Awards, GRANTS AND RECOGNITION
Jeanette Jackson Award, The London Sculpture Prize 2025, Gunnersbury Park Museum, London, UK Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) Grant, Arts Council England Grocers’ Bursary Scholarship, Worshipful Company of Grocers, London, UK Special Judges Award selected by Ryoji Koie, 8th International Ceramics Competition Mino, Tajimi, Japan Special Judges Award, Unique Ceramic Art Centre, Echizen, Japan, Finalist Prize, 2008 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale: Boundless, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
studios/residencies
Currently based in Twisting Studios, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds Previous studios: 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 2025’, 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,
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
International Collections
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Shiga, Japan, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Doomingo, Dominican Republic
PUBLICATIONS
Wallpaper, issues 163 and 166; Ceramic Review, issues 192 and 238; Small Space Big Ideas, Dorling Kindersley; selected exhibition catalogues.