Selected Biography
Please contact me for details of commissions and exhibitions before 1996, and of teaching and facilitation, curation and project management. I can also supply visual documentation.
- Forthcoming projects
March 2010
Site Unseen
Commissioned Artist
National Review of Live Art, Glasgow.
www.newmoves.co.uk/national-review-of-live-art
March 2010
To the Table
Project Director – Undergraduate research performance.
Seven Arts Centre, Leeds
- Exhibition, Commissions, and Solo Performance
2009
Salinus
Commissioned Artist: a collaborative, site specific performance with Simon Piasecki. Up The Wall. Chester Performs, Chester.
2009
Feral Choir
Collective voice performance directed by Phil Minton.
Throat Waves. Hull.
2009
May Day
Readings, performance and conversations.?
May Day Conversations, Festival of Reading & Writing. Leeds Met’ University.
2008
Alchemy
Commissioned Artist: solo performance
Endurance. Vivid, Birmingham.
2006
Untitled
Commissioned Artist: solo performance
There is Always an Alternative. Temporary Contemporary, London, and International 3, Manchester.
2005
Untitled
Commissioned Artist: solo performance
Kaskandenkondensator Basel, Switzerland.
2004
Journey
Commissioned Artist: Performance and art object/ travel cards publication. Beacon Arts, Lincolnshire.
2004
Leavings, A moment of indecision
Exhibition artist. Video and drawing trace.
Remote Control. Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
2002
The Crossing
Solo performance.
Kaapeli / Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland.
2002
Untitled (First forecast)
Solo Performance.
Taidehalle / Art House Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2002
Fathom
Commissioned Artist: solo performance
ANTI Festival. Uimahallissa, Kuopio, Finland.
2000
Low
Commissioned Artist: solo performance
Lubjiana Computer Art Festival. Maribor, Lubjiana.
2000
Upstanding
Commissioned Artist: solo performance
Asiatopia Festival. Bangkok, Thailand.
1999
Showing off
Commissioned Artist: solo performance
Swiss Art Fair / Liste ’99. Basel, Switzerland.
1999
The Boardroom
Commissioned Artist: solo performance/ installation.
Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham.
1999
Leg Pulling
Commissioned Artist: solo performance.
Ashowabouttime. Milch Gallery, London
1996/7
Lines of Desire
Solo Performance.
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull / Arnolfini Bristol / Dartington Arts
1994
Guidelines
Commissioned Artist: installation and performance. (With Tim Brennan & Dean Brannagan). Manoeuvre. Camerawork Gallery London
- Public Engagement and Enabling
2009
Navigators - Undergraduate Artists, site specific live event, using sculpture, dance, sound and video - with an audience of over 2000 visitors. Light Night. Leeds.
2004 – 2009
Various
Head of Learning for arc architecture centre, Hull. (Including team management, curriculum development, fund raising and financial management).
Public Projects including:
Out of the Box 2009 - public conference on housing. (Speakers included Janet Street Porter). For East Riding of Yorkshire Council, and Yorkshire Forward, on behalf of arc. Conference content curation and project management.
Parallels 2007 - a youth art/ architecture project exploring sense of place through dance and words.
Clay City 2006 - family engagement creative play project for over 1000 participants, with public installation exhibition.
Where We Live 2004 – Creative engagement for women residents of Bilton Grange, Hull, exploring sense of place and local identity through words, photography and video.
Street Skate Design Workshop 2004 – Youth engagement project for skateboarders with Hull City Council, to explore personal mapping, territories and perceptions of place.
1996 – 2002
Project Co-ordinator and Manager of International ROOT Festival of live and new media art, Hull Time Based Arts.
- Residencies – Action Research
HIAP, 2002, Helsinki, Finland
International Art Space, 2001, Kellerberrin, WA Australia
Hull Time Based Arts 1996, Hull, East Yorkshire
Dartington College of Arts, 1994/5 Totnes, Devon
- Selected video works
2001. After Pain & Panic - 3 mins
2000. Hamel - 3 mins
1999. Prestidigitation -4 mins
1998. Gillian Wearing Things - 4 mins
1997. Sine - 6 mins
1996/7. Lines of Desire -40 mins
- Installation and 2D
Ink Eye 2006 AO - ink on paper
Field 2001 installation: wool, flour, timber
Celestial Body, Southern Hemisphere 2001 2×4m. photocopy & light on board
Seminary 1996 installation: timber, radios
- Publication
‘Witness Statement’ 2009 Notes On A Return, Laing Art Gallery.
‘Purescreen’ 2005 Castlefield Art Gallery
‘I love Live Art’ 2001 Arts Council of England.
‘Time to show up’ 1999 Make Magazine of Women’s Art. No.83
‘Lucida’ 1998 Variant Magazine. Autumn
‘The Future of the Present’ 1998 Franklin Furnace, New York
‘New Video from Great Britain’ 1998 MOMA New York
‘Out of Time’ 1996 Hull Time Based Arts
- Education: Talks, Workshops and Lecturing
Currently Senior Lecturer in Performance with Leeds Metropolitan University.
2009
‘Witness Statement’, a paper for Notes On A Return, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle,
1996 – 2002
Lecturer, Fine Art, Phonic Art BA/ MA: Hull School of Art & Design, University of Lincoln,
Other P/T Visiting Lecturer roles include:
University of Hull, Scarbrorough: BA Drama & Live Art
Turku Academy of Fine Art: Fine Art, performance
University of Leeds: MA Fine Art
University of Lincoln: School of Architecture
Dartington College of Arts: Performance writing, theatre, art in social context
Exeter College of Art & Design: Art
Manchester Met’ University, Crewe & Alsager: Creative Arts
Curtin University, Perth: Art & Culture
University of Chaing Mai: Art
Nottingham Trent University: Creative Arts