+ Artist in Residence at the V&A [2017/2018]
IMAGE LEFT: "The Ancestor", Codes and Secrets, V&A museum, London 2018
IMAGES BELOW: "This Much I'm Worth [The Self Evaluating Artwork], London (various), 2017
News 2018
In 2018 I will be focusing on new works in conjunction with Near Now, the V&A and Barbican
+ London Design Festival (Showing new VR & Installation) , V&A, London, UK [15.10 - 23.10]
+ V&A Lunchtime Lecture (Speaker @ Residency), V&A, London , UK [6.6]
+ Barbican G Floor Commission, Barbican Centre, London, UK [24.05 - 15.10]
+ London Open 2018, Whitechapel Gallery, London , UK [8.6 - 26.8]
+ Manspreading (Screening), GRRL HAUS Cinema, Berlin, Germany [22.5]
+ Aesthetica Symposium (Speaker) , York, UK [18.5]
+ Manspreading (Screening), CINEMQ, Shanghai , China [19.4]
+ Courtauld Institute (Speaker), Res | fest , Somerset House, London [25.4]
+ Arte Laguna Prize (Finalist Showing), Nappe Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy [18.03 - 08.04]
+ Royal West Academy (Panelist), There's No Such Thing as A Women Artist [08.3]
+ London-Worldwide Comedy Awards (Special Mention for Manspreading), London, UK [24.2]
+ BBC Radio 4 (Interview), The World this Weekend - The Economy of Contemporary Art [21.1]
+ V&A Friday Lates (Showing), Symbols and Secrets, V&A, London, UK [26.1]
+ London Art Fair (Panelist), Curating Gender and Gender identity in Art [18.1]
+ London Art Fair (Showing with Anise Gallery), London, UK [17.1 -21.1]
+ V&A Lunchtime Lecture (Speaker @ Residency), V&A, London , UK [6.6]
+ Barbican G Floor Commission, Barbican Centre, London, UK [24.05 - 15.10]
+ London Open 2018, Whitechapel Gallery, London , UK [8.6 - 26.8]
+ Manspreading (Screening), GRRL HAUS Cinema, Berlin, Germany [22.5]
+ Aesthetica Symposium (Speaker) , York, UK [18.5]
+ Manspreading (Screening), CINEMQ, Shanghai , China [19.4]
+ Courtauld Institute (Speaker), Res | fest , Somerset House, London [25.4]
+ Arte Laguna Prize (Finalist Showing), Nappe Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy [18.03 - 08.04]
+ Royal West Academy (Panelist), There's No Such Thing as A Women Artist [08.3]
+ London-Worldwide Comedy Awards (Special Mention for Manspreading), London, UK [24.2]
+ BBC Radio 4 (Interview), The World this Weekend - The Economy of Contemporary Art [21.1]
+ V&A Friday Lates (Showing), Symbols and Secrets, V&A, London, UK [26.1]
+ London Art Fair (Panelist), Curating Gender and Gender identity in Art [18.1]
+ London Art Fair (Showing with Anise Gallery), London, UK [17.1 -21.1]
News 2017
+ "In Conversation" @ Anise with me, Dr Harriet Harriss & Francis Richardson [18.11]
+ Co-curating and showing Nasty Women: Architecture @ Anise Gallery SE1 [26.10 - 18.11]
+ Showing TMIW Prototype @ IBM Southbank, London as part of TECHnique talks [19.10]
+ FiLia 2017 Conference, Institute of Education, London WC1H [14.10 - 15.10]
+ RWA Annual Open (Academician), Royal West Academy, Bristol [01.10 - 03.12]
+ TECHnique talk at the V&A (London Design Week) [24.10]
+ Nasty Women @ Stour Space Hackney [22.10 - 24.10]
+ Panel Discussion @ "Queering Minimalism", Vane Gallery, Newcastle [16.08]
+ "Manspreading" is an official selection of Barcelona International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
+ "Manspreading" is an official selection of North Portland Unknown Film Festival, Portland, USA
+ Appointed V&A Embedded VARI Artist in Residence (10.2017 - 10.2018]
+ "Manspreading" is an official selection of Les Femmes Underground, International Film Festival, USA
+ Showing with V&A Digital Futures, Hackney House, London, EC2A [11.07]
+ Presenting paper @ the making of "This Much I'm Worth", EVA (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts), BCS, Covent Garden, London. ) - [13.07]
+ Artist Talk @ Controlled Realities, London, ... FREE .. Book HERE [05.07]
+ Artist Talk: Near Now Fellowship Talk - Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, [17.07] .. FREE... Book HERE
+ Controlled Realities, 3 Person Show, Anise Gallery, SE1 [14.06 - 15.07]
+ Awarded Near Now Fellowship 2017-2018 from Broadways studio for arts, design and innovation to enable pioneering artists to research and realise bold ideas making sense of technology in everyday life.
+ Panelist for @FutureNow Art Symposium, York, UK [25.05]
+ Awarded bursary for EVA London Conference 2017
+ Longlisted for the SOLO Award 2017
+ Selected for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2017 [Showing London 18/05 - 22/09]
+ Manspreading showing at BAWIFM Short Showcase, San Francisco, USA
+ Shortlisted for Jerwood Visual Arts Bursary.
+ Showing Drawn, RWA, Bristol, UK (01.04 - 04.06) for Working Drawings
+ Showing Nasty Women, Newcastle, UK (7.04 - 23.04) for Menses Tapes
+ Showing "Menses Tapes" @ "Transgender, Gender and Psychoanalysis - An Exhibition" , London - [5.3 - 12.3].
+ Live performance of The Trial of Superdebthunterbot (Jury Member) at the Zabludowicz Collection, London @ [26.02]
+ Artist's Lecture at the RWA, Bristol [04]
+ Longlisted for the Arte Laguna Prize (Virtual Art) for Cocksure (is anything ever what it seems?)
+ Elected to the Royal West Academy as an Academician
+ Judging Panelist for the Aesthetic Art Prize 2017
+ Co-curating and showing Nasty Women: Architecture @ Anise Gallery SE1 [26.10 - 18.11]
+ Showing TMIW Prototype @ IBM Southbank, London as part of TECHnique talks [19.10]
+ FiLia 2017 Conference, Institute of Education, London WC1H [14.10 - 15.10]
+ RWA Annual Open (Academician), Royal West Academy, Bristol [01.10 - 03.12]
+ TECHnique talk at the V&A (London Design Week) [24.10]
+ Nasty Women @ Stour Space Hackney [22.10 - 24.10]
+ Panel Discussion @ "Queering Minimalism", Vane Gallery, Newcastle [16.08]
+ "Manspreading" is an official selection of Barcelona International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
+ "Manspreading" is an official selection of North Portland Unknown Film Festival, Portland, USA
+ Appointed V&A Embedded VARI Artist in Residence (10.2017 - 10.2018]
+ "Manspreading" is an official selection of Les Femmes Underground, International Film Festival, USA
+ Showing with V&A Digital Futures, Hackney House, London, EC2A [11.07]
+ Presenting paper @ the making of "This Much I'm Worth", EVA (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts), BCS, Covent Garden, London. ) - [13.07]
+ Artist Talk @ Controlled Realities, London, ... FREE .. Book HERE [05.07]
+ Artist Talk: Near Now Fellowship Talk - Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, [17.07] .. FREE... Book HERE
+ Controlled Realities, 3 Person Show, Anise Gallery, SE1 [14.06 - 15.07]
+ Awarded Near Now Fellowship 2017-2018 from Broadways studio for arts, design and innovation to enable pioneering artists to research and realise bold ideas making sense of technology in everyday life.
+ Panelist for @FutureNow Art Symposium, York, UK [25.05]
+ Awarded bursary for EVA London Conference 2017
+ Longlisted for the SOLO Award 2017
+ Selected for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2017 [Showing London 18/05 - 22/09]
+ Manspreading showing at BAWIFM Short Showcase, San Francisco, USA
+ Shortlisted for Jerwood Visual Arts Bursary.
+ Showing Drawn, RWA, Bristol, UK (01.04 - 04.06) for Working Drawings
+ Showing Nasty Women, Newcastle, UK (7.04 - 23.04) for Menses Tapes
+ Showing "Menses Tapes" @ "Transgender, Gender and Psychoanalysis - An Exhibition" , London - [5.3 - 12.3].
+ Live performance of The Trial of Superdebthunterbot (Jury Member) at the Zabludowicz Collection, London @ [26.02]
+ Artist's Lecture at the RWA, Bristol [04]
+ Longlisted for the Arte Laguna Prize (Virtual Art) for Cocksure (is anything ever what it seems?)
+ Elected to the Royal West Academy as an Academician
+ Judging Panelist for the Aesthetic Art Prize 2017
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