Resume

TEACHING:

01/11 –Present: Grange Centre, Textiles, Craft and Basic Learning Skills Tutor for adults with disabilities’, Bookham, Surrey

06/08 – 08/08: Pilchuck Glass School, TA (Teaching Assistant) Assisted Master Kilnformer Jiyong Lee, on his: Cast it and Coldwork it survey, Stanwood, USA

01/07 – 09/09: eca Edinburgh College of Art, Part-time Kilnforming and Architectural Glass teaching post within the Undergraduate Programme, Edinburgh, Scotland

06/07 – 07/07: Pilchuck Glass School, TA (Teaching Assistant) Assisted Czech Masters Marian Karel and Daniel Hanzlik, on their Space, Light & Glass Course, Stanwood, USA

02/04 - 06/05: Newlands Manor, Art & Design and Photography teaching post, mixed independent, 8-18yrs, Seaford, Sussex

02/03 - 08/03: Strykejernet Kunstskole (Art Foundation School), Glass Tutor 18+, Oslo, Norway

01/01 - 04/01: Battersea Mental Health Day Centre (BMH), Adults, Photography Tutor, Battersea, London

GLASS DESIGN & PRODUCTION:

04/01 - 02/03: Fusion Glass Designs, Assistant Kilnform Manager. Managing a core team. Work included: job specific programming, effective liaison with outside suppliers; mainly Architects, Building Contractors and Interior Designers. Production, purchasing, scheduling, kiln maintenance, commissioned samples and mould making were also high profile daily tasks, Clapham, London.

EDUCATION:

2005-06 Masters (MDes), Glass and Arch. Glass Design

2003-04 PGCE (Post Grad. Cert. of Education) Art and Design

1996-99 BA HONS (Bachelors of Arts with Honours) Glass and Arch. Glass

1994-96 HND (Higher National Diploma) in Three Dimensional Design

1993-94 ND in Art and Design Foundation Studies

1991-93 A Levels in Art & Design, Photography and Theatre Studies. GCSE in Photography

1989-91 GCSE’s in Maths, English, English Lit, Art, Drama, CDT, Geography and Physics.

VOLUNTARY:

Artist in Residence (AIR), Edinburgh College of Art: 2007-2009

Scottish Glass Society (SGS), Committee Member: 2007-2009