PERFORMANCES:
March 2023 Time. Script read-through, three spoken word pieces, and a short story. Gallery 6, Scarborough.
November 2021 Untitled (creativity). No Trace Without Resistance. Star & Shadow cinema, Newcastle.
March 2020 Story Of Fear. Spoken word event, Rotunda Museum, Scarborough.
February 2016 Safecracker. Station Arts Gallery, Robin Hoods Bay.
November 2012 Spoken word events, TAKE: New Voices, & JibbaJabba, Newcastle.
November 2009 Perfect. Wunderbar Festival, Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle.
August 2008 So lange es dauert. Amphis, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge.
May 2008 Flagrante delicto cacophony, Immerse, Dance City, Newcastle.
February 2008 Auslander. National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow.
February 2007 Flagrante delicto. National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow.
October 2005 Flagrante delicto. PlatformNortheast, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead.
February 2005 Untitled. PlatformNortheast, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
October 2004 And the one with no hair is ascending the stair trying to make the grand entrance. PlatformNortheast, St Ann’s Steps, Newcastle.
May 1998 Conflicting psychotic disorders. Klangstorm11, The Custard Factory, Birmingham.
March 1998 This could be you. Elastic Frontiers, Sheffield Hallem University.
EXHIBITIONS:
March-April 2023 Scales. Solo exhibition. Gallery 6, Scarborough.
July-August 2022 Mushroom drawings (x2). The Specimen Cabinet, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield.
November-December 2019 Mould and mildew... and Untitled. Footnotes4, group show, Crescent Arts, Scarborough.
February 2017 Flamboyance. Coastival, St Martins-on-the-hill, Scarborough.
October-January 2005 Multipl-i’s in Multiplus, group show, The Lowery, Salford.
August 2004 Postcards. Postal Room project, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle.
June 2004 Untitled. International Art Fayre, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle.
April 2004 Paraplegic, group show, Town Hall, Bishop Auckland.
EDUCATION:
July 2010 Summer School, Forkbeard Fantasy, Taunton, Somerset.
May-August 2009 NCFE Level Technical Theatre Lighting, Newcastle College.
February 2008 Winter School, Station House Opera, Tramway, Glasgow.
January-December 2003 MA Fine Art, Sunderland University.
September-July 1996-1999 BA Fine Art, Loughborough University.
September-July 1995-1996 City&Guilds Further Adult Education Teaching Stage 1, Basford Hall College, Nottingham.
September-July 1995-1996 BTEC Nat Dip. Art&Design, Clarendon College, Nottingham.
September-July 1991-1992 BTEC Nat Dip Art&Design, York College (1st year).
September-June 1989-1991 City&Guilds Signwork & Advanced Signwriting, Scarborough Technical Collage.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Sept 2021-Present Resident Artist/Studio holder at The Old Parcels Office, Scarborough.
Nov 2018-Jan 2021 Resident Artist/studio holder at Crescent Arts, Scarborough. Also invigilating and installing exhibitions in the gallery.
May 2012-Nov 2018 Making things to sell at local markets, bags/waistcoats/jackets/drawings/photos and montage.
Nov 2011-Aug 2013 Volunteer, The Peoples Theatre, Newcastle. Wardrobe/lighting/set building & designing the lighting for the 2012 pantomime.
Aug-Sept 2011 Part of a group spoken word project, Northern Stage, Newcastle.
Dec 2010 Performer & set-up/de-rig on the Ice Queen new years eve parade Newcastle, Walk the Plank outdoor theatre company.
Jul-Sept 2008 Artist’s assistant/builder, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. Building an Amphitheatre from recycled materials, using machinery, drills/saws/etc, and gardening using strimmer/mower.
Sept-Dec 2007 Model making/plan drawing/research/designing costumes & lighting for a production of Othello, Castle Keep, Newcastle.
Jan-Apr 2007 Participant, Leonardo da Vinci Programme, Berlin. Language school & work placement English Theatre Berlin, lighting/prop making assistant.
Oct & Nov 2005 Front of House Assistant, Empire Theatre. Sunderland.
Jul 2005 Steward, Live Art/Music events, M.S. Stubnitz, Newcastle.
Aug 2004 Assistant, Edinburgh Fringe Society, & Assistant, Derevo physical theatre group, selling merchandise.
May-Jul 2004 Assistant, Postal Room project, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle.
Jun 2004 Artist’s assistant, Harminder Singh Judge, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle.
May 2004 Artist’s assistant, Alison Knowels. Waygood Gallery, Newcastle.
Nov 2003 Artist’s assistant, Yvonne Droge Wendel Newcastle Quayside.
Aug 2003 Assistant, Edinburgh Fringe Society.
Aug 2002 Assistant, Green & Lenegan Production Company, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Sept 2000-Aug 2001 Co-worker, Coliseum, Whitby. Live-in assistant for people with learning disabilities, voluntary projectionist in the cinema & helping with various arts workshops.
Aug-Sept 1999 Artist’s assistant, Domenico Declario, 13 performances, 7 different sites, Liverpool Biennial.
Nov-Dec 1999 Costume Designer/Maker, The Friendly Giant, Liverpool Youth Theatre.
Funds Awarded:
2010 Equipment & education, Arts Council England.
2008 Developing, showing new work & education, Arts Council England.
2007 Equipment & showing work, Arts Council England.
2006 Artist development, Arts Council England & Northern Cultural Skills Partnership.
Published:
Dec 2010 & Feb 2011 Illustrations & Dad (Poem), Byker Phoenix magazine.
Apr 2007 Documentary photo of Flagrante delicto (performance) AN magazine.
2005 Salout not sal out (poem) Mixed Emotions, United Press.
2003 Architecture avalanche (poem) Smelter, Mudfog.
Summer/Autumn 2002 Mouse poo (poem) Recovery magazine.