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Selected Projects
2025 algae and tufa, will you be more successful than me?, Soiree, MIC
Estuary Sensing, Mawddach Residency
2022 Excursion, Performance lecture, Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth
Sirens, performance lecture, Sentient Performativities, Dartington
2021 The New Geolinguists, Recalibration, BEAST FEaST 2021
Storm Ellen, Aeolus Online, curated by Mike Blow and Hogarth Productions
The Highest Light, for ‘Lightning Birds: A Game of Sonic Tag’, Soundart Radio + Resonance FM
2020 Rock Doves, selected by Cine Sisters SW, Plymouth Arts Cinema, Plymouth Art Weekender
The New Geolinguists, Tomorrow’s Transmissions, Soundart Radio
With all the Unsounds, Jodie Saunders’ Sonic Restoration Task, Plymouth Art Weekender
Tuesday’s Child, Kate Carr’s Interiorities Broadcasts, RTM
2019 Dimetrodon: Threshold Ecologies, Plymouth Art Weekender
Diapsid and The Highest Light, artdotearth, Dartington
2018 Diapsid, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
2017 The Iron Coast, Fulldome Performance, Balance/UnBalance, Plymouth University
2016 Overture, Inside Out Festival, Dorset, commissioned by Activate Performing Arts
2015 Arctic Tern, Salon at St Saviours, Plymouth Art Weekender
Mutability, Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay
Beaten Earth, Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay
2012 The Inner Quarry, for ‘over the horizon’ Berry Head NNR, Brixham, Devon
2010 I Dream, Bucks Mills Cabin, Devon. Commissioned by Appledore Arts and the National Trust
2009 China Now! In Taunton, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton; The Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton
2007 Uncrowned Kings, Occombe Farm, Paignton. Commissioned by the Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust
2006 On a May Evening, The Art Farm Project, Middle Rocombe Farm, Devon
2004 The Meeting of Hands and Hearts, The Gallery at UCE, Birmingham, St Martins in the Bullring, Birmingham, The Birmingham City Art Gallery, TRACES Festival, Lyon, France
Liquid Love, From OH! With Love, Group Show, Oh!art, Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London
Residencies
2025 Mawddach Residency, Gwynedd, N.Wales
2022 Sprite Arts Collective Meanwhile Use Residency, Plymouth Culture, Plymouth
2015 Preston Street Union, Spacex, Exeter, with Trevor Pitt
2014-5 Smooth Space-Torre Abbey Artist’s Residency. Produced by Smooth Space in partnership with Torbay Council
2012 over the horizon, Smooth Space in partnership with Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust and English Riviera Global Geopark Organisation
2010 Bucks Mills Cabin Residency, commissioned by Appledore Arts and the National Trust
2008 China Now! In Taunton, commissioned by Hestercombe Gallery and The Brewhouse, Taunton
2004 Self-Action/Research Project, commissioned by Craftspace and the Midlands Refugee Council.
2003 Sharing the Problem, commissioned by Anna Collard, Social Action for Health, Whitechapel, London. Hosted by the St Dunstan’s Bengali Resource Centre, Stepney Green, London
2002 Connecting Cultures, commissioned by Colchester Institute, Essex. Hosted by The Healthy Living Centre, Bromley-by-Bow, London
Awards
2022 Meanwhile Use Commission, Plymouth Culture, for Sprite Arts Collective Residency
2021 Arts Council England Project Grant for Cine Sisters SW
2019 (shortlisted) Arts & Culture Fellow, University of Exeter
2018 Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice Award (first round)
2016 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for Smooth Space project BGS350
2014 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for Smooth Space/Torre Abbey Residency Project
Visual Arts South West Mentoring Network Bursary
PACHome travel bursary to visit the Liverpool Biennial
2013 a-n Re:view award
2012 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for Smooth Space project over the horizon
Teaching
2023 – (ongoing) Module Lead, MA Art, Design and Media, University of Plymouth
2021 – 2022 University of Plymouth Associate Lecturer MA Arts and Media
2018 – 2021 University of Plymouth Associate Lecturer, BA Arts and Media School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
2014 – (ongoing) Smooth Space Peer-Supported Critical Review Network
Education
2023 Practice research PhD candidate, Media Arts, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth
1996 Central St Martins School of Art (CSM) London. BA (hons) Fine Art
1995 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) USA.
1993 Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Whitechapel, London. Foundation Cert