 2021
Bloom where you are planted, Jackson’s Art, July 2020
The Rebel Zine, Edition 1, Newham Extinction Rebellion, 2020
Framing the Conversation: the role of the exhibition in overcoming interdisciplinary communication challenges by Susan Liggett and Mike Corcoran, in Technology, Design and the Arts: Opportunities and Challenges, Springer, 2020
Who do we think we are? Working with Social History Collections in the 21st Century, Social History Curators Group, 2011
CURRENT Professional membershipS:
The Place Collective
Honorary Associate, Department of History, University of Liverpool
UK Climate Reframe Network
Visiting Scholar, Queens College CUNY, New York
Community of Practitioners (CoP), Orleans House Gallery