2024:

Landscape (Re)view II, Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton.

Wells Contemporary 2024: I Was Here. Site specific installation.

Recipient of the Bowe Memorial Prize, for ‘I Was Here’ Wells Contemporary 2024.

Royal Academy Summer Show.

Somerset Art Weeks micro commission: Landscape Flux and Flow.

Artist lead for Somerset Online Art Group.

Doing Together Research Symposium. Bath School of Art, Media and Film.

Creative Pathways Masters degree. Bath School of Art, Media and Film, guest tutor.

Somerset Reacquainted research group.

2020- 2024:

PhD research candidate, Bath School of Art, Film and Media. An investigation into the potential of ceramic and print process to extend understanding of the temporal, material and transient in landscape.

RWA Bristol Open Photography Exhibition.

wordprocessobject: Practice based symposium. Art Research Centre | Material: Making Research Group Bath School of Art, Film and Media

Doing Together research symposium 2023. Bath School of Art, Film and Media.

MA Fine Art Research programme, Bath School of Art, Film and Media, guest speaker.

Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Research Exhibition. Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath.

Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Memory, Accountability and Representations of the Past: Centre for Memory Studies, University of Bristol.

Landscape as Resistance: Creativity in Crisis Symposium, Bath Spa University. March 2021.

Shortlisted Royal Academy Summer show 2021.

2008-2013: Birth of my 3 children.


Education and Employment:

2020 onwards: PhD research candidate, Bath School of Art, Media and Film.

2007-present: Freelance teaching and workshops including: Dean Close School, Craft in the Bay, Pate’s Grammar School, Chewton Mendip Primary school art club.

2006-07: Harrow School, London. Artist in Residence.

2005-06: Ceramics and Sculpture Technician Pate’s Grammar School..

2004-05: Master’s degree Ceramics. National Centre for Ceramic Studies in Wales, Cardiff.

2000-2004: Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham: Teacher of Art and History.

1999-2000: Cambridge University: PGCE Art and Design.

1995-98: Durham University: BA Honours 2.1 History.

1994-95: North Devon College: Foundation Art and Design. Distinction.

1991-1994: Kings College, Taunton. A’ levels: Art, History, English Literature.

Selected Exhibitions and Galleries:

Wells Contemporary 2024: I Was Here. Site specific installation.

Royal Academy Summer Show 2024

Somerset Art Weeks Open Studios, Chew Valley Open Studios, West Bristol Art Trail 2010-2024.

2009: The Pasmore Gallery, Harrow School, London.

2008: Sculpture commission, Harrow School Memorial Chapel.

2008: DRAWInternational, Caylus, Tarn-et-Garonne, France.

2008: The Body exhibition, Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth.

2007: Three by Three: Craft in the Bay, Cardiff.

2007: Cecilia Colman Gallery, St Johns Wood, London.

2006: One Year On: New Designers, London.

2006 Designer Crafts: The Mall Galleries, London. Awarded a Distinction Licentiateship, Society of Designer Craftsmen.

2006: The Body Exhibition: Collyer Bristow Gallery, London.

1998: 100 Devon Potters. The Burton Gallery, Bideford.

 
View fullsize Nest 1 and 2. Cocooned plant material with porcelain paper clay slip, black stoneware clay, molochite, thread, glaze and oak gall ink. I’ve been photographing work for a few exhibitions, it’s been lovely revisiting pieces. I made thes
View fullsize Book forms, grids, sequences. Photogravure, porcelain, cyanotype, beeswax and oak gall ink book forms. Wells cathedral installation proposal, sgraffito pages, paper and wax book, porcelain and thread book. Porcelain, earth pigment and smoke fired
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View fullsize ‘Ash Viewing’ Deer Leap, Priddy. Tomorrow this Ash tree will be turned into charcoal, I’m so grateful I managed to see it, it’s astonishingly beautiful and heart wrenching. Thankyou @lottescottartist #somersetartweeks #a
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View fullsize A big Thankyou to everyone who came to the pit firing gathering on Saturday. Just the most fantastic evening. Lighting the kiln, as the sun started to set, felt part of an ancient rhythm of making that we have been a part of for many millennia&hell
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View fullsize Some highlights from the last week… Curating book forms from the beautiful pages created during village workshops over the last few months. Using beeswax and thread to bind pages made by many different people into one form. Hosting a hand b
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View fullsize There are still a few places left on my upcoming ceramic workshop for @somerset_art_works as part of this year’s festival theme Landscape Flux and Flow. Join me on 21st September 11-1 for a workshop exploring ancient ceramic techniques to cre
View fullsize Some wonderful images from the community workshops I’ve been running this summer as part of my micro commission for Landscape Flux and Flow. Working with clay, plant material, cyanotype and oak gall ink. What I found so inspiring was how part
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View fullsize It’s the opening of wells contemporary tonight. I installed my 22 book forms last week in readiness. Such a wonderful feeling seeing the books lined up on site. Some serendipitous moments with marks etched on the wall and onto the clay lining
View fullsize ‘I Was Here’ books 6-10. I’m installing all 20 books in Wells cathedral on Monday. I am both anxious and excited to see how they work in such a vast space. I chose the site, a low stone bench opposite the Lady Chapel as the light
View fullsize ‘I Was Here’ installation for Wells Contemporary. Books 1-5 finished and photographed ready to be placed at their site along the wall facing the Lady Chapel in the Cathedral. I’ve loved this project. Porcelain paper clay and slip
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View fullsize A sunset walk through the Litton fields. We gathered plants and seed heads, made clay prints from ancient oak trees, discussed witchcraft and the enclosure act… and how to talk to our teenage children. Found our favourite trees and collected
View fullsize Preparing work for Somerset (re)acquainted Landscape exhibition. The theme of the exhibition is how we express care and repair towards the landscapes we inhabit. This piece continues my theme of the palimpsest, the idea of the landscape as a record
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