School of Humanities
Critical & Historical Studies Programme
RCA Bursary

My first training was as a linguist. I completed degrees in Spanish and Portuguese language and literature and lived for extended periods in Spain and Latin America. After graduating I worked in the translation/publications department of Amnesty International and as a language tutor in Brixton Prison. I then trained as a translator and worked as a lecturer in translation and as a freelance translator for a period of ten years. When my fourth daughter was born in 2000, I decided to retrain as a ceramicist. My research draws on my current artistic practice and my previous experience in translation.