Education

  • 2021 - Falmouth University – Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE)
  • 2016 - Falmouth University – Illustration: Authorial Practice MA
  • 2014 - Plymouth College of Art – Illustration BA (Hons)

Award / Grant

  • 2022 - NAE Residency Prize, New Art Exchange
  • 2021 - British Book Design and Production Awards, Graphic Novel Shortlist 
  • 2019 - DYCP Grant, Art Council England
  • 2016 - Atlantic Press Award for Excellence in Graphic Literature

Exhibition 

  • 2022 - NAE Open 2022, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
  • 2020 - In-Between, TOMA Time Bank Space, Southend-on-Sea
  • 2020 - On Point, Surface Gallery, Online
  • 2018 - The Inside Job, Tate Modern, London
  • 2017, 2015 - The Collaborators, The Exchange, Cornwall
  • 2016 - Imagined Worlds, Taunton, Bath, Nether Stowey

Residence

  • 2023 - Artist in Residence - New Art Exchange, Nottingham
  • 2021 – Comics Cultural Exchange Residency, organised by Lakes International Comic Art Festival and Czech Literary Centre, Prague

 


Speaking 

  • 2023 - Pilgrimage Through Comics, Comics Forum, Leeds
  • 2023 - Climate Change, Collaboration & Comics, Creative Concern, Manchester 
  • 2022 - Memories of Islamic Girlhood (in comics), Transitus - The 12th International Illustration Research Symposium, online
  • 2021 – A Heap of Broken Images (co-presented with Robert Adams), Comics Up Close forum, Cumbria
  • 2021 – Drawing Performance, Beirut Comic Festival, Institut Français, Beirut
  • 2021 - Illustration Assembly, Plymouth College of Art, online
  • 2021 – Laydeez Do Comics, Online
  • 2019 – Portsmouth Comic Con, Hampshire
  • 2018 – Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Cumbria

Workshops

  • 2023 - See Me, Fifth Word (theatre), Nottingham
  • 2023 - A Journey Through Comics, Nottingham Mela, Nottingham
  • 2023 - Wild Escape, Nottingham City Museums, Nottingham
  • 2023 - How to Write for Comics, Medway River Lit., Medway
  • 2021 – Caricature & Comics, Comic Art Europe, LICAF, Abraham Moss Primary School, Manchester
  • 2019 – Movement in Memory: A Comic Book Workshop, Tate Modern, London
  • 2018 - Memory Café (Dementia community group), Cornwall

Guest Lecturing

  • 2023 - Writing for Comics, Sheffield Hallam University, online
  • 2022 - BA Illustration, Parsons School of Design, New York, online 
  • 2020 - Narrative and Storytelling, MA Illustration, Falmouth University, online
  • 2017 - Graphic Memoir, MA Authorial Illustration, Falmouth University, Cornwall