PRACTICE
My multidisciplinary practice is expansive, experimental and continually evolving, driven by an enquiry into the dynamic relationships between human experience, the environments we inhabit and the encounters that shape us.
I often use walking to lift the lid on life and uncover new themes, motifs and materials to work with. I’m also a collector of lost and discarded ephemera, curious relics of human endeavour and often-overlooked natural wonders. Through investigating the physical and conceptual properties of these accumulations, I seek to uncover hidden narratives, latent energies and potential to inform, transform or become artefacts.
Collaboration and exchange are crucially important to my practice. As one third of artist trio Room to Manoeuvre, a member of Sapphire Blue Collective and the lead member of CAMP Writers’ Kin group, I work alongside other creatives through co-created projects, skills-sharing and the production and curation of exhibitions and events that promote participation, peer support and access to the arts.
Sharing lunch on the village green in Altarnun for the Room to Manoeuvre one day workshop on the theme of AIR
Later that afternoon….
BIO
Born and raised in Hackney, London, I relocated to rural North Cornwall in 2001, where I have lived and worked for the past twenty-five years. My home and studio are situated on a smallholding at the edge of Bodmin Moor, and the rural landscape and coastal environment have become an important part of my life and artistic practice.
With a BA (Hons) in Humanities (English and Philosophy) and a PGCE, my early career was in Further Education, where I worked for several London colleges before moving to Cornwall. I subsequently held a range of teaching, management and leadership roles within Cornwall Council’s Adult Education Service, specialising in English, Maths, Literacy and ESOL, with responsibility for curriculum development and quality assurance.
In 2016, I returned to full-time education to pursue my lifelong passion for visual art, gaining a First Class degree in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking, followed by an MA in Fine Art with Distinction from Arts University Plymouth.
I now work freelance as a visual artist, facilitator, producer, curator and arts administrator. My work is held in public and private collections, and I exhibit regularly across the South West and beyond. Alongside my studio practice, I maintain an active involvement in the visual arts community through a number of professional networks and artist-led organisations.
In February 2025, I completed a tenure of more than two years as a Co-Director for CAMP (Contemporary Art Membership Platform), helping to ensure the smooth running and strategic development of the organisation, and responsible for member care.
RECENT ACTIVITY
OCT 26 Residency and exhibition Totems for Troubling Times for Plymouth Art Weekender - (co-producer/co-curator/exhibitor) Room to Manoeuvre collective - GROW Plymouth
SEP 26 Exhibition Before & After: fragments of origin (exhibitor) - Urban Rooms, Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth
AUG 26 Exhibition MERGING:FORMING:REALIGNED (co-producer/co-curator/exhibitor) Sapphire Blue Collective - Birdwood Gallery, Totnes
JUL 26 Exhibition Treeology: the beingness of plants and trees (co-producer/co-curator/exhibitor) - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Launceston
MAY 26 Residency at Stiwdio Maelor, Corris, Machynlleth, Wales
FEB 26 Exhibition Dialogues II (exhibitor) - Discovering 42, FLAMM Arts Festival, Bodmin
OCT 25 Exhibition Dialogues (exhibitor) - The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington
SEP 25 Exhibition Where Are We Now? (exhibitor) Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
AUG 25 Exhibition Alliances & Counterpoints (co-producer/curator) for Plymouth Society of Artists MIRROR, Plymouth
JUN 25 Exhibition The State We’re In (exhibitor and co-curator) Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Launceston
MAY 25 The End Artists’ Books Fair, (exhibitor and speaker) The Exchange, Penzance
APR 25 Exhibition Desire Lines (exhibitor and co-curator) Sapphire Blue Collective, Birdwood House, Totnes
MAR 25 I led the CAMP Writers’ Kin project The State Were In, 2024, a limited edition (24) boxed sets of handmade artist books now held in various special collections including University of Plymouth, UAL, AUP, UWE Library, The Wellcome Collection, Falmouth University, KARST and Terre Verte Gallery
OCT 24 Exhibition More Headroom (exhibitor and co-curator) Sapphire Blue Collective - Leadworks, Plymouth
SEP 24 Residency and evolving exhibition Up for Air by Room to Manoeuvre - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Launceston
JUL 24 Exhibition Headroom (exhibitor and co-curator) Sapphire Blue Collective - Krowji, Redruth,
JUL 24 Exhibition Printers’ Paradise, (exhibitor) Hatherleigh Festival, Devon
JUN 24 Exhibition BRINE (exhibitor) Sapphire Blue Collective - Garrison Gallery, Maker Heights
OCT 23 Poem Selected for Plymouth Art Vending Machine - Drake Circus, Plymouth
SEP 23 Exhibition SYNERGY (exhibitor and curator) Leadworks Art Weekender, Plymouth
JUL 23 Exhibition Radiance, Rubrics & Rituals: so we are held (exhibitor and co-curator) Sapphire Blue Collective - Maketank, Exeter
FEB 23 Exhibition Car Parks Project III (exhibitor and co-curator) Room to Manoeuvre: Fish Factory Arts, Penryn
JAN 23 Exhibition Tipping Point (exhibitor – work selected) Studio KIND, Braunton
NOV 22 Exhibition Car Parks Project REPRISE (exhibitor and co-curator) Room to Manoeuvre for CIVIC STATES at Vacancy Atlas, Plymouth
NOV 22 Exhibition Migrations (exhibitor) CAMP Writers’ KIN audio-drama - How Long? - Vacancy Atlas, Plymouth
NOV 22 Exhibition SPROUT (exhibitor and co-curator) Sapphire Blue Collective - responses to BAS9 - GROW, Plymouth
OCT 22 Exhibition Car Parks Project (exhibitor and co-curator) Room to Manoeuvre - a British Art Show 9 Fringe event, Leadworks, Plymouth
OCT 22 Exhibition Mix Tape (exhibitor and curator) Leadworks Art Weekender, Plymouth
JUL 22 Feature article published by MIRROR Gallery, Plymouth, Devon and Platform Magazine in New Delhi, India. ‘Christina Kutter in conversation with Huma Mulji’
SEP 22 Exhibition One Minute! Film Festival (video selected)- Maketank at Positive Light Projects, Exeter
SEP 22 Exhibition Matters Arising MA graduates group show - Arts University Plymouth
MAR 22 KINsequences: A sculpture that wants to get made. A collaborative illustrated text performed as spoken word - Back Lane East, Redruth, Cornwall - also recorded and broadcast by Soundart Radio and the RADIA European Network
JAN 22 Selected to participate in Exchange 2 - a networking project bringing together artists from across the UK
DEC 21 Exhibition Last Chance Saloon REPRISE (exhibitor) Slash Arts, London
SEP 21 Exhibition CRUCiBLE - (exhibitor and curator) Leadworks, Plymouth
MAY 21 Exhibition A Spring Like No Other (exhibitor) Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
MAR 21 Selected to be Assistant to Artist Huma Mulji for the South West Showcase - MIRROR Gallery, Plymouth
SEP 20 Exhibition In Extremis (exhibitor) Go Large Makers’ Collective - Ocean Studios, Plymouth Art Weekender
AUG 20 IGNITE Plymouth Futures - digital showcase for arts graduates across Plymouth
AUG 20 No Show 2020 - digital showcase for PDP graduates of Plymouth College of Art
AUG 20 Exhibition A Space for Dreaming (exhibitor) Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
MAR 20 Awarded “Runner Up” in the Endelienta Open Exhibition, St Endellion, Port Isaac
OCT 19 Eleventh International Print Exchange (exhibitor) Banks Mill Studios, Derby
JUL 19 Exhibition Music and Memory: A story in stitch (exhibitor) Public Library, Wadebridge
MAY 19 Rediscovering Fowey Moor (exhibitor) Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
MAY 19 Altered Territory, (exhibitor, co-producer/curator) in collaboration with Teresa Stabb, PS1 Plymouth College of Art
MAY 19 Selected Works by Emerging Artists (exhibitor) Artmill Gallery, Plymouth
MAR 19 Conversation Before Change, (exhibitor) PCA Print Club - Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London
JAN 19 Selected Works - The Big Cartel Online Gallery - Plymouth College of Art
AUG 18 On Terracotta (exhibitor) - Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun
JUL 18 Selected works (exhibitor) Grace’s Studio & Gallery, Padstow
JUN 18TiLT (exhibitor, co-producer/curator) in collaboration with Georgina Lewis - Endelienta, St Endellion
MAY 18 Spectrum (exhibitor) Artmill Gallery, Plymouth
JUL 17 Selected Works (exhibitor) Wave 7 Gallery, Port Isaac
JUN 17 Co-operatio (exhibitor) Radiant Gallery, Plymouth
AWARDS
JAN 22 Selected for Exchange 2 - a networking programme devised by Eastside Projects, Spike Island, CAMP, The New Bridge Project, and Turf Projects, bringing together artists from across the UK
SEP 21 Selected to be Artist in Residence, Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Launceston
MAR 21 Selected to work as Assistant to artist Huma Mulji for the South West Showcase exhibition Your Tongue in My Mouth
SEP 20 Received the Signpost 10 New Graduate Award
FEB 20 Endelienta Open - Counsel: Take Care (screen print) given a ‘special mention’
JAN 19 Endelienta Open - Lines into Light (screen print) awarded ‘runner up’
JUN 17 Bare Bone (collagraph) selected to hang in the Debating Chamber, Plymouth Magistrates’ Court
JAN 17 Selected to represent Plymouth College of Art at Making Learning, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern
MEMBERSHIPS
a-n Artists’ Information Company
Axis [professional]
CAMP [Contemporary Artists Membership Platform]
CKA [Creative Kernow Associates]
Room to Manoeuvre [Artist Trio]
Sapphire Blue Collective
VASW [Visual Arts South West]
WAN [Walking Artists Network]
Go Large Makers’ Collective (2019 to 2020)
Cornwall Artists Index