Relevant Education:

Present - 2006-08
MA Arts and Ecology, Dartington College of Art, Devon

2001-2005
BA (Hons) Fine Art, gaining 2.1.
University of Hertfordshire

2000-2001
Certificate in Counselling Skills
The Herts and Beds Pastoral Foundation, St Albans, Hertfordshire

Working within the art world:

Workshop tutor:
A series of self devised art workshops headed Art and Ecology, Astley Cooper Secondary School, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, April 2007, and ongoing.

Workshop assistant:
At the week’s course Artscool! at University of Hertfordshire,
July 2006

Workshop tutor:
2 day workshop teaching Photoshop at Astley Cooper Secondary School, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, June 2006

Film commission:
Milton Keynes Gallery, (MK G), commissioned me to work with exhibiting artists Langlands and Bell to make an interpretative video to accompany their exhibition in July 2005.

Exhibition Intern:
Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Bucks.
Work included:
Assisted with the preparations for the exhibition by the Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller and fellow artist Alan Kane titled Folk Archive. I liaised with the artists and their assistant to programme a range of complimentary events and activities in conjunction with the exhibition.
Assistant for the installation by the British Artist Phil Collins titled Yeah...You Baby You, working with the gallery's technical team to hang and install the exhibition.
Assisted New York artist Mike Balou with promotional material and installation.
Sorting proposals from artists applying for exhibition opportunities.
2004-2005

Big Arts Week:
Voluntary week at a Leighton Buzzard Middle School. Working with a class of 7 year olds. We made artwork for an outdoor mobile. Pupils painted with transparent acrylic paint on to pre cut shapes, which were then assembled in to one huge mobile. (Unfinished).
June 2003.

Workshop leader:
Danesbury Care Home, Welwyn, Hertfordshire. Running a weekly pottery workshop for people attending care home and disabled by Multiple Sclerosis.
2000-2001.