I work with professional artists and creatives at any stage of their career,
to find and maintain freedom in creative thinking, making, and living.
I have a Diploma in Transformative Coaching from Animas Centre for Transformative Coaching, this is an ICF Level 2 Accredited Programme, an EMCC; European Quality Award Senior Practitioner Level, and an AC Accredited Diploma in Coach Training.
I have 30 years experience working as a visiting artist in various universities in the UK including the University of Plymouth, Derby, Northumbria, Stoke, UCE, Gloucestershire, Dundee, and Leeds. I was PT tutor at The City & Guilds of London Art School for 5 years.
I have been a full time lecturer at Aberystwyth University for 19 years – where I have taught into the UG, and PG curriculum. I am currently a part time Phd supervisor and module lead for ‘Art World’ an M.A module for Fine Art and Art History students. I was the Creative Arts degree scheme leader for 10 years, and the Interdisciplinary Practice module leader for 19 years. I also taught into the Film & TV modules in the Theatre Film & TV department. I was External Examiner at Bath Spa on the Creative Arts Programme, and I am currently External Examiner at the University of Plymouth on the Fine Art Programme. As a lecturer I curated numerous site specific student exhibitions, lead residency programmes abroad, and coordinated a visiting artists programme for 10 years.
I have worked for Baltic Contemporary Art and A-N Artist Information Company as a freelance networking events manager. I have worked as an educator in schools, museums and galleries for the BALTIC and ISIS Newcastle, and as a freelancer.
I have 30 years experience as a professional practicing and internationally exhibiting artist. I have exhibited with private and public galleries, international museums, international biennials, artist led spaces and non- art spaces and sites.I have been the recipient of over £100,000 Arts Council funding from Arts Council England and Arts Council Wales, including a Major Creative Wales Award. I have commissioned over 30 multi-disciplinary creatives and collaborated with over 140 creatives and non- creatives. I have participated in 18 international artists residencies, including the ACE artist in residence Berlin, and residencies in Mexico, Turkey, Thailand, Spain and France. I am currently directing, producing and platforming multi- modal, interdisciplinary live theatre events.
After 18 years of full- time teaching and during the luxury of a year- long sabbatical I came to realise that it was time to leave my full- time post with Aberystwyth university and move toward establishing a portfolio career; artist, creative coach, mentor and part time lecturer. It was the most terrifying and best decision I have ever made. I was able to make the decision and the transition thanks to undertaking coaching, so I know first- hand the value and impact coaching can have. Coaching is both exhilarating and deeply humbling. Working with practising artists and professional creatives is an absolute honour and privilege. After each one- to -one session I come away with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the courage, commitment, tenacity, drive, love and freedom that it takes to be a creative, and an ever- stronger knowledge of the value of creativity.
I am a visual artist living and working in West Wales, where I currently engage in both solo and collaborative practices. I work from my studio, in the field (the Cambrian Mountains), and in the theatre. In the studio, I am engaged in an ongoing meditative and labour-intensive practice of durational drawing – drawings which present the accumulation of hundreds of thousands of written or pin-pricked data points derived from environmental scientific studies on the impact of climate change on natural phenomena such as soil, seeds, peat bogs, and glaciers. In the theatre, I invite musicians, composers, and dancers to collaborate in live, generative, experimental improvisations in response to scientific data. And recently, in the mountains, I staged an embodied durational performance where I lay in a self-dug ditch for 24 hours, reciting the live data stream emitted from a surrounding soil sensor network to global audiences via livestream video.