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My interdisciplinary practice explores the alienating impact of post-industrial decline. Labour and mental health, the derelict and overlooked are common themes of my work.

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​Exhibitions/Publications

Absurd Employment Crisis, Page Gallery Journal

Capitalism is a Death Cult: Sunday Mornings at the River

Frontpage, Cyprus University of Technology

Urban Photography, Collect Artwork Gallery, Tblisi

The Manchester Review

The Poetry Lighthouse

Songs of Revolution: Sunday Mornings at the River

Late Britain Press: Inheritance

Bizarrya Short Film Festival, Porto

Videoart Miden, Athens

Fleas on the Dog, Ontario

Fauxmoir Literary Magazine 

Bali International Short Film Festival​

Insomnia Animation Festival, Moscow​

Crack the Spine

The Writers and Readers’ Magazine

Icona Film Festival, Corfu

Sculptorvox: A God Complex

Out of Line; tactileBOSCH, Llandudno

BF Artist Film Festival X, Art Licks, London 

Loss & Lucidity; Fabrica, Lisbon

Cheap Cheap, Birmingham

Pugnant Film Series, Athens 

Inner Space Chamber, Dallas

Loss & Lucidity, SANTORASPACE 205, Santa Ana

Exp 01; Genesis Cinema, London

BF Artist Film Festival, Exeter Art Week 

Spit That Out, HOME Manchester

The Projection Room, the Unstitute​

Shared Sight Film Festival, MATCA, Cluj-Napoca

The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival, London

Experimental Film & Video Exhibition, CICA Museum, South Korea

Fringe Arts Bath 

Wellington Underground Film Festival 

Paradise Now, B-Arts; Stoke-on-Trent 

Sites of Desire, the New Utopians

Degrees of Freedom, Espacio, London

Bakhtin as Praxis, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm 

Formal Interference, Le Murate Florence Centre for Contemporary Art

Protest! Periscope Gallery, Salzburg

​It All Started When the Days Seemed Quite Plain, Banner Repeater & ICA Bookshop London

Water Tower Art Fest, Sofia Arsenal Museum for Contemporary Art 

Text & Context, Various Venues including Cambridge 105FM, Cambridge

Capital Offense, Beacon Arts, Los Angeles​​

Distrustful Space, International Art Space Station, National Centre for the Arts, Mexico City

PAUSE; Artside, Southend-on-Sea

Dialogue Box, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

Away Day, Wandle Park, London 

Interventions Part 2: Palette-Pallet, curated by Anneka French

Fear & Optimism, RedWire/Bloc Projects, Sheffield

Interchange, Mercy, Liverpool Biennial

​Open Space Open Places, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton

Curating ​

Caraboo Projects, Bristol (2018-): Founding member, Curator

Exhibitions: Watching Limbo // Scratch Lab 1, 2, & 3 // Songs of the Sirens // How do you Spell a Scream? // Soup // The Wagon, Standpoint Gallery, London

​Huddersfield Media Centre (2016); Compromised Collaborations

​Basement Arts Project, Leeds (2015); The Roadside Museum

Review https://www.blackpoolsocial.club/13568-review-roadside-museum/

Venn Projects, Blackpool (2014); The Roadside Museum

Review https://corridor8.co.uk/article/review-roadside-museum-basementartsproject-leeds/

Economies of Resistance (2011); Wolstenholme Creative Space, Liverpool, Tooting Market, London

​Signs of Life (2008); Liverpool Biennial Independents, Wandle Park, London

​Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool (2006-09): Founding member, Curator

Exhibitions: Normal Service Will Resume // Closer // Recycled Frequencies // Eyes, Lies, and Stories // Faintly Drawn Lines // After the Curtain Falls // Brief Encounters // Making Connections // Round One Way

Education

2008 MRes Fine Art Liverpool John Moores

2005 BA Fine Art Liverpool John Moores

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