EDUCATION

1998 – Post Graduate Art Therapy Goldsmiths University
1992 – Royal College Art MA Drawing and Painting
1990 – Art Institute of Chicago Post Baccalaureate
1989 – Glasgow School Of Art 1st Class BA (Hons) Drawing & Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 – ‘Peculiar Realms’ Devonport Guildhall Cells, Plymouth
2017 – ‘Thresholds’ Exeter Phoenix Cafe Gallery Bar
2013 – ‘Vivid Imagist’ L’Artishe gallery, Swanage
2004 – ‘Cautionary Tales’, London Institute of Psychiatry
2002 – ‘Storytelling’, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
1998 – ‘Telling Tales’, Oliver Bevan gallery, London
1997 – ‘Fairy Tales’, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
1996 – ‘Out of India’, Aberdeen University
1995 – ‘The Book of Alice’, Peacock printmakers, Aberdeen
1994 – ‘Love Is Wiser Than Philosophy’, City Gallery, Leicester

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, touring exhibition
Royal Scottish Academy, annual open, Edinburgh
‘Love and Worry’, curated, Pound Arts, Corsham

2022/23
Royal Watercolour Society, open, Bankside Gallery, London

2022
Royal Scottish Academy, annual open, Invited Artist, Edinburgh
‘These Four Walls’, curated, Chapel Arts Studio, Andover
‘No Woman is an Island’, curated, Vanner Gallery, Salisbury
Royal West of England Academy, annual open, Bristol
Platform Projects Art Fair, Athens

2021/22
ING Discerning Eye, open, Mall Galleries, London

2021
‘Well, Well, Well’, group exhibition, Leyden Gallery, London
A Small Good Thing, curated online exhibition

2020
ING Discerning Eye open exhibition, online, Mall Galleries
Platform for Emerging Arts #24, Leyden Gallery, London

2020/17
Bath Society of Artists open exhibition, online, Victoria Art Gallery

2014/15/18/19/20
Royal West of England Academy Open, Bristol

2020
Housebound, online exhibition, Chapel Arts Studios, Salisbury
Painters’ Art Sale, on line exhibition, Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers

2016/17/18/19/20
Contemporary Watercolour Competition, Bankside Gallery, London

2016/17/18/20
Mini print International of Cadaques, Taller Galeria Fort, touring

2013/15/18/19
London Group Centenary and Draw 2 and 84th London Group open and Altered States

2017/18/19
Evolver Prize Exhibition Thelma Hulbert Gallery Honiton/ACE arts Somerton

2019
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Exhibition, Piano Nobile Gallery Kings Place, London
The M-Word, Desperate art Wives One Paved Court Gallery, London
Cut it Out K6 Gallery art in public spaces collaboration with Jill Laudet
Film free and easy goes to print Leicester print Workshop Levitated print screening

2019/21
Drawing on Dorset, Dorset Visual Arts publication and touring exhibition
Balancing act-the myth of art making and parenting CCA conference New York screening

2018/19
Lynn Painters-Stainers exhibition, Mall Galleries

2015/17/19
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London

2018
Derwent Drawing Prize exhibition, Mall Galleries
Sunday Times Watercolour exhibition, Mall Galleries

2017
The Quickening Experimental Animations by mother artists Nightingale cinema, Chicago
Twin Peaks short film festival Mount Si High School Drawn Curtains screening Snoqualmie
‘Time Machine’ Contains Art exhibition and publication, Watchet
On Paper Exhibition Chicago Collaborative Printmakers, Chicago
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, Printmakers in Residence
Art of the Unusual, Allsop Gallery, Bridport

2016/17
Royal West of England Academician Candidate exhibition

2015/2017
Drawn, Royal West of England Academy, Drawn Curtains on show reel, Bristol

2014/16/17
Millfield summer show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset

2016
Masters etching, Bankside Gallery, London
National Open Art, Mercers Hall, London
‘Broodfest’, Play ground triptych film screening, Exeter Phoenix
Art Playground at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Fireworks screening
Small print International, Attenborough Arts Centre, touring

2015
‘Project After Birth’ White Moose Gallery, Barnstaple

2014
‘South Central’ Aspex Gallery Portsmouth, Playground triptych screening

2002
Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, Touring

1997/2002
‘The Glasgow Girls’, Boundary Gallery, London

2000
‘Monumental Miniatures’, Inverness Museum, Touring

1998
‘Tongues of Diamonds’, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Touring
‘Twin Images’, Fine Art Society, London
Royal Overseas League, Touring

1997
Morrison Portrait Prize, Royal Scottish Academy
Cheltenham Drawing Open, Commendation, Touring
‘Cross Reference’ Gracefield Arts Centre

AWARDS

2022 – Time Space, Money bursary a-n and Arts Council England funding Residency, Lemonade Litho studio, Bristol
2019 – Evolver Prize Exhibition front cover
2017 – Exhibit A Evolver art prize Dorchester Open
2016 – Lymington Business Centre award for overall merit, St Barbe’s Museum
2015 – Badgers Press award, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
1995 – Commonwealth Universities Research Scholar to India
1989 – Merit Scholarship Art Institute of Chicago and college work/study award
1989 – Sir John Kinross travel scholarship to Florence, Royal Scottish Academy
1989 – Sir William Gillies Travel Bursary, Royal Scottish Academy

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2023
‘Collaboration in Practice British Lithography 1900-2022’, featured in publication by Paul Croft. Printmaking Today, Winter 2022, article, ‘Turning up the Heat’

2022
‘Grandmothers and Grandmothering’ published by Demeter Press, Chapter 11, contributing author