Biography

Education/Qualifications:

2011-2014, Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons.) Fine/Studio Arts, 1st Class Honours, Staffordshire University, , Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
2007-2011, Btec National Diploma: Art & Design, Newcastle-under-Lyme college (NULC), B, Newcastle-under-lyme, Staffordshire.

Exhibitions:

2011, NULC: art faculty, Newcastle-under-Lyme College, Staffordshire.
2012-2013, Piccadilly Summer, Cultural Quarter, Hanley Town Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
2012, Ophiuchus, Bad-edit Gallery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
2012, Unilateral, Cadman Galleries, Staffs University, Stoke-on-trent, UK.
2012, Fringe Festival, The Exchange, 8 Cheapside, Hanley Town Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

2013, Bohemian, Bethesda Methodist Church, Hanley Town Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

2013, The Line Between, Cadman Galleries, Staffs University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

2014, MMXIV, Cadman Galleries, Staffs University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

2014, Art City Launch, B-arts centre, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, UK,

2015, New Art West Midlands, BMAG & Barber Institute of Fine Art, Birmingham, UK.

2016, Paradise Now, Fenton Old Library, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

2016,MADE London, Mary-Ward House, Bloomsbury, London, UK.

Awards:

New Art West Midlands (NAWM Prize of the BMAG & Barber Institute of Fine Art) 2015.

William Painter Prize. 2013.

North Staffs Art Society Prize, 2013.

Residencies:

2014, The Art House, Drury Ln, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF1 2TE

Website Publication:

-The Sentinel, ‘Twin sisters from Fegg Hayes are both hoping to carve out careers as artists’, http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk. 18/06/2014.

-The ArtHouse Blog, ‘ Interview with Jade Simpson’, http://thearthouseuk.tumblr.com/post/100240195846/interview-with-jade-simpson. 17/10/2014.

-Johnsons-Tiles Blog, 'Expert team from Johnson Tiles visits the Tower of London moat',http://www.johnson-tiles.com/blog/2014/11/expert-team-johnson-tiles-visits-tower-london-moat/#.VGYyzzWK-UA.facebook. 14/11/2014.

-New Art West Midlands 2015, 'Jade Simpson', http://newartwestmidlands.org/2015-2.

-Staffordshire University News, 'Art graduates looking to match last year's success', http://www.staffs.ac.uk/news/art-graduates-looking-to-match-last-years-success-tcm4282027.jsp.

-The Sentinel, 'Graduates serving up a treat at ceramic studios', http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Graduates-serving-treat-ceramic-studios/story-28605346-detail/story.html, 26/01/2015.

-BBC News, 'Thinking with our hands' - Stoke's City of Culture bid', http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36692548?SThisFB, 02/07/2016.