Interdisciplinary artist and lecturer working across performance, sculpture, writing, and audiovisual. PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, London undertaking practice-led research investigating improvisation as a form of queer resistance. Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts, London and Lecturer at Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan.
Upcoming
30 November 2023
Performance at Queereal Secretions Publication Launch
Stow Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
10 November – 15 December 2023
Queereal Secretions Exhibition
Stow Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2023-2025
Research Group Gentle Gestures (co-lead)
Artist Pedagogy Research Group SAR, Helsinki Finland
June 2024
Journal Issue Gentle Gestures: contexts, spaces and approaches beyond the academy
Makings Journal, Editor with Anouk Hoogendoorn, Sophie Mak-Schram and Dr Paul Stewart
2024
Publication These Things Take Time: Curating for a Changing World
Past
Group shows
2023 Feeling the Blues: Movement Two “MAKE ME WET” Performance at Hopscotch RCA Research Biennale | Copeland Gallery, London UK
2023 Feeling the Blues: Movement Two Exhibition at Earthwise | Beaconsfield Gallery, London UK
2022 Feeling the Blues: Movement One “4’45”, hold” Performance at Unruly Encounters | Southwark Park Galleries, London UK
2022 Coma Burrito Performance at Weathering | Entanglement Research Platform, Dungeness UK
2021 Just Dreaming | Entanglement Research Platform, Royal College of Art UK
2021 Royal College of Art Presentation Platform, London UK
2021 Research Biennale | Royal College of Art, London UK
2020 Rooted Hauntology co-curated by Ingrid Vranken & Marta Keil | Grand Re Union, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan Poland & Counter Pulse, San Francisco USA
2020 Trio Talk Rhizome #2/1 with Eva Karczag and Mayfield Brooks, Trio Talk Rhizome #3/1 with Jennifer Monson and Mariana Renthel | Grand Re Union: Liquefaction curated by Peter Pleyer | Art Stations Foundation, Poznan Poland & Counter Pulse, San Francisco USA
2020 Paris Ass Book Fair (Queer Street Press & Beyond Beyond) | Palais The Tokyo, Paris (Covid cancelled)
2019 Stand by me (Beyond Beyond) | Pelagica, MiArt & Milano Art Week, Milan Italy
2019 Strange Perfume (Beyond Beyond with Davide Meneghello) | South London Gallery, UK
2019 We belong to a poetry club | Walk-in Studio, Milan Italy
2017 Shape of things to come (Beyond Beyond) | Nowhere Gallery, Milan Italy
2016 Screensavers | Artquest Lifeboat Residency, London UK
2016 26 Caledonian Road | Geddes Gallery, London UK
2015 The Present Hurts | London College of Communication, London UK
2014 Jonas Julekort 2014 (GJRL collective) | Jonas Julekort, Copenhagen Denmark
2013 Performing Paper | Paper Gallery, Manchester UK
2013 Vantage Art Prize 2013 | Leeds UK
2012 Salon Art Prize 2012 | Matt Robert’s Art Gallery & Griffin Gallery, London UK
2012 World Event Young Artists 2012 | Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham UK
2012 The Manchester Contemporary | Represented by Paper Gallery, Manchester UK
2012 Culture Cloud | New Art Exchange, Nottingham UK
2012 Photography Open 2012 | Surface Gallery, Nottingham UK
2012 Paper | Paper Gallery, Manchester UK
2006 Live art cabaret | Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, UK
2005 Emergency | greenroom, Manchester UK
Solo shows
2018 Anomalies in the flux of normal things (Beyond Beyond) | Nowhere Gallery, Milan Italy
2017 Notes for a new world order: Portal #1 (Beyond Beyond) | Artquest Lifeboat Residency, London UK
2014 What is Left? (with Ellie Harrison, The Grief Series) | UK Touring exhibition in empty houses (b-side Multimedia Arts Festival Portland, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Stockton Arc, Barnsley Civic)
2014 SAVANNAH (GJRL collective) | Art Licks Weekend, London UK
2012 The Sleep Collection | Islington Mill, Salford UK
2011 Film Start Time | HOME (prev. Cornerhouse), Manchester UK
2007 My Home a Social Space | My Flat, Manchester UK
2006 Microwaveable Moments | Method Lab Live Art Commission, greenroom, Manchester UK
Publications
2023 Earthwise | London: Royal College of Art
2021 PROVA 6 (editors Chantal Faust and Nicky Coutts) | London: Royal College of Art
2020 Modern Queer Poets | London: Pilot Press
Awards & Grants, Commissions & Residencies
2022 RCA Research Funding, working with Kathy Crick (Trinity Laban)
2017-2018 Contact Mcr & The Proud Trust Commission (Beyond Beyond)
2017 BJP Portrait of Britain (Beyond Beyond)
2016-2017 Artquest Lifeboat Studio Residency
2015-2016 Metro Imaging Mentorship Award
2016 Magnum Graduate Photographers Award (nominee)
2015 R&D Residency with City Arcadia, Artspace in collaboration with Giulia Astesani (Beyond Beyond)
2014 Residencies across Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, b-side Multimedia Arts Festival Portland, Stockton Arc, Barnsley Civic, supported by Arts Council England in collaboration with Ellie Harrison (The Grief Series)
2012 R&D supported by Arts Council England in collaboration with Ellie Harrison
2012 Residency at Islington Mill, Salford
2006 Method Lab Live Art Commission
2006 Nuffield Theatre Commission, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts
Research & Conferences
2023 Presented Queer Invention through the pleasurable flow of improvisation in stream Thinking-Feeling Desire in the Now: Post-Capitalist Desire and Practices of the Body, London Conference in Critical Thought | London Metropolitan University UK
2023 Stream Gentle Gestures co-organised and co-chaired with Anouk Hoogendoorn, Sophie Mak-Schram and Dr Paul Alexander Stewart, London Conference in Critical Thought | London Metropolitan University UK
2022 Research Assistant on Representation of Women Artists in the UK During 2021, Lead Researcher Dr Charlotte Bonham-Carter | Freelands Foundation
2022 Presented HOLD! refold in stream Sticky Matters, London Conference in Critical Thought | Birkbeck College, University of London
2015 Conference Laughing My Art Off co-organised and chaired | London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London
Lecturing and Workshops
Since 2021 Associate Lecturer, BA Photography | London College of Communication, University of the Arts
Since 2017 Lecturer, BA Photography | Istituto Europeo di Design (IED, Milan)
2019 Cross-course four-day workshop: Possible Utopias | Istituto Europeo di Design (IED, Milan)
2018 Workshop: On Desiring & Unknowing | Islington Mill Art Academy Masters
2017 Photography Workshops | London College of Communication (UAL)
2012 Visiting Lecturer, BA Media Studies | Manchester Metropolitan University
2011 Workshop: On documenting performance | 11-11-11
2010 Photography Workshops, Contact Mcr/Future Fires
2010 Creative Practitioner | Centre for Urban Education
2007 Artist Assistant | Creative Partnerships (Greater Manchester)
2006 Creative Practitioner (Prince’s Trust Funded) | Pupil Referral Units (Manchester)
Collaborations
2022 ongoing Gentle Gestures with Anouk Hoogendoorn, Sophie Mak-Schram and Dr Paul Alexander Stewart
2016-2020 Beyond Beyond with Giulia Astesani
2014-2016 GJRL collective with Giulia Astesani, Jessie McLaughlin and Lalu Delbracio
2012-2014 with Ellie Harrison on The Grief Series
Press
The Independent
BBC 4 Women’s Hour
BBC Manchester
BBC Sheffield
The Big Issue
1000 Words (Beyond Beyond)
Artquest
DIVA (Beyond Beyond)
Girls Like Us – Family issue (GJRL)
Buzzfeed (GJRL)
Modus Operandi / T14 Contemporary (Beyond Beyond)
Central Station
Walk-in Studio
Pample-Mousse (Beyond Beyond)
The Old Girls Club (Beyond Beyond)
L-Mag (GJRL)
The Northern Echo
Lancaster Guardian
Dorset Echo
Art Daily
The Mancunion
Education
2020-present PhD Practice-led Research (School of Arts & Humanities), Royal College of Art, London UK
2015 MA Photography with Distinction, University of The Arts, London UK
2009 Graphic Design HND with Distinction, Manchester College UK
2005 Foundation Art & Design with Distinction, Manchester Metropolitan University UK