performing-exhibiting-making sounds.
performing-exhibiting-making sounds.
solo exhibitions internationally include Fokidos Athens; Alma Zevi Venice; University of Atypical Belfast; Arthouse Wakefield; Edinburgh Printmakers.
film commissions include Northern Broadsides; Graeae; Dash; Spot On Lancashire; together 2020 Disability History Month. two Sound&Music awards; sound-walk commission from the Auxiliary Teesside. Unlimited funded book of radical photographic self-portraits.
previously artistic associates with Disability Arts Online & Museum of Homelessness (lived experience); supported by Future’s Venture Foundation radical independent art fund; and NewBridge Project artist in residence
housing contains the word sing is an ongoing body of work out of our lived experiences of homelessness including 3 solo theatre shows; exhibitions; albums; zines; articles; events; participation; more ...
relevant, poetic and so original. Alma Zevi Venice
there's something truly special in how they capture everyday splendours and vulnerability. BALTIC
solo exhibitions
'21. writing liberte with lips. edinburgh printmakers
https://edinburghprintmakers.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/10-gobscure-writing-liberte-with-lips/
'20 rose carved in rain. newbridge project, gateshead solo exhibition
https://thenewbridgeproject.com/past-event/rose-carved-rain/
'18 is that a bruise or a tattoo? solo exhibition, alma zevi gallery, venice
http://www.almazevi.com/exhibitions/venice/187/is-that-a-bruise-or-a-tattoo/
'17 prisong. solo visual poetry exhibition. east ham library, london. together 2012! disability history month festival in association with newham book festival
'17 nudging meteors. art house, wakefield -major (changemakers funded) residency with solo exhibition - performance - publications & online
short documentary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDsb5a67K0
'17 stitching petals to lead - solo exhibition. fokidos, athens, greece
http://www.almazevi.com/exhibitions/projects/85/stitching-petals-to-lead/
16 - still alone in her voices. touring. most recently university of atypical, belfast.
https://gobscure.wixsite.com/alonestill
sound-art
'21 the auxiliary soundwalk commission for sonic arts weekend teesside
https://www.sonicartsweek.com/artists
'20 her son upon a heap of feathers. radiophrenia
'20 from my life - responses. the auxilliary project teesside grant
'20 touching edges of flood. music-theatre for sage (virtual) sessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6KFLLqp0z0
'20 art & heritage blue skies thinking commission - voted staff choice
https://www.artsandheritage.org.uk/proposals/gobscure-with-loves-ragings-much-turns/
'20 night gale. disconsortia commission.
https://www.disconsortia.co.uk/att-gobscure.html
'20 covid 19 composers award from sound&music - looking at trees
https://soundandmusic.org/discover/composer/gobscure/
'19 - ships-ov-fool (online) originally commissioned in 2020 for GIFT: Gateshead
International Festival of Theatre. thanks also to sage gateshead
summer studio residency and francis chagrin award from
sound & music. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mxc99
artists films (see https://vimeo.com/gobscure / www.dailymotion.com/gobscure)
'21 fragisle. commissioned by dash. equipment used in the creation of this feature was purchased through a grant from Graeae and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtxtRJ40K_c
'21 birdbrained? spot on / lancashire libraries performance commission for families.
https://spotonlancashire.co.uk/whats-on/birdbrained/
'20 mazer. northern broadsides digital squad commission - council-flat backyard retellings of voluspa under covid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibi4MkszPwk&feature=emb_logo
'18 gregor samsa awake. premiered university of atypical belfast. altff finalist
'18 moths &rust. mission gallery swansea in association with disability arts cymru
'17 16/10. premièred medff, sicily, italy
'16 stitching petals to lead. 5'40''. premièred fokidos, athens
'16 jezebelofthewaters / cello rain twelve. premièred facade video festival, bulgaria
'16 ur's for kurt (schwitters). 2'24''. finalist in 100 years of dada award. ica, london
'16 underland. lightworks, grimsby
'15 seven short films about madness. 15'23''.
premièred making sense of mad studies conference, durham university
'15 slave ships today. 3'30''. premièred arc, stockton
'15 firing the can(n)on. 4'59''. commissioned / premiered dash / mac, birmingham
'14 bang! performance to camera. commissioned / premièred by tullie house carlisle.
solo performances
'21 rose carved in rain. newcastle fringe / alphabetti theatre also supported by curious arts queer arts north bursary
'19 - '21. provoked to madness by the brutality of wealth. supported by BOOST : mentoring scheme with third angel
'18 squarepegs into roundholes. touring cabaret reducing psychiatry to firewood
'17 - hyenas in petticoats. walkabout honoring 'mad, bad, rad, bi, mutha, internationalist' mary wollstonecraft
mac birmingham / dash / lada; axisweb / manchester met university etc.
'16/'18 with added nuts. 'reclaiming the languages of lunacy'
'12 psychosis belly. m21 unlimited funded disability arts festival, much wenlock
dvd from the live art development agency includes highlights of my performances
www.thisisliveart.co.uk/projects/m21-from-the-medieval-to-the-21st-century/
other
'20 -'22 associate artist with dao (disability arts online)
'18 - associate artist with museum of homelessness (part of our lived experience)
'11/'15 artist / writer / mentor in residence, celf o gwmpas, mid-wales
'10'/11 disability arts residency 'reclaiming the languages of lunacy' - new art gallery, walsall / dash
'10 napalm perceptible. arts-activist residency. live art development agency /
kingston university
