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Education
2021 - 2022 MA Art & Education Practices, Birmingham City University
2015 - 2018 BA (Hons) 1st - Fine Art & Contemporary Cultures, University of Gloucester
Awards
2018 - Curators Choice Award, Spon Spun Festival, 2nd Place
2017 - Warwick University, Certificate of Excellence, Centre for Culture & Media Policy Studies: Professional Practice in Evaluation Research
Professional Development
2021 Social Art Library x Axis x Social Art Network
- Selected artist & bursary award for "Storytelling for Artists" with Debs Newbold
2020 New Art West Midlands - selected for studio visit with Ikon Gallery Curator, Melanie Pocock
2020 Fellow - AD:vantage Leadership Programme, Lead With Advantage
2020 Active Reality Research Lab, NAWM & The New Art Gallery Walsall
Oct 2018 Older Women, Art of Coventry Artist Development Programme, Coventry Artspace
Residencies
April 2021 Novi Sad, Serbia, School of Participation, Making Art That Matters, Walk the Plank x Creative Europe Programme
Oct 2019 Documenting The Twin, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Instagram takeover, Axisweb
(18th-25th)
Oct 2019 Orrbbitt Online Instagram Residency, Orrbbitt
(7th-13th)
2018-2019 Graduate Artist in Residence, Coventry Artspace (Sept 2018 - Sept 2019)
Nov 2018 Bear & Ragged Staff - Ideas of the Rural, Coventry Biennial
Exhibitions
2022 'Dear Brum', Selfridges x Birmingham City University Project - Group exhibition Invisible Cities
2021 'I Apostrophe S', Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art: HYPER-POSSIBLE
2021 'Lockdown Lullabies', LTB, Coventry
2020 'Resurgence', 'It Gets Lighter From Here', Vivid Projects & Culture Centre
2020 'I Am Not' & 'This is Fucking Normal', ''Art & Activism', Group Virtual Exhibition, Outside In
Frieze Top Ten Virtual Exhibition across the UK & Ireland
2020 '32 Brains', whorling.net online
2020 '32 Brains', SVOX.TV online streaming film exhibition
2019 'Seepage', Open Projects, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
2019 'Seepage', Big Screen, Inside Outside, Laboratory of Dissent 2, Winchester School of Art, Winchester
2019 '32 Brains', Solo show, Artspace Arcadia Gallery Coventry
2019 'For the Sake of a Shilling', Project Coventry, Group Show, Class Room & Holyhead Studios, Coventry
2019 'Worth//Less', Black Hole Club 2019 Launch, Group Show, Vivid Projects, Birmingham
2018 '32 Brains', Art of Coventry, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
2018 'For the Sake of a Shilling', Spon Spun Festival, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
2018 'Worth//Less', The Other Side of June, Leamington Spa
2018 'Society', My Muse, Picture House, Stratford upon Avon
2017 'This is Fucking Normal', 30seconds30minutes30film, End//Begin//Dialogue,
Scratch the Surface Festival, The Tin, Coventry
Programme Creation & Development
2021 'Navigating Disaster', artist development game, co-creator
(Coventry Artspace)
2021 'Working in the Public Realm', artist development game, co-creator (Coventry Artspace)
2021 'Speedy Crits', artist support, creator & programme manager
(Coventry Artspace)
Lecturing and Mentoring
2018 Manifesting Practice module temporary tutor and mentor,
BA Fine Art and Contemporary Cultures, Warwickshire College Group
Memberships
2021 Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Board member
2021 Coventry Artspace, Advisory Group member
2019 Cohort, Black Hole Club, Vivid Projects, Birmingham ( March 2019 to
December 2019)
Workshops
2021 'Disobedient Art', Stratford upon Avon
2019 'Re-imagining Monopoly', Coventry
2019 'Mock the Weak', Coventry
Collaborations
2021 'Communi-Tea', Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art: HYPER-POSSIBLE
2021 'Clopton Comedy Club', Stratford upon Avon
2020 - 2022 Stratford upon Avon Community Arts Project
2018 - S-o-A District Tenant Group
Events
2022 'Chatterbox Art School', Workshop, Online
2021 'Communi-tea', In the City x Coventry Biennial: HYPER-POSSIBLE
2021 'A Parallel State', Beyond the Anthropocene, Coventry Biennial,
2021 'A Parallel State x DONCASTER', Public Art Forum, Art Bomb, Doncaster, co-curator
2021 S-o-A Community Art Project Summer Workshop Programme, Stratford upon Avon, curator and project manager
2020 'Speedy Crits', Programme Manager, Online Peer to Peer Support twice a month. Supported by Artspace Coventry
2019 ‘Mock the Weak’, Workshop co-creator, Spam & Chips, Co-op(t) Arty Party 2: Integrate, Coventry
2019 ‘What Do Artists Do All Day?’, Kilby-Nelson & Neal, A Conversation, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
2019 ‘Re-imagining Monopoly’, Workshop, ‘32 Brains’, creator & workshop lead, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
Panels
April 2021 - Hello Culture x Coventry: Come Together
Dec 2020 - Coventry Artspace Artist Development Research
Oct 2020 - Birmingham 2020 Digital & Gaming Roundtable
Publications
2021 - 'Whose Story Is It?', Social Art Library
Nov 2020 - 'Home Complex Home', Coventry Biennial Communiqué Four
Nov 2019 Review - Twin Stranger: Entangled State, New Art West Midlands
Nov 2019 The Twin at Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2019, Axisweb, website & e-bulletin
Aug 2019 The Duality of Belonging, ‘Another Place Like Home’, Andrew Jackson
Nov 2018
To May 2019 Graduate Artist in Residence Monthly Blog, Coventry Artspace Website
2018 Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Shifting Ground, Participating in Coventry
Biennial of Contemporary Art 2017
2018 New Art West Midlands, Review: Sam Belinfante, Accordion, Coventry
Selected Press
February 2021 'AD:Vantage Leadership Programme', Interview,
New Art West Midlands
January 2021 '21 Announcements', Communiquè Five, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art 2021
January 2021 'Top Ten Virtual Shows Across the UK & Ireland', Outside In,
'Art & Activism', Frieze Magazine
November 2020 'Studio Visit Artists Announced', New Art West Midlands
Aug 2019 ‘Q&A’, New Art West Midlands, Editorial
Aug 2019 ‘Digital Living’, Axisweb Monthly Playlist
June 2019 ‘Artist Spotlight’, Interview, Curating Coventry, Wordpress Blog
May 2019 ‘360° Perpetuation’, Axisweb Weekly Highlights
Jan 2019 ‘For the Sake of a Shilling’, Axisweb, Sound & Vision, Five to Watch
Dec 2018 ‘Housing Hierarchy’, Axisweb Weekly Highlights
Oct 2018 ‘Worth//Less’, Axisweb Weekly Highlights
Oct 2018 ‘For the Sake of a Shilling’, Prize Winner, Spon Spun Arts & Heritage Festival