Hyundai Award for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice’ Royal College of Art 2023.

I was extremely honoured to be awarded this by Hyundai and the Royal College of Art for my project 'Symbosis' a photographic series made during my residency at Chelsea Physic Garden. The work used research into using waste products and plant material to make alternatives to commercial and toxic product, whilst also focusing on aspects of developing a circular economy within an artistic practice. The award celebrates Art and Design projects across any discipline that question current norms within society, suggest solutions or provoke emotions in the face of climate change and the challenges for sustainability.The awards sought for excellent projects that showcased this understanding and how creative practice responds to, supports or addresses this issue.


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BRINK 
An interdisciplinary show by RCA students
19 - 25 May 2023
PV 22 May 18:00
Hangar Gallery, Royal College of Art, Howie Street, Battersea, London.

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​'WAAIT  ‘We are all in this together' Exhibition, Easter Gallery, 205aS  Kingsland Road, London
21 -25 April 2023

​An exhibition by current Royal College of Art students exploring the concept of interconnectedness and the need to address complex environmental and social issues by moving beyond disciplinary boundaries.  The work featured embraced multidisciplinarity and recognised the agency of non-human entities, whilst addressing the post-human condition, the interplay between matter and discourse and the materiality of fuzziness. 

       


     

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Nature's Endurance ​Exhibition, Artworks, The Everybody School of Art
Shaw Lane Halifax, England, HX3 9ET United Kingdom

I am exhibiting work as part of  Nature's Endurance 
Friday, 10 March 2023 - Saturday, 6 May 2023
Held as part of Artworks' The Joy of Nature 2023 events season, this exhibition is designed to create space for taking notice of the natural world around us.

About the Exhibition
As a society we are increasingly aware of our responsibility to take notice of our environment and the impact our actions have upon it. This exhibition invites viewers to consider the role of the natural world. Is it a library of resources to be requested as needed? Is it the environment we depend on? Or a friend we are supposed to live alongside in harmony? The exhibition highlights how nature can breathe, feels emotions, and often continues to heal itself. 
‘Nature’s Endurance’ includes a wide range of artworks from 89 international artists, including drawings, prints, paintings, photography, films, textiles and sculpture. Some works included in the exhibition have been created using materials from nature, whether flowers or driftwood, while others reflect on appearances and experiences of scenes in nature. These artworks respond to nature in varied and unique ways; personal to the individual who has created them and yet also inspiring viewers to consider their own responses to the enduring presence and power of nature.

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 "TWOFOLD"' Exhibition by MA Print students from The Royal College of Art. 
Southwark Park Gallery, London. A show that envelops a diverse range of work across both Lake and Dilston Galleries of Southwark Park Galleries
25th and 26th March 2023, 11:00 - 16:00 FREE
There will be a closing ceremony on Sunday 26th at 14:00.
MA1 cohort, Dilston Gallery, Southwark Park Road, London. SE16 2DD
MA2 cohort, Lake Gallery, Park Approach, Southwark Park, London. DE16 2UA

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Residency at The Chelsea Physic Garden, London. 2022 -2022. See Residency Section of website for more details. 

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All Stitched Up
 
An international juried book arts exhibition 
​September 3rd – December 11th, 2019
Collins Memorial Library University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
 
All Stitched Up an exhibition of artists’ books where stitching is a featured element. 
 
To stitch is to join together, to mend, or fasten as with stitches – to sew. To stitch is to bring together fabric, paper, wounds of the body, or cultural divides. Stitching can be an act of healing, hope, practicality, creativity, and revolution. All Stitched Up recognises and celebrates the work of book artists’ where stitching has become an integral part of the visual design. Curators Catherine Alice Michaelis, Jane A. Carlin, and Diana Weymar.
 
The exhibition features works that showcase collaboration and focus on building a sense of shared community.  Sewing that joins people and ideas which link to historical, social and political sewing circles from the abolitionist movement of the 1800s, to the corporate resistant DIY movement kindled by the Riots Grrrls in the 1990s, as well as the knitting collectives of today that focus on the anti-war, pro-science, and pro-choice movements. 

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Shutter Hub Exhibition'Time to Think' from the 1  July to  31  August 2019. An exhibition of photography reflecting on the work of women in the 21st-century and celebrating 145 female-identifying photographers from around the world collated and presented by @shutter_hub in partnership with festival Pil’Ours St Giles Croix de Vie France. T

'Friends of Interpretable spaces' will be hosting an exhibition responding to St Augstine's Tower in Hackney,
London on 5 - 14 October 2018.  A collaboration with Belinda Mitchell will involve a one day performative
book making piece alongside an installation of work informed by previous responses to historic buildings.
see website for details.

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As part of a year long residency at Mottisfont, National Trust in Hampshire,  Eileen will be showing interim work alongside the Woman's Hour Craft Prize.  'printed matter' a book of lumen prints and 'miniature vistas' a selection of pinhole photographs, photograms, drawings and text is on display upstairs in the house gallery. The exhibition runs until 24.6.18. 

BALTIC self-publishing artists' market took place on Saturday 21 April 2018, a great turn out with over 50 artists, talks, performances and workshops. 

I will be exhibiting work at the following forthcoming events: 

www.artistbooksportsmouth.blogspot.com  Portsmouth Artist Book Event, Aspex Gallery, 18 March 2018
www.baltic.art  BALTIC Self-Publishing Artists' Market,  Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, 21 April 2018
Turn the Page,  Artist Book Event, Norwich 25 - 26 May 2018
Mottisfont, National Trust, residency exhibition, 18 September - 30 November 2018
British Printing Society, Wayzgoose, St Denys Community Centre, Southampton, 22 September 2018
Ink Paper & Print, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, 13 October 2018

Open studio with Suna Imre. December 2017

Hyde 900 Project Space, BookCasePress public engagement project. October 2017

Oxford Print Fair, Modern Art Oxford, September 2017
 30 Pembroke St, Oxford OX1 1BP
10:00 - 17:00
​FREE

The Baltic, Gateshead.
ARTISTS' BOOK MARKET 2017 Sat 13 - Sun 14 May 10.00-17.00

On Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May, 10.00-17.00, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, plays host to an annual and national two day Artists’ Book Market. Over 40 national and regional artists, bookmakers, small press publishers, artist’s groups, zine artists and bookbinders will be exhibiting and selling their work direct to the public.This two day event is FREE and accompanied by a series of artist interventions:

• On Saturday 11.00-12.30 and 13.30-15.00 BALTIC Freelance Artist, Bethan Maddocks will be delivering a FREE tunnel book workshop. 
• On Sunday BALTIC Freelance Artist, Nicola Singh plans to engage book market visitors with an evolving page, projected onto the wall of the book market. 
• Foundation Press presents Unbound#3 & 4 – working with artists and musicians Chooc Ly Tan (DJ Spacer Woman) and Rachel Aggs (Sacred Paws/Trash Kit). Unbound is an ongoing series of print performances developed specifically for bookshops and book fairs. Each Unbound performance works with an artist to explore imagery and ideas present in their work through risograph printing. At the end of each day a printed set is created which the artist performs. Visit and talk to the press as they print throughout each day of the BALTIC Artists' Book Market or join us at 16.00 for live performances.

http://www.balticmill.comwww.balticmill.com

BABE 2017 (Bristol Artist's Book Event) 1 - 2 April 2017 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. UK

BookCasePress is at BABE, at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol in April 2017. This is the sixth biennial festival of artist book making, and features works of bookmakers and small presses from around the world.  Since 2007, BABE has established a great reputation as a relaxed and friendly event to meet and chat to artists about their work and buy works of art. More than 80 makers will take part from all over the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Norway and South Korea. 

BookCasePress will run a memory book workshop on the Saturday 1 April. 

www.arnolfini.co.uk

​23 SANDY GALLERY • 623 NE 23RD AVE • PORTLAND, OREGON. USA
BUILT: Book art as a context to explore architecture, design, the built world, and the built book. 10-year anniversary of the 23 Sandy Gallery.
 
On View in the Gallery: April 7 – May 27, 2017
 
This international juried exhibition of book and paper art aims to examine the relationship between contemporary book art practices and architecture, engineering, landscape and construction as form, function and structure. Reimagining ways as designers, of either books or buildings can inhabit and shape the world around us.
 
‘Domestic notes’ by Eileen White has been selected for ‘BUILT’ and is an exploration of language found in a 1940's architects journal. The visual and textual language of the journal reflects the post war era dominated by masculinity concerned with concrete and modernist building. The book is layered with salvaged fragments of found drawings and papers including excerpts from journals that contain the voices of a number of other female voices, referencing a domesticity normally hidden from view. This resonates with my practice, which currently examines found kitchen materials to make work. The book is both a visual and spatial exploration of interior and exterior surfaces that begin to perforate each other.

Current Exhibition: PERCEPTIONS
Exhibition dates: 18 March - 29 April 2017
Opening times: Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
Cupola Contemporary Art LTD
174-178a Middlewood Road, Sheffield, S6 1TD
Tel (0114) 285 2665
www.cupolagallery.com

'McCalls Multi-Blue' has been selected for 'Perceptions; exhibition.  It is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a spatial interior designer Belinda Mitchell and a visual artist, Eileen White
 
The form of the book is being used to explore representations of interiority and how this language might be used to inform alternative methods to making buildings.
 
This work uses a timber floor joist from a C16th manor house in Portsmouth, UK, as a synecdoche to discuss the affective qualities of the manor. The book investigates the immaterial and material qualities of the joist through drawn and written representations.
Drawings of the timber are layered into the cover as a way of 'touching' its past histories and ongoing life as it decays.