I am an artist, facilitator, creative producer, and mentor with 15 years of experience connecting the dots between illustration, education, nature, tech, activism and literature.
I began my career as a community manager at a start-up, producing electrically conductive paint and open-source hardware to create interactive installations and more accessible experiences with technology.
I developed a strong passion for creative learning, leading me into the world of arts education to manage significant illustration and poetry projects with organisations such as Apples and Snakes, Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration and The Face.
While working as a producer, I kept up my own creative projects; I’ve illustrated record sleeves, designed festival stages, created book covers, murals, activist projections, and educational resources, all characterised by my distinctive use of collage, bold line drawings, and a sharp sense of humour.
I taught courses at Central Saint Martins, facilitated online workshops for domestic violence survivors and with young people in Margate, where I now live.
My teaching approach is both engaging and supportive, drawing on themes from popular culture and uniting mediums to create unexpected results. I love curating experiences that provoke critical thinking amongst my students, encouraging them to challenge political structures and the world around them. Also working as a trained mentor, I primarily support neurodivergent adults one-to-one.
I work as Studio Manager at Translating Nature, a pioneering design studio that employs data as an artistic medium to enhance our understanding of the living systems around us and have a regular show on Margate Radio.
“Working with Grace on my book, PINCH ME, has been such a pleasure. She skilfully picked out the essential themes of my manuscript that she felt would work visually, creating a final cover image that perfectly fuses so many of its elements. Throughout the whole project, Grace kept me updated with her progress, and took on board my own thoughts and ideas along the way. I’m absolutely thrilled with the cover illustration - it’s been receiving as many compliments as the book itself!”
“Grace worked with us and a group of women who were survivors of domestic abuse, some of whom experienced further marginalisation. Grace has a gentle but confident style when working with a group; it encourages and challenges them to produce their best work. She has introduced participants to the world of visual art, which they previously felt excluded from. Our groups really enjoy and feel enriched by the sessions she leads (as do I!).”
“We absolutely loved working with Grace. After one project, she was so brilliant that we asked her to stay on to produce our 40th anniversary project Future Voices, a complex project involving five partner organisations and 40 new poets. Grace is organised, efficient, and thoughtful - she supported everyone on the programme with a huge amount of care. Administratively, she delivered everything on time and within budget, plus she’s a great communicator making sure everyone in the team knew what was going on. I honestly can’t recommend working with Grace highly enough – she’s ace!”
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