Visual artist, writer and midwife, born in London, where she settled to work. She studied at Kingston Polytechnic, 1982, Brighton Polytechnic, 1983–6, and Slade School of Fine Art, 1986–8. In the latter year she won a Boise award and a Fulbright Fellowship, and was artist-in-residence at Pratt Institute, New York. In 1990 she took up a similar position at Tate Gallery, Liverpool, having a solo show there called Pink. Other solo exhibitions included Sue Williams Gallery and John Milton Gallery, both 1991. In 1991–2 her picture Body with Little White Holes was included in John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, the holes “shifting uneasily between provocative physicality and sensual allure”. Worked on public arts projects in Central America, Romania, New York and in Britain, including Whitechapel Gallery.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company) with revisions from the artist, 2022


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