Hi!
I'm Molly (she/they). I'm a creative freelance artist, gardener, and community builder based in Oxford.
I work with nature to create sumptuously textured organic work, using a wide variety of printmaking techniques, textiles, and sculpture.
Foraging for materials in woods and gardens, I see leaves as little ready-made printing plates, and mushroom spores as mushroom self portraits. I let nature make impressions onto fabric and paper. These prints are mindfully worked into and explored with drawing and embroidery.
My work is often ephemeral. The natural materials change over time: fading or growing. Growing and gardening is a core part of my practice: letting the organic media shape and drive my work.
As a queer & Disabled person, I often feel like an outsider.
This distance from the mainstream allows me to see what may seem dirty or mundane as extraordinary and beautiful.
My work often features slug trails, weeds, and spores, things often deemed gross by society. I ask people to view these things through a different lens and appreciate their beauty.
It may be through the tactile treasure of the humble cabbage leaf, or the fortunate finding of forageable mushrooms. Or maybe the not-so-fortunate surprise of finding a rat named Pat that lives behind your kitchen sink.
My journey with chronic pain led me to find solace in nature.
Disability means I must take things slow. This allows time to appreciate the little things, letting me feel joy and survive.
I am fascinated by the seen and unseen, boring and beautiful, the domestic, and the perfectly imperfect.
Nature has the power to bring people together, through shared experiences and memories, and nourish both the community and the planet. My community work in gardening and art spaces reflect my desire to let nature heal and use it as a positive unifying force.
I am passionate about
building communities
and have a range of curating, public
art, and community experience.
Did you know I’ve worked as a Youth Worker with autistic children?
I also run inclusive welcoming garden spaces at Flos and The Children’s Allotment and love using nature as a way of grounding and connecting with people.
You can also find me at not-for-profit queer community company T(ART) Productions CIC as an artist, gardener, and volunteer.
Artist CV
Curation
2025 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford
2025 MakeSpace Open, The Community Works, Oxford
2025 Poems in Art, The Community Works, Oxford
2024 Crossing the Bridge (Black History Month Open Call), The Community Works, Oxford
2024 Iraqi Women Art and War, The Community Works, Oxford
2024 Befriending my Brain, The Old Stables, Wantage
2024 Letters to Palestinian Children, The Community Works, Oxford
2024 Through our Eyes, The Community Works, Oxford
2024 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford
2023 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford
2020 Architecture exhibition, Oxford Brookes, Online
2019 Pop Up Life Drawing Exhibition, Glass Tank Galley, Oxford
Exhibitions
2025 OAS Young Artists (Award winner), OAS, Oxford
2025 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford
2025 Queue, Ovada, Oxford
2025 30:30, Artquest, Online
2024 Open, Old Fire Station, Oxford
2024 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford
2023 Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford
2023 The St Barbes Open Exhibition, St Barbes Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington
2023 Open Studio, Hampshire Open Studios, Lymington
2022 Group Exhibition, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Oxford
2022 The St Barbes Open Exhibition, St Barbes Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington
2019 Pop Up Life Drawing Exhibition, Glass Tank Galley, Oxford
2019 PEEL, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
2019 The St Barbes Open Exhibition, St Barbes Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington
2017 Customers, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
2016 Foundation Diploma Show, Arts University Bournemouth, Bournemouth
2014 Who are you? Winner, Arts University Bournemouth
Workshops, teaching and community art
2025 Gelli printing and collage memories, Ark-T, Oxford
2025 Painted Planter (Community art piece), Makespace Oxford, Didcot
2025 We are Joy (Community art piece), Oxford DIY Pride, Oxford
2025 Tarts and crafts, T(ART) Productions, Oxford
2023 - 2025 Life Drawing Teacher, T(ART) Productions, Oxford
2025 Gelli Printing, Home Studio, Oxford
2024 Natural Prints, Old Fire Station, Oxford
2023 Leaf Your Mark: Botanical Printing, St Barbes Museum, Lymington
2023 Leaf Your Mark: Botanical Printing, Home Studio, Oxford
Other Community Engagement
2025 Fruit Patch Lead, Tart Productions CIC, The Children's Allotment, Oxford
2025 Assistant Community Gardener, Flos: the Place in the Park, Florence Park, Oxford
2023-2025, Community Coordinator, Makespace Oxford, Station Road Studios and the Junction, Didcot
Education
2016 - 2019 BA Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University
2015 - 2016 Art Foundation, University of Bournemouth