C.V.
Education:
- MA Fine Art (Summa Cum Laude) – Piet Zwart Institute (WdKA), Rotterdam, NL (2020 – 2022)
- BA (Hons) Fine Art – Newcastle University, UK (2012 – 2016)
Current & Upcoming
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Solo Exhibitions
2019 - Somewhere In Between, Vane, Newcastle, UK
2018 - Body, you are not me, Abject 2 Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2016 - i knew her but i could not be a boy, Long Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2015 - Distant Bodies, System Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2013 - Iconoclasm, Sutcliffe’s Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024:
- Latrine’s Haus of Art, Vane, Gateshead, UK
- The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily, Rib, Rotterdam, NL (Performance)
2023:
- Papercuts, SIGN, Groningen, NL
2022:
- I Must Be Living Twice, part of Personal Structures, Palazzo Mora, European Cultural Centre, Venice, IT
- Avant la Lettre, K.L.8, Brussels, BE
- This is Reality (And it was but one chat away), S/ash Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
- Wind-Up Teeth, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2020:
- 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK
2019:
- Shimmer, Multiple venues, Whitley Bay, UK
- Formations: Ellsworth Kelly, Albert Irvin, Oliver Doe & Josh Raz, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK
- Godfather Too, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, UK
- UKYA City Takeover, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham, UK
2018:
- Proximities, Hartmann Center, Peoria, IL, USA
- Colour My World, SEAS/BMECP Centre, Brighton, UK
- Close to You, TESTT Space, Durham, UK
2017:
- First Bowie, Now This, Old Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
- Reality Check, The NewBridge Project, Gateshead, UK
- Bish, Bash, Bosh, WE THE NORTH, Liverpool, UK
- You’re Reading Into It: Queering Contemporary Minimalism, Vane, Newcastle, UK
- Provocations, ICW, Blackpool, UK
- In Plain Sight, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield, UK
- Moving on up, Moving on out, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, UK
2016:
- Tender Bodies, Praxis Gallery, Newcastle, UK
- Palinoia, XL Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2014:
- Fabulous, XL Gallery, Newcastle, UK
- Poetry Will Be Made By All!, LUMA/Westbau, Zurich, SUI
Selected Curatorial Projects
2022:
- Wind-Up Teeth, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2019:
- Ørnulf Opdahl: Landscapes of the Northern Hemisphere, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK
- Pablo Picasso in Print, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK
- Formations: Ellsworth Kelly, Albert Irvin, Oliver Doe & Josh Raz, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK
2018:
- Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: The Late Prints, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK
- Body, you are not me, Abject 2 Gallery, Newcastle, UK
- Close to You, TESTT Space, Durham, UK
2017:
- I can’t remember the last time I used cardamom, TESTT Space, Durham, UK
- Reality Check, The NewBridge Project, Gateshead, UK
- You're Reading Into It: Queering Contemporary Minimalism, Vane, Newcastle, UK
2015:
- Distant Bodies, System Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Selected Publications:
- Marco Says Yucca Green (Group publication, self-published by Piet Zwart Institute MFA, Rotterdam: 2021)
- “Moving Through A Queer Linguistic: Code-Switching Performance Within a Queer Transmedia Practice” in Dunce Magazine Issue #2 (Dunce, Rejkjavik: 2021)
- ‘Begin in a resting position // Begin in een rustpositie’ (Self-published, Rotterdam: 2021, with funding from Piet Zwart Institute)
- ‘Somewhere in Between’ (Self-published, Newcastle: 2019, with funding from Arts Council England)
- ‘Trace Your Fingers Over The Edges Of Me’ (Self-published, Newcastle: 2018)
- ‘Body, you are not me’ (Commissioned for Curious Arts Festival 2018, Newcastle: 2018)
- ‘I can’t remember the last time I used cardamom’ (Self-published with assistance from TESTT Space, Durham: 2017)
- Multiple poems and paintings in Lungs2 (Lungs, Newcastle: 2017)
- “So perfectly lit” in ‘Tender Bodies’ (Papaya Press, Newcastle: 2016)
- It was as if nothing was really there (Self-published, Newcastle: 2016)
- Newcastle University BA Fine Art Degree Show Catalogue 2016 (Newcastle University, Newcastle: 2016) [As editor]
- 'I don't think I have ever seen you, completely, naked' (Photobook, Self-published, Newcastle: 2016)
- ‘Salty Sweet’ (Self-published, Newcastle: 2015)
- "And yet here I am, screaming" and interview with Zach Roddis in Q's: Attitudes towards Queer Issues in the DIY Community (Zach Roddis/IdeasTap, Manchester: 2015)
- O, Heathen, Here in ‘Interval II’ (Unstapled Press, Newcastle: 2014)
- ‘Poems’ (LUMA Foundation, Zurich: 2014)
Awards, Grants, Symposia & Residencies:
- ARC Proxyerotics Symposium (presentation), RCA, 2021
- Shortlisted: John Moore’s Painting Prize 2020 for Somewhere in between
- Arts Council England Emergency Response Fund Grant, 2020
- Arts Council England, National Lottery Project Grants, 2019 (Somewhere In Between)
- UKYA City Takeover, Nottingham, 2019
- Curious Festival Visual Arts Commission, 2018 (Body, you are not me)
- Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, 2017 (You're Reading Into It)
- The NewBridge Project Graduate Programme Associate Artist (2016-2017)
- Newcastle University, Bartlett Offsite Fund, 2014-15 (Distant Bodies)
I have held also public and supportive working relationships with Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT), Northern Pride, Vane, Orbis, Gallagher & Turner, Empty Shop and Pride Radio.
Music:
With Solanas:
- What’s Left to Leave Behind (EP), 2016, Rubaiyat Records (UK)
- The Distance Within Our Bodies (LP), 2015, Bookcase Records (EU)
- We’ll Fall Further… At Least Together (EP), 2014, Wolftown DIY (UK)
- Martyrs & Icons (EP), 2014, Self-Released (UK)
With Chapels:
- Admittance (LP), 2012, Self-Released (UK)
- Live at Zenith (Live album), 2012, Self-Released (UK)
- Demo MMXI (EP), 2011, Self-Released (UK)
Other:
- Lip Service - Burn Like Ghosts (Single), 2009, Self-Released (UK)