b. 1961, Tynemouth, UK
Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Education
1999 MA, Visual Culture (Distinction), Middlesex University, London
1991 Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, London Guildhall University
1991 BA (Hons) Fine Art and Critical Studies, 2:1, Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, London
1985 Foundation Course in Art, South Devon College, Torquay
1983 Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE), Institute of Education, University of London, London
1982 BA (Hons) English Literature, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Quiet Amsterdam: selected black and white photographs from the photobook, Shashin Art Bookshop Gallery
2008 Waiting Child, The Surgery Gallery, Amsterdam
2003 Hanging There, Museumnacht 2003, De Burcht, Amsterdam
1994 Unmake Me, New Hall, Cambridge
1985 Drawings of Monstrous Women and Other Beautiful Creatures, Somerville College, Oxford
Group Exhibitions
2015 Recent Drawings, Open Studio, Oarzo (Stichting Open Ateliers Zuidoost), Amsterdam
2013 Precious, joint exhibition with Dame Paula Rego at New Hall Women’s Art Collection. Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
2008 Vrouwen, Akantes Multicultural Centrum, Amsterdam, joint show with Petra Mesman
2007 Capturing Paradise: work by Western and Non-Western artists Inspired by Islamic Art and Culture, Braintree Town Hall Gallery and Museum, Essex
2007 De Verborgen Lente (The Secret Spring), Loods 6, Amsterdam
2007 The Clothes She Wears, Fashion and Textile Museum, London
2006 The Clothes She Wears, The Royal Geographical Society, London
2005 Big Bosoms, drawing sold at Charity Auction, New Hall, Cambridge
2005 Broedplaats, (Nesting Place), De Verborgen Stad (the Secret City), Amsterdam
2004 The Clothes She Wears, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery
Utrecht Gemeente
Amsterdam Town Hall (Gemeente)
UCA, (University of the Creative Arts) Epsom
Paris, The Ethical Fashion Show
Ghent, Conference on Global Social Funding
2002 Plantage Doklaan, Amsterdam
1992 Whitechapel Open Exhibition, paintings Woman Looking and Woman Not Sure She Wants To Be Looked At Or Not, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1990 Child’s Play, Piece Hall Gallery, Halifax
1986 ICA New Contemporaries, Small Green Monster Showing Her Mess, London
Films and Videos
1998 Fly Ash Over India, broadcast on Indian Television, Karnataka
1995 Nagano Story, 7th Mountain and Adventure Film Festival, Austria
1991 Listening to the Body, Southampton Film Festival, England
Publications
http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org/newsandevents/events/conference/index.html
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/politics-policy-people/geography/interviews-the-clothes-she-wears
NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/travel/finding-oases-of-calm-in-3-european-cities.html?_r=0
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/bookshelf-a-guide-to-new-yorks-hidden-oases-of-calm/?_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=t-magazine&_r=0
Collections
Paintings; ‘Woman Thinking’ and ‘Raw‘ included in New Hall’s permanent collection of women’s art.
Work in private collections in Amsterdam, London, Bristol, Yorkshire and Oxford
Published Writing
2016 Quiet Barcelona (forthcoming) published by Frances Lincoln, London
2014 Quiet London: Food and Drink, Quiet London: Culture and Quiet London: Quiet Corners, published by Frances Lincoln, London
2013 Quiet New York, published by Frances Lincoln, London
2012 Quiet Paris, published by Frances Lincoln, London
2011 Quiet Amsterdam (Second, revised edition), published by Frances Lincoln, London
2010 Quiet London, published by Frances Lincoln, London
2009 Connaissez-vous la pluie.Introduction to work by Merina Beekman, catalogue published by Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2008 Quiet Amsterdam, black and white limited edition artist’s photobook published by ‘Image Found’, Amsterdam
2007 Capturing Paradise 60 page catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Braintree Museum and Art Gallery, Essex
2007 Drawings published in ‘Verity’ magazine, UK
2006 Red Skirt, Celeste Art Prize Catalogue, organised in conjunction with Goldsmiths University, London
2004 The Clothes She Wears, catalogue of art installation
2002 Everything We Have Is Yours’, review of solo show by artist Claire Douglass, London
2007 Learning from the Museum and Learning from the Academy Framework: The Finnish Art Review, Helsinki
2003-5 Articles on Rod Bugg, (2004) Nick Renshaw (2005) Karen Santen, Ceramics Art and Perception, USA, Australia
2003-12 Interviews Deutsche Borse Photography Prize nominee JH Engstrom, Ralph Gobits, Boris Mikhailov, Lieve Prins and Ossip, Eyemazing, Amsterdam
1999 The Work of Mick Williamson, London Independent Photography Journal, London
1991 Woman with her Arms Folded, Women Artists’ Diary
Teaching experience
2007-8 Senior Visiting Lecturer, ‘MA Museums and Contemporary Curating’, UCA (University of the Creative Arts), Epsom, UK
2007 ‘Draw the largest amulet in the western world’, workshop held as part of ‘The Big Draw’, Braintree Museum, Essex
2005 Art workshops at the International School, Toulouse and for ‘Education Otherwise’, London
2002 Guest Lecturer, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1991-2001 Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University, Sir John Cass Department of Art: Photography, Fine Art, Cultural Studies, Film
1999 Visiting lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, Fine Art Department
1990-1991 Tutor on Critical Eye and experimental film courses run in conjunction with Cowley Community Education, Oxford
1989 Special Needs Teacher, Bayswater Middle School Oxford
1988 Sculptor and co-ordinator of workshops funded by Southern Arts; project toured to special schools and psychiatric hospitals
1983-5 Residential social worker and counsellor with the Richmond Fellowship in Oxford and London
Curatorial Projects
2016 Drawing Work, images by 20 artists who makes drawings about the experience of work, CBK Zuidoost, February 2016
2013 Precious, etchings by Paula Rego and drawings by Siobhan Wall, New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge
2007 Capturing Paradise, Work by Western and Non Western artists inspired by Islamic Art and Culture’, Braintree Museum and Town Hall Gallery
2000 Solo Exhibition: Shadafarin Ghadirian, Iranian photographer, London Guildhall University
2003 ‘Unquiet Landscapes II’, Ignatius Huis, Amsterdam
2002 ‘Unquiet landscapes’, De Tiltenberg, Haarlem
2002 Summer Show, Plantage Doklaan, Amsterdam
Awards and Grants
2007 Funding awarded to Braintree Museum and Art Gallery by the Arts Council for ‘Capturing Paradise,’ a group show I guest curated, including work by Merina Beekman, Algerian artist Samta Benyahia
2006 Artist work placement in Baku, Azerbaijan working in refugee schools and with women’s organisations, funded by ‘Gulliver Connect’, organised in conjunction with Felix Meritis, Amsterdam
2003 ‘The Clothes She Wears’, solo exhibition awarded funding by HIVOS, The Hague
Other work and talks
2009 Iconoclasm, Aniconism and the Abject in Islamic Art, lecture at London Metropolitan University, London
2007 The Absence of the Abject in Islamic Art, presentation at Braintree Museum during the exhibition ‘Capturing Paradise’.
2003-15 Writer of press releases for ‘Galerie De Witte Voet’, Amsterdam