‘Informed by my background in Classics, my paintings present females as avatars of particular mental states, set in landscapes of the mind. Current work includes an ACE funded project to explore my own postnatal psychosis. As well as themes such as identity and adolescence, I articulate the anguish and elation of psychotic states, touching on the political status of (female) psychiatric patients, attended by self-seeking or indifferent caregivers in a patriarchal healthcare system.’
EDUCATION
2022 –
MA Fine Art, City & Guilds Art School
2021 – 2022
Turps Correspondence Course
1999-2003
BA Hons Classics, Oxford
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Disrupted Icons (The Maternal Gaze) – X Eleanor Turner (music), The Crypt Gallery, London (forthcoming Nov 2022)
2021
The Supposition of her Existence, Gallery Stamford
2004
Metamorphosis: Recent Paintings, The Vaults Café and Gallery, High Street, Oxford
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Cartography of Care, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh
I FELT THAT, The Tub, Hackney
A Room of Her Own (in conjunction with International Women’s Day), Irving Contemporary, Oxford and online
International Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Made in Lockdown, Peterborough Cathedral
2021
‘Come As You Art’ Group show, Filet Space, 103 Murray Grove, Shoreditch, London
Two Queens Members Show 2021, Two Queens Project Space, Queen Street, Leicester
acting balance[d], Spilt Milk Gallery Members show, online
No Reserve, group in-person show with InFems Art Collective at Leicester Contemporary
‘Euphoric’, Online Group Show curated by Josephine May Bailey
Alone, Together online group show, curated by Shannon Skye Robinson
London Paint Club, Spring Awakening online
2020
Lucy Cade and Caroline Boyfield, Gallery Stamford
2013
Osmosis, online group exhibition at Covert Gallery
New Perceptions, (Group show), Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford
2011
Rutland Open Studios, home studio
2008
OBSessions, Modern Art Oxford
Rutland Open Studios, home studio
2004
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
The Young Ones, Said Business School, Oxford (as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks)
Edition Exhibition, Castle Mill Boatyard, Jericho, Oxford
Metamorphosis, Surface Gallery, Mansfield Road, Nottingham
COMPETITIONS
The Big Art Challenge, Semi-finalist, Channel Five, 2004
AWARDS
Shortlisted for Jacksons Painting Prize 2022
Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, Arts Council England (Project: ‘The wounded oyster turns grit into pearl: processing trauma through painting’) 2021
Shortlisted for The Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize 2021
The Eaton Fund (2022)
The Whitebread Trust (2022)
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