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Born U.K. (1977) Lives and works in London 

 

Education

2017-23        Practice-based PhD, Sheffield Hallam Uni., in partnership with the William Morris Gallery, London. (Fully Funded) 

                     Thesis title: The Future Needs the Past: Remaking William Morris through Contemporary Art Practice.

2008-10        M.F.A: Painting. Slade School of Fine Art, London.

2002-03        P.G.C.E. Art and Design, Institute of Education, London.

1996-99        B.A.(Hons) Fine Art: Painting. Bath Spa University College.

 

Awards/Residencies

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2025              A-I-R. JOYA- Art and Ecology. Spain.

2025              Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, C.A.

2024              A-I-R. 18th Street Arts Centre, Santa Monica, C.A. 

2018              A-I-R. CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain. 

2015              Shortlisted for Dazed X Converse Emerging Artist Award. 

2015              A.I.R. Factory Floor residency,  Modern Art Oxford, Love is Enough, Morris/Warhol, curated by Jeremy Deller.

2012              A-I-R. CCA Andratx, Majorca, Spain. 

2011              A-I-R. East London Printmakers.

2011              Abbey Scholarship in Painting, British School at Rome.

                      Rosa Lee Travel Award, Abbey Awards, Italy.

2010              Graduate Printmaking Prize, Jealous Print Studios.

                    

 

Solo Exhibitions

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2025              Flotsam & Jetsam, Don't Look Projects, Los Angeles in association with SLQS Gallery, London.

2024              Borrowed Time, Bobinska Brownlee Gallery at Great Pulteney St, London. 

2022              A Ghost for Today, William Morris Gallery, London. PhD presentation exhibition.​

                      Exhibition review by Susan Campbell: https://www.susancampbellartwork.com/review-1-1

                      Phantom Yarns, (second iteration), Cyprus High Commission, London. Curated by Maria Stathi, catalogue text by Isabel de Vasconcellos.

2021              Phantom Yarns, Art seen Contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus. Curated by Maria Stathi.       

2018-19         Can We Hold On? Centre of Contemporary Art, Andratx, Mallorca.

2014              Wonders of the System, Centre of Contemporary Art, Andratx, Mallorca.

2011              Alpha Beta, R O O M, London.

2010              Climbing, Falling, Intervention Gallery, London.

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025.             Decennial: A Creative Legacy, Artseen Contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus. Curated by Maria Stathi.

2024              A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery inaugural show, Conduit Street, London.

2023              Stable, Bobinska Brownlee New River, London.

                      A Painting Show, Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne Gallery, Oxford.

                      Montage, Fabrik Baterswil, Switzerland. Curated by Giulia Hess and Sebastian Lendenmann.

                      Oh, tell me where your freedom lies- you'd rather cry, I'd rather fly, POSTROOM Gallery, London. Curated by Sandie Macrae.

                      Seeds, Trees and Mountains, The Aga Khan Centre Gallery, London. Curated by Esen Kaya.

                      Side Step, SETSETSET, Ealing, London. Curated by Anna Lytridou.

                      Rose Garden, Terrace Gallery, London. Curated by Tony Benn and Glenn Ward.

2022              Patternicity, ASC Gallery, London, and Exeter Phoenix Gallery. Curated by Christina Niederberger and John Walter.

2020              Yesterday, Today & Forever: 5 Year Anniversary, Artseen Contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus. Curated by Maria Stathi, with text written by

                      myself. http://www.artseeneditions.com/en/project-single/yesterday-today-and-forever-5-year-anniversary

         .            Contemporary British Painting Prize, ASC Gallery, London, 4/2-6/3/20

2019              Contemporary British Painting Prize, Huddersfield Art Gallery. 9/11-4/1/20

                      A Strange Weave of Time and Space, Site Gallery Project Space, Sheffield, 12-28/7 & Project Space Plus. Curated by Jeanine Griffin.

                      Lincoln  University, 1-11/11; https://medium.com/site-stories/a-strange-weave-of-time-and-space-5600ef4554c3

                      Al-Dente, curated by John Walter. Skelf. http://www.skelf.org.uk/ 17/5-16/7 

                      https://skelf.org.uk/S_Q/ARCHIVE_PAGES/QUARTERLY/Archive_JohnWalter.html

                      Attempts to Escape, ArtSeen Contemporary, Nicosia, Cyprus. Curated by Maria Stathi. 27/3-29/5

                      http://www.artseeneditions.com/en/project-single/attempts-to-escape

                      Re-assemble, Colyer Bristow Gallery, London. Curated by Rosalind Davis. 4/4-29/6

2018              Annual Open, CGP Gallery, London.

                      Wells Art Contemporary, Somerset. 

                      Like the Lines of a Hand, Centre for Recent Drawing, London.

2017              Like the Lines of a Hand, Paper Gallery, Manchester.

                      Threads: Taking up Needles & Yarn, with Celia Pym, Centre for Recent Drawing, London. Curated by AleeChay,

2016              Part 5, lm06projectspace, London. Curated by Marta Bakst and Lisa Penny.

                      An Interlude, lm06projectspace, London. Curated by Marta Bakst and Lisa Penny.

2015              Screen, Turps Gallery, London. Curated by Benjamin Deakin and Emma Elia-Shaoul.

                      Collaborators 4, ROOM Artspace, London.

2014              DrAwn 2Gether, Galerie im Gartenhaus, Munich.

                      Jealous Print Award, Saatchi Gallery, London.

2013              Carousel, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. Curated by Adam Bridgland.

2012              Ex-Roma III, APT Gallery, London..

                      Collaborators 3, R O O M, London.

                      The Open West, Gloucester, UK.

2011              The Northern Print Biennale, Newcastle.

                      Two Peacocks, Gallery North, Newcastle. Curated by John Walter. 

                      Re-Make, Re-Model, Chelsea Future Space, London. Curated by Mike Iveson..

                      Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London.

                      Fountains and Drains, British School at Rome.

                      The Producers, British School at Rome.

                      Fabricecstasy, Studio 52, Hoxton Square, London. Curated by Alys Williams.

                      Hybird, Vitrine Gallery, London.

2010              World Within Worlds, BEARSPACE Gallery, London.

                      Transfer, Strang Print Gallery, UCL, London.

2009              Make it. Print it. Pack it. Ship it, Fed-Ex, London.

                      There’s Something I'd like to Tell You, IMA, Berlin.

                      The Voice & Nothing More, Woburn Square, London.

                      Anger Management, Will Alsop Architects, London.

Commissions

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2023              Mandarin Oriental, Zurich, with Velvenoir. Unique works on paper.

2023              Aga Khan Centre Gallery, Wall painting. 

2015              Royal Academy of Arts & National Heritage, Architectural Hoardings Project.

2012              Ljusne Kunst centre, Sweden. Public art murals commission (11m x 11m), with workshops.

2012              Hogarth International Advertising Agency, entire office floor mural.

2010              Heals, Tottenham Court Rd, Mural commission with Slade.

Collections   

                      Various Private Collections. 

                      Ministry of Culture, Nicosia, Cyprus.

                      Soho House, Mumbai.

                      V&A Museum, Collection of Prints.

                      Saatchi Collection of Prints.

                      Chelsea School of Art. Collection of Prints.

                      British Library. Collection of Prints.

                      Morgan Stanley.

Publications (Forthcoming):

2025              'Re:collections of Morris: Aura in Archives at the Huntington', Journal of William Morris Studies. Ed: Blewitt, J. 

2026              'Living in an age of the Re: Reproducing William Morris and Reassembling Heritage in a Post-Digital Age', Routledge Handbook: Heritage

                       and Creative Practice, Eds. Cass, N, Powell A and Wakefield, S.

2027              'Painting, Unpainting: Collapsing Temporalities, Reproducing Archives, Dirtying the Digital', Routledge Companion to     

                       Contemporary Painting- Eds- Staff, C and Moloney, D.             

Symposia

    

2019              Morris: A Ghost for Today; research project hosting Benjamin Deakin, Clare Mitten, Nicholas Pankhurst, Eva Sajovic, Diana Taylor,

                      William Morris Gallery. Organised by Diana Taylor.

2019              Living Research: The Urgency of the Arts. National Society for Education in Art and Design. (NSEAD), Royal College of Art.

2018              Methods, Sheffield Hallam University. 

Lecturing

                   

                      Sheffield Institute of Art, Sheffield Hallam University, (GTA as part of the PhD programme)

                      Bath College of Art & Design, Visiting lecturer

                      Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Visiting lecturer

                      Oxford Brookes University, Visiting lecturer

                      Haringey Sixth Form College, UAL Art & Design Diplomas 

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Gallery education

                      CGP, London, print workshops

                      Parasol Unit, London, painting workshops

                      Modern Art Oxford, print workshops

                      Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, print workshops

                      Camden Arts Centre, London, various workshops

                      Orleans House Gallery, London, various workshops

                     

 

 

2010 - present

2010 - present

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