Drawing and Paper Cut
Installations & Exhibitions
Choral Forest
2021- 2022
A 'Choral Forest' will be five large scale installations that will be an integral part of performances which are inspired by NHS staff images and words of their experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. The project is being launched at Derby Cathedral , in 2022 and will then be a touring exhibition before being installed permanently at five separate hospital sites. I am working with sculptor Miles Halpin on this Air Arts project. Miles has hand cutt the trees to my design before I added in the drawing and paper-cut layers. The works have now been installed at Derby Cathedral in preparation for an event, celebrating the NHS and will then move to Lichfield Cathedral. More details of this can be found in the news section.
Earthbound Project
July 2022
The exhibition is opened on July 17th at Wirksworth Stone Centre. Here is a lovely poster of the exhibition and a few of the final designs of my Earthbound beings.
Poster designed by Bernie Rutter
Inspired by Museum Collections
Harlequin's Dream
Autumn 2021
Permanent Collection at Pickfords House Museum.
Original designs for wall installations inspired by the Toy Theatre Collection, to be part of a new permanent gallery at Pickfords House Museum. This permanent exhibition installation will now be opening in August 2022
King & Queen of the Orchard –
The English Wine Project
November 2021
An unusual exhibition type, from the Autumn 2021 the intricate drawings inspired by ancient orchards, and the relationship of humans and the earth can be seen on the labels of The English Wine Project’s new cider products. The award winning company also manages the vineyard at Renishaw Hall & Gardens. You can see these on their website at https://www.englishwineproject.co.uk/product-category/cider/
ICU 'Spiral of Life'- Drawings
Spring 2023
HRH Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester unveiled a drawing design for a new proposed mural for the Intensive Care Unit Patient Garden at Royal Derby Hospital. The new work which will be created in Spring is inspired by the strength of the staff at the ICU unit throughout the Covid -19 pandemic and the hope of the NHS. The design depicts a surreal tree which is part ram, the symbol of the city of Derby and features the peregrines of Derby Cathedral and a double rainbow of wild iris flowers.
Walking through the woods and The Spiral of Life: original and new drawings for the ICU Patient Garden at Royal Derby Hospital are re displayed on Level 2.
For more information, visit the Forthcoming Exhibitions section on this mural project.
Go with the Flo: Light Air Water essences
Royal Derby Hospital Spring 2021 –Autumn 2021
Permanent Collection at Fleet Arts.
Drawings created by NHS staff in creative wellbeing workshops inspired three sculptural drawings that are described as ‘essences’ of the themes of air, light and water which were key to Florence Nightingale’s understanding of the principals of good health . These works will be exhibited as part of the ‘Unity’ exhibition at Royal Derby Hospital from Spring 2021 until Autumn 2021, and then on permanent exhibition at Fleet Arts.
Threads
Derby Museum & Art Gallery Feb 2019 –May 2019
'Orrery Eyes' in the Permanent Collection in the Joseph Wright Study Centre, Derby Museum.
A contemporary response to ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’: A Life in Drawing, a Royal Collections Trust exhibition. Series of large evolved figurative forms drawn directly onto the gallery walls with an interactive element for the audience. Inspired by Leonardo’s anatomical drawings and objects from Derby Museums’ collections.
Anatomical Illusions
Royal Derby Hospital Oct 2018 – March 2019
Selected works on permanent display, Royal Derby Hospital.
Series of drawings inspired by the anatomical models belonging to Royal Derby Hospital’s Library service. Intricate works that use mirrors to explore pattern and form and reveal the fragility of the human body.
Still Spirits
Manchester Museum May 2018 – July 2018
Eerie cephalopod forms drawn in response to the spirit collection. The forms have an ambiguous relationship to the humans they are in close proximity too, it is not clear if the forms are harming or nurturing them. The work has a context of exploring the concept of the consciousness of cephalopods.
Humble Giants
London Road Community Hospital September 2017 – March 2018
Research drawings for ‘Still Spirits’ inspired by the Blaschka models from Wollaton Hall’s collection.
Protection
Buxton Museum & Art Gallery March 2011 – May 2011
Large scale drawings inspired by the skeletal collection exploring the nurturing relationship between a human and protective ‘womb’ creature.
Imajic
Haslemere Museum 2010
Drawings celebrating the magic and fear of the female form inspired by the antler specimens in the collection.
Headhunter
Creswell Crags Museum 2010
The first exhibition following he opening of the new museum in 2009. The work examines the role of vultures in our ecosystems and human’s relationships through history with these birds.
Experimental Paper cut installations
2019- 2020
These experimental pieces are inspired by a fusion of cathedral architecture, insects and questions over the future of relationships between humans and the natural world. Both ink and scalpel lines work together to create unusual forms. These ‘experiments’ have underpinned they way in which the drawing practice has evolved from 2d to 3d and has informed current and future installations.
Illustrations & Other Works
Colour Me, Read Me
University of Derby & Burton Hospitals Trust
Published works
Illustrations designed to be coloured and inspired by poetry created by NHS staff (2020)
and to accompany poems created by The Ashbourne Writers Group (2019).
Part of the ‘Colour Me, Read Me’ publication, with the 2020 edition a part of the ‘Florence Nightingale’ Exhibition at Pickfords House Museum.
Ragnar & The Ravens
Details from a Norse mythology inspired shield
