Awards and Scholarships
Over the years I have benefited from scholarships and artist residencies to develop my craft and artistic practice. These opportunities are and have been crucial to nurturing my work and I'm very thankful to everyone involved in facilitating them.
2022 Haystack Mountain School of Craft Open Studio residency.
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is an international craft school located on the Atlantic Ocean in Deer Isle, Maine. The school offers intensive studio-based workshops in a variety of craft media.
2020 Low Carbon Design Institute 1 month Residency (Online), The Low Carbon Institute is an institution in the making. A prototype of a future brick and mortar space where anyone creative can find out more about climate change. They run a 4 week virtual residency, events & workshops all year long, share resources and publish a seasonal newsletter.
2013 Eddie Mundy, Brilliant Award. Royal College of Art. Annual award given to a student of the Design Products department, in honour of a past alumni Eddie Mundy.
2011 NKD Nordisk Kunstnarsenter
Nordic Artists' Centre Dalsåsen is an Artist-in-Residence center funded by Norwegian Ministry Of Culture. The A-I-R program encourages international contacts for artists and focuses on visual arts including design, architecture and locally rooted practice. Nordic Artists' Centre Dalsåsen is situated in the village of Dale, the administrative center of the Fjaler municipality on the West Coast of Norway.
2007 Anderson Ranch Arts Centre Scholarship for Cork workshop.
Anderson Ranch is located in the resort community of Snowmass Village, Colorado. Established In 1966, by a group of artists from Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley who cleared out the historic barns for studios, set up a gallery and inaugurated an informal workshop programme.
2006 Cove Park 3-Month Craft Residency.
Cove Park is an international centre based in Scotland for the arts and creative industries. Founded in 1999, Cove Park runs an annual programme of residencies for artists working in all art forms. Cove Park supports and promotes the work of the artists on residency and creates opportunities for public participation through a related events programme.
2005 Clerkenwell Green Association Development Award.
Clerkenwell Green Association (now Craft Central) is an organisation set up to encourage and support craftspeople and designer-makers in appropriate ways so they can achieve success.
2005 Haystack Mountain School of Craft Scholarship for wood bending workshop.
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is an international craft school located on the Atlantic Ocean in Deer Isle, Maine. The school offers intensive studio-based workshops in a variety of craft media.
2003 Derek Austin Award for cabinetmaking. City and Guilds. London Guildhall University.
