I am an artist, educator and facilitator from Greater Manchester, UK.
My art practice is research-led and I use objects, materials and processes to explore the ways that people are documented in material culture and place. The language and practices of everyday culture and museum collection inform my sculpture, site-specific installation, and public activity.
I often make my work as part of artist residencies and public commissions; previous project partners have included National Trust, Cadw and Arts Council of Wales National Glass Centre Sunderland, Castlefield Gallery and Aberystwyth Arts Centre. My work is held in the permanent collection of MIMA and was exhibited as part of Sonia Boyce OBE RA’s touring exhibition In the Castle of My Skin in 2020-21.
Between 2017 and 2021 I co-founded the artist-led space, Paradise Works Salford in response to the erasure of artist-led communities from city centres. I worked with artists to establish long-term studio provision with a dynamic programme of exhibitions, artistic development and public facing activity, and led on strategic development activities. I was awarded the Clore Fellowship for this work in 2019 with Clore Leadership and a-n, and subsequently participated in an 18-month programme of professional development activity, completing a coaching accreditation with RD1st and Culture at Work, and a AHRC funded research project on artist communities and placemaking with supervision from University of Salford.
In 2021, I was awarded a Developing your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England to complete a period of studio development and produce new sculptural works in ceramics. In 2022 I returned to my creative practice and commenced training in Transactional Analysis psychotherapeutic counselling, and I am currently exploring the crossover between the two. I continue to draw my broad expertise into my role as lecturer of cross-disciplinary Critical & Contextual Studies at the University of Salford School of Arts & Media.
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Residencies
2017 Quarry Bank Mill, National Trust through Trust New Art + supported by Arts Council England.
2015 Group Occupation N/W, New Art Gallery Walsall with ESP, CG Associates + Spike Island
2013 Valle Crucis Abbey, with Cadw + Arts Council of Wales.
2012 Canal & River Trust, Wigan, with East Street Arts + the Contemporary Art Society.
2010 National Glass Centre & Nulife Glass, for Re-make/Re-model.
2010 Aberystwyth Arts Centre with the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
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Projects
2015 The Grotto Project, Sale Shopping Centre
2014 Useful Work Versus Useless Toil, 42nd Street, Great Ancoats, Manchester
2012 Collecting History, Manchester Craft & Design Centre
2011 Craftworks, Library Theatre Company, Manchester
2010 MiNE: Made in the North East, National Glass Centre
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Public Collection
2010 MIMA, Middlesbrough
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Selected Exhibition
2021 Sonia Boyce: In the Castle of My Skin, MIMA Middlesbrough
2020 Sonia Boyce: In the Castle of My Skin, East Side Projects
2016 Progress, Rogue Artists’ Studios & Project Space
2015 Launch Pad: For Posterity, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2013 Austere and Ornamental, Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen [solo]
2012 Chronology, Canal & Rivers Trust North West, Wigan [solo]
Epidemic, Kokomo University Art Gallery, USA
In my Craft or Art, New School House Gallery, York
2011 Portraits in the Making, Pitzhanger Manor House, London
Re-make/Re-model, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Gallery of Wonder: Lucy Harvey, Hancock Museum, Newcastle [solo]
2010 One Place to Call Home, MIMA Middlesbrough
5, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
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Artist-Led Activity
17 – 22 Director, Paradise Works, Salford – co-founded and established contemporary visual arts artists studios + gallery
2018 Castlefield Gallery and a-n Artist Delegation to Budapest – research into artist-led space
2018 Assembly Salford, with a-n – curation and coordination of symposium on sustainable artist studio provision
2016 Place + Production programme coordination for Rogue Artists’ Studios, including exhibition curation: Progress, Excuse Me While I Am Changing and Division of Labour
2016 Great Northern Graduates at Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair
13 – 15 Gallery Team & Marketing Officer, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Levenshulme
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Training + Awards
21-22 Arts Council England Developing your Creative Practice, 12-month studio grant to support new ceramic sculptural works
2021 Accredited Relational Dynamic Coach, RD1st Coaching and Culture at Work
2021 Gestalt in Action, 2-day course with The Gestalt Centre, London
2020 AHRC funded Clore Leadership qualitative research project with supervision from University of Salford
19-21 Clore Fellow (visual arts) with Clore Leadership & a-n, cultural leadership development programme
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Education
2008 MA Jewellery, Silversmithing & Related Products, BIAD School of Jewellery
2007 BA (Hons) Three Dimensional Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
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