CURATION

EVENT DESIGN & INSTALLATION

'Flora' at Sheffield Adventure Film Festival  2024/2025

Joanna Rucklidge and I collaborated to create the enclosure for the Outpost’s ‘Campfire Talks’ this year. 

I took over the decoration,  by designing unique ‘Flora’ to create a beautiful and immersive environment, using hand-made flowers to bring joy through colour and texture. The 3D flowers and leaves were made from repurposed wood, hand rolled woollen balls, and a mixture of recycled and recyclable paper mounted on bamboo canes. The wood was dyed using vibrant eco wood stains and each flower is totally original, made in an organic fashion with components placed together on a whim. The original idea for the abstracted  forms was inspired by research into the varied flora found in the Peak district.

The room dividers used rudimentary materials in a sophisticated way - simply tissue and tracing paper. I designed silhouette flower shapes and laser cut them in various colours of tissue. Working with fellow artist, Joanna, we meticulously glued foliage and blooms in layers on both sides of tracing paper. This allows light to naturally permeate through the colours and ensures both sides of the paper are visually pleasing when hung. One of the aims of the overall design was to make something that is adaptable, modular and reusable. The paper ‘walls’ can be rearranged for alternative venues, used in subsequent years, and are easy to assemble and pack away. The paper can be easily recycled, or even composted, when it has reached the end of its useful life.  In alignment with both the ideals of ShAFF and our creative practices, ‘Flora’ is as eco-friendly as practical. 

'Love' shop window display at Spirals. February 2026

'Love' cardboard placards with wooden and felt flowers.

'Know Your Place' schools show 2025

Collaborating with Create Sheffield to design and install an exhibit of a Sheffield wide schools project about connecting with the history of their communities. Sheffield City Library.

'Thanks for having me' Solo show 2024

A solo show to celebrate leaving my job as a technician, in the gallery I had installed hundreds of shows, Head Post Office Gallery, Sheffield.

'Yes We Can' Group Technical group show 2023

I devised, curated, organised and hung a show celebtating the work of the technical staf within the Art and Design department of Sheffield Hallam Univeristy. 

This was to showcase the excellent skills and creativity of an underexposed and underappreciated workforce. Processes used to make the work were documented and shared with staff and students to further understand the wealth of knowledge and facilities available in the workshops.

'Jewellery & Metalwork Graduate shows' 2019

Two exhibitions of the graduating Jewellery and Metalwork students work, at Sheffield Hallam University and at New Designers in London 2019.