EDUCATION

2008-2009 Postgraduate Diploma 2D Character Animation (Distinction), Central St Martins College of Art, University of the Arts London

2008 Selected Drawing Courses, Prince's Trust Drawing School, London

 

2001-2005 BA Fine Art Painting (Upper Second hons), Slade School of Art, University

College, London

2001 Alternative Foundation Course, Slade School of Art, University College, London 2000-

2001 Foundation Diploma, 2D Multimedia, Central St Martins College of Art, University of the Arts, London

TELEVISION CREDITS

2011 Director of Animation for The Pendle Witch Child, Wingspan Productions Commission for BBC4, directed by Ros Ereira www.wingspanproductions.co.uk/pendlewitch  

SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS

2011

Whistling In The Dark, curated by Stomper, Shoreditch Town Hall, London/TBD New York www.stomper.co.uk

East End Film Festival, Brickhouse, London www.eastendfilmfestival.com

Get Well Soon, curated by 12foot6, XOYO, Londonwww.12foot6.com

2010  

Clarity, curated by Pendragon Productions, The Hollywood Arms, London

Get Well Soon, curated by 12foot6, XOYO, London www.12foot6.com

Our Indie Cinema, The Castle, London www.ourindiecinema.com/

Jersey Branchage Film Festival, Jersey, Channel Islands www.branchagefestival.com 

Rushes Soho Shorts, ICA/Soho Film Lab, London www.sohoshorts.com

7^th London Independent Film Festival, The Roxy Cinema, Borough www.londonindependent.org

Life's Just Networking, curated by Life Just Is Film, Battersea, London www.lifejustisfilm.com

British Animation Awards, National Film Theatre, London www.britishanimationawards.com 

British Animation Awards Public Choice, various screenings across the UK   www.britishanimationawards.com 

2009 

Filmstock International Film Festival, The Hat Factory, Luton www.filmstock.co.uk

Bradford Animation Festival, National Media Museum, Bradford www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

Norwich Film Festival, The Forum, Norwich www.norwichfilmfestival.co.uk

Transcriptions, Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London www.nationalgallery.org.uk

 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

Whistling In The Dark,curated by Stomper, Shoreditch Town Hall, London/TBD New Yorkwww.stomper.co.uk

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2011, (Invited by James Lloyd RP), Mall Galleries, London www.therp.co.uk

2010

Curiouser and Curiouser, curated by Rita Parente, Old Vic Tunnels www.submit2gravity.com

2009

Moot, C4RD, Centre For Recent Drawing, London www.c4rd.org.uk

Kunskog, curated by Stuart Pearson Wright, Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, London www.kunskog.com

2007 

Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, LA

2005 

Bright Young Things, The Marquee Club, London

Inspired Art Fair, The Bridge, London

Young Collectors Party - Exhibit 05, Bonhams Bond Street, London

Never Ever Land, The Residence, London

Make It or Break It, The Residence, London 

Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London

Slade Summer Show, University College, London

2004 

TEN, Adhoc Gallery, London

Paint London, Candid Arts Trust, London

2003

Studio/Show, Hunter Studios, New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 2007

REPRESENT, Al Riwaq Gallery, Bahrain www.alriwaqartspace.com

Bahrainona, Bahrain National Museum, Bahrain

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2011

Nominated by Jayne Pilling, director of the British Animation Awards, for a 2012 Fellowship in Animation from The Arts Foundation. www.artsfoundation.co.uk

 2010  

Nominated for Best Animation at Rushes Soho Shorts http://digitalpages.2evolv.co.uk/?id=53ba77e3-37eb-4832-86f8-1e40de5319d5

Nominated for Best Film in the Public Choice Category at the British Animation Awards www.britishanimationawards.com/public_choice2010.htm 

2009

Nominated for Best Student Film at Bradford Animation Festival

Received an Adobe Outstanding Student Award, Central St Martins College of Art

2007 

Three month residency at Al Riwaq Gallery, Manama, Bahrain

2003 

Winner of the People's Choice Award for Painting at the Inspired Art Fair

Awarded Exchange Grant to Hunter College, New York, from the Slade, London

PUBLISHED WORK

2009 

Best Of British Animation Awards Vol. 8, DVD produced by Christopher O'Reilly, Charlotte Bavasso, and Christine Ponzevera www.nexusproduction.com, www.filmworkshop.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16354

MANIFEST International Drawing Annual, Manifest Drawing Centre, Ohio www.manifestgallery.org

2006 

 

Bahrainona: Drawing from Life

Published by Bahrain Media Company as documentation of a nine month portrait/oral

research project. Bahrain, ISBN 99901-10-26-3

GALLERY EDUCATION

2010

Lead artist for an Educational Outreach prigramme, devised by Central St Martins, aimed at 16-22 year olds from the Borough of Hackney, in conjunction with The Drawing Room to coincide with their exhibition entitled Shudder. www.drawingroom.org/portavilion.htm

 COMMISSIONS

2009 

Sorry To Hear You Impaled Yourself on the Roof of Edinburgh College of Art, a short animated film commissioned by 12Foot6 (www.12foot6.com) as part of their project entitled Get Well Soon. Other commissioned directors include Darren Walsh (Passion Pictures) and Lucy Izzard (Slinky Pictures).

 PRESS/PUBLICATIONS

 2010  

Best of Herd, Nick Bradshaw's review of the British Animation Awards Public Choice, BFI Sight & Sound www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/exclusive/british_animation_awards_preview.php

Flash CS5 for Designers, by Tom Green and Tiago Dias, published by Friends of ED, www.friendsofed.com

2005 

Feeling Inspired? Emer Grant's review of the Inspired Art Fair, NY Arts Magazine www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?Itemid=703&id=4205&option=com_content&task=view