Education and Research:

2020–2026: PhD Research Candidate, Bath School of Art, Media and Film.
Every Contact Leaves a Trace: An investigation into the potential of ceramic and print process to extend understanding of the temporal, material and transient in landscape.

2004–2005 – MA Ceramics, National Centre for Ceramic Studies in Wales, Cardiff
1999–2000 – PGCE Art and Design, University of Cambridge
1995–1998 – BA (Hons) History 2:1, Durham University
1994–1995 – Foundation Art and Design, North Devon College (Distinction)

Awards and Prizes

2025 – Cass Art Prize, RWA Biennale Open (Paper Works), for Aperture
2024 – Bowe Memorial Prize, Wells Contemporary, for I Was Here
2006 – Distinction Licentiateship, Society of Designer Craftsmen

Research, Conferences and Symposia

Doing Together Research Symposium, Bath School of Art, Media and Film
wordprocessobject: Practice Based Symposium, Art Research Centre | Material: Making Research Group
Landscape as Resistance: Creativity in Crisis Symposium, Bath Spa University
Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Memory, Accountability and Representations of the Past, Centre for Memory Studies, University of Bristol
Somerset Reacquainted Research Group

Teaching and Academic Roles

2023-2025

Guest Tutor, Creative Pathways MA, Bath School of Art, Media and Film
MA Fine Art Research Programme – Guest Speaker, Bath School of Art, Media and Film
Artist Lead, Somerset Online Art Group

2007–Present
Freelance Teaching and Workshops including:
Dean Close School
Craft in the Bay
Pate’s Grammar School
Chewton Mendip Primary School Art Club

2006–2007
Artist in Residence, Harrow School, London

2005–2006
Ceramics and Sculpture Technician, Pate’s Grammar School

2000–2004
Teacher of Art and History, Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham

2008–2018
Career break for the birth of three children.

Selected Exhibitions and Installations

2026: Viva exhibition. Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath.

2025: RWA Biennale Open: Paper Works

Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, The Crescent Hotel, Bath.

2024
Wells Contemporary – I Was Here, site-specific installation
Royal Academy Summer Show
Landscape (Re)view II, Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton
Somerset Art Weeks Micro Commission – Landscape Flux and Flow

2018–2024
Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Research Exhibition, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath
RWA Bristol Open Photography Exhibition
Somerset Art Weeks Open Studios
Chew Valley Open Studios
West Bristol Art Trail

2009
The Pasmore Gallery, Harrow School, London

2008
Sculpture Commission, Harrow School Memorial Chapel
DRAWInternational, Caylus, France
The Body Exhibition, Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth

2007
Three by Three, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
Cecilia Colman Gallery, London

2006
New Designers, London
Designer Crafts, Mall Galleries, London
The Body Exhibition, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

1998
100 Devon Potters, Burton Gallery, Bideford

CONTACT
 
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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