2019-2020 Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes: a funded project reprinting the wood engravings of celebrated artist, writer and founder of the museum, Marie Hartley MBE followed by a year spent developing prints inspired by the Yorkshire Dales to be exhibited at the museum in 2020.
2017 Shortlisted for New Light Prize Exhibition
2015 Shortlisted for New Light Prize Exhibition
2014 Shortlisted for Flourish Printmaker of the Year
2012 Shortlisted for Flourish Printmaker of the Year
2012 Selected by Chrysalis Arts for an artist’s residency at Ålgården Printmaking Studio and Gallery in West Sweden as part of the Connections North Programme.
2010 Selected as one of three artists in residence at Nidderdale Museum.
2010 Selected for an Extending Practice/Celebrating Place award from Chrysalis Arts. This enabled me to work with Jane Sellars, the curator of the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, and specialists at the British and Yorkshire Museums. I created a series of prints based on the Vale of York Viking Hoard. My artistic response to this beautiful and important treasure was exhibited alongside the hoard at the Mercer Art Gallery.
Recent Commissions:
2018 4-metre collagraph on fabric for display at a public hospital in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.
2017 2 large scale monotypes for display at a public hospital in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.
2017/18 Linocut designs for a rubber stamp trail on the nature trail at Kilnsey Park Trout Farm
2014 Linocut designs for geocache trail at Scampston Hall celebrating 300 years since the birth of Capability Brown
2012 Linocut designs for a Geo Art Cache trail commissioned by Chrysalis Arts for Hackfall Woods, North Yorkshire.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 'Waymarks: A Printmakers Perspective of the Dales', The Folly Museum of North Craven Life, Settle, North Yorkshire.
2017 ‘Within These Walls’ – a large-scale print installation in a field barn for Grassington Festival.
2015 The Angel Inn, Hetton.
2013 ‘Artist of the Month’, Alverton Gallery, Penzance
2011/12 ‘Hester Cox: An Artist’s Impression (A printmaker’s response to the Vale of York Viking
Hoard)’, The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
2010 ‘Home’, The Gallery, Masham
2009 Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge.
2008 The Warehouse Café, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.
2007 ‘Past and Present’, The Old Courthouse, Rural Arts, Thirsk.
2007 Shine, Gillygate, York.
2006 ‘Journeys’, The Gallery, Masham. A solo exhibition of new prints influenced by my travels
across Asia and South and Central America.
1996 – 1999 RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Harrogate, annual solo exhibitions of prints and paintings.
Two/Three Man Exhibitions:
2016-18 ‘Collections’, an ongoing project with ceramicist Charlotte Morrison and artist Josie Beszant.
2018 Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Farsley 2017 Ryedale Folk Museum. 2016 Masham Gallery
2014/2015 ‘New Ground’, Inspired by…, Danby, North York Moors, 22nd November 2014 – 25th January
2015 with Charlotte Morrison.
Recent Selected Group Exhibitions & Events
2018Printfest, Ulverston Cumbria
2017 The Great Print Exhibition, Rheged, Penrith
2017 New Light Art Prize Exhibition, Bowes Museum (and touring during 2018/19)
2017 Sheffield Print Fair
2017 Craven Arts Christmas Exhibition, Skipton
2017 Printfest, Ulverston Cumbria
2017 Art in the Pen, Thirsk Auction Mart (& 2016)
2017 Art in the Pen, Skipton Auction Mart (& previous 5 years)
2017 North Yorkshire Open Studios (& 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010)
2016 Dean Clough Festive Art Fair
2016 Sheffield Print Fair
2016 Crafted by Hand, Masham
2016 West Dean Design and Craft Fair, West Dean College.
2015 ‘Mirror Images’: selected international touring exhibition. Started at Inspired By…, Danby on 8th May – 15th June
with synchronised openings at Ratamo Print and Photography Centre and Algarden, West Sweden. The exhibition toured to Brewery Arts, Kendal; The Dales Museum, Hawes & Caithness Horizons, Thurso.
2015 The Harrogate Open, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
2015 Printmakers at Pannet, Pannet Art Gallery, Whitby, a group show with printmakers from Leeds Fine Artists. 18th
August – 26th September.
2014 & 2012 ‘Flourish Print Award’, West Yorkshire Printmakers, Mirfield