Education
1996-2001 BA(Hons) and MA, School of Art and Design, The Manchester Metropolitan University
1998 Visiting student at Kunsthogskølen i Bergen, Norway
1992-1995 BA(Hons), Philosophy, The University of Manchester

Selected Solo Exhibitions
The World Is Larger In Summer – MAC, Birmingham, 2007
Solo Show – Cornerhouse Projects, Manchester, 2007

Selected Group Exhibitions
Future 50, PSL, Project Space Leeds 2008
Swap/Vaihto, Bureau, Salford and The Cable Factory, Helsinki 2008
Bracket This( III –, Arena Gallery. Liverpool Biennial Independents Programme, 2006 (Catalogue)
Pattern – Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 2006
Frenzy - L’art decoratif d’aujourd ‘hui – The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, 2006
New Trends in Painting Since 2000 – City Gallery Offsite, Leicester, 2006
Region – Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, 2005
A Haunting –Various Venues, Manchester , 2005
Lost and Found – MAC, Birmingham, 2005
The Eve of Destruction - The International 3, Manchester, 2003
Thermo 03 - The Lowry, Salford Quays, 2003
The Dog and Partridge – Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2003
Art Take Away – The Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2002
EastWest – Mint, London, 2002
Pattern Crazy – The Crafts Council, London. (Catalogue), 2002
Fresh Paint – Debenhams Windows, Manchester, 2002
Crawford Open 2 – Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland. (Catalogue), 2002

Awards
2004 Research and Development Award, The Arts Council England

Teaching/Writing
2006 – Should We Have Stayed at Home?, Garageland: Nature, 3, 24-25.
2006 – In Search of the Sensual - essay to accompany the exhibition Frenzy .
http://www.fiveyears.org.uk/archive2/publications.html
2005 – “Let us leave to the clothes dyers the sensory jubilations of the paint tub”: Painting and the Decorative. Paper given at Collections and Creativity Conference, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
1999 – Touching the Subject and Imagining the Texture of Absence. Paper given at Theory in Art History 1960 – 1999 Conference, The Courtauld Institute, London.
2005 – Present, 0.5 Senior Lecturer in The School of Art and Design, The Manchester Metropolitan University
1999-2005, Associate Lecturer in Art History/Contextual Studies, The Manchester Metropolitan University.