Hello from Teesside
I’m a visual artist and illustrator working in the Tees Valley area
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RECENT BLOG POSTS
WAM Residency
I decided to do a month-long online artists residency. It went as well as could be expected – here are my thoughts on the final day! ‘Working-class, Artist, Mother’ – Feels quite impossible.‘Artist’ is a hard thing to do anyway, I won’t elaborate on that. It’s also well documented that the numbers of working-class people…
MotherOther Artist Talk
I was asked (I volunteered) to give a talk at the most recent Mother Other artist networking event – held in Middlesbrough. It was an event for artists who are also parents, and I recently had a baby – this is relevant context. I wrote a talk called: ‘How to be Creative between the Hours…
Virtually Art – Middlesbrough Art Weekender
As a navigator north studio holder, I was naturally obliged to take part in the group show ‘Cluster’ I was thinking about a few things: How people engage with art Why don’t they do it in Middlesbrough What art are we actually ‘allowed to see’ What barriers face us when we seek art to look…
