Studied Fine Art at Manchester College of Art and Design with postgraduate study at Leeds College of Art and Leeds University. Currently teaches occasionally at Staffordshire University and is an External Examiner at the Universities of Leeds and Derby.

In 1983 founded and has subsequently acted as principal coordinator of Borderline Printmakers, a small federation of local, national and international artists with studio facilities for photography & printmaking and a reputation for educational outreach work.

In 2002 co-conducted an educational project for Whitechapel Gallery, London in conjunction with the Nan Goldin - Devil’s Playground show.

Has given artist talks at the Usher Gallery, Lincoln & Picture House Centre for Photography, Leicester in 2004, Wolverhampton University in 2006, and the Walker, Lady Lever and Bury Art Galleries in 2007.

Selection of exhibitions:

2009
Old Masters -
Different Heroines




Solo show, Brand Contemporary Art, Groningen, Netherlands
2007/8





2006
Changing Places





Visualizing TRANS
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives
The Collection, Lincoln
Leeds Art Gallery

Kupfer Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2005
Eight @ the warehouse
Hereford Photography Festival Fringe
2004
Britney’s Smears
Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2003
Fading Away
 
The Classical Present
 Royal Pump Rooms Museum & Art Gallery, Leamington Spa

Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives
2002
Vogue Divine


Lilla Europa 2002 Biennale

Age and Gender
 Manchester Poetry Festival, collaboration with poet Philip Davenport

Hallsberg & Örebro, Sweden

Orleans House Gallery, London + touring, curated by Foundation for Women’s Art
2001
Art in St Mary Magdalene

Brighton Icons
 Munster Square, London NW1

St Bartholomew Church, Brighton
2000
A Woman’s Realm

Chronos - ein Tag
 Solo exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, Athens

24 artists from Europe & America curated by Arcus, Nürnberg
1998
Dragged
 Real Gallery, W26thSt, New York with Sarah Pucill
1997
Lost Lands
 Ogilvy & Estill, Conwy
1996
Warming Up
 11 artists from England and Germany curated by Arcus, Nürnberg
1995
A Question of Identity

Inside-Outside

Evolution

Identities

Foreign Bodies
 Keele University

Konstforum, Norrköping, Sweden

Shrewsbury Museum & residency at Old St Chads’ Church

Manhattan Graphic Center, New York

Shinjuku Cultural Centre, Tokyo