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I am a mixed media image-maker...
Photography | Collage | Illustration | Bookmaking | Textile Work ...a socially engaged documentary photographer concerned primarily with place and time. I am interested in the aesthetics of change, regeneration and ephemerality in the constructed landscape. In particular focusing on motherhood and community, I look at the implied relationship the role of motherhood creates with place, through nostalgia and observation. By taking daily life as my subject matter, I pay close attention to the banal and everyday minutiae that punctuate the role of a working mother within a community. Through this daily commentary, disconcerting beauty emerges; subconscious recognition plays an important role in the ability to tune into the aesthetic My work has featured in exhibitions and publications over a 15 year career. As well as producing personal artwork for exhibition and freelance photographic and design work, I also teach Photography and Graphic Design, manage a community arts centre, facilitate creative workshops in the community, produce a community newspaper, and am a director of Manchester's first Library of Things. |
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BIOGRAPHY
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Employment
2019-current Manager (Programming and Fundraising) Levenshulme Old Library CIO Community Arts Centre 2019-2021 Graphic Design Course Leader Photography Tutor Loreto College www.instagram.com/loretoart/ 2019 Arts Programmer The Old Courts 2011 - 2019 Photography Course Leader St John Rigby College 2006 - 2011 Photography Course Leader Loreto College |
Education
MA Photography | MMU | 2013 PGCE Art and Design | MMU | 2006 BA (Hons) Photography with Philosophy | UCLan | 2005 HE Teaching Experience
BA Philosophy | University of Nottingham | 2022 BA Photography | MMU | 2013 BA Photography| UCLan | 2011 BA Photography/FD Photography | Blackpool & the Fylde College |Nov 2010 BA Photography | Stockport College | 2010 |
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Exhibitions | Group
2021 | Stockport Together Again Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport 2020 | Levenshulme Now and Then Levenshulme Old Library, Manchester 2018 | Wigan Open The Old Courts, Wigan 2018 | Rebel Daughters The Point, Doncaster 2018 | Once is not Enough The Old Courts, Wigan 2013 | MMU MA Show Chatham Building, MMU, Manchester 2012 | The World According to MAs Self Made Gallery, Manchester 2012 | The Ronald McDonald Project Manchester Children’s Hospital 2012 | The Russia Project Russian National Library, St Petersburg, Russia 2012 | Curious Pursuits Portico Library, Manchester 2010 | Birds Didsbury Arts Festival, Manchester 2009 | Class Acts Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University 2006 | PGCE Art and Design Institute of Education, MMU 2005 | Ellipsis… 41 Turner St, Manchester 2005 | Ellipsis… PR1 Gallery, Preston |
Exhibitions | Solo
2018 | Traces Levenshulme Old Library CIO, Manchester 2014 | LVE Levenshulme Market, Manchester 2014 | LVE Trove, Manchester 2011 | The Mansion Antwerp Mansion, Manchester 2010 | Abandoned Buildings POD, Manchester 2010 | Drawing with Light Levenshulme Arts Festival, Manchester 2010 | Birds Taurus, Manchester 2010 | Birds Tarling & Tarling, Manchester 2010 | Laura Deane at Open Gallery Antwerp Mansion, Manchester |
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Featured Publications
2021 | Lockdown Levenshulme (collaborative publication) https://levylockdownproject.wordpress.com/ 2020 | Levenshulme News (collaborative monthly publication) levenshulmenews.weebly.com/ 2015 | 21 (Mark Manzi) 2014 | LVE 2 (solo zine) 2013 | The Affordances and of Potentialities of Derelict Urban Spaces (Joanne Hudson) 2013 | LVE (solo zine) 2012 | Eyes Wide Open collaborative publication with OpenEye Gallery |
Workshops/Talks
2018 | Zine-Making The Pankhurst Centre, Manchester 2018 | Documenting the Suffragette Centenary The Pankhurst Centre, Manchester (x2) 2014 | Photographing and Imagining the Built Environment Liverpool Creative Workshops 2013 | For the Community artist talk at Hothouse Manchester (Redeye) 2013 | Learning to Make Mistakes Teaching and Learning Workshop, St John Rigby College 2012 | Stretch and Challenge Staff Development Workshop, St John Rigby College 2010 | Freehand Embroidery Workshop Chorlton Sewing Club, Chorlton Library 2009 | Lazertran Workshop Manchester Catholic Education Partnership 2008 | Assessment Consultation St Patrick’s Catholic High School, Manchester 2007 | Black History Workshop with Sam Kalubowila Race Relations Widening Participation Officer The University of Manchester |