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EDUCATION

Masters
2001-03  London Guildhall University
M.A. Silversmithing, Jewellery and Allied Crafts
Degree
1998-2001  London Guildhall University
B.A. (hons)  Silversmithing, Jewellery and Allied Crafts
1997-98  University of Portsmouth
BTEC Art Foundation            

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS
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2019
Back to the Drawing Board, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow

2017
Summer Exhibition, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

2014
'Work on the wild side', Studio Fusion Gallery, London
'Made Applied Arts Showcase', Yorkshire Sculpture Park

2013
'Regenerated': Rajesh Gogna, Miranda Sharpe and Cathy Miles, Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
'Reused Refuse', Harley gallery, Worksop 
'Utility', Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
'Celesti Valenti / Cathy Miles', Pound Arts, Wiltshire

2012
'Utensil', Crafts Council Ireland, Kilkenny, Ireland

2011
'Linientreu', Craft2eu, Hamburg
‘Step into the Garden’, FRESH AIR 11, with New Brewery Arts, Quenington
'Creative Creatures', window display, Electrum Gallery, London
'Reverberation', Bilston Craft Gallery, West Midlands
'Pensato a mano', Spotti, Milan, Italy

2010
'Elemental', Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales
'Women of Mettle', Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester, Kent
'Honey bee and the Hive', Contemporary Applied Arts, London
'Tall Stories', The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey

2009
‘Cup’,  Devon Guild of Craftsmen,  Bovey Tracey
‘Birthday Party’,  Flow Gallery,  London

2008
‘Things Beastly’,  Flow gallery,  London
‘Reclaiming Beauty’,  Devon Guild of Craftsmen,  Bovey Tracey
‘Playing with Fire’,  Grace Barrand Design Centre,  Surrey
‘In Response to.’, Kunstgieberei Schwabing,  Munich

2007
‘Containing Craft’  V&A showcase,   London
‘Summer Exhibition   New Ashgate Gallery,   Farnham
‘Raw’  Manchester Craft and Design Centre,  Manchester
‘Origin’,  The London Craft Fair

2006
‘Folk Art and Fairy Tales’  Oriel Davies,   Newtown  (touring)
‘Everyday’  Flow Gallery,  London  (touring)
‘SOFA Chicago’ with the Bluecoat Display Centre,  Chicago
Origin: The London Craft Fair,  Somerset House
 ‘10 Years On – The Mill in Miniature’,  Kath Libbert Jewellery,  Saltaire
’Magnificent Menagerie’   Platform Gallery,  Lancashire

2005
 ‘December Collection 05’  Roger Billcliffe Gallery,  Glasgow
 ‘SOFA Chicago’ with the Bluecoat Display Centre, Chicago
‘Chelsea Crafts Fair’  London
‘Follow Me’  Kath Libbert Jewellery,  Saltaire
‘Plastic Surgery’,  Bluecoat Display Centre

COMMISSIONS

2017
'Storm in a Teacup', sculpture for St Andrews Hotel

2013
'Tat Box One', Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham.

2012 
'40 shoes', South Place Hotel, London. 
Commissioned by Conran and Partners and D&D London 
'The Great Escape'. Suitcase sculpture for Making Moves, the result of a residency at Eagle House, Stafford.

2010
‘The Tool Shed’, a contemporary participatory based commission at Guildhall Museum, Rochester. Winner of the Medway Culture and Design Awards for Visual Arts.

2007
Teaset on teatray  for the  Holding10 project
Longhouse Action Research Commission,  Multistory

2006
Outside hoarding.  Bluecoat Display Centre,  Liverpool
Teacup set for Craftspace ‘At Home II’ project

2004 
Triptich of panels. Cotswold Water Park Gateway Centre 

AWARDS
2013 Arts Council England Grant
2010 Winner of the Medway Culture and Design Awards for Visual Arts.
2008 Gestetner prize for metal, presented at Origin Crafts Fair.
2007 DTI award to partipipate in the New York Gift Fair
2004-06  Craft Council Nextmove placement at Liverpool Hope University
2005  Arts Council England Grant
2004  Arts council England Grant

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Guildhall Museum, Rochester, Kent.
University Hospitals, Ohio, USA