Selected Exhibitions
Worlds Away: Art, Nature and Wellbeing, Midlands Arts Centre.
commissioned by curator Rachel Bradley.
The Undead Archive, The University of Winnipeg.
curated by Serena Keshavjee.
2022
Here and Queer, The New Art Gallery Walsall.
2021
Ikon for Artists, Ikon Gallery.
2020
False Memory, Rugby Museum and Art Gallery.
2019
A Forgetting of Light, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art.
The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery.
Commissioned by Warwick University. Curated by Ryan Hughes.
2018
Intermission, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Solo exhibition commissioned and curated by Zoë Lippett.
The Prisoner, New Art West Midlands
The Herbert Art Gallery. Curated by Rosie Addenbrooke.
Selectors: Patricia Fleming, Sinead McCarthy and Ingrid Pollard.
2017
Maiden Voiced, VIVID Projects
SYN, Commissioned by Vivid Projects, Arts Council England. Curated by Kate Spence.
2016
V is for Val, Visions at The Nunnery Gallery
Curators: Cinzia Cremona and Tessa Garland.
2015
Famulus, SALON at The Waterhall Gallery, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Curated by Rachel Bradley.
Puttin' Tacks on your Chair, Nottingham Castle Open.
Selectors: Ben Woodeson, Rob Dingle, Kerry Harker, Deb Covell
It has Capability, NT Croome Court
Commissioned by National Trust. Curated by Anneka French.
V is for Val, Film Open 2015
Touring Spike Island, Eastside Projects,Transmission,Castlefield Gallery, S1 Artspace and ICA, London. Selected by Steven Cairns.
Escamotage, Part of the exhibition Gothic at The Library of Birmingham
2014
Vanishing in Plain Sight, Birmingham School of Art
A performance with David Cheeseman at the conference Twice Upon a Time: Magic, Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of the Senses.
Cabinet, Pulpa, R K Burt Gallery
Escamotage, West Midlands Open, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery .
Selectors Roger Hiorns, Zoe Lippett and Barbara Walker.
The Craftswoman's Club, Longbridge Public Art Project
Escamotage, ARTicle Gallery
2013
Spiritual Ectoplasm, New Art West Midlands, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
Selectors: Lynda Morris, Jeremy Millar, and Keith Piper.
2012
Spiritual Ectoplasm, Midlands Experimental Moving Image Collective, Althorpe Gallery
Curated by Michael Lightborne.
Spiritual Ectoplasm, [S T A T E] Of Uncertainty, The Vaults
Curated by Kate Spence.
Junction Festival of Contemporary Art
Commissioned and curated by Sonya Russell-Saunders.
Spiritual Ectoplasm, Screening at Arbeit Gallery
The Craftswoman's Club, Birmingham Made Me, The Mailbox.
A Short Sharp Blow to the Head, Trade Gallery
The Museum of [ ] objects, Midlands Arts Centre.
Curated by Mona Casey and Sonya Russell-Saunders.
Six by Four, Motorcade/FlashParade
This is the Point, Flatpack Festival
Two programmes of artists' films curated by Mona Casey and Katy Woods.
Residencies
2018
Mr Straw's House, National Trust
2015
Group Occupation III, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Commissions
[2019] University of Warwick Impact Commission, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art
[2018] Intermission, The New Art Gallery Walsall. Curator: Zoë Lippett
[2017] Maiden Voiced, Vivid Projects, Grants for the Art, Arts Council England.
[2015] Redefining Croome, National Trust Croome Court, Heritage Lottery Fund.
Curatorial Projects
[2017-2021] Open Channels: Ten Contemporary Artists, Ten Objects of the Occult
[2015] Gothic, Library of Birmingham
[2014] Twice Upon a Time; Magic, Alchemy & The Transubstantiation of the Senses, Birmingham City University.
[2014] Lightning Talks, Festival of Imagination, Selfridges, Birmingham Bullring
[2013] On the Verge of Photography, Birmingham City University
What is a Photograph? Birmingham City University
Collections
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Awards
[2020] Blue Sky Museums, Arts & Heritage
[2018] NT Short Residency Award, National Trust & NAWM
[2017] New Art West Midlands Research & Development Curatorial Bursary
[2017] New Art West Midlands Micro Bursary
[2016] Research & Development Grant, Wellcome Trust. Lead Investigator: Hannah Honeywill.
[2014] First Prize, West Midlands Open, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
[2013] T G Hamilton Research Grant, University of Manitoba, Canada
[2013] RFSC Research Funding, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
[2012] Gertrude A Bowater Doctoral Studentship
[2012] IKON Gallery Curators Choice Award. Selectors: Deborah Kermode & Jonathan Watkins
[2011] AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Studentship
[2011] IKON Gallery Curators Choice Award. Selectors: Deborah Kermode & Jonathan Watkins
[2011] Extra Special People Membership Bursary Award, Eastside Projects
[2011] Louise Anne Ryland Travel Award, Birmingham City University
[2009] Emma Jesse Phipps Award, Birmingham City University
Education
[2017] PhD Fine Art & Philosophy, Practice-led
Birmingham School of Art. Gertrude A Bowater Scholarship.
[2012] MA Fine Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
Distinction. AHRC Scholarship.
[2011] BA Fine Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, 1:1.
Current post
Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Previous posts
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art
Visiting Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Royal College of Art
Lecturer, Co-Programme Leader MA Digital Art, De Montfort University
Associate Lecturer, Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University
Research Assistant, Centre For Fine Art Research. Director: Professor Johnny Golding
Research Assistant, AHRC Networking Grant
The Application of Non-Representational Theories to the Digitally Produced and Circulated Image' Profesor Johnny Golding and Dr Daniel Rubinstein.
Workshop Provider, Arts on our Doorstep, Warwickshire
Credits
R U Satisfied? A Film by Rachel Maclean. FirecrestFilms and Barry Crerar Production.
Channel 4, 2018.
Fellowships
[2012-16] Research Fellow, Centre for Fine Art Research
[current] Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy