Exhibition and Performance History
2023
Performance of the graphic score Untitled (Graphic Score for Quartet), Haldern Pop Festival, Rees-Haldern, Germany, 5th August.
Performance of the graphic score Untitled (Graphic Score for Quartet), The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK, 26th April.
Performance of the graphic score Untitled (Graphic Score for Quartet) as part of Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize events programme 'Drawing into Music', ArtHouse Jersey, UK, 24th March.
2022
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Working Drawing Award 2022, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. 29th September-16th October 2022 (before touring the UK)
Intimacy (with regroup collective), Fitzrovia Gallery, 139 Whitfield Street, London. 12th-16th July
Flux (with regroup collective), Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Road, London. 5th-10th April
London Grads Now 21, Saatchi Gallery, 4th November - 16th January
2021
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 17 Cartridge Pl, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6ST. 11-14th November
MA Fine Art Graduate Showcase, Camberwell College of Arts and South London Gallery. 11th-18th September
Unmute, Camberwell College of Arts MAFA Interim Group Show, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London. 26th-27th June
2020
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 17 Cartridge Pl, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6ST. 12-15th November
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition (virtual exhibition)
Greek Street Art Show 2, Group exhibition at Gallery Maison Bertaux in Soho, London
Derby Print Open 2020 - Virtual Print Exhibition
Grauzone and Johan Tahon Present Artnroll Graukunst 2020, The Grey Space in the Middle Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands, 3rd-16th February
2019
Best of the Drawing Year 2019, Christie’s, 8 King Street, London SW1Y 6QT, 8th-12th November 2019
The Drawing Year - End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School Gallery, 19-22 Charlotte Road, London, EC2A 3SG, 28th November-early January 2020
The Drawing Year - Open Studios, SPACE Studios, The Triangle, London, E8, 3rd-10th December
Greek Street Art Show: Group exhibition at Gallery Maison Bertaux in Soho, London.
2018
Performer with the band A Dead Forest Index as part of Meltdown Festival at The Southbank Centre, curated by Robert Smith.
2016
Composer of the score for the documentary Along for the Ride (dir. Nick Ebeling) - premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
Performance with the band Savages on Later…with Jools Holland, a British TV show, the US TV show The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
2015
Site-specific performance In What I’m Seeing; the Sun at the Barbican, London, as part of artist’s Doug Aitken’s residency Station To Station - a piece of music written in collaboration with dance choreographer Fernanda Munoz-Newsome, New Zealand musicians A Dead Forest Index and the band Savages.
2014
Written and performed a piece of music created in five chapters in collaboration with Japanese musicians Bo Ningen and the band Savages titled Words To The Blind - performed at The Red Gallery and Oval Space, London and in Utrecht as part of Le Guess Who? Festival.
2014
Musician and performer as part of the performance of musician Nick Zinner’s composition 41 Strings - performed with an orchestra at The Southbank Centre, London.
Residencies
2019
Royal Drawing School, Pignano, Tuscany
2015
Residency (as a musician) in New York based in three live music venues for three weeks,
Public Commissions
2022
Woodcut print artwork for Whispers On The Wind - a project created by Ayse Hassan and Alex Keegan, produced as part of Lewisham’s Creative Enterprise Zone and SHAPESLewisham.
Awards
2021 The Artichoke Print Award for Meshes with another voice
2020 The Eaton Fund
2020 Ruby & Will George Trust
2020 Shortlisted for the ACS Studio Prize
2020 Derby Print Open Award Winner for the print Muses Leaving
2019 Second prize State of the Arts graduate competition in Printmaking Today magazine
2018 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust
2016 Nominated for The Mercury Prize as a musician and songwriter with the band Savages for the album Adore Life.
2013 Nominated for The Mercury Prize as a musician and songwriter with the band Savages for the album Silence Yourself.
Collections
Sir Michael Moritz KBE
The Royal Collection
Published Papers
IMPACT 12 (Centre for Print Research / UWE Bristol): Reflective Practice Paper: Collaborative visual scores: Using the multiplicity of print to share a series of etchings (visual scores) with selected musicians in exchange for their sonic interpretation.
Education
2020-2021
University of the Arts London - MA Fine Art: Printmaking (Distinction)
2018-2019
Royal Drawing School, London - Postgraduate Scholarship, The Drawing Year.
2005-2008
Goldsmiths, University of London - BA Honours degree in Fine Art (Studio Practice and Contemporary Critical Studies).
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