Career Experience:
Ongoing experimental arts practice- currently exploring themes of place/identity/heritage and connection to climate.
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
I am an artist, designer, researcher and creative educator. My work reconceptualises our collective emotions in areas of social impact, personal escapes and through community. I utilise diverse mediums; drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography and installation, to explore the dualities between landscapes and memories.
Currently, I am developing my sculptural works that respond to the landscapes they are created in. Through projects like La Dualidad, I examine the complex relationships between indigenous practices and Catholicism, reflecting on how rituals, symbols and memory shape identity and cultural narratives. This work has deepened my focus on site-specific and ephemeral sculptures that are made by and for the landscape.
With an MA/MSc in Global Innovation Design (RCA/Imperial College) and a BA in Textiles (Leeds), I have exhibited at the 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.