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