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Qualifications

2011 BA (Honours) in Fine Art – 1st class, University of Nottingham, UK

Articles, Reviews and Papers

December 2019 – Desperate Artwives and The M Wall, Motherdom Magazine

November 2018 – DOCUMENT by Tom Hackett

October 2018 – Hilke Kurzke, Artist Interview

March 2018 – Fabulous Fabsters, ‘tell me about your mother’ Artist’s interview.

January 2017 – ’50 things my son doesn’t need me for’ MaMSIE – Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics– ‘Performing Everyday Maternal Practice: Activist Structures in Creative Work’.

December 2016 – Mamsie ‘Studies in the Maternal’ – 50 Things My Son Doesn’t Need Me For

September 2015 – East Midlands Visual Arts Network ‘Meet the Artist’

April 2015 A-N (Artists Network) ‘Artists awarded bursaries to Re:view their practice

July 2012 MAMSIE ‘Modern Madonnas’ – 13 Artists respond to the ‘Mother and Child’ theme (Rebecca Ballie)

Awards and Residencies

Oct 2016 – Apr 2017 University of Derby – AA2A artists residency

May 2016 CVAN East MIdlands – ‘Document’ (two year award)

January 2016 Arts Council England funding Artist as Mother as Artist

April 2015 A-N (Artists Network) Re:view bursary award

September 2013 Embrace Arts Leicester

2012 – 2013 University of Nottingham one year residency award

Curatorial projects

July 2018: My Mother and Other potato Peelers (CVAN East Midlands, The Start of Something)

April 2016 Lace Market Gallery, ‘Artist as Mother as Artist’

Jan 2014 ‘The Web of Water’ – ICCA, Nottingham

Media coverage

September 2017 – Metro Newspaper, ‘Mum’s the Word’

April 2016 – Leftlion, Artist as Mother as Artist

April 2016 – Nottingham Post, review Artist as Mother as Artist

March 2016 – Nottingham Post, review Tracey: Mum’s the word…

March 2016 – NottsTV, Artist as Mother as Artist

April 2015: Left Lion ‘tell-me-about-your-mother…

March 2015: NottsTV interview Talking Mothers

May 2014: MumsNet Talk ‘Tell me about your mother

February 2014: Loughborough Echo ‘Art display encourages thoughts about your mother

Talks

March 2019 – Artists talk, Nottingham College, Foundation degree in Fine Art

November 2018 – Maternal Attitude Symposium, University of South Wales, Cardiff

July 2018 – ‘On Being an Artist’ DOCUMENT artist’s talk and film screening, Fermynwoods, Corby

July 2018 – ‘On Being an Artist’ DOCUMENT artist’s talk and film screening, Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester

June 2018 – DOCUMENT artist’s talk and film screening. CVAN East Midlands, NN Contemporary, Northampton

April 2018 – DOCUMENT artist’s talk and film screening. CVAN East Midlands, Derby University.

February 2018 – The Life and Times of a Visual Artist. CVAN East Midlands, New Art Exchange, Nottingham

March 2017 – ‘Make. Practice. Perfect’ CVAN East Midlands ‘Document’ artists talk Usher Gallery Lincoln

March 2017 – AA2A Artists seminar, Derby University

December 2015 Fine Art Symposium, Nottingham University

June 2015 Video screening and Q&A  Motherhood and Creative Practice conference

April 2015 Research Paper British Conference of Undergraduate Research

November 2013 Seminar presentation, Fine Art Department, Nottingham University

January 2013 Seminar presentation, Fine Art Department, Nottingham University

April 2012 Synapse Transitions Symposium, De Montfort University

Solo Exhibitions

23rd March 2017 Lace Market Gallery Nottingham, ‘tell me about your mother’ installation

March 2016 The Kiosk Nottingham, ‘tell me about your mother’ installation

25th Feb – 4th April 2015 Bromley House Library (solo exhibition) ‘tell me about your mother’

May 2013  Banks Mill, Derby – Solo show

Two-person Exhibitions

September 2013 Embrace Arts Leicester

2012 Video Installation, Light Night @ Antenna, Nottingham

Group Exhibitions

October 2019 – The M wall: Home Visits with desperate Artwives, Twickenham, London

June 2019 – WomanHouse Revisited with Desperate Artwives (The M Wall), Hackney, London

June 2019 Park Garden Trail, The Park Estate, Nottingham

May 2019 – Material Narratives, All Hallows Church, Nottingham

May 2019 – The M Word with Desperate Artwives, One Paved Court, London

April 2019 – The M Wall with Desperate Artwives, One Paved Court, London

November 2018 – DOCUMENT ‘On Being an Artist’ CVAN East Midlands, Artcore, Derby

October 2018 – ‘oh motHER’ Spilt Milk Gallery, Custom House Leith, Edinburgh

July 2018 – ‘Outside In’ Desperate Artwives Popup takeover, Leyden Gallery, London

July 2018 – M.A.M. Banksmill Studios, Derby

July 2018 – ‘The Art of Surrender: Motherhood and Moving Image’, Stills Centre, Edinburgh

May 2018 – Open Studios, RedMak Popup Studios, Nottingham

May 2018 Brewhouse Gallery,Burton on Trent, ‘Material Stories’

March 2018 Artcore Gallery, Derby, ‘Stand Up!’ 

16th – 29th November 2017 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London, ‘LEFT OVERS’ exhibition

24th July-8th October 2017 AA2A Resident Artist Exhibition: Material Stories, University of Derby

July 2017 Material Stories AA2A residency exhibition Derby University

June 2017 Park Garden Trail, The Park Estate, Nottingham

December 2016 ThirtyFive Gamble Street Open exhibition

June 2016 Lakeside Arts Nottingham, Graduate and Resident Artist exhibition

April 2016 Lace Market Gallery, ‘Artist as Mother as Artist’

March 2016 Greenspace Gallery, Carmarthen, ‘Painting Our Mother’

February 2016 Backlit , ‘Mass’ (group show)

January 2016 Surface Gallery, Nottingham  ‘International Postcard Show’

December 2015 Goldsmiths London, ProCreate Project

7th June 2015 Park Garden Trail, The Park Estate, Nottingham

30th March – 12th April Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln (group exhibition) ‘Transitions’

7th – 22nd February 2015 Backlit ‘Bunch of Fives’

October 2014 ‘The Carnival Of Monsters’ Festival of Contempary Art, Chilwell, Nottingham

June 2014 Istanbul IPA//_rurality, Mixer Arts, Istanbul, Turkey

May 2014 Lady Bay Arts Festival, Nottingham

May 2014 Open Studios Notts – Woodborough, Nottinghamshire

May 2014 ‘The egg, the womb, the head and the moon: Part One’ – Artsmill Gallery, Hebden Bridge

April 2014 ‘Up the Wall’, The Atrium Gallery, London

April 2014  _rurality, Galeria Miejska, Poland

March 2014  ‘Salon 5’, The Old Lock Up Studio, Cromford, Derbyshire

March 2014 ‘Vanity Unfair’Crypt Gallery, London

March 2014 ‘_rurality’ – Level Centre, Derbyshire

Jan 2014 ‘Walk the Talk’Backlit, Nottingham

Jan/Feb 2014 – Sock Gallery, Loughborough

Nov/Dec 2013 – Deda, Derby

September 2013 – ‘Home is Where the Heart Is’, Nottingham

September 2013 – ‘The Femail Project’, Birmingham

July 2013 ‘Wonderland’ – New Art Exchange, Nottingham

April 2013 Exposure Photography Exhibition, Nottingham

March 2013  ‘Salon 3’, The Old Lock Up Studio, Cromford, Derbyshire

2013 Derby City Open, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby

2013 Creative Greenhouse, Antenna, Nottingham

2012 Midlands Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, Nottingham

2012  ‘Salon 2’, The Old Lock Up Studio, Cromford, Derbyshire

2012 Creative Greenhouse, Antenna, Nottingham

2012 Group exhibition, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, Nottingham

2012 ‘Carnival of Monsters’, Bartons, Chilwell, Nottingham

2012 Modern Madonnas, St George’s Arts. St George’s Church, Esher, Surrey

2012 Creative Greenhouse 2012 Open Exhibition, Rufford Abbey Craft Centre

2012 ‘Light Night’ , Antenna, Nottingham

2012 International Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

2011 Creative Greenhouse, Antenna, Nottingham

2011 Synapse ‘Transitions’, De Montfort University School of Art, Leicester

2011 University of Nottingham Degree Show, Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre

2011 Cedric Ford Art Prize and Exhibition, Nottingham

2010 Nottingham University Summer Exhibition, Djanogly Gallery

2009 Cedric Ford Art Prize and Exhibition, Nottingham

2008 Nottingham University Summer Exhibition, Djanogly Gallery