CV
Education
2021 - 24 PhD student, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University
2016 - 18 MA Contemporary Art Practice: Public Sphere (Distinction) Royal College of Art.
2013 - 15 Collaborative Research Group, 18 month programme with CRATE project space in
Margate and the University of Creative Arts.
2005 - 8 BA Social Anthropology and Media (2:1) Goldsmiths College, University of London
2004 - 5 BTEC Foundation in Art and Design (Pass) University of Creative Arts
Public Art Projects
2020 - 21 Hirst Park Public Art Project. Commission by Arts and Heritage, and Northumberland Council
2020 Vinyl Window Project. Two designs for windows on Slough high street made with students
from Langley Grammar School. Commissioned by Creative Junction.
2019 Public Routes Commissioned Artist and Workshop Leader (with Sadie Edginton),
The Pumphouse Gallery, London, UK.
2018 Songs to George Henry Lees, Liverpool Biennale fringe, Liverpool, UK.
2018 A Workers’ Inquiry States of Public (RCA group show), FACT, Liverpool, UK.
2016 -17 Underpasses Project On the Verge; (with RARA) , Milton Keynes, UK.
2014 - 15 Stories from Gillett Square Funded by WHPC and Hackney CVS, London, UK.
2014 Collaborative Research Group Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK.
2014 The Zine Room With Pent Valley School, Interreg, and Strange Cargo,
Folkestone, UK.
2014 Hackney Harvest Public feast in Hackney Central. Funded by Hackney Council,
Hackney, UK.
2014 Street Platforms Part of Made in MK, Milton Keynes, UK.
2014 Object Atelier The Roundhouse Theatre. Awarded commissions by Juliet
Gomperts Trust, Ideas Tap and the Accidental Festival, London, UK.
2010 Table on the Marsh, Permanent installation. Funded by Lee Valley Parks and
UnLtd. London, UK.
2009 The Treehouse Gallery, Funded by The Royal Parks, London, UK.
Exhibitions
2022 EOP Summer Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham,UK
2019 VNSGU Residency, Menier Gallery, London, UK.
2018 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2018 Equal Voices Dyson Gallery, London, UK.
2017 Bapor Tabo(o) curated by _inventory (Rhine Bernardino & Linda Rocco).
2017 WIP, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2015 We Shall Not Be Moved Art Licks, RARA, London, UK.
2015 Unruly Objects The Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham, UK.
2015 The Universe is Flat, Round and Full of Structure DeLiceires 18, Porto, Portugal.
2014 Object Atelier, Tobacco Factory, Bristol, UK.
2014 Collaborative Research Group CRATE, Margate, UK.
2012 Finding Home Cities Methodologies, Slade Research Centre, London, UK.
2012 The Knowledge Shop, Amnesty International Headquarters, London, UK.
2011 Relay Quay Arts with A Space gallery and Rules and Regs, Isle of Wight, UK.
Workshops/ Talks
2021 Equal Voices in the Room? Workshop with MA Visual Communications students, Royal
College of Art, London, UK
2020 'Writing the rules for zoom? Navigating socially engaged art practice under
lockdown' with Social Practice across school group, Royal College of Art
2019 Workshop with Alt MFA
2019 Equal Voices in the Room? Workshop with MA Visual Communications students, Royal
College Art, London, UK
2019 Equal Voices in the Room? A dance of scales, Assembly Point, London, UK
2018 Equal Voices in the Room? Workshop as part of X Publishing Fair at The London Art Book
Fair, Whitechapel Gallery. Curated by Eleanor Vonne Brown.
2018 Equal Voices in the Room? Staff training session, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2018 Time Trails, workshop, Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead, UK.
2018 Equal Voices in the Room? ReachOut RCA, London, UK.
2017/18 Nine Elms Community Centre, community art workshops, London, UK.
2017/18 Winter Trails, Re-mapping Nine Elms, Nine Elms on the Southbank, London, UK.
2017 Building Ruptures, Across RCA, London, UK.
2017 Bidston Observatory, Radio Discussion about residency and playing choice music.
2017 Puppetry, Ventriloquism and Inner Politics, ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW, London, UK.
2017 Can Language Destroy a Building? Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2016 RARA in conversation Milton Keynes Art Centre, Milton Keynes, UK.
2016 Architecture as Social Practices, ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW, London, UK.
2016 re: learning, Glasgow School of Art: Mackintosh School of Architecture, London, UK.
2015 In Conversation with Katie Pratt, as part of the exhibition Unruly Objects at the
Hardwick Gallery.
2015 Work and Art: How Artists Make a Living Symposium at UCA organised with
Collaborative Research Group.
2014 Stories from Gillett Square presentation of audio work, Vortex Club, London, UK.
2014 Working Together, Artquest. Available online
Publications
2021 Structures within structures: Examining alternative cultures of learning in the institution, Art & the Public Sphere Journal, Volume 10, Number 2, 1 November 2021, pp. 265-274(10)
2018 Equal Voices in the Room? Self Published (Launched at Whitechapel Art Book Fair 2018)
2018 How Do I Make the Skyline Jump? Dissertation (Distinction), Royal College of Art.
2017 Building Ruptures, Preconceptions S2EP3, Studio SFCH
2017 Equal Voices in the Room? The Pluralist, Issue 1, Royal College of Art.
Tutor/Lecturer
2022 Visiting Lecturer and Tutor (BA Fine Art) Coventry University
2019 Visiting Lecturer (MA Visual Communications) Royal College of Art.
2019 - 2020 Tutor (Fine Art Foundation) Kaplan International College London
2018 Visiting Tutor (BA Painting), Veer Narmad South Gujarat University.
2014 Visiting Lecturer (BA Fine Art), University of Creative Arts, Canterbury.
2013 Visiting Tutor (BA Fine Art), University of Creative Arts, Canterbury.
2012 Visiting Lecturer (BA Social Anthropology) Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.
'Public Art: Urban Anthropology in Practice'
Residencies
2023 -24 Secondment at Home for Cooperation, Cyprus
2023 Residency, The Palace. Poland
2022 Artist in Residence, Eastside Projects
2020 -21 Artist in Residence, Haringey Homes (commissioned by El Warcha)
2020 Artist in Residence (Luton), Quiet Down There and Revoluton
2018 Artist in Residence, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University and SUP
2018 Bidston Observatory
2017 Shape My Town, Culture Action Llandudno, Llandudno, Wales.
2015 Deliceiras 18, Porto, Portugal, UK.
2014 BResident, Beacon Arts Project, UK.
Art/Design Production and Management
Sep 19 - Dec 19 Project Assistant, R.M. Sánchez-Camus
Aug 16 - Sep 18 Production Assistant, Collaborative Design and Build
Jan 15 - July 16 Community Arts Officer, Welling School
2013 - 18 Co-Director, RARA
Training and Workshops
- I have a DBS certificate (2024)
- Food Safety & Hygiene Level 2 (2024)
- Lessons from the Field with Laura Burns - applying theories of Systemic Constellations to land, transformative justice and ancestral healing (6 sessions) 2024
- Non Violent Communication Foundation Training (weekend) 2024
- The Way of Kinship with Kincentric Leadership (6 sessions) 2024
- Reflexology Introduction (1 day) 2024
- Lumos Transforms Resilience Toolkit introduction (1.5hrs) 2024
- Whats Feeding Me. Member of a collective exploring intersections between social and environmental justice, spirituality, and art practice (Every new moon) 2023 - ongoing
- Trust the People. Course in community building (4 sessions) 2023
- Regular yoga practice
- Ayurveda and Yoga Workshop (3 session of 3hrs) with Florentina Lam-Clark (2023)
- Crit Club. Member of crit group run by Eastside Projects (2022)
- Lighthouse in a Storm. Course at St Ethelburga's exploring youth leadership in the polycrisis (10 sessions. 2021-2022
- Group Facilitation training (2 day course) from City Lit (2017)
- Beyond Resistance (1 day course) with Tony Cealy (2017)
- Certificate in emergency first aid (2017)
- Collective Liberation Project (6 week training) - An anti-racist learning group (2017)
- Volunteering experience with Saint Marys Secret Garden project working with adults with learning difficulties
- Volunteering at Hackney Winter Night Shelter.
- Vipassana Meditation 10 day course (2009)