Since graduating with a Masters of Design from Glasgow of Art in 1999, I set up a workshop in Glasgow, and then moved to Cockpit Arts in London in 2003. I produce a wide range of semi- functional objects, from brooches to puppets, all of which have movement as an intrinsic part of their design. For the past five years I have been selling and exhibiting in over twenty galleries whilst also undertaking larger and more intricate private and public commissions. I am now based in a studio in central Edinburgh.
1999 Master of Design in Metalwork, Glasgow School of Art
1995 BA Hons in Three Dimensional Design: Wood, Metal and Plastics.
University of Wolverhampton. First Class Honours
1997 Bishopsland- 1 Year residency sponsored by P&O Makower Trust
1991 Foundation in Art and Design, St Albans College of Art & Design. Distinction
1995 The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths-silverware award
1996 The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers-funded Masters
1999 Business Start Up Grant-Wellpark (Women in Enterprise)
2000 GNER & Shell Livewire Travel Award-Scottish Winner
2002 Art of Can- Redbull Creative Competition- Winner
2005 Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship & Design Awards –Senior Chaser- Commendedr
Exhibitions
Future Exhibitions-
Goldsmiths’ Fair. 24- 30 Sept 2007, Goldsmiths Hall Foster Lane, London. Stand 19.
Wasps Open Studios. 7 & 8 Oct 2007. 78 Albion Road, Edinburgh. EH7 5QZ. Studio 201.
‘100 Years of Silver.’ 11-26 Oct. Bright & Son, Victoria Quarter, Leeds.
Past Exhibitions-
Goldsmiths’ Fair
3-9 Oct, Collect @ V & A 9-13 Feb 2006
2005 Goldsmiths’ Fair. Goldsmiths’ Hall London. 3-9 October.
Collect,12-17 Jan. V & A Museum
Design Collection 2005- Roger Billciffe Gallery, Glasgow
2004 Goldsmiths’ Fair. Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
Wish you were here: Crafts Council Shop at the V&A Museum
Collect, 20-24 Feb 2004.’ The new art fair for contemporary objects.’
V&A Museum
2003 Top Drawer Autumn-Earls Court
Silver Sparks: The Bishopsland Connection-Gilbert Collection, Somerset
House,
Solo Exhibition- Brewery Arts, Cirencester.
Gone Today- here Tomorrow- Hitchcock’s, Bath. Automata Exhibition
Circus Nights- Solo Show at Gracefield’s Art Centre, Dumfries
2002 Top Drawer – Trade fair at Earls Court (8 to 10 September)
Artisan, Edinburgh Festival of Contemporary Craft
Ark, an automata exhibition - Hitchcocks, Bath
2001 Figurative Exhibition - The Craft Shop, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Bishopsland Retrospective - Reading
1997 Artisan – Festival of Contemporary Arts, Edinburgh
Art in Action, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire
1995 New Designers, Islington Artisan, Edinburgh Festival of Contemporary
Arts, Edinburgh
Commissions
2005 Silver lamp of Galilean fishing boat & pelican- Winchester Cathedral
‘Little Big Ben’ & ‘Three Blind Mice’. Advertising
campaign for Red Bull
‘Docket’. Sculpture in Red Bull cans of Tracey Emins’
cat. Auctioned for charity.
2004 Dragon Sculpture with enamelled flame – N. Lanyon, London
2003 St.Mungo: Mechanical figure at Tron Tower, Glasgow. In collaboration
with Sharmanka
Delia’s Amazing Dogs. Figure holding hoop & dogs jump through-
Kaye Adams, Glasgow
2002 Navajo Headress & 1950’s Space Rocket – C.Cox, Glasgow
Circus wall frieze of thirteen characters - J. Lorman, Cheltenham
Phoenix with automated wings and beak – S. Price, Lincolnshire
Steel figures based on 1950’s Circus – Otago Restaurant, Glasgow
1999 Two Steel Salamanders – The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
1997 Silver Lion & Fleur de Lys Bollo Tie – J. Howlett OBE,
Oxfordshire
Publications
2005- Work used in National Redbull advertising Campaign.
2001- 'Public Hanging at the Briggait', Pick of the day, Times Out, Evening
times, glasgow
Punch and Judy Fellowship Newsletter
2000 - 'Business awards loom for young Scots go-getter', Job Search, Evening
Times, Glasgow
'Enterprising Women, Showcase 2000', Business A.M
'Prize is just the ticket for West End artist', Glasgow Observer
1998 The Craft and Galleries Book