A fine-art practitioner whose work includes painting, photography, sound, film, text and printed-matter. Her design & publishing work – as Scrutineer’s – is predominantly (and collaboratively) with writers & artists. She runs Beach Road Project Space and is a member of Edgeland Modern, a group with a particular interest in the edges (not necessarily geographical), who investigate and develop ideas, symposia & chat.

Current

September 2024: Ebb+Flow, Littleford+Adams, artists in residence, Newhaven Museum, Paradise Park

Selected

2024: Connections, Littleford+Adams, The Sidings, Newhaven. Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
2024: Online Talk: Connections
2024: Connections: In the Footsteps of Ravilious
Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
2024: Sketchbook/Notebook, Beach Road site, Newhaven
2023: Border: After Ravilious, Littleford+Adams, Edgeland Modern at Marine Workshops: Newhaven. Funded by Arts Council, Chalk Cliff Trust & Lewes District Council
2023: Tasty: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven site
2023: Fort: In the Footsteps of Ravilious, Newhaven Fort, funded by Arts Council England
2023: Chalk: In the Footsteps of Ravilious, Edgeland Modern, Newhaven site, funded by Arts Council England
2023: Margin: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven, funded by Arts Council England
2023: Track: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven, funded by Arts Council England
2022: Pamphlet, Edgeland Modern, Newhaven
2022: Port: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven, funded by Arts Council England
2022: Back of an Envelope: Edgeland Modern, Newhaven site
2021: Edgeland Soundscapes: experimental audio narratives, Spotify
2021: Leftovers: Edgeland Modern, Woodingdean
2021: Corvid: Edgeland Modern, Woodingdean
2020: Stage: Edgeland Modern, Woodingdean
2019: Back of an Envelope: Edgeland Modern, Woodingdean
2019: Moon Gazing: Sarah O’Kane, Fitzroy House, Lewes
2018: Sussex Open: Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2017: The Spinney: Landscapes of the Edgeland, Martyrs’ Gallery, Lewes
2017: Sussex Modernists and Transformations in the Twentieth-Century Landscape Conference: presentation, Sussex University
2017: Slippery Fish: DC1, Eastbourne
2016: The Spinney: Woodingdean, Brighton, supported by the Arts Council
2016: Sussex Open: Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2016: Fresh Air: The Hop Gallery, Lewes
2014: Stories they were yet to hear: Hammerson’s, 10 Grosvenor Street, London
2013: Wintergarden: Transition Gallery: Homerton High Street, Hackney
2013: Sussex Open: Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2012: Fourteen Paintings: Hammerson’s Emerging Artist Initiative, The Former Stock Exchange, 125 Old Broad Street, London
2012: On The Map: Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings
2010: National Open: Chichester
2004: History & Preservation of St Pancras Station: animated film, commissioned by Channel Tunnel Rail Link Consortium

Publications

2017: Presentation, Sussex Modernists and Transformations in the Twentieth-Century Landscape, Sussex University.
2017: The Scrutineer Squib: A Prospect of Arcadia
2016: The Scrutineer Squib: The Spinney
2016: The Scrutineer Squib: The Privileged View
2015: The Scrutineer Squib: The Emerging Arcadian
2013: The Bigger Picture: Work of Fiction
1998: Film Map for Scrutineers

Art Education

1995-1996: MA Sequential Art, University of Brighton
1993-1995: Postgraduate Diploma Narrative Art/Editorial Design, University of Brighton
1983-1986: BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting), Brighton Polytechnic