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
Exhibitions & Residencies
La Wayaka Current: 1 month in the Atacama desert, Chile. October 2024
Exhibition: Doors through time… following the rose petals . Displayed at Ecosse D’oc St Laurent de la Cabrerisse in September 2024
Cove Park Scotland: Artist residency April 2024
JOYA Air Artist residency-Spain June 2023
IN Residence Turin: Osmotic Narratives design workshop scholarship- February 2023
Embodied Mindful Sounds- 20th-31st July 2022- Victoria and Albert museum
Solo exhibition for Lock Down Ladies at Hackney Downs Studios July 2021
Royal College of Art Graduate Degree show 2021
Imperial College Graduate Degree show 2021
Royal College of Art; Work in Progress show 2021 (Online)
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
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
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. My mediums are diverse; ranging from sculpture, ceramics, photography, installation, textiles, printing, moving image and illustration. I hold an MA and MSc in Global Innovation Design from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London 2021 and a BA in Textiles from the University of Leeds 2018. My work has been displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Young V&A, Royal Botanic Kew Gardens and East London Galleries.
CV Available upon request.