CV
Born Sunderland, UK, 1990. Based in Leeds, UK.
Current & Upcoming
- Artist-in-Residence, Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT), September 2023 - July 2024
- Artist-in-Residence, University of Sunderland AA2A, September 2023 - June 2024
Education
Syllabus III, jointly delivered by Wysing Arts Centre; Eastside Projects; New Contemporaries; S1 Artspace; Spike Island; Studio Voltaire and Iniva, 2017-2018 (More info)
Goldsmiths, University of London, BA Fine Art First Class Honours, 2010-2013
South Tyneside College, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, 2009-2010
Awards & Residencies
Hepworth’s Progeny Advisory Board, The Hepworth Wakefield, 2021-2022
Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice, August 2021 - August 2022
Artist-in-Residence, Collections In Dialogue with The British Library and Leeds Art Gallery, August 2021 - March 2022
Solo Residency at The Art House, Wakefield, June-July 2021
Henry Moore Foundation Artists Award grant, July 2020
Yorkshire Sculpture International Sculpture Network 2020 Supported by Henry Moore Institute, The Hepworth Wakefield, Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Yorkshire Sculpture International, June - September 2020
Yorkshire Sculpture International Associate Artist Supported by Henry Moore Institute, The Hepworth Wakefield, Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Yorkshire Sculpture International, January - September 2019
Solo & Duo Shows
2023 On The House, with Ian Jackson, at Serf, Leeds, 24 September 2023
2022 Desire Lines, solo exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery, 25 March - 16 October 2022
2022 A room in which many of the parts of our lives were placed, solo exhibition at VITRINE, London, 23 January - 20 March 2022
2021 Confabulations, solo exhibition at Hyde Park Art Club, Leeds, 11 October - 29 November 2021
2021 Everything Is Still Floating, solo exhibition at The Art House, Wakefield, 28 July - 4 September 2021
2018 The Many-Limbed Machine of My Ancestral Makers as part of Life in a Northern Town, with Rene McBrearty, The NewBridge Project, Gateshead, for the Great Exhibition of the North 2018
2018 Jill & Josh & Their Dead Petz, with Joshua Hart, Basement Arts Project, Leeds
2017 On the House, London
2017 Punctum, Serf, Leeds
2016 Modular Intercourse, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds
2015 One Million Years B.C. with Joshua Hart, CBS Gallery, Liverpool
Selected Group Shows
2023 Bankley Exchanges #2, group exhibition at Bankley Gallery, Manchester,
2023 Total Recall: Myth & Memory, group exhibition at Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
2022 Kaleidoscope, group exhibition at Workplace Gallery, London
2020 Well now, hold on / maybe I won’t go to sleep at all / and it’ll be a beautiful white night / or else I’ll collapse / completely…,
new audio commission of 6 episodes for a 24 hour broadcast event coinciding with the summer solstice, curated by Freya Dolley and
Samuel Hasler in collaboration with madeinroath.
2019 Associated Matter, group exhibition as part of Yorkshire Sculpture International, The Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
2019 Postcurse, Freehold Projects, Leeds
2019 All His Ghosts Must Do My Bidding, new commission as part of group exhibition, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn
2019 Guiltee Pleasures, group exhibition curated by QT COLLECTIVE, OHKAYGALL, York
2019 Shelf Spanish City, Spanish City, Whitley Bay
2018 KNOCK KNOCK South London Gallery, London
2018 QUARANTINE The Ridings Shopping Centre, Wakefield
2018 Known Unknowns The Saatchi Gallery, London
2018 Can We Still Be Friends, Guest Projects, London
2018 Syllabus Mix, Guest Projects, London
2018 more of an avalanche, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2017 The Library Illusion, sculpture commission, Leeds Central Library
2017 FORWARD, Recent Activity, Birmingham
2017 Members' Show 2017 selected by Andy Holden, OUTPOST, Norwich
2017 Revolting Serfs, Serf, Leeds
2017 WAR PIG, Acme Studios, London
2017 nawki, curated by 12ø Collective, various locations
2017 Hold Fast, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2017 Eternal Interstice, Lady Beck, Leeds
2017 Junk In The Trunk, touring exhibition curated by Your Beautiful Collective, Bones and Pearl / Copeland Park / Turf Projects / The Bomb Factory
2017 DoubleYolk presents - Part 1: Hand In, 36 Lime Street, Newcastle
2017 An Offering to Baba Yaga, Serf, Leeds
2017 Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid
2017 Woodham Fever: CLUBLAND, DIY Space For London
2016 30works30days, online
2016 Five Finger Discount, Bronze Dog Project Space, Gothenburg
2016 Shape Arts' 40th Birthday Bonanza, Platform Southwark, London
2016 The Manchester Contemporary, Old Granada Studios, Manchester
2016 Taction, Serf, Leeds
2016 30/30, 12ø Collective, London
2016 Lick It Up, Baby, Lick It Up, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds
2015 Cascading Relevant Information, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
2014 Thunderdome, with The Institute of Jamais Vu, Blip blip blip, Leeds
2014 Star Wars, with The Institute of Jamais Vu, Basic Space, Dublin
2014 The Day Job, Hoxton Basement, London
2013 GULP, Bearspace, London
2013 Goldsmiths Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London
Publications
2021 Commemorative Space: Artist Reflections On Monumentality in Leeds. Edited by Rebecca Senior.
2020 Eternal Interstice, contributor to online publication
2018 The Many-Limbed Machine of My Ancestral Makers. Artist book, available on request.
2018 Known Unknowns. Exhibition catalogue published by the Saatchi Gallery.
2018 Not only Library Assistants haunt these shelves. Pamphlet edited by David Steans. Commissioned by David Steans and Leeds Arts University for the exhibition Library Interventions: Moving Knowledge
2018 Counterpoint. Risograph publication by Syllabus III. Commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre for more of an avalanche
2016 Swan Song, contributor to online publication
2016 Eternal Interstice, contributor to online publication
2015 Swan Song, contributor to online publication
2014 Swan Song, contributor to online publication
Selected Press & Talks
2021 A Conversation with Jill McKnight, The Ratchets and Nails of Art podcast
2019 Interview and Feature, The Yorkshire Post: Culture & The Guide, 21 August 2020
2019 All His Ghosts Must Do My Bidding exhibition review, Art Monthly, 429, September 2019
2019 Associated Matter exhibition review, After View, September 2019
2019 Interview, The Making of a Truly Radical Arts Centre, Buried in the British Countryside, Elephant Magazine, 10 July 2019
2018 Interview, Confess Magazine, 7 June 2018
2018 Circles of Recognition, Structures of Support, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 7 February 2018
2018 Jill & Josh & Their Dead Petz exhibition review, Corridor8, 6 January 2018
2015 One Million Years B.C. exhibition review, Corridor8, 5 May 2018
2014 Thunderdome review, Corridor8, 26 June 2014
Collections
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Private Collections in UK and Spain
Other
Collaborative practice with Joshua Hart
Co-founder and studio at Serf
Co-director at The Institute of Jamais Vu