Selected Exhibitions
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Worlds Away: Art, Nature and Wellbeing, Midlands Arts Centre.
commissioned by curator Rachel Bradley.
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The Undead Archive, The University of Winnipeg.
curated by Serena Keshavjee.
2022
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Here and Queer, The New Art Gallery Walsall.
2021
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Ikon for Artists, Ikon Gallery.
2020
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False Memory, Rugby Museum and Art Gallery.
2019
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A Forgetting of Light, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art.
The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery.
Commissioned by Warwick University. Curated by Ryan Hughes.
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2018
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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.
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2017
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Maiden Voiced, VIVID Projects
SYN, Commissioned by Vivid Projects, Arts Council England. Curated by Kate Spence.
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2016
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V is for Val, Visions at The Nunnery Gallery
Curators: Cinzia Cremona and Tessa Garland.
2015
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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.
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V is for Val, Film Open 2015
Touring Spike Island, Eastside Projects,Transmission,Castlefield Gallery, S1 Artspace and ICA, London. Selected by Steven Cairns.
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Escamotage, Part of the exhibition Gothic at The Library of Birmingham
2014
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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
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Escamotage, West Midlands Open, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery .
Selectors Roger Hiorns, Zoe Lippett and Barbara Walker.
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The Craftswoman's Club, Longbridge Public Art Project
Escamotage, ARTicle Gallery
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2013
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Spiritual Ectoplasm, New Art West Midlands, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
Selectors: Lynda Morris, Jeremy Millar, and Keith Piper.
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2012
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Spiritual Ectoplasm, Midlands Experimental Moving Image Collective, Althorpe Gallery
Curated by Michael Lightborne.
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Spiritual Ectoplasm, [S T A T E] Of Uncertainty, The Vaults
Curated by Kate Spence.
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Junction Festival of Contemporary Art
Commissioned and curated by S​onya Russell-Saunders.
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Spiritual Ectoplasm, Screening at Arbeit Gallery
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The Craftswoman's Club, Birmingham Made Me, The Mailbox.
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A Short Sharp Blow to the Head, Trade Gallery
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The Museum of [ ] objects, Midlands Arts Centre.
Curated by Mona Casey and S​onya Russell-Saunders.
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Six by Four, Motorcade/FlashParade
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This is the Point, Flatpack Festival
Two programmes of artists' films curated by Mona Casey and Katy Woods.
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Residencies
2018
Mr Straw's House, National Trust
2015
Group Occupation III, The New Art Gallery Walsall
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Commissions
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[2019] University of Warwick Impact Commission, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art
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[2018] Intermission, The New Art Gallery Walsall. Curator: Zoë Lippett
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[2017] Maiden Voiced, Vivid Projects, Grants for the Art, Arts Council England.
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[2015] Redefining Croome, National Trust Croome Court, Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Curatorial Projects
[2017-2021] Open Channels: Ten Contemporary Artists, Ten Objects of the Occult
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[2015] Gothic, Library of Birmingham
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[2014] Twice Upon a Time; Magic, Alchemy & The Transubstantiation of the Senses, Birmingham City University.
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[2014] Lightning Talks, Festival of Imagination, Selfridges, Birmingham Bullring
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[2013] On the Verge of Photography, Birmingham City University
What is a Photograph? Birmingham City University
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Collections
The New Art Gallery Walsall
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Awards
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[2020] Blue Sky Museums, Arts & Heritage
[2018] NT Short Residency Award, National Trust & NAWM
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[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.
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[2014] First Prize, West Midlands Open, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
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[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
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[2012] IKON Gallery Curators Choice Award. Selectors: Deborah Kermode & Jonathan Watkins
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[2011] AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Studentship
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[2011] IKON Gallery Curators Choice Award. Selectors: Deborah Kermode & Jonathan Watkins
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[2011] Extra Special People Membership Bursary Award, Eastside Projects
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[2011] Louise Anne Ryland Travel Award, Birmingham City University
[2009] Emma Jesse Phipps Award, Birmingham City University
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Education
[2017] PhD Fine Art & Philosophy, Practice-led
Birmingham School of Art. Gertrude A Bowater Scholarship.
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[2012] MA Fine Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
Distinction. AHRC Scholarship.
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[2011] BA Fine Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, 1:1.
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Current post
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Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art
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Previous posts
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Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art
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Visiting Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Royal College of Art
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Lecturer, Co-Programme Leader MA Digital Art, De Montfort University
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Associate Lecturer, Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University
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Research Assistant, Centre For Fine Art Research. Director: Professor Johnny Golding
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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
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Credits
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R U Satisfied? A Film by Rachel Maclean. FirecrestFilms and Barry Crerar Production.
Channel 4, 2018.
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Fellowships
[2012-16] Research Fellow, Centre for Fine Art Research
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[current] Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy
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