CV
EXHIBITIONS AND RESIDENCIES
2024
- ‘A Sense of Flora’ exhibition and participatory project; 3 new digital drawings exhibited at Manchester Museum, UK
- Bath Arts Fringe festival, ‘All of a Sudden’, ‘Wateriness 1’ & ‘In Pericula: At Risk’ selected for screenings
- ‘In Pericula: At Risk’ selected for ‘Experimental Brasil’ film festival, Campos Dos Goytacazes, Rio De Janeiro State, Brazil; and for ‘CuVo’ film festival, Spain.
- ‘Modelling Morecambe Bay’ selected for ‘Cutting Edge’ screening, ShortCircuitFilms, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton.
- ‘Interfacing’ artist film commission, Biophysical Science Institute, University of Durham.
2023
- ‘in the same breath’ selected for VAST LAB experimental film festival, Los Angeles.
- CNoS@10 ‘Institutional Fieldworking’ exhibition, Gallery North, Northumbria University, a selection of my films will be showing as part of a group show.
- ‘In Pericula: At Risk’ selected for INEFF (International Network of Experimental Filmmaking Festival), MediaCity, University of Salford Symposium.
- Six month Creative Fellowship @ University of Exeter exploring Environmental Justice
- ‘Sticky Wicked’, a large wall drawing made onsite at Penryn campus, University of Exeter.
- ‘Noisy Bodies’ drawing selected for Drawing (Paper) Show, Liverpool
2022
- ‘In Pericula: At Risk’ nominated for AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Toronto
- ‘Skinning’ (working title), a University of Durham commission for a new film (upcoming)
- ‘in the same breath’ screenings at Kinofilm, Manchester and Shortcircuit Films, Fabrica, Brighton.
- ‘A Modest Show’, ceramics works, collateral event for British Art Show 9 Manchester
- ‘Modelling Morecambe Bay’ film selected for Raw Science film festival, Costa Rica; Bristol Science film festival, UK, and shortlisted for the Jean Golding Data Science film prize
- ‘In Pericula: At Risk’ artist film released, to be screened at Life Science Museum, Kings College
- ‘Exchanges’ Parkinson’s research project, University of Dundee, ongoing
2021
- HOME Manchester: screening of ‘in the same breath’, a We Are Parable and Filmed Up event
- Lumiere Durham: ‘The Fossilised Sea’ film, screened at the Count’s House folly, Durham
- International Biennial: ‘Art, Paper & Fibre’, ‘Symbiotic Morphology’ at National Taiwan Craft Development Institute, Taiwan
- ‘Modelling Morecambe Bay’ artist film, responding to environmental modelling research, commissioned by Lancaster University
- Liverpool Biennial, video projection at Yorkshire Sculpture Park funded by LB, a-n and OpenCulture
- ‘Symbiotic Morphology’, print based costume produced for Kings College, London
- Southward Park Gallery, London, 36th Annual Open
2020
- Animate Projects commission, ‘in the same breath’ animation
- momentum, screening of ‘Active [Drawing] Matter’, Coachworks, group show
- Drawn to Investigate, The Ruskin, University of Lancaster, conference speaker and group show
2019
- Misprints, DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts), solo exhibition
- British Textile Biennial @ Queen St Mill, Super Slow Way commission, group show
- Art in Manufacturing commission, Prism Gallery, Blackburn, solo show
- Active Matter commission, Applied Maths, University of Bristol
- Kaipo Che Residency, Vadodara, India
- Paper2 Gallery, Manchester, solo show
- Black Box, Screening of “All of a sudden’ animation, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle
- Rhythmic Marks, Residency and workshop at University of Dundee, Parkinson’s Disease research
2018
- Watermans Art Centre, London, ‘Biorhythmic Drawing’ solo show
- ‘Beyond’ residency, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Hexham
- V&A museum, ‘Noise+Signal’ bio-sensor participatory drawing event
2017
- ING Discerning Drawing Bursary Prize, Mall Galleries, London, group show
- ‘A Grand Exposition’, Manchester, group show
- RWA Open, Bristol, Animation ‘All of a sudden’ selected for group show
- Suite@Horsefall, Manifest Arts Biennial, Manchester, group show
- ‘Pani’, Horniman Museum, London, artist commission, solo show
- ‘Signal/Noise: Imaging/Drawing’, LifeSpace gallery, Dundee, solo show
2016
- Art Gemini Prize, Asia House gallery, London, group show
- ‘Women Artists: From 1861- 2015’, Touchstones Rochdale, group show
2015
- ‘Paper, Wall, Table and After’, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, group show
- ‘Cravings’, MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester), group show
- ‘Noisy Bodies’, John Rylands exhibition, solo show
- Arts Science Collaborative residency, University of Manchester
2014
- ‘Slippage: The Unstable Nature of Difference’, Contemporary Art Space Chester, group show
- ‘Bodytopos’, Touchstones Rochdale, solo show
- ‘Dust’, Paper Gallery, Manchester, solo show part of Manchester Science Festival
- ‘Cottonecropolis’, Imperial War Museum North installation, part of Asia Triennial Manchester
- ‘Painting the Pixel’, Gallery North, Newcastle, group show
2013
- Noise+Signal bio-mapping events, FACT, Liverpool and Cornerhouse, Manchester
- ‘Digital Sensations’, Baltic 39, Newcastle, group show
- ‘Brains: The Mind as Matter’, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, an interdisciplinary art/science Wellcome Trust exhibition
- Centro Cultural Raiano Museum, Portugal, installation and drawings, group show
- ‘Android’, Piccadilly Place, Manchester, group show
2012
- FACT Liverpool, open call for The Wall, solo show
- Centre for Life, Newcastle, group show
- Drawing Paper 5, publication: http://drawing-paper.tumblr.com
2011
- ‘Diffusion’, Asia Triennial Manchester, Public arts commission,
- Piccadilly train station, Manchester
- Micro commission, Cornerhouse, Manchester
- Whisper Residency, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
- Laboratory Life Residency, Lighthouse, Brighton
- ‘Altered States’, Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester
2010
- ‘Latitude’, Manchester Modernist Society
- Analogue is the New Digital, AND festival, Manchester
- The Christie Hospital residency, radiology department, Manchester
2009
- The Courtyard Gallery, Hereford, Solo show
- ‘Histories of Healing’, The John Ryland University Library, Manchester
2008
- ‘Art of Sound: Sound of Art’, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- Origins of Nine, Islington Mills, Manchester
- Internal Spaces, Central Art Gallery, Ashton under Lyne, Solo exhibition
2007
- School of Art Fafa Gallery, Helsinki, group show
- Harris Museum and Gallery, Preston, Solo show in the projects space
ART EDUCATION
- 2018 Practice-led PhD awarded, AHRC funded, Northumbria University, Newcastle
- 2008 MA Fine Art , AHRC funded, Manchester Metropolitan University
- 2003 BA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
AWARDS
- Stephen Fry Award for Public Engagement 2024 for ‘Exchanges’ a set of cards with drawings of Parkinson’s Disease symptoms which I conceived and produced for Dundee University
- Shortlisted for the King’s Engaged Research Award 2024 for ‘Lost in Translation’ art and language workshops with Dr. Simon Coffey, Reader in Languages Education, Kings College London
- Medical Research Council public engagement funding for ‘Exchanges’ project 2022
- Liverpool Biennial, a-n (artist newsletter) and Open Culture bursary 2021
- ‘Brain Cox Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research’, 2020, jointly awarded with Prof Miratul Muqit, Parkinson’s research at University of Dundee.
- Wellcome Trust, Looking Harder: Thinking Differently project, 2018
- University of Manchester, Arts Science Collaborations Initiative funding 2015-2016
- British Science Festival funding for artists’s talk and exhibition at Baltic39, Newcastle, 2013,
- Arts Council Grants for the Arts funding for ‘Diffusion’ project, 2011
- Paul Hamlyn Micro Commission, Cornerhouse, 2011
- Arts Council Grants for the Arts funding for professional development, 2006, 2021
COLLECTIONS
University of Dundee, Life Science collections; The Christie Hospital, Manchester; The University of Manchester, map library collections; Touchstones gallery, Rochdale; Private collections