Interdisciplinary artist and educator based in the South West, I am a studio holder at KARST Projects, Plymouth. I describe my work as a spatial practice, an exploration of body-site-text relations through sculptural installation, performance and bookworks. I put a variety of materials to work, including my body, testing their possibilities and limits to support and encourage my conceptual enquiries around repetition, display and processes of transformation. Drawing on a training in dance, scenography and literature, I am excited by re-working and layering materials and ideas, and exploring this process with others. My installations and events are often designed as sites to bring audiences together for social and critical exchange. I have shown my work nationally and internationally as a solo artist but also in on-going cross-disciplinary collaborations with Emma Cocker, Jan Steinum (Norway) and the Performance Re-enactment Society, which I co-founded in 2007 for investigating the problems and potential of performance and it's documents with projects shown at Arnolfini, Spike Island (Bristol), FlatTimeHouse, South London Gallery (London), Gagosian Gallery (New York)
Interdisciplinary artist and educator based in the South West, I am a studio holder at KARST Projects, Plymouth. I describe my work as a spatial practice, an exploration of body-site-text relations through sculptural installation, performance and bookworks. I put a variety of materials to work, including my body, testing their possibilities and limits to support and encourage my conceptual enquiries around repetition, display and processes of transformation. Drawing on a training in dance, scenography and literature, I am excited by re-working and layering materials and ideas, and exploring this process with others. My installations and events are often designed as sites to bring audiences together for social and critical exchange. I have shown my work nationally and internationally as a solo artist but also in on-going cross-disciplinary collaborations with Emma Cocker, Jan Steinum (Norway) and the Performance Re-enactment Society, which I co-founded in 2007 for investigating the problems and potential of performance and it's documents with projects shown at Arnolfini, Spike Island (Bristol), FlatTimeHouse, South London Gallery (London), Gagosian Gallery (New York)
Qualifications and training
1992 - MA(Hons) Theatre Studies (History/Design) & English Literature, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Solo exhibitions
2017 - friends of magic II, Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
2014 - The Italic I (with Emma Cocker), project space plus, Lincoln
2014 - Grey Gorges Cast No Shadows (with Jan Steinum), Kurant, Tromsø, Norway
2014 - Going Down To Barrys, A3 Project Space, Birmingham
2014 - The Dandy & the Mute, Oriel Myrddin, Wales
2011 - Unfurl, University of Bristol Theatre Collection, Tudor Red Lodge Museum, England
2011 - Material Matters, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
2009 - Pleats & Folds, installation, Galleri SOFT, Oslo, Norway
Group exhibitions
2017- Corridors, Stairways & Corners, Arnolfini, Bristol
2016 - The Italic I, The Alternative Document, Project Space Plus, Lincoln
2016 - friends of magic..., Edge of Collapse, Artspace 101, Plymouth Art Weekender + AA2A
2015 - Surface Contact, Exeter Pheonix, Exeter
2014 - Oriel Davies Open, Newtown, Wales
2013 - After After Richard Hughes, A3 Works, A3 Project Space, Digbeth, Birmingham, England
2013 - Salad Dressing, Ed Rusha Books & Co, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
2012 - In Praise of Shadows, commission, Maggs beneath the Covers, Maggs Bros. Mayfair, London, England
2012 - Tact Series: Orange, Rhod 2012, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Live/Performance
2014 - Unfurl: After Alison Knowles, Live Art Day, Joseph Beuys ARTISTS ROOMS, Worcester Museum & Art Gallery
2013 - A Lexicon of Labour Movements, with Paul Hurley, The Showroom Projects & KWMC Bristol, England
2012 - 'GROUP SHOW', performance re-enactment society, Performing Documents, Re-make Symposium, Arnolfini, Bristol, England
2012 - Act 1 After Alison Knowles, One Night Stands Performance, Spike Island, Bristol
Residencies
2016 - AA2A Placement, Plymouth University
2014 - Redefining Print, Double Elephant Print Workshop, Exeter Pheonix
2014 - Corresponding with Conflict, Artist in Residence, University of Bristol Theatre Collection
2012 - AHRC funded Research Residency 'Performing Documents', University of Bristol & Arnolfini, with my group Performance Re-enactment Society
2011 - Laura Ashley Foundation Residency Award, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales
2011 - Unfurl - Inaugural Artist in Residence, Theatre Collection, University of Bristol, England
Public commissions
2010 - Nine Trades of Dundee, textile & tailoring trade, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland
Competitions, prizes and awards
2013 - Re:view Bursary Award, a-n, UK
2012 - TPSW/Spike Associates, Research Bursary Award, Turning Point South West & Spike Island, Bristol & South West
Publications
2017 - The Italic I, with Emma Cocker, 'Fall Narratives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective', Ed.
Hadromi-Allouche/Larkin, Routledge
2016 - The Italic I, On Showing and Writing Training Vol. 7, Theatre, Dance & Performance Training Journal
2014 - The Italic I with Emma Cocker, NTU
2014 - A Lexicon of Labour Movements with Paul Hurley, KWMC
2013 - Stairways, Corridors & Corners: Selected traces of performance 1976 - 1998 Arnolfini, Bristol, England
2013 - Italic I, with Emma Cocker, On Not Knowing: How Artists Think (Eds. Fisher/Fortnum) Black Dog Publishing
2013 - Games of Resonance: Soul Partition, with Emma Cocker, Revolve:R Bookwork
2012 - Games of Resonance: Soul Partition, with Emma Cocker in 'Papers, Fictions, Scripts & Circles' by COPY, bookwork
