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Awards/Grants/Prizes

2025
Longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize
Shortlisted for the International Art Prize from Winsor & Newton & Paul Smith’s Foundation

2024      
Oppenheim - John Downes Memorial Trust Grant
2022      
Recipient of the Castlefield Gallery Artist Professional Development Award at the Manchester Open 2022 
2019      
CVAN Bursary



Group Exhibitions 

2025  
The Manchester Contemporary with the Pearls Collective
The Bankley Open, Manchester
Miniature Masters, Canal Boat Contemporary, London
Simulcast II, curated by Ruth Heaton and Sean Williams, Gage Gallery, Sheffield
Bankley Open, Manchester
ex ex vee, Hedge Studios and Gallery Space, Sheffield
Cross Currents, Helm Contemporary, New York
A Small Space, Macclesfield Silk Museum, Macclesfield
Mancheter Made, Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester
Simulcast, curated by Ruth Heaton and Sean Williams, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield        
Just Supposing, micro exhibition curated by Sean Williams, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
The Landscape, a three person exhibition with Comme Ça Gallery, Manchester   
A bell is a cup until it is struck, Bloc Projects, Sheffield

2024
In the cabinet of fancy, Terrace Gallery, Huddersfield
Miniatures Challenge exhibition, Canal Boat Contemporary, London
The Pearls and the Oyster, Birley Studios
Chasing the Light/Tracing the Tides, Comme Ça Art Gallery with Sophie Nixon 
The Manchester Open
The Manchester Contemporary
Precious Little, Mura Ma

2023      
A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery
A Small Space collective, Stockport and Manchester
Rogue Women 2, invited artist, Manchester
Edgelessness, an exhibition of contemporary painting, Mura Ma Gallery, Manchester 
Material Presence, Turps 2022 cohort exhibition at Fitzrovia Gallery, London
The Beep Painting Prize, Swansea 
The Manchester Open, HOME 

Education 

2020-2022 Turps Banana School of Painting, two years
2020      Studio Book, Mark Devereux Projects (MDP) 
2018      IMAA alternative art school, Islington Mill, Salford
2018      Hot Bed Press complete printmaker, one year


Residencies


2024 
Tracing the Tides residency, Ynys Mon, North Wales

2023-2024
Developed curatorial practice through established Mura Ma contemporary art gallery with focus on painting.

2021  
285 Deansgate, Great Northern Warehouse, Manchester residency and installation from June-August 2021:  
'Vista: a tale of disappearing skies and life within the city grid'

2019  
'Six Feet Deep' Residency and installation at Victoria Baths

2018 
Unit 4 residency at Islington Mill with film-maker and painter, Donna Wood


Press and Talks

2024
The Pearls and the Oyster at Birley Studios, Preston

2022
Presentation/talk to accompany exhibition at St Helen's World of Glass