Cloie #1 Print

Art is how I relate to the world, observing, responding, recording, interpreting, imagining. As a young art graduate In New York, I was part of a group of artists from Jamaica Arts Center that co-founded the first cooperative gallery in Queens (The Exhibitionists) and quickly found myself at the intersection of art and business. For many years I worked in arts management in the US and UK, including four years as director of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester where I built partnerships and raised funds to construct a purpose-designed art gallery that continues to thrive today. I started making the transition back to my own art practice In 2004 with an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts for a documentary project at Bury Market in Lancashire. My move to rural Scotland followed. In 2016 I was awarded a Creative Scotland/South of Scotland VACMA Award for a mural project back in my home town, New York. Painting is now my main focus, and I also use sound, video, words...whatever media are needed to realise personal, community and collaborative projects.