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)