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Curriculum Vitae

Education
2025 – Present    MFA Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University
2022 – 2024         BA Fine Art, Level 5 + 6, Sheffield Hallam University
2021 – 2022         BA Fine Art, Level 4, Manchester Metropolitan University
2020 – 2021         Foundation Art and Design, The Sheffield College

Research & Study Visits

2026

  • Study of hair work holdings, Brontë Parsonage Museum

2025

  • Study of Georgian and Victorian hair work holdings, Gawthorpe Hall

  • Study of mourning jewellery and hair embroidery, Bankfield Museum

2024

  • Study of Georgian and Victorian hair embroideries, Bury Art and Sculpture Museum

Research & Publications

2026
Research Notes accepted into the Brontë Parsonage Museum Research Library

  • Recognising the Double Elastic Braid (J13 & J43)

  • Elastic Hairwork in Circulation: The 1848 Advertisement and the Brontë Collection

  • Unpicking the Square Braid: Hair work, Kumihimo, and the Brontë Bracelet (HAOBPJ30)

2025

Research findings accepted into museum archives, Bury Art and Sculpture Museum

  • Burys Art and Sculpture museums, Hair Embroideries

2026

Critical Review on Hairwork, Adaptation, and Material Culture in relation to Margot Robbie and Wuthering Heights, accepted into the Brontë Parsonage Museum Research Library

  • Hair Work: Then and Now. 

Work Experience

2025 - Present     Sheffield Museums Volunteer
2024 – 2025         Volunteer Committee Member, Open Up Sheffield, Social media engagement
2022 – 2024         Volunteer, Bloc Projects Gallery, Sheffield, Front of house

Solo Show
2024

Exhibitions

2026

  • My Hair & Me, Invited Artists Group Show, Sarah Baulch Gallery, Kent, UK

2025

2024

2023

  • Winter Warmers, Group Exhibition, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

Interviews / Features
2025

Collaboration / Residencies
2025      Bankfield Museum: In Loving Memory Exhibition, Halifax, UK

  • Loan of  personal hair work collection for display

  • Exhibiting artist on select dates, sharing knowledge and demonstrating Georgian and Victorian hairwork techniques

2024      Brown Street Projects: The Occurrence, Sheffield

  • Group artist-led residencies responding to a derelict building in Sheffield’s cultural quarter

  • Resulted in a 3-day exhibition

Achievements
2024

  • Shortlisted for New Contemporaries

Workshops and Public Engagements

(Upcoming)

  • Victorian hair work workshop, Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust, Buxton, UK

  • Victorian hair work workshop, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, UK

2026

  • Victorian Hair Work Demonstration, Bronte Parsonage Museum, UK

  • Victorian hair work demonstration Talk, Online, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, UK

  • Multiple Victorian Hair Work Demonstrations in conjunction with In Loving Memory exhibition, Bankfield Museum, 

  • Hair as Keepsake, Victorian hair work workshop, Bankfield Museum, Halifax, UK

2025

  • Multiple Victorian Hair Work Demonstrations in conjunction with In Loving Memory exhibition, Bankfield Museum, 

  • Hair as Keepsake, Victorian hair work workshop, Bankfield Museum, Halifax, UK

  • Beyond Strands, Victorian hair work workshop, Danum Gallery, Doncaster, UK

2024

  • Timeless Blooms, Victorian hair work workshop, Kiln Coffee, Sheffield, UK

  • Beyond Strands, Victorian hair work workshop, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK

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