Biography

Born: Sheffield 1979

Education

• 2003 Apprenticeship with Studio Potter, Edmund de Waal
• 2001 1st class BA Design and Applied Arts: Ceramics, Edinburgh College of Art
• 1998 Distinction B-tec Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Liverpool Art School (LJMU)

Awards

• 2009 Crafted Mentee, Arts and Business and Walpole initiative sponsored by American Express
• 2007 Evening Standard, Homes and Property Award for Best Domestic Design
• 2006 UK Trade and Investment Award for Export, finalist
• 2005 Crafts Council Development Award
• 2003 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship: awarded for international study of ceramics
• 2002 Sidney Myer International Ceramic Awards, short-listed (Australia)
• 2001 Andrew Grant Bequest, awarded scholarship for post graduate studies, Edinburgh Collegeof Art
• 2001 Helen A. Rose bequest for distinctive work, Edinburgh College of Art

Selected recent exhibitions

• Fortnum and Mason, London
• CraftKontor, Bonn Germany
• Craft2eu Hamburg, Germany
• Blackwell the Arts and Crafts House, Cumbria
• SOFA New York, with Joanna Bird Pottery
• Ashes and Milk, Chicago USA
• Handwerk Museum, Munich Germany
• Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
• Origin the London Craft Fair at Somerset House, London
• CAA solo focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
• Collect at the V&A Museum, London
• CAA Covent Garden focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
• Paper Scissors Stone, Edinburgh City Art Centre
• Crafts Council at the V & A museum, London

Commissions

• Twenty-nine piece dinner service, Private Collector
• Arts and Business Scotland Awards
• Brighton and Hove Museum
• Fifty-four piece installation for City Art Centre,Edinburgh
• Broughton Gallery, Scotland

Collections

• Brighton and Hove Museum
• Edinburgh Museums and Galleries Trust
• London Southwark Council
• Donna Karan, New York
• Egg, London
• Wigglesworth Architects, London
• Betty Davies Scottish Fashion International, Edinburgh