Training
MA Ceramics & Glass, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Mould making Intern, Royal Crown Derby China, UK MA Dissertation - Dissolving Boundaries, The Philosophy of Symbiosis in Japanese Aesthetics (Distinction) BA (Hons) Design: Ceramics, Staffordshire University, UK and exchange students at the University of Kansas, USA
studios/residencies
Space Studios, Hackney, London, Concrete Department, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, Jo Woffinden Ceramics Tsuruga Studio, Fukui, Japan, Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan, Ardmore Ceramic Studio, Natal, South Africa
TEACHING
Technical Instructor in Ceramics & Glass, 3D Department, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, UK Technical Instructor in Ceramics, Glass and Plaster, Ceramics & Glass Department, The Royal College of Art London, UK Visiting Lecturer & Workshop Instructor, Architecture Department, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Selection of solo shows
‘Strata’, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto and Gallery Art Concept, Kanazawa, Japan, ‘Folding Shadows’, Udatsu Museum, Echizen, Japan
Selection of group shows
‘London Sculpture Prize’ London, ‘Manchester Art Fair 2025’ Manchester, ‘Create / Elevate’ Harewood House, Leeds, collaboration, ‘Guest Artist’ The Sculpture Gallery, Leeds, ‘British Ceramics - From Bernard Leach to the New Generation’ Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan, ‘Light’, Flow Gallery, London, ‘Total Fabrication’ Craft Central, London, ‘100% Design’ London Design Festival, ‘Natural Flux’ Brick Lane Gallery, London, ‘International Ceramics Competition Mino’ Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Tajimi, Japan, ‘Boundless’ Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Museum of Modern Ceramics, Yingge, Taiwan,
Awards
Jeanette Jackson Award, The London Sculpture Prize, Gunnersbury Park Museum, London, UK Special Judges award selected by Ryoji Koie, ‘International Ceramics Competition Mino’, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Tajimi, Japan Special Judges award, ‘Unique’ Ceramic Art Centre, Echizen, Japan, Arts Council UK Grant, Worshipful Company of Grocers Award, Finalist Prize ‘Boundless’ Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Museum of Modern Ceramics, Yingge, Taiwan
International Collections
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Shiga, Japan, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Museum of Modern Ceramics, Yingge, Taiwan, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Santiago De Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
PUBLICATIONS
Wallpaper Magazine 163, 166, Ceramic Review Magazine 192, 238, ‘Small Space Big Ideas’ DK, ‘8th International Ceramics Competition Mino, Japan’ exhibition book, ‘Boundless’ 2008 TAIWAN Ceramics Biennale, exhibition book