The Fairfax Curator

Exploring the relationships between diverse storytelling and the visual presentation, the pieces I design combine basic, joyful printing techniques from my own photography with papercutting, collage, paint and sometimes stitchwork to create fairy story, folk tale, and video game narratives reminiscent of daily life, blood, nature and creation.

My production leans heavily towards recycled items, printing, mixed papers, gouache, acrylics, watercolours and papercutting. With inspirations as wide ranging as Matisse, Gaudi, Dali and Hans Christian Anderson, new combinations are distilled with the inception of digital narratives at their heart. My ingenuity has always sprung from being raised as a feminist by a family of strong, working class Northern women, and the many books I have toured for bright new worlds.

PGCert in Media Studies with Birmingham City University.

MA Literature and Digital Cultures with the University of Hull.

BSc Natural and Human Environments with Sheffield University.

Diploma in Education with Rotherham College of Arts & Technology

Certificated Art Class Programme:
Wire, Paper & Fabric Sculpture
Life Drawing
Storytelling Through Papercutting
Painting With Scissors
Mixed Media with Nature
Collage in Fabric & Stitch
Print Making

December 2017 - Festival of Angels with Rotherham Ethnic Minority Alliance (REMA): Vintage Paper and Fabric Angel Sculpture: "Pauline, an Angel for Working Class Women in Northern England".

January 2018 - Clifton Park Museum Rotherham: Angel Exhibition extended by request for the people of Rotherham: "Pauline the Angel" with accompanying poem.