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ABOUT

Education

  • MA Fine Art, Distinction, also awarded the Owen Ridley Degree Show prize for top grade on the programme, University of Reading

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Fine Art, Cyprus College of Art

  • BA Hons Fine Art, First Class, also awarded the Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence in the Visual and Performing Arts, University of Chichester

  • HE Diploma in Stitched Textiles, Distinction, East Berkshire College

  • C&G Level 4, Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, Guildford College

  • City and Guilds, Part I & II Embroidery, Guildford College

Short Courses

  • CERAMICS, Intermediate Handbuilding, London Sculpture Workshop, Experimental Ceramics, City Lit, London, Colour in Ceramics Applications and Techniques, Richmond Adult Education Centre, Glaze Making Understanding Materials (Intermediate), Morley College, London, Using Wire with Ceramics, Exploring Glass and Ceramics, Working with Wild Clay and Minerals, WM College, London

  • SCULPTURE, Casting and Sculpting in Jesmonite, Casting in Concrete and Plaster, Modelling and Sculpting in Wax, London Sculpture Workshop

  • PUPPETRY, Foundation and Ensemble, Little Angels Puppet Theatre, London

Exhibitions

  • Liminaly S/tated, REinsTate, London, 2024

  • Presence, Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, Cyprus, 2024

  • Violent Bodies, Femanifesto, Ugly Duck, London, 2024

  • Soft Tissue: Feeling Through Precarious Times, Metroland Cultures, London, 2023

  • NewEver, Pheonix Centre, Brighton, 2023

  • Pigments of the Dark, Femanifesto, New River Studios, London, 2023

  • Interim MA Show, Openhands Openspace, Reading, 2023

  • Retrespect, Sweet 'Art, Art Bypass Gallery, London, 2022

  • Well, Well, Well, Leyden Gallery, London, 2022

  • The Absurd, Fubar Collective, The Crypt Gallery, London, 2021

  • The Playful Turn, Degrees of Freedom, Espacio Gallery, London, 2021

  • Key of Keys, The Wendy House Gallery, Online, 2021

  • States of Existence, Well Space, Hackney, London, 2019

  • Creature (Dis)comforts, Leyden Gallery, London, 2019

  • Touchy, Limehouse Town Hall, Poplar, London, 2019

  • Metamorphosis–Paramorphosis, Art Number 23, Caraffa Prison Gallery, Prešov and Koniaren Gallery, Trebišov, Slovakia, 2019

  • Crossing the Line, Adult Company, Ovalhouse Theatre, 2019

  • Rosina Godwin - Knitted Sculptures, Art House, Southampton,  2018

  • The Great Divide, OVADA Gallery, Oxford, 2018

  • Stuffed, K6 Gallery, Southampton, 2018

  • Take the Floor #6 - Monday Club, Chelsea Theatre, London, 2018

  • Anarchist Feminist Party, Ugly Duck, London, 2018

  • Nasty Women Liverpool, Constellations, Liverpool, 2018

  • Deep Trash Romance, Cuntemporary, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London, 2018

  • Platform 16, Leyden Gallery, London, 2017

  • Liminal Boundaries, This is Not Art,  Brookmill Pub, Deptford, London, 2017

  • Nasty Women UK, Stour Space, London, 2017

  • Femfair, Sweet 'Art, Ugly Duck, London, 2017

Public Displays

  • DISPLAY, Colour is Life, Reading Station, Reading, 2023

  • COMMISSION, IQL Knitted Orchard, Endeavour Square, Stratford, London, 2022

Open Studios

  • Ksoporti Art Weekend, Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, Cyprus, 2024

Workshops

  • Experimental Knitting Workshop Series:- Material Adventures in Knitting, Felted Knitting, Knitted Sculpture, Knitting the Rainbow, Neon Knits, Knitting Imaginary Creatures, Sustainable Knitting, Decaying Structures in Knitting and Knitting in Narrative, Online, 2020 - present

  • Intestinal Knitting, Metroland Cultures, London, 2023

  • Knitting the Uncanny, Antiuniversity, Online, 2022

  • Feminist Knitting, Greenbelt Festival, Kettering, 2022

  • Darn for Yarn, Great Get Together, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, 2022

  • Experimental Knitting, Atlantic Institute, Online, 2022

  • Knitting Small Creatures, Get Living, East Village, Stratford, London, 2022

  • Knitting the Uncanny, Leyden Gallery, London, 2021

  • Intestinal Knitting, Antiuniversity, Online, 2021

  • Emotional Repair: The Art of Patching and Darning, The Salon, Untamed Artists, Online, 2021

  • Sustainable Knitting, Harrow Arts Centre, #HACFromHome series, 2020

  • Anti-Capitalist Knitting, Antiuniversity, Online, 2020

  • Project X: Experimental Knitting, King's College London, London, 2019

  • Messy Knitting, Making from the Mess  Conference (Technē), London, 2019

  • Feminist Knitting, Greenbelt Festival, Kettering, 2019

  • Sustainable Knits, Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, 2019

  • Creature (Dis)comforts,  Leyden Gallery, London, 2019

  • Touchy Textiles, Antiuniversity, Limehouse Town Hall, 2019

  • Experimental Knitting, Theatre Deli, London, 2018- 19

  • Sit-Stitch-Stuffed, Mutrend Lab, Southampton, 2018

  • Neon Knits, Let's Ride, Southampton, 2018

  • Body Bits Knits, Leyden Gallery, London, 2018

  • Creative Knitting Workshops,  Leyden Gallery, London, 2017-18

Conferences & Talks

  • TALK, Tree Jumpers and Textile Turds, Reading University Student Sustainability Summit, 2023

  • TALK, Material Adventures in Knitting, Online, De Beauvoir Women's Institute, 2020

  • CONFERENCE, Slits, Tits and Phallic Knits, Medium, London School of Mosaic, 2020 

  • CONFERENCE, Freudian Knits and Body Bits, In the Loop at 10,Winchester School of Art, 2018

  • TALK, The Unfinished Things Festival, The CentrE17 Theatre, Walthamstow, London, 2017 

Residencies

  • ArtHouse Jersey, Virtual Retreat, 2020

  • Threads Micro Residency, Ideas Test, Sittingbourne, Kent, 2018

  • Block_Chain>The Power of Two, online residency run by Chapel Arts Studio,  2018

Publications

  • Soft Core, Rebecca Orr, Self Publication, 2022

  • 105 Artists' Hands, Cally Trench, Peculiarity Press, 2021

  • Block _Chain>The Power of Two, Chapel Artists Studio, 2019

 

Blogs and Magazines

  • Knitting the Uncanny, Fleece to Fashion Blog, University of Glasgow, 2022

  • The Absurd, Mass, Online, 2021

  • Bodies, Itchy Spagetti Zine, 2020

  • Church Times Guide to Greenbelt, p21, 2019

  • Everyone’s Asking If I Am Okay, Icing Room publication, 2018

  • All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go blog, 2018

  • Day 82, 100 Days 100 Women blog, Henry Martin, 2018

  • Emboss Magazine, Women Artists, p26-29, 2017

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