I have always been interested in identity and place, in particular, the ongoing impact of landscape and culture on
the process of individuation. Growing up in South Africa and Britain, yet receiving a formal British education in
both places (1970’s-1980’s), had the peculiar effect of planting a different landscape in my head - of green hills and
daffodils – to the one which I physically inhabited - of red earth, droughts and African fables. Yet having spent
approximately half my life living in the Northern (Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland) and Southern hemispheres
(Swaziland, Zimbabwe, South Africa), I have a rich reservoir of memories to draw on. Through drawing, painting
and ceramics, I investigate the implications of this dual consciousness. Narrative- driven, whimsical and figurative,
my work is inspired by traditional ceramic forms, but also engages current issues.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Compressing Materiality, a group, curated exhibition, Ebony Curated, Bordeaux House Gallery, Franschhoek, Cape
Town, May to June 2024
Winter Ceramic Exhibition, Spier Arts Trust, 25 Commercial Street, Cape Town. May to July 2024.
Anniversary exhibition, Knysna Fine Art Gallery, November 2023, ongoing.
Christmas exhibition, IsArt gallery, Stellenbosch, December 2023.
Blue, Blaauklippen wine farm, Stellenbosch, October 2023, ongoing
An Act of Faith, Spier Arts Trust, Spier Old Cellar Wine Farm, Stellenbosch. 23 June to 3 November 2023
Tawny Tales, joint exhibition with Liza Grobler, Tawny Creek Cellar, Oudtshoorn. 30 July to 30 August 2023.
Blue and white; Blaauklippen wine estate, curated by IsArt gallery, Stellenbosch, March – August 2023.
Christmas exhibition, IsArt gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa. November – January 2022.
‘Encountering St Ives,’ solo exhibition at Leach Pottery museum, curated by Dr Matthew Tyas. August- November
2022.
Ongoing work exhibited at SoFineArt gallery in Dublin, Ireland.
FYNARTS Gallery, Hermanus. Exhibition curated by Liz Coates. May/June 2022.
EAstern Cape Regional exhibition for Ceramics Southern Africa, GFI gallery, Gqeberha. December 2021 – January
2022.
Annual exhibition at Knysna Fine Art, Knysna, September 2021 ongoing.
Fragmented Narratives, joint exhibition with Wilma Cruise and Ann Marais at Rus-en-Vrede art gallery and
museum in Durbanville, Cape Town. 16 March to 14 April, 2021.
Clay and Sculpture exhibition, at Kalk Bay Modern art gallery, Kalk Bay, Cape Town. October to December 2021 and
2020, and June to July, 2019.
Ceramics Southern Africa western cape regional exhibition, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, August 2019.
Kaleidoscope, Group exhibition with two fine artists, Penny’s Place Gallery, Calitzdorp, South Africa, Nov. 2019
Innibos, National art juried exhibition, Nelspruit, South Africa, August, 2019.
Ceramics and Sculpture exhibition, Kalk Bay Modern Art gallery, Cape Town, July-August 2019.
Ceramics Southern Africa Regional exhibition, August 2019, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
Corobrik Ceramics Southern Africa National exhibition, Rust-en-Vrede gallery, Durbanville, November, 2018
Art on Track exhibition, open to all categories of art, Calitzdorp, August 2018
Flora and Fauna, Ceramics exhibition, Rus-en-vrede Gallery, Durbanville, Cape Town, June, 2018.
Ceramics Southern Africa Regional exhibition, September 2017, Constantia, Cape Town
Art on Track, multi media art exhibition, The Station, Calitzdorp, August 2017.
VASE Function Reviewed, curated by Brian Kennedy at National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard, Kilkenny, Ireland, 6
August- 6November 2016
Irish Ceramic Awards, Mill Cove Gallery, Beara Peninsula, Co Cork, Ireland, August 2016
Open exhibition, Gallery 1608, Bushmills, county Antrim, September 2016
Selected Members Exhibition, Lavitt Gallery, Cork. August 2016
Ceramics Ireland Selected Members Exhibition, Pearse Museum, Rathfarnham, Dublin, October-November, 2015
Fundraising auction for Anna’s Orphanage, Henchy’s Public House, St Luke’s. Cork, September 2015
Lifting the Bell Jar, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, August 17-31 2015
Plane Invasion, Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick, April 2015.
Members’ Exhibition, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, March 2015
Members’ Exhibition, Lavitt Gallery, Father Matthew Street, Cork, February 2015
All Fired up, juried exhibition at Zozimus Gallery, French Church Lane, Dublin, Ireland, September –November
2014.
Members Exhibition, Ceramics Ireland, Rathfarnam, Dublin, October - November 2013
Drawing between the Lines, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales. June 2013
Irish Ceramics Awards 2013, Mill Cove Gallery, Co. Cork, Ireland, June 2013
Irish Ceramics, Barony Centre, West Kilbride, Scotland, 21 September to 21 November.
Irish Ceramic Awards 2012, Mill Cove Gallery, Co. Cork, Ireland. June 2012
transFORM, Farmleigh Gallery Dublin May 2011, Millenium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, August 2011, Limerick
School of Art and Design, September 2011.
Work displayed as part of ongoing exhibition at Lavitt Gallery, Cork September 2010 - April 2011
Fledglings, Lavitt Gallery, Cork, September 2011
FineEARTH, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, July 2011
Fledglings Exhibition, Lavitt Gallery, Cork, September 2010.
Bodega Exhibition, Cornmarket Square, Cork, Ireland, August- November, 2010.
Bounce, Graduate Exhibition, Tax Office, Sullivan’s Quay, Cork Ireland June 2010.
Member’s Exhibition, Lavitt Gallery, Cork, Ireland, February, 2009

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Jaco Roux, South African artist.
Rosheen Kriegler, owner of Danielskraal Guesthouse, Calitzdorp.
Marc Stanes, owner of Ebony Gallery, Cape Town
Antonio Fiori, co-owner of Déjà vu Antiques and Books, Knysna.
Susan Bond, private collector, Cape Town.
Lindy Hamilton, art teacher and collector based in Hout Bay, Cape Town.
Hylton Nel, internationally renowned, South African ceramist living in Calitzdorp.
Peter Ting, Maker Trustee to the Board of Trustees of the UK Crafts Council, ceramist and designer for Asprey,
London, and former designer for Royal Crown Derby and Thomas Good.
Brian Kennedy, international curator and print maker.
Jimmy Deenihan, Minister of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht.
Cormac Boydell, one of Ireland's leading ceramists based in Allihies, West Cork.
Lamber de Bie, Master Florist based in Holland and Kilkenny.
James Green (PHD, RCA graduate), Fine Art lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, Wales.
John Goode, curator and co-owner of Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownbere, Co, Cork, Ireland.
Etain Hickey, one of Ireland's foremost ceramists based in Clonakilty, West Cork.
Jim Turner, a ceramist based in Clonakilty, West Cork, also renowned for his ceramics.
Dr. Vera Ryan, senior Art History lecturer at Crawford College of Art and Design (CCAD), Cork, Ireland.
Dr. Julian Campbell, former (now retired), senior Art History lecturer at CCAD.
Sarah Foster, Ceramic History Lecturer at CCAD.
Michael Murphy, Fine Art tutor at CCAD.
Hugh Lorigan, Ceramic tutor (past) at CCAD.
Kieran Foley, private client based in Dublin
June Fairhead, Sculptor, photographer and Art tutor at Kinsale Art College, Cork.
Office of Public Works,