CV

2008
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Education

2008	Masters of Fine Art	Newcastle University
2000-2003	BA(Hons) Fine Art	Leeds Metropolitan University

Selected exhibitions and events

2009	Art Sale	Globe Gallery, Newcastle
2009	Summer 2009: MFA Degree Show	Newcastle University
2008	Nomiated for Emerging Artists Section	Newcastle Gatehead Art Fair
2008	Still Lives (solo exhibition)	Fold Gallery, Kirkby Stephen
2007	Snowcase	Fold Gallery Kirkby Stephen
2007	Northern Print Bursary Artists	Northern Print, Newcastle
2007	Dislocation (solo exhibition)	Arc, Stockton-on-Tees
2007	Moving On	Billingham Art Gallery
2006	Make Your Own Damn Art World	mima off-site event, Middlesbrough
2005	All Fired Up	Artworks MK, Milton Keynes
2004	Timeline - The Reading Room	Sherborne House, Dorset
2004	Surface Open Print	Surface Gallery, Nottingham

Selected curated exhibitions and events

2008	The Reading Room - conversations of an artistic nature A series of three evening conversations in which leading practitioners, theorists and curators discuss contemporary art under the headings of Drawing, Object and Space. Speakers include Glenn Adamson, Catherine Bertola, Sian Bowen, Susan Collis, Kate Davis, Keith Harrison, Kelly McCallum, David Musgrave, Richard Talbot and Emma Shaw
2007	Memories, Moments and Other Curiosities Simon Le Ruez, Kelly McCallum, Nicola Dale, Claire Douglass and Liz Frolich Sculpture and wall-based work suggestive of personal experience, disintegration and domestic spaces
2007	Kerry Harker: Work and Play Ceramic installation investigating craft and fine art within cultural production, with accompanying exhibition catalogue including an essay by Clare Twomey
2007	lluring Order Katie Lewis, Bethan Maddocks, Hannah Marsden and Janey Xuereb Inconclusive narratives, disparate objects and manipulated environments Disinformation: Fire in the Eye (Painting with Electricity) Interactive sound and light installation

Awards and Funding

2007-2008	Professional Development Funding Awarded funding from a-n, The Artists’ Information Company through their Professional Development through Networking fund towards a series of mentoring sessions aimed at developing and defining my current practice.
2007	Northern Print Bursary Awarded an 8 month Northern Print Bursary. Bursary included dedicated technical support and funding for membership, studio time, fees for courses and materials. I used the facilities to develop screenprint within my work and how print can be used on three-dimensional forms in relation to my collection of found and abandoned objects.
2006-2008	Grants for the Arts award Awarded Grants for the Arts funding for developing skills needed for my practice and raising my profile as an artist. Funding will cover the design of a new website, printing of relevant promotional material and training relevant to my practice.
2006-2007	Artist’s Access to Art Colleges Selected for the Artists Access to Art Colleges scheme, hosted by Newcastle University. Scheme entitled me to use university fine art and library facilities over a 7 month period. I used the opportunity to start researching ideas related to the use of the archive in contemporary art and its relation to my current practice.
2004	Grants for the Arts award Five month research project supported by an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award. I lived and worked in a children’s home in Peru, whilst using various drawing, collage and photography techniques to visually explore the local geographical area. This work was further developed on my return to Britain, culminating in a series of drawings and prints which used manmade structures as metaphors for states of being.

Permanent Collections

2003	National Art Library	Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Catalogues / Publications

2007	Kerry Harker: Work and Play Co-editor of exhibition catalogue
2004	The Reading Room Exhibition catalogue
2003	Artist’s Book Yearbook Published by Impact Press, Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England