CONTACT
EDUCATION & TRAINING
2014 - 2016. MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London
2008 - 2011. BA Fine Art, University of Wales, Abersytwyth
2013. Studio Lighting, London School of Photography
2007 - 2008. Elevate Dance Company (Springs Dance Company Apprenticeship Scheme)
LECTURES
2019. "Touch me Not": the Stand-in, the Decoy and the Redeemer, Performance Lecture, Morphē Arts, with Tyrone Isaac-Stuart.
2017. A Study in Scatology & Repulsion, Morphē Arts
2017. Vulnerability, Temporality & Dystopia, Morphē Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019. Meals for One, Forum Artist Residency (installation)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCE
2020. Traces of An Absent Body, Koppel Project Round Room
2019. Fish, Birds, Fingers and Other Things, Deptford X Fringe
2019. The Taste of Home in the Wandering Body, All Saints Wandsworth
2018. Humble To The Ground, Laban Building Gardens (Trinity Laban), Deptford X Fringe
2018. At The Threshold, hARTslane, New Cross
2018. Paradise Underground, Sugar Cane Bar, Clapham
2018. Between Friends, St Stephen's Walbrook
2017. Show Home, Art Licks Weekend, The Old Police Station (Shortlisted for the Workweek Prize)
2017. ek(stasis), Deptford X Fringe, Archie's Bar, Deptford
2017. Cast of My Shape, 'Peace in it together bit by bit pt 3' Artist Series, 19 Goulston Steet
2016. MA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art
2016. We/Us, Interim Exhibition, Chelsea College of Art
2015. Human Nature, The Archive Gallery, Haggerston
2015. P is For Process Project Part Time, Chelsea College of Art
2015. Connect & Grow, The Garden Museum
2014. Tangent, MAFA Intro Show, Chelsea College of Art
2014. Stick 'Em Up, HUSK Gallery & Project Space
2013. Two Lines, Inside The White Cube, Trinity Buoy Wharf
2013. Strike Against Art Group Exhibition, The Nunnery Gallery
2012. In Unison, Empty Shop Project, Dorking
2011. Degree Show, The School of Art, Aberystwyth University
2010. Internal Traces, The Aberration Group. Gloucestershire Arts and Crafts Centre
PROJECTS/ RESIDENCIES
2020. Round Room Residency, Koppel Project, The Campus
2019. Forum Artist Residency, Installation
2014. Connect & Grow, Siobhan Davies Dance
2014. Interplay, Interface Arts Scotland, Leith School of Art
2013. Sharing Moving Making, Independent Dance
2013. (Artist Assistant/Intern) Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Imagining History & Landscape, Nottingham Castle
2013. (Producer/Devised Theatre Collaboration) These Feet, Morphe Arts
2013. (Project/ Publication) Still Moving, Siobhan Davies Dance
2013. Strike Against Art, Bow Arts and Morphe Arts, The Nunnery Gallery
2012. Only Connect Lab, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2011. Empty Shop Project, Second Hand Dance
2011. (Collaborative Project & Performance) Dwsin y Daith and Rhuddem Dance Company
WRITING
2021. Visual Commentary on Scripture, Kings College London.
2019. Essay on Alastair Gordon, at City and Guilds Residency, London
2019. "Touch me Not": The Stand-In, the Decoy and the Redeemer, performance lecture at Morphe Arts
2019. Exhibition Text, 'Black Stuff', Unit 3 Projects, London (Turps Painters)
2019. Essay on Matt Gee, exhibition at Husk Gallery, London.
2018. AMBIT Magazine, Review of 'Poetics. Trucks. Flood' by Michael Coppelov at Husk Gallery, London
The work is rooted in the history of collaborative practice between dance and visual art, and engages with contemporary questions of dance in gallery spaces, and its present relationship with contemporary art practice. The ongoing research wrestles with the body’s physical understanding of loss and grief, and its relationship with site and location: notably places which have become sites of loss, difficulty and tension. There is an incessant question of how we can remember physically through a returning to place and an abstracted re-enacting and remembering of one's own painful experiences, as the body is understood as a physical archive: a site of layers of sedimented memory.
Our physical body is the site we inhabit in the world. It is battered and bruised: a tangible testimony to what we have known. We carry with us in the body our memories and emotions of everything that has gone before, of everything that has been done to us and which have done. Alluding in part to the Entombment paintings, the work presents an image of a falling, collapsed and entangled body: utilising tools of repetition, mimicry, and endurance to physically explore grief.