Selected Work
2024
Exhibition as Artist Curator: Performance Wear, Boughton House, Northamptonshire
2023
Public Art Commission: Wood Wood, The Barber Institute, University of Birmingham
2018
Group Exhibition: Creating the Countryside: The Rural Idyll Past and Present, Compton Verney Museum and Art Gallery, Warwickshire
2017–18
Exhibition as Artist Curator: The Museum of Contemporary Farming, The Museum of English Rural Life (and Twitter), University of Reading
2017
Public Art Commission: Delilah and Samson, Greenbelt Festival, Northamptonshire
Published book: GB Farming: An Island Journey, The Russell Press
2015
Group Exhibition: Green and Pleasant Land? Rural Life in Art, The Harris Museum, Preston
2014
Exhibition as Artist Curator: Sheep Sketchbook: Revising the Pastoral Tradition, Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester and SYSON Gallery Nottingham
2012
Solo Exhibition: A Perfect Line, Blackbrook Gallery, Leicestershire
Public Art Commission: How is the Countryside Sold? (with Alice Carey), Radar Arts, University of Loughborough and the European Cultural Foundation
2012
Group Exhibition: Always Greener: Views of the Contemporary Countryside, The PM Gallery, London
2010
Public Art Commission: Farming Fiction (with Alice Carey), British Art Show 7, Nottingham
Group Exhibition: Designing Environments for Life, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Exhibition as Artist Curator: Curating the Farm: Exchange and Value, The Yard Gallery, Nottingham
Group Exhibition: Calendar Variations, The Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium
2009
Public Art Commission: I Engraft You New, Penlanole Farm, Wales
2007
Solo Exhibition: GB Farming, The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham
2005
Solo Exhibition: Between Tides, Oxford University Press Bookshop, Oxford
2004
Group Exhibition: Atomic Art Bomb, Modern Art Oxford
Awards
2009
AHRC MPhil Scholarship
2008
Arts Council England Award: The Arts and Agriculture (Research and Development)
2007
Arts Council England Award: GB Farming
2005
The Pirye Prize
2005
The Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize
2004
The Geoffrey Rhoades Commemorative Bursary
Education
2009–11
MPhil Curating the Farm, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
2003–06
1st Class BFA, The Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford
Teaching
2023–2026
Plant Dye Studio workshops, Primary, Nottingham
2020–2026
Workshops: Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire
2023
Early Years Programme: Nature’s Palette, The Barber Institute, University of Birmingham
Visiting Lecturer: Fine Art MA, University of Lincoln
Plant Colour workshop, Loughborough University Sustainability Week
2022–2023
Inclusive Youth Arts Programme workshops: Arcadia for All, Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester
2018
Artist’s Talk: Art and Agriculture, Whitechapel Gallery
Workshop: Writing a Journal, National Centre for Craft and Design, Lincolnshire
Workshop: Campus Colour, Radar Arts, Loughborough University
2016
Chair, Discussion Event: Towards a Museum of Contemporary Farming, The Science Museum, London
2011
Artist’s Talk: Audiovisual Anonymous Artists, Brussels, Belgium
Artist’s Talk: Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj, Romania
Artist’s Talk: neon>campobase, Bologna, Italy
2010
Guest Lecture: Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
2009
Artist’s Talk: Meadow Arts, Hereford
2008
Visiting Lecturer: The Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford
Selected Bibliography
2018
Back to the Land, Rosemary Shirley and James Wilkes, Apollo Art Magazine
2014
Sheep Sketchbook: Revising the Pastoral Tradition, Tom Hackett, A-n
2012
30 Under 30, Jennie Syson, Nottingham Visual Arts
2006
Commute Poetry, BBC East Midlands Today