Curriculum Vitae

Current

I am founder and co-director of Rame Projects, an artist-led contemporary arts project space in South East Cornwall.

I am Education and Engagement Curator at Harbour House Art & Wellbeing, a charity in South Devon.

I am co-founder and co-director of Flock South West, a production agency for contemporary art and champion of precariously employed arts workers, based in Plymouth.

I am an artist, researcher, and educator; making socially-engaged work with an interest in participatory practices, archives, and popular culture.

Education

  • University of Plymouth

    2015-2020, Funded by the Histories, Memory Work, and Memorialisation Studentships. Passed viva with no corrections.

  • South Devon College

    2021-2022, Funded by the European Social Fund, Associate Membership of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council.

  • University of Plymouth

    2011-2013, Distinction

  • University of Plymouth

    2013, Associate Membership of Higher Education Academy

  • Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London

    2006-2009, 2:1, 83%

Employment

  • 2009 - Current

    I have worked as a Creative Producer since 2009. I have honed my curatorial, project management, line management, budgeting, artist development, fundraising, marketing, and administrative skills working for organisations such as Rachel Elliston Photography Ltd - a fashion photography agency; Mutant Labs - a video games studio; arts organisations Peninsula Arts and Take A Part; and self-instigated artist-led projects such as Project Space 11, Come To Ours, Flock South West, and Rame Projects. I currently work three days a week as Education and Engagement Curator at Harbour House, South Devon.

  • 2009 - Current

    My artistic practice informs all strands of my work, including as researcher, educator, and curator. I explore sited histories and myth-making, and often work with communities of geography and of interest. Key highlights from my practice include a solo presentation of work at Jerwood Visual Arts, London; being awarded residencies and fellowships such as Standpoint Futures and a SOMA Mexico City Fellowship; and my extensive work within the artist-led ecology, most recently founding and co-directing ACE funded Rame Projects in South East Cornwall.

  • 2015 - Current

    I completed my fully funded doctorate in 2020, and since then have been expanding my research portfolio with both practice-as and practice-led publications. My research is inherently interdisciplinary and has won recognition and awards for new methodological approaches using practice-research. I also have a successful track record of developing and delivering non-traditional conferences and symposia for both academic and public audiences. As my research is often collaborative with communities, there is a strong impact narrative.

  • 2013 - Current, South West HEIs

    I have worked as a dissertation supervisor, module lead, and visiting lecturer across Theatre and Performance, Dance, Acting, Sociology, and Fine Art courses at Marjon University, Arts University Plymouth, and University of Plymouth, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Most recently I was lecturer across fine art postgraduate degrees and programme lead on the MFA Fine Art at Arts University Plymouth, 2022-23. Areas of expertise include contemporary art, socially engaged practice, professional development, artist-led and DIY projects, working with archives, live and performance art, lens-based media/moving image, public art, art and politics, art and ethics.

  • 2010 - 2015, University of Plymouth

    I worked in a variety of roles in the Research and Creative Industries office at the University of Plymouth. Tasks included creating and maintaining research groups’ web presence; creating research reports and prospectuses; project managing international conferences; preparing practice-research portfolios for REF.

Research publications and awards

  • 2019 The Michael T Marsden Award for Outstanding Original Contribution to Popular Culture Studies

    2019 University of Plymouth Postgraduate Student Union Award

    2015 Histories, Memory Work and Memorialisation PhD Studentship, Plymouth University

    2014 Intellect Postgraduate Prize, Theatre & Performance

    2012 Roland Levinsky Memorial Fund, Plymouth University

  • 2024 Turning Fan Historiographies into Verbatim Performance: When Michael Jackson visited Exeter City Football Club, Theatre and Fandom, University of Iowa Press, Book chapter (forthcoming)

    2019 Between Mimicry and Difference: Performing Elvis(es), Popular Culture Studies Journal, Journal Article

  • 2019 Like A Pantomime: Oral Histories and Fan Historiographies Popular Entertainments, International Federation of Theatre Researchers, Shanghai Theatre Academy

    2019 Standpoint Lecture, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

    2017 Vaseline and Rose Oil: ‘Becoming’ Elvis, Fan Studies Network Conference, University of Huddersfield

    2017 Man In The Mirror: Re(-)Presenting Michael Jackson, Troubling Time: An Exploration of Temporality in the Arts, University of Manchester

    2017 Failing Well: When Things Go Wrong In Social Practice, Nordic Summer University Winter Symposium: Legacy, Ricklundgården, Sweden

    2017 Long Form Co-Creation: The Arts Action Group model, Conditions for Creative Communities, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Tate Modern, London

    2016 Fan Fiction as Transformative Practice, Archiving Subcultures, Arnolfini, Bristol

    2016 Yes, It Really Did Happen: Fannish Interventions Into Archives, Out Of Time: Temporal Slippage in Performance and Visual Arts, University of Manchester

    2014 Inexactments: reenactment as artistic practice-research method, Theatre and Performance Research Association Symposium, University of Warwick

    2012 Custer Rides Again: Failure and Reenactment, The Arts in History Conference, University of Plymouth

    2011 Finale Symposium for the British Art Show 7, Royal William Yard, Plymouth

  • 2023 Digital Flow/s: a 3D3 legacy symposium and exhibition, Watershed Bristol with University of Plymouth, University of Falmouth, and University of West of England

    2020 Social Learning, Suite of online asynchronous conference workshops, Take A Part

    2019 Performance.Experience.Presence practice-as-research sharing weekend, University of Plymouth.

    2018 Social Making: Socially Engaged Practice Now and Next, Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth, Take A Part

    2017 On The Moors, Postgraduate Research Conference, Dartmoor, University of Plymouth

    2016 Social Making: Socially Engaged Practice Now and Next, Radiant Gallery, Plymouth, Take A Part

Art awards and residencies

  • 2021 Artist Development Bursary, The Box Plymouth

    2021 Devon Short Film Commission, Exeter Phoenix

    2020 Project Grants Award, Arts Council England

    2018 a-n Professional Development Bursary

    2018 Grants for the Arts Award, Arts Council England

    2017 Standpoint Futures Prize, Chisenhale Art Space

    2016 Berlin Biennale Curatorial Bursary, Visual Arts South West

    2016 Artist Travel Bursary, Visual Arts South West

    2013 Professional Development Bursary, Visual Arts South West

    2013 Fellowship, SOMA Summer Programme

    2012 Grants for the Arts Award, Arts Council England

    2010 – 2011 Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium, Artist Associate for Ground Work South West

  • 2018 Social Works? AxisWeb and Manchester Metropolitan University

    2017 Arts In The Alps Doctoral Spring School, Université Grenoble Alpes

    2016 Be Your Own Dog, KARST and Live Art Development Agency

    2013 Probing Elvis: DIY10, Chapter, Shunt and LADA

    2011 Creative City Limits, Arts and Humanities Research Council

    2010 Contemporary Myth Making: DIY7, Live Art Development Agency

    2010 Dense Cluster, Alias and g39/WARP

  • 2017 Futures Residency, Chisenhale Art Space

    2017 The Crying Of The Wind, Co. Offaly, Ireland

    2015 AA2A Scheme, Plymouth University

    2014 Studio 2 Residency, KARST, Plymouth

    2013 The Cornwall Workshop, Cornwall

    2013 SOMA Summer, SOMA, Mexico City

    2011 Live Traces, The Central School of Speech and Drama, London

Exhibitions

2024 Rame Conservation Trust Exhibition, Millbrook Chapel of Rest

2022 Two Short Nights, Exeter Phoenix (commission)

2020 From The Field, Online, (commission)

2020 A land of incomparable beauty, Collective Ending, London

2020 Picture Palace, Transition Two, London

2019 Unbounded, Eden Project, Cornwall 

2019 Fanspeak, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 

2019 Many and Beautiful Things, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art (commission)

2019 Goonhilly Village Green, GVG and Helston Museum of Cornish Life (commission)

2018 PooR Life by dog people, Transition Two, London (duo with Owen G Parry)

2018 Poor Copy, Jerwood Visual Arts, London (solo)

2018 Poor Copy, Exeter Phoenix (solo)

2018 Poor Copy, The Northern Charter, Newcastle (solo)

2018 Mount Florida Screening, CCA, Glasgow

2018 Ancient Scent: Ireland, St Saviours, Plymouth (artist-led)

2018 Hummadruz, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall

2017 Concerning the Interior Stars: Scrying as Self-Care, Assembly Point, London (commission)

2017 Ancient Scent: A Table Read, Chisenhale Art Space, London (solo)

2017 EMERGENCY, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

2017 Sister City, TOPOS, Exeter (artist-led)

2017 Embodied Cartographies, Walcot Chapel, Bath

2016 No Such Event Took Place, Exeter Phoenix (solo)

2016 Yes, It Really Happened, Exeter Phoenix (solo)

2016 Ancient Scent, Lamorna Cove, Cornwall (artist-led)

2016 Sister Sister, Plymouth Art Weekender (artist-led)

2016 The Man Who Bought Stonehenge and Other Stories, Fringe Arts Bath

2014 Props, Maps and Starting Points, AA2A Scheme, Plymouth University

2014 Art of the Danforth, Toronto

2013 Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff

2013 Understand Better, Biquini Wax, Mexico City

2013 SOMA Summer, SOMA, Mexico City

2013 Square Eyes, The Exchange, Penzance

2013 Square Eyes, The Market Studios Gallery, Dublin

2013 Groaners, Videofag, Toronto

2012 Ghost Hole IV, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands

2012 Custer Rides Again, Central Park, Plymouth (solo)

2012 Rinkomania, Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth (solo)

2011 A Circle, Unit 11 Cargo, Plymouth (artist-led)

2011 The Handcuff King, PVAC for the British Art Show (commission)

2011 Heist, FoundSpace, Exeter

2011 PVAC artist associate show, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth

2011 The BRBG Advisory Service, Hand in Glove, Bristol

2011 The Sutton Youth Initiative, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth

2010 BLOP, Arnolfini, Bristol

2010 Bandstand, Central Park, Plymouth (commission)

2009 BLW Video, Back Lane West, Redruth

2009 Control Point: a temporary facility, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth

2009 The Summer Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London

2009 Play, The Rotating Gallery, London

2009 Vision – Aussicht aufs Leben, Darmstader Tage der Fotografie, Frankfurt

2009 Rooted Project, The Rag Factory, London

2009 The Interim Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London

2008 Flotsam and Jetsam, travelling barge, Regents Canal, London (artist-led)

2008 >140, Area 10, London

2007 South London Institute of Common Sense, Area 10, London

2007 Culture, No Culture, Resonance FM, broadcast from London

2007 Two things there are never enough of, Sassoon Gallery, London