Arts

March – September 2014       Hunt and Russells

Shop owner, selling items for the home and garden sourced from makers and artists from the south west, 6 month temporary location

Full time
https://www.facebook.com/HuntandRussells-610319495713559/timeline/

2011 , 2006 –2008        Arts facilitator Transition Town Totnes

Arranging talks, arranging and leading workshops and discussion groups, exhibitions and projects for amateur and professional artists, local community.

May 2008-2011            Project Manager, Harrison Studio Devon: ‘Resilient landscapes – stability domains for Devon’, with artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, David Haley and scientist Les Firbank. Part time

A new large-scale landscape project, developing an integrated proposal addressing climate change, for sustainable land management and real communities. 

Jan-April 2009              Transforming the Future, co-coordinator
 for10 day Workshop with Ian Grout, Glasgow School of Art for sustainable design HE students on location in Totnes working with local businesses and Transition Town Totnes.
www. transformingthefuture.wordpress.com

February 2006- July 2006      Project Administrator, Art Farm Project, Middle Rocombe Farm, Devon
Project management and administration for temporary art event.

June 1988- May 1993  Artful Graphics, commercial design and print production. Self-employed

            Education

2006 -Awarded May 2011

PhD, practice based at Plymouth University (part time)

Supervisors, Prof. Malcolm Miles, Dr Marta Herrero, Dr Tracey Warr, Dr Deborah Harrison Conversations: The socially engaged artist as environmental change agent

July 2009                    General Teaching Associates Certificate, University of Plymouth

2002-2004                 Glasgow School of Art
BA Fine Art: Environmental Art 2:1, Distinction for dissertation

2000-2002                 Weston College, Weston-super-mare
HND Fine Art: Distinction

1979-1980                 London College of Printing, London
Diploma in Print and Periodical Production

1976-1979                 Sheffield University
BA Hons, Ancient History and Classical Civilisation 2:2

Art Practice     
Solo Works

October 2022              Landscape Lines, Harbour House, Totnes, Devon

Totnes on the Move workshops April and May 2012           Can’t stop using my car
Video recordings of each journey for one month (March 2012), posters of journey map, and data for distance, fuel consumption, average speed

September 2011– onwards         Recognising acts of Resilience Award
recognition to those local businesses, individual or organisations that are contributing towards Totnes’ community resilience, nominated by local individuals, a Transition Town Totnes Arts Group project

July 2010                     Common Knowledge: exhibition of recent artworks exploring everyday life and climate change, University of Plymouth

January 2009              Resolutions Exchange: Eco-sins and eco-successes 2009
Birdwood House, Totnes, Plymouth University Library, Plymouth City Library

March 2008                 Eco-renovation: House Receipts III,
Homes for Good Show, ECOS Trust, Bath & West Showground, Somerset

September 2007        Eco-renovation: House Receipts II,
Devon Art Works, Totnes, Devon

May & August 2007   Collaborative Conversations with an eco-psychologist, environmental sociologist and community artist.

July 2006                      Eco-renovation, House: Receipts I, Dartington Gallery, Devon

April 2004                    Insufficiently Prepared Adventurer: Escape to the Country, City Centre and Drumchapel, Glasgow

April 2004                    Insufficiently Prepared Adventurer: Escape to the Country, Join Me, Buchannan Galleries, Glasgow

November 2003          The Cabin Exchanged, Hope Street, Glasgow (part of ‘Cabin Exchange’)

February-May 2003  The Truth?, The Terrace Coffee Shop, Garelochead

June 2002                    Leaf Cube, Cheddar Gorge, Somerset

Art Practice     

Group Exhibitions

August 2022                Summer Show Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon

December 2017          ArtdotEarth, Space, Dartington, Devon

October 2017              Exploring Life and Landscape, Harbour House, Kingsbridge, Devon

September 2017        Extraordinary Objects, Torre Abbey, Torquay, Devon

September 2011        Radicle Exchanges Transition Town Totnes Arts Project with
Recognising acts of Resilience

July 2010                      Insufficiently Prepared Adventurer: Escape to the Country and Camp Craft in The Great Outdoors, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

May 2006                     Conscience Offsets  in
Fora, Totnes, Devon

March 2005                 House, Circus Circus, Glasgow

October 2004              New Media, Taigh Chearsahagh, North Uist

August 2004                The Gang Hut, Spike Island, Bristol

January 2004              Impressions de Nature, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow

November 2003          The Cabin Exchanged, Hope Street, Glasgow (part of ‘Cabin Exchange’)

March 2003                 Left Behind, Britannia Panoptican, Glasgow

November 2002          Workshop, Newbury Gallery, Glasgow

March 2002                 Back of Beyond, Hans Price Gallery, Weston-super-Mare