EDUCATION
2001 – 2002 Psychology and Italian (120 credits) Lancaster University
2003 – 2006 BA Textiles, Visual Arts (Hons) Goldsmiths College, University of London
2011 – Modern Philosophy module, Birkbeck, University of London
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
2020 – Facilitating Z-Crits for ARTQUEST London
2020 – Mindful drawing workshops, Herts
2020 – Developing a new series of work, look out on Instagram for the latest images
SELECT EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS
2019 – 1 of 9 artist/researcher projects selected for Stage 1 funding: Trellis UCL
2019 – Weaving Worlds, Artist and The Machine Day, Barbican
2017 – Laboratory of Dark Matters, Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum
2017 – Laboratory of Dark Matters, Guest Projects, Hackney
2016 – Solo show, Art and Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
2015 – A Letter in Mind, The National Brain Appeal, Oxo Tower, London
2015 – Structure, Texture, Future, The Nunnery Gallery, London
2015 – Common Bodies, East Street Arts, Leeds
2014 – Art Language Location Festival, Cambridge University, Cambridge
2013 – Cross disciplinary group show: A Matter of Substance, APT Gallery, Deptford
2012 – Selected for Dangerous Curves Ahead, Bow Arts Open, Bermondsey Project, London
2012 – Commission: Historic Royal Palaces, Inter-generational Project, Wapping
2011 – Group exhibition: Drawing Connections Siena Arts Institute, Siena, Italy
2011 – Lead artist cross-disciplinary exhibition: A Theory of Everything, Core Gallery, Deptford
2010 – Commission: ‘Can’ (Adaptation), for Deptford X Gallery Plots, London SE
2010 – Group exhibition: At Play, South Hill Park, Berkshire
2009 – Commission ‘Module’ for Crafts Council, Origin, Somerset House, London
2008 – Group show Effuse: ‘Indevelopment’ & ‘Spin Bang’, Constance Howard Gallery, London
2007 – Residency exhibition: Rules & Regs, The Maltings, Farnham, Surrey
2007 – Group exhibition At Play, South Hill Park, Berkshire
2006 – The Textile Collective group show: Truman Brewery, London
RESIDENCIES
2015-16 –School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire
2007 – Rules and Regs, Farnham Maltings, Farnham, Surrey
AWARDS
2016 – Grants for the Arts Funding, Arts Council England
2013 – a-n The Artists Information Company Re:View Bursary
SELECT TALKS & SEMINARS
2019 –Lecture and Tutorials, School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire
2017 – Talk, Cultures Combine: Art and Science, Royal Institution, London
2016 – Artists Talk, University of Hertfordshire
2015 – Artist Talk, Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
2012 – Artist Talk, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London
2011 – Lead Artist Talk, ‘A Theory of Everything’ Core Gallery, London
2010 – The Drawing Experiment, Core Gallery, London
2009 – Master Class, Somerset House, London
FACILITATION AND CHAIRING
2018 – Facilitator, Contemporary Arts Research Group event, University of Hertfordshire
2017 – Chair, Institute of Physics Event, Whitby Museum, UK
2017 – Chair, LabTalk+ Symposium, Laboratory of Dark Matters, Guest Projects
2015 – Bow Arts Professional Development Programme: Bow Skills Lab, chairing Galleries and Curators Panel with representatives from White Cube, Sunday Painters, Zabludowicz Collection and Crafts Council
2015 – Chair discussion event, academic/artist residency with Birkbeck College
2007 – present, Engine ChatChat peer crit, currently resident at Bow Arts and SVAF
2011 – 2012 Co-founder and chair of cross-disciplinary discussion forum ideas-matter-sphere
WRITING
2015 – Artist Blog, amatterofeverything.wordpress.com
2014/5 – Art news and event reports for Lewisham Education Arts Network website
2012 – a-n online news, conference report: Arts Education in England Under Scrutiny
2007 – Essay ‘What is Drawing For? Loughborough University Drawing Journal
MEDIA
2013 – Interview for Degree Show Catalogue, Leeds University
2012 – an-magazine, April 2012, Artist’s Interview on OpenAIR
2012 – Research paper: At Play: Curatorial Notes about Playfulness, by Cally Trench & Dr Outi Remes
2011 – Core Gallery Interview Series by Chantelle Purcell, ‘A Theory of Everything Exhibition’
2009 – Financial Times, How to Spend it, article by Emma Crichton-Miller
2007 – BBC Berks Breakfast Show, interview live in studio
Bringing People Together
The artist facilitates peer crit groups for other artists in various locations (see above for more information). Plus two reading groups with artists, one reading texts covering New Materialisms which has been going since 2016.