Institution: University College Falmouth

Dates: September 2007 – July 2010

Location: Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Qualifications: BA (Hons) Contemporary Crafts 2:2

Description

Three year course, working with glass, fine metals, ceramics and plastics.

Trained in:

• Drawing/Painting: Figurative/life work, still life, line work, screen printing, lino-cutting, stencil making
• Textiles: Basic Sewing skills, tie-dye, batik.
• Ceramics: Slip work, casting and making slip, slabbing, coiling, hand building, glazing, decal work, press moulding, kiln firing techniques including Raku and Bisque.
• Glass: Kiln cast glass, lost wax and core casting, polishing- hand and machine, cutting, fusing, UV gluing.
• Metal: Copper and Silver work, soldering, hammer shaping, hand piercing, oxidising, roll milling.
• Plastic: Vacuum forming, Melting, fusing and stretching plastics.
• Plaster: Mould making, basic carving

Exhibitions throughout Course, arranged collectively by students and staff:

UCF Degree Show, University College Falmouth June 2010
‘Re-designing the Collection’, Royal Cornwall Museum Jan 2010
‘You Are Here’, site specific project, Trelissick Gardens May 2009
‘The Shape of Things to Come’, Falmouth Arts Centre Feb 2009
City of Lights, Truro Oct 2008
UCF – end of year exhibition June 2008

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Institution: City of Westminster College

Dates: September 2004 – July 2006

Location: Paddington Green, London, United Kingdom

Qualifications: BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies, Art & Design Distinction

Description

An exploratory course, with research into the history of design and fine art, an introduction into life drawing, print-making, mixed media, stop-frame animation and architectural design.
I focused on sculpture with mixed media, life drawing and print making, both lino and screen.

Finished with an end of year exhibition at the Cockpit Theatre, London.

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Role: Sales Assistant

Company: Cass Art

Dates: June 2011 – February 2012

Location: London, United Kingdom

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (40hrs pw)

Pay: £6.3 Hourly

Description

Constant presence on shop floor, assisting customers with shopping, queries and complaints. Serving on tills, handling cash. Maintaining shop presentation including merchandising, replenishing, implementing health and safety. Taking and checking deliveries, stock-taking, running in-store activities and demonstrations with the public, both children and adults.

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Role: Bar Associate

Company: JD Wetherspoons

Dates: July 2010 – June 2011

Location: Ruislip, London, United Kingdom

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (40 hrs pw)

Pay: £5.8 Hourly

Description

Taking and serving food and drink orders, clearing tables on pub floor. Maintaining a clean and safe environment on pub floor, including outdoor smoking area, behind bar and back of house. Replenishing stock levels behind bar, taking deliveries, handling cash, dealing with customers queries and complaints.

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Association: Press Office Intern – Tate St Ives

Dates: July 2009 – January 2010

Description

Communications Intern reporting to the Press Officer
During this six month internship, roles included:

• Contacting local and national Press about current and upcoming exhibitions, emailing high resolution images of works and written releases.
• Establishing new and lasting relationships with publications and journalists.
• Writing two Press Releases with guidance from my Supervisor, both successfully went to print, one appearing in local press as an article, the other as an actual Press Release used in the Press Pack and sent out with invitations to a Private View.
• Gathered together Copyright information for exhibition catalogue images, understanding how to correctly list this in relation to a protected image.

Other regular tasks included sending out Exhibition Packs and Invitations to all media and press contacts and creating, editing and updating various Databases within the Tate System. I also took on the task of reforming the hard-copy Press Filing system.

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Role: Bar Associate

Company: JD Wetherspoons

Dates: September 2007 – June 2009

Location: Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (33hrs pw)

Pay: £5.8 Hourly

Description

Taking and serving food and drink orders, clearing tables on pub floor. Maintaining a clean and safe environment on pub floor, including outdoor smoking area, behind bar and back of house. Replenishing stock levels behind bar, taking deliveries, handling cash, dealing with customers queries and complaints.

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Association: Member of ‘Young Tate’ at Tate Britain

Dates: January 2005 – September 2007

Description

My voluntary role as a team member was to work with my group, creating and implementing workshops, events and weekends tailored to the interests of children and young adults, each event was influenced by the Gallery’s current exhibitions.

2007 –
Late at Tate – ‘Enslaved Fashion’ Catwalk Show
Mobilography – An Online Project, ongoing

2006 –
Gothic Round Table – An evening focusing on Gothic film and artwork
‘Publish Your Own Comic’ workshop – One day event, working with Comic artists
Helped design Young Tate webpage/interviewed Tate staff/created Young Tate MySpace

2005 –
Loud Tate – Evening surrounding art and politics, this one night welcomed over 2,000 visitors

• Administrative:
• Database creation & Editing
• Proof reading
• Website updating
• Basic report writing
• Artistic:
• Workshop creation and Implementation
• Skilled ceramicist – hand building & Slip casting
• Illustration – hand drawn and coloured

Group Organisation, Liasing, Public Speaking, Workshop running

Tate Collective

Conversational German, English