2019-20 Project Summary - I’m both a physiotherapist and an artist, and recently completed my MA in Design: Ceramics at Bath Spa University. For my masters research I explored artistic interpretation of physiotherapeutic knowledge. My final project was entitled: Manucaption: Visualising Therapeutic Touch. Within it I aimed to investigate how touch as a tool could generate new approaches to mark making techniques, alongside new methods for visualising and understanding physiotherapy.

I’ve recently developed an interest into investigating if non-verbal empathy could be visualised through practice led art research and would like to start to use materials other than clay, such as wood and printing to help explore new methods and ideas .I feel the AA2A can enable me to access such facilities alongside a great resource in the library and Derby museums collections. These resources will also help me in the future as I’d like to undertake a PHD around this theme and so would also like to use the AA2A to explore questions for a PHD proposal and additionally for upcoming teaching sessions and potential residencies in 2020

2012-13 Project Summary - At present I work as a part time designer maker from my shared studio in Derbyshire.I feel at the end of my crafts degree I  had only just started on my journey as a ceramicist and in the past few years have developed my skills practically in handmoulding, firing and drawing . Inspired by folklore, stately homes and the countryside I make pieces by printing my figurative drawings directly onto unfired porcelain using ceramic pigment. I then gently shape the characteristics of the animal through hand-moulding from underneath the clay.The project i will undertake through AA2A  is to further research and  develop this process. I aim to  explore integration of both the ceramic element of my pieces ,and the imagery on them, with another medium . I’m particularly interested in wood or textiles and would like to utilise both digital and traditional techniques.