I was AiR at UCA from September 2018 until the University went into lockdown in March 2020. Sadly, a large amount of work I was in the middle of producing when the University went lockdown has remained unfinished, due to my not having access to specialized facilities.

Though I was assigned to the School of Fine Art and Photography, as an Artist in Residency, working as a multi-disciplinary artist, I was able to work in many other departments within The School of Craft and Design. It was a eighteen months of learning how to sculpt in wax so the work could be cast in both lead crystal glass and bronze. In addition to learning these two techniques I worked extensively in the textiles department.

Two main bodies of work were produced during this residency, Belonging and Langers Lines have gone on to be selected for various exhibtions.
In 2019, the AiR’s from that year had a joint exhibtion at UCA, where I exhibited, Langers Lines, a fibre-based artwork.

Belonging
I was very fortunate and very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with fellow Artist in Residence at the time, Annette Mills. It was Annettte who taught me how to weave willow whips into ball shapes, just before lockdown put end to our residencies. Therefore, over lockdown I practised the skill of willow weaving, resulting in the large scale installation, Belonging.

In the summer of 2020 , Belonging, was shown as part of the Heathlands Art Trail, in Surrey, UK. This is an annual outdoor exhibition organized by UCA in conjunction with the Heathlands. The exhibition is open to current students, alumni and AiR’s of UCA, offering an excellent opportunity to those selected so show their work in this amazing natural landscape.

Belonging was seen by curators at Watts Gallery and Artist Village and moved from the Heathlands to the grounds of Watts Gallery in 2020 in Lady tree.