Thematically my work deals with the poetics of objects and materials and the implication of inherent meaning.  My work explores the relationship of image and object and the context in which and how it is placed.  My work is equally located on the floor or wall mounted.  I regularly work in multiple objects, where collectively individual works may transform their meaning.  Mostly my work is presented as installation.  I work in a variety of materials; wax, ash, lead, chocolate, bronze, pewter, jam etc.  The focus of my work is based on the transfiguration of the sign.  Exploring memory and association.  I am concerned with the transformation, of the sign into object.  I use a range of materials which are predominantly cast, a recent project combined chocolate and bronze to translate a sign which would hover between real and constructed, real life and artifice.  The work is intended to challenge the notion of authenticity and multiple realities.  I hope to construct a narrative, which interrogates personal and cultural identity.  In transforming symbols and signs, official becomes personal, public, becomes private and new readings question meanings and our associations.  My work explores a poetic association of a generic sign in relation to individual responses and context.  The signs/symbols are transformed through process, material and location, which invert or relocate their meaning.

Qualifications/training 2000 MA Visual culture/sculpture  (distinction) Bath Spa University

Solo exhibitions

2005   RUH Bath

2004   St Paul’s Cathedral, London

2004   Jerwood Space, London Any day now

1999   Forge, Bath Flourish

Group exhibitions

2006 Monstrous Tales, Apt Gallery London

2006 Sheldon Manor , Wiltshire

2006 Chocolate, Ale and Porter Arts, Wilts

2005 A–Mart  Bradford on Avon

2005 Northrup King Building, Minneapolis

2005 Herschel Museum, Bath

2005 Virtual Memorial, Cologne

2005 BirdxBird  Minnesota Institute of Art

2005 Bird International Beijing China, Award

2005 Southwold Gallery

2004   New Greenham Gallery

2003   Usher Gallery, Lincoln,

2003   Walcot Chapel Bath

2002   Art age and Gender, London

2001   In theory, BANA Churchill house, Bath

2000   On Common ground, Lacock, National Trust Gardens

2000   Forgeries, Bath

2000   Spacex, Exeter

1999   South West of England Gallery, Bristol

Publications / Reviews

2004   Independent newspaper C Cripps

2002   Art Age and gender, BBC radio 4

2002   Art Age and Gender, publication

2001   Venue. Dec Best group show

1999   Independent Newspaper 'Flourish' BY Maureen Freely

1999   Women's Artists Diary

1999   www.uk@rwa