Curriculum Vitae

PROFILE

Artist and freelance creative practitioner with extensive experience in the sector.
Passionate about Wrecsam, community, co-creation, cynefin, inclusion, accessibility, lifelong learning, local history, and the benefits of shared creative activity for health and wellbeing. Extensive proven track record of collaborative work with community groups, schools, third & public sector partners, galleries, museums, local authorities and leisure services – with a particular focus on working with local communities to co-create work for public display, both temporary and permanent, in a broad range of materials.

EDUCATION

MA Arts in Health Wrexham University(Distinction)
PGCE PCET Wrexham University
BA (Hons) Fine Art University of Central Lancashire
Art Foundation Level 4 St Helens School of Art & Design (Distinction)

EMPLOYMENT (Selected)

Artist & Freelance Creative Practitioner (1994 – ongoing)
Adult Community Learning Facilitator The Little Learning Company (2023 – ongoing)
Advisory Associate Arts Council of Wales (2021 – ongoing)
Director Cyswllt Crefftau Wrecsam CIC / Craft Connect Wrexham CIC (2021 – ongoing)
Freelance Adult Community Learning Facilitator (2018 – ongoing)
Gallery Invigilator Ty Pawb (2023 – 2025)
Coordinator Ty Pawb – Criw Celf Wrecsam & Portfolio Wrecsam (2018 – 2020)
Director Sophia Leadill Face & Body Art – multiple corporate, third and public sector clients over a 12 year period (2002–2020)
Mentor & Learning Support WCBC Traveller Education Team (2003-2004)
Mentor & Learning Support WCBC English as a Second Language Team (2003 – 2004)Creative Activities Co-ordinator Wrexham Play Association (2002 – 2003)
Play Worker & Activities Co-ordinator Calderkids Adventure Playground (1994 – 1999)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

EWC Education Workforce Council (2025)
Engage National Association for Gallery Education (2017-2023)
A-N Artists Information Company (1994 – ongoing)
Regional Print Centre (2024 – ongoing)

ADVISORY BOARDS

Ty Pawb Advisory Board (2018 – 2020)

VOLUNTARY / COMMUNITY WORK

Wrexham University TrACE Champion – Trauma Informed Practice (2022 – ongoing)
Given to Shine Christmas Eve Community Larder Distribution (2023)
Undegun Studios Seasonal Families Creative Workshops (2017 – 2019)

COMMUNITY-BASED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

Transport for Wales & 3 Counties Connected Communities Rail Partnership Wrexham Central Project (2025 – ongoing)

Transport for Wales & 3 Counties Connected Communities Rail Partnership Wrexham General Project Phases 1 & 2 (2024 – 25)

Canal & River Trust The Bridge That Connects – Arts in Health Artist Residency.
Working with communities on creative projects via a series of community art workshops in Chirk, Froncysyllte, Cefn Mawr and Trevor.

WCBC Wellbeing Hub Digital mapping mural, via a series of community art workshops at the Safe Spaces Fun Day, Wrexham Play Day, Eisteddfod Cymru (2025)

WCBC Wellbeing Hub Community-generated public artwork for The Wellbeing Hub, created with the local community via a series of community art workshops at Safe Spaces fun day & Wrexham Play Day.
The Wallich In the Margins, a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Project and consisting of a ten week residency at Felin Puleston working with residents of Richmond House and St John’s Hostel in Wrexham, culminating in a co-created, interactive, mixed media community map. Final celebration event in Ammanford, Ceredigion.

Ty Pawb / Bom Dia Group / Our Museum, Our Voices Project / Wrexham Museum BomDia Quilt Project – facilitating and supporting the Bom Dia Group in creating a new ‘Wrexham Quilt’ representing the Portuguese community in Wrexham (2023)

Housing Justice printmaking project – a four week project combining photography and printmaking, culminating in an exhibition at Wrexham Library (2023)
TEAM National Theatre Wales with Wrexham Homeless ‘Our Voices’ project – community art workshops culminating in an exhibition at Wrexham Library (2020)

TEAM National Theatre Wales with WCBC and residents of The Groves a series of community art workshops with residents, culminating in the creation of a public artwork currently on display in the dining area of The Groves hostel (2022)

CLPW / Llangollen International Eisteddfod Manjericos Project – a series of creative workshops culminating in a sale at Llangollen International Eisteddfod of items made.

Housing Justice Cost of Living project (2025 ongoing)

Wrexham CBC Wellbeing Hub Community Mapping project (2025 ongoing)

STREET ART

Big June @ The Long Pull (2025)
Flo Hardman @ PW Hales Jewellers (2025)
2029 @ The Greyhound Inn (2025)
Wrexham La @ Overton Arcade (2025)

MUSEUM & GALLERY EDUCATION

Coordinator Ty Pawb – Criw Celf Wrecsam & Portfolio Wrecsam (2018 – 2020)

Sessional Ty Pawb –Criw Celf Wrecsam (2017)

Ty Pawb Saturday Family Art Club (2018 – 2020)

Ty Pawb Seedlings, and school holidays workshops for families (2018–2021)

Ty Pawb Online delivery of workshops during covid pandemic (2020-2021)

Ty Pawb Shiftwork – a series of workshops with children from the traveller communities in Wrecsam (2018)

Ty Pawb Coleg Cambria 5 x community art workshops

Wrexham Museum Schools workshop with learners from St Anne’s RC Primary School, referencing items from the museum store that have particular relevance to Wrexham (2024)

WORK WITH SCHOOLS

Victoria School, Wrecsam Arts Council Wales Lead Creative Schools Project – Cynefin Urban Art Project (2023,2024)

Overton School, Wrecsam Heritage Skills workshops – Canal Art & Corn Dollies (2024, 2025)

Ysgol Sant Dunawd, Bangor on Dee Arts Council Wales Lead Creative Schools Project (2023)

St Anne’s RC Primary Caia Park Creative Activity for Wellbeing workshops (2021)

St Anne’s RC Primary Caia Park The Cross-Cultural Banner Project (2019)

Rhostyllen School Esclusham Carnival Workshops (2018 – 2020)

Ymlaen / WCBC Traveller Education Department Fashion Design Project(2004)

Mentor & Learning Support WCBC Traveller Education Team (2003-2004)

Mentor & Learning Support WCBC English as a Second Language Team (2003 – 2004)

ADULT COMMUNITY LEARNING

The Little Learning Company (TLLC) 40 xHeritage Skills workshopsfor adults, mainly Canal Art, Corn Dollies and Block Printing, at various locations in Wrexham and Gwersyllt Community Resource Centre 50+ x creative and community art Denbighshire (2023 – ongoing)

KIM Inspire 4 x workshops Heritage Skills / Introduction to Canal Art for TLLC (2023)

Dementia Action Network 2 x sessions @ WCBC Wellbeing Hub with carers and those living with dementia (2024)

Wrexham Communities for Work 40 x creative workshops for adults – various craft skills, community groups and venues including: Newcis, Mold; (2019–2020)

Hightown Community Resource Centre 50+ x creative workshops for adults and families (2017–2023)

Outside Lives Ltd 40+ x sustainable eco-creative crafts workshops for adults (2019 – ongoing)

Outside Lives Ltd with Arts Council Wales video craft workshops tutorial project for online learning during the pandemic (2020)

Groundwork Trust 6 x sustainable eco-craft workshops (2023)

Penley Rainbow Centre 6 x Lunch & Learn creative sessions (2019)

Adult Learning Wales 8 x creative crafts workshops with Wrexham Libraries Service (2019-2020)

Denbighshire Leisure Sustainable crafts workshops at Pengwern Community Centre, Llangollen (2023)

COMMUNITY THEATRE

National Theatre Wales & The People of Wrexham A Proper Ordinary Miracle – set design and including community workshops (2023)

The Bridge That Connects The Greatest Love Story That Wrexham Never Told – set & costume design and construction(2024)

Pentabus Theatre Company Driftwood – props construction (2024)

TEAM National Theatre Wales with Wrexham Homeless ‘Our Voices’ project – community art workshops culminating in an exhibition at Wrexham Library (2020)

Storyhouse / Chester Cathedral City of Sanctuary – a series of community art workshops culminating in a community celebration of work produced (2019)

CRAFT CONNECT WREXHAM CIC (2021–Present)

In 2020 during the pandemic I set up a community crafting initiative called Cyswllt Crefftau Wrecsam / Craft Connect Wrecsam (CCW) to support health and wellbeing through shared creative activity. CCW is now a collective of five creatives, we continue to deliver textiles-based community crafting sessions, often in partnership with other organisations, to benefit our local community.

Recent CCW Projects

WREXFEST working with the local community through art workshops to create the decorations for Wrexfest 2023, 2024, and 2025

PRIDE working with local community groups and colleges including VIVA LGBTQ+ Coleg Cambria to create the decorations for Wrexfest 2024, and 2025

TECHNIQUEST / Ty Pawb / Refugee Kindness / Race Council Cymru Patchwork Badges / Climate Change Textiles project (2023)
Wrecsam 2025 cultural commission ‘Landed’ – in conjunction with local community groups and businesses, culminating in an art trail (2023)

Yarn Bombing Henblas Street – in partnership with Yellow and Blue (2022)

Adferiad Recovery at Champions House – a series of community crafting workshops to support those in recovery from substance misuse (2022-23)

TCC Craftivism Project – 4 x craftivism community crafting workshops (2023)

VIVA LGBTQ 6 x community crafting textiles workshops (2023, 2024)

TEAM National Theatre Wales 4 x community crafting workshops to make set décor and props for ‘A Proper Ordinary Miracle’ (2022)

EXHIBITIONS

Undegun Metamorphosis (2018)Ty Pawb / UndegunWrexham Open (2017)
Ty Pawb Wrexham Open (2019)
Ty Pawb Wrexham Open (2022)
TEAM National Theatre Wales with Wrexham Homeless and Wrexham Library Our Voices (2020)
MAKE Liverpool (2022)
Theatr Clwyd North Wales Open (2023)
Wrexham University MA Exposition (2024)
Wrexham Miners Project The Wrexham General Project exhibition (2025)
Ty Pawb Wrexham University: Work in Progress (2025)

COMMISSIONS

Ty Pawb Dydd Llun Pawb, Souvenir Project (2018)
LANDED Wrecsam 2025 City of Culture Commission with Cyswllt Crefftau Wrecsam (2022)
Transport for Wales and 3 Counties Connected Communities Rail Partnership Wrexham General Project Mural PHASE 1 (2023)
Transport for Wales and 3 Counties Connected Communities Rail Partnership, Phase 2(2024)
Transport for Wales and 3 Counties Connected Communities Rail Partnership
Wrexham Central Phase 3 (2025)
Wrexham Public Art Trail (2025-26)

RESIDENCIES

The Wallich In the Margins, Paul Hamlyn Foundation (2023)
Transport for Wales and 3 Counties Connected Communities Rail Partnership
Wrexham General Art Project Phase 2 at Wrexham General Station (2024)
Transport for Wales and 3 Counties Connected Communities Rail Partnership
Wrexham Central Art Project Phase 3 at Wrexham Central Station (2025 – ongoing)
Canal and River Trust The Bridge That Connects (2024)

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

https://news.wrexham.gov.uk/another-amazing-wrexham-quilt-goes-on-display/

National Theatre Wales launches art exhibition with Wrexham’s homeless | The Leader

https://nationaltheatrewales.notion.site/Our-Voices-art-workshops-aa7269bfbb2e4ffa81741af0c3b21837#66f11cb75a39429fae85f5c511cb7089

National Theatre Wales Presents “A Proper Ordinary Miracle” – Wrexham Council News

https://wrexham.com/news/poignant-exhibition-created-with-homeless-people-in-town-on-display-in-wrexham-library-179502.html

https://www.love-wrexham.com/2024/03/16/wrexham-general-station-art-project-supported-by-community-rail-partnership/

https://www.facebook.com/TheYaBhub/posts/1080031285959766/