Artist based in East London and Essex
b.1991
Education
- 2022 - Constellations programme, exploring the expanded field of public art, with UP Projects, Flat Time House and Liverpool Biennial
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2017 - MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, with distinction in Critical and Historical Studies (dissertation)
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2013 - BA Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, first class
Solo and Duo Exhibitions and Events
- 2025 - (Upcoming) Scream Machines, an art ghost train with Augustin Rebetez, for the 100th birthday of Jean Tinguely, Museum Tinguely, Basel
- 2025 - (Upcoming) The Dover Prize, Darlington, UK
- 2023 - Unstable Condition, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
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2021 - Growing Pains, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
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2019 - Jerwood Staging Series, curated by Harriet Cooper and Lauren Houlton, Jerwood Gallery, London, UK
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2019 - From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, curated by Anna Bargiel, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Group Exhibitions
2025
- Into the Woods, ArtExchange, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
- Video and performance event for the closing of Pr3: Prison, Protest, Print exhibition, invited by Augustin Rebetez, The Musée des beaux-arts du Locle (MBAL) Switzerland
2024
- Here, There, Everywhere, Freelands Foundation, UK
- Holding On, Flux Projects. A curation of six videos by photographer Merrick d’Arcy Irvine and Royal Ballet soloist Hannah Grennell, exploring the relationship between our bodies and the physical space around us. Screening at Close Up Cinema, London, UK
- The Magic of the Silver Swan, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, UK
2023
- Flickering Shores, Sea Imaginaries, Busan Biennale Organising Committee and Busan Metropolitan City, curated by Irini Papadimitriou, Ilgwang Beach, Busan
- Worlds Away: Art, Nature and Wellbeing, MAC Birmingham, UK
- Sharing Time // Hold, Shift, Change. Flat Time House, Peckham, UK
- Poor Things, curated by Emma Hart and Dean Kenning, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
- Behold, curated by Sasha Galitzine, Hypha Studios, London, UK
- Precarious, ArtExchange Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
2022
- Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London, UK
- Depictions of Living 2022, Venice
- Jerwood Survey II, Site Gallery, Sheffield, final show of touring exhibition, UK.
- The Amber Room, curated by Rosie Reed, Reference Point Library, London, UK.
- Southend on Shorts, A Big Screen short film event, The Odeon cinema, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2021
- BEANO: THE ART OF BREAKING THE RULES, curated by Andy Holden, Somerset House, London, UK.
- Jerwood Survey II, nominated by artists Wood & Harrison. Touring exhibition opening at g39 Cardiff; Jerwood Gallery, London, UK
- Z (Don't Panic, Kiss Me), curated by Ewa & Stach Szablowska, Galeria Studio BWA Wroclaw, New Horizons Festival, Poland
- Off Trail, curated by Sam Carvosso, AIR Gallery, Manchester, UK
- Here/Her: A Walk Along the Edge of the City, a screening of a new commission curated by Lu Williams for the Thames Estuary Festival, Metal Culture UK
- Monitor 3.0 and Monitor 3.1, curated by Jamie Hanton, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2020
- Digital exhibition of 80 artist sculpture proposals for The High Line Plinth, New York, US
- The Sea is Glowing, Exportdrvo, curated by Inke Arns, Rijeka 2020 European Capital of Culture, Croatia
- Little Animal, online video screening event exploring human and animal interactions, curated by Milo Creese, London, UK
- Hoxtopia, final digital exhibition of Hoxton Street digital proposals with the PEER Ambassadors at PEER Gallery, London, UK
- What is She? Screening of short videos with feminist NOHAT Collective, at Andy Holden's studio Ex-Baldessarre, UK
- Depictions of Living - Art and Activism in time of climate crisis, curated by Roshanak Khakban, The Art Pavilion, Mile End, London, UK.
2019
- Open House, Open Door, exhibition during Open House London Architecture Weekend. An exhibition of proposals for a new front door for PEER Gallery, Hoxton, by the PEER Ambassador group (ages 17-24). Curated with Alice White, Curator for Local Audiences, PEER Gallery, London, UK
- 24th Gabrovo Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art, selected by Vasif Kortun, Berta Sichel and Anton Staykov, Museum of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
- YIKES! A celebration of awkward performance. Live art and moving image event, organised by Cameryn Moore and Sandra Sordini, Berlin, Germany.
- Screening of International Waters, Department of Visual Art of the Antwerp Academy, Belgium
2018
- TBCTV - screening of three works as part of a moving image installation by artists Mel Brimfield, Ewan Jones Morris and Chloe Lamford, Lancaster Rooms, Somerset House, London, UK
- Video screening and performance afternoon with The Fourplay Conceptual Theatre Group, Paris, France
- The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival screening of all past participants, Art Week Exeter, UK
- Screening of artist moving image work, curated by Natalia Skobeeva, Pacto Collective @ Deptford Cinema, London, UK.
2017
- Directing the Real: Artists’ Films and Video in the 2010s, selected and curated by Leonardo Bigazzi. Touring exhibition: Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence; Passerelle Centre d'art Contemporain, Brest.
- Gstaadfilm International Festival for Short Art Films, Centro Cultural Terminal Goes, Uruguay
- Wide Open, curated by Sofia Bastidas and Guillermo Leon Gomez, SMU Meadows School of the Arts Pollock Gallery, Dallas, Texas, US.
- 23 Days at Sea, curated by Kimberly Phillips, Container Ship Residency Exhibition, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- Harvest Short Film Shortlist, selected by Robin Baker, Hope Dickson Leach and Robert Macfarlane, Lower Hewood Farm, Dorset, UK.
- Premiers Films festival, Malakoff, Paris, France
- Future Generation Art Prize 21 shortlisted artists at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice Biennale
- MA Degree show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
- A BROKEN LINK, curated by Andrew Marsh, video screening of Power Ballad at Golden Age Cinema, Sydney, Australia
- Future Generation Art Prize shortlist exhibition, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
- RCA Sculpture response to the Joachim Koester exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
- Stick or Twist, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
2016
- The Bomb Factory Autumn Artist Film Festival, London, UK
- OTHER, curated by the RCA Feminist Society, Courtyard Gallery 1, RCA, London, UK
- POMP, Safehouse 1 and 2, Peckham, London, UK
- RCA/ECA Exchange Show, Edinburgh Sculpture Courts, UK
- Work in Progress (WIP) Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2015
- The Forum Big Screen, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
- Test Space, selected by Gordon Dalton, Kypros Kyprianou and Juliet Lennox, Spike Island, Bristol, UK.
2014
- The Tomorrow People, curated by Elevator Gallery, London, UK
2013
- CAISSA Rising Artists - Today Art Museum, Beijing
- More or Less - Peckham Springs, with May Hands and Jack Wilkinson, London, UK
- Leverhulme Art Scholars show, selected by Gareth Bell-Jones, Lotte Juul-Petersen and Bryony Graham. Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Woon Art Prize, curated by Christine Borland, finalists at Gallery North (BALTIC 39 and Northumbria University) Newcastle.
- Film screening at Flat Time House, Peckham, London
Collections
- The Arts Council Collection, UK
Residencies
- 2021 - Unnatural Selection, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
- 2016 - 23 Days at Sea Container Ship Residency, Access Gallery, Vancouver
- Oct 2013/14 - UAL Lifeboat Studio Residency Award, supported by Artquest, ArtsTemps, ACAVA studios, London, UK
- 2013 - Leverhulme Scholarship summer school residency at Wysing Arts Centre, on the theme of 'Hidden Systems and Structures,' Cambridge, UK
Prizes/Grants/Commissions
- 2023 - The Dover Prize
- 2023 - Oppenheim-John Downes Award
- 2023 - Firstsite Collectors Group Bursary Award
- 2022 - A-N Artist Development Bursary
- 2021 - Thames Estuary Festival, commissioned psychogeographic walk by Metal Culture UK
- 2021 - Nomination for The Arts Foundation Award for Visual Art
- 2020 - Nomination to propose an artwork for The High Line Plinth, New York
- 2019 and 2023 - Nomination for Paul Hamlyn Award
- 2019 - PEER Notices commissioned artist, PEER Gallery, Hoxton, London
- 2017 - Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, shortlisted
- 2016 - Villiers David Travel Award, RCA
- 2016 - The Annex Collection Acquisition Award, TACUK, shortlisted
- 2015 - Somerset Art Works, commission for sculptural intervention on the Bristol Channel coast
- 2015 - Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust Grant for Lions Project
- 2015 - The Elephant Trust Grant for Lions Project
- 2015 - Essex Community Foundation Grant to support Masters degree at the RCA
- 2013 - Woon Art Prize (BALTIC 39 and Northumbria University), Judges' Discretionary Award
Talks and Teaching
- (Ongoing) Associate Lecturer in Sculpture at Camberwell College of Art
- 2024 - Conversation event with Kunstenbond, Dutch Artists Union
- 2024 - The Shoreditch Arts Club, International Womens Day Screening and Panel Discussion, UK
- 2024 - Visiting Artist, MA Sculpture, The Slade, London, UK
- 2024 - Visiting Artist, Kingston University foundation course, London, UK
- 2024 - Visiting Artist, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
- 2023 - Panel discussion event at Focal Point Gallery, with Emma Hart and Paul Harrison, chaired by Katharine Stout, UK
- 2023 - Artist presentation and tutorials, Colchester Institute of Art, UK
- 2023 - Mentoring with a space arts, Southampton, UK
- 2023 - Low Budget Film-making Workshop, with TOMA, Southend-on-Sea, UK
- 2023 - Community Exchanges workshop, UAL, UK
- 2023 - Panel discussion in response to the Precarious group show at Art Exchange, with Josh C Wright, Elsa James and Matt Bowman, UK
- 2022 - Spatial Dysfunction, ICA London, UK
- 2022 - Articulate Podcast, interview and discussion with Divya Sharma
- 2022 - PEER Gallery, presentation and discussion event about urban interventions, with Vlatka Horvat, Andy Field & Beckie Darlington, Maria Mahfooz, and Graeme Miller, London, UK
- 2022 - International Womens Day Screening event with artist Rebecca Davies at Metal, Southend, UK
- 2022 - PEER Gallery, experimental workshop with local over 50s group in response to the Vlatka Horvat show, London, UK.
- 2022 - CAST Cornwall, screening and presentation of short films in The Black Box space, invited by Teresa Gleadowe, UK
- 2022 - CAST Cornwall, Saturday Club workshop with local teenagers inspired by Fischli & Weiss’ The Way Things Go, UK
- 2021 - Imagining Public Sculpture, workshop with The Portland Inn Project, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
- 2021 - Film Club, April Fools Day event with artist Rebecca Davies, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
- 2021 - Artist presentation and discussion with Milton Keynes College, UK
- 2020 - Metal Future Network Shorts, Instagram Live presentation
- 2020 - UCA Farnham Visiting Lecturer, UK
- 2018 - Digifest video workshop, with Milo Creese, responding to the Get Out and Push! exhibition, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
- 2018 - Artist presentation in conversation with Anna Smolak at Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
- 2017 - Digifest video workshop, responding to the Maximum Overdrive exhibition, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
- 2015 - Writtle College, visiting artist for the BA Fine Art students, Essex, invited by Michael Szpakowski, UK
- 2014 - Lifeboat Residency Seminar, Camberwell College of Arts, UK