I am an artist and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne working across moving image, photography, installation and live performance.
I am a studio holder with The NewBridge Project and a current member of the LUX Tyneside Critical Forum.
In 2018 I co-edited Eros in Blue with Sophie Soobramanien, a collection of new writing from the Northeast on the ‘expanded erotic’ and love as practice – printed in collaboration with Foundation Press in Sunderland.
EDUCATION
Newcastle University – Fine Art (BA) Hons, 2014 –2018
Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) – Erasmus exchange programme, 2016
UAL Camberwell College of Arts – Foundation Diploma, 2012 –2013
SELECT RECENT EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
(May 2021) Liveness, Newcastle University Performance Research Network, online exhibition
(October 2019) Re-reading the Library, Art Licks Weekend, Freelands Foundation, London
(July 2019) Left Bank Leeds Art Prize, Left Bank Leeds
(January 2019) Festival of the Not, CIRCA Projects, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
(November 2018) Imaginary Landscapes: A Work in Progress, 36 Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
(July 2018) Newcastle University Fine Art Degree Show, Unit 8, Copeland Park, London
(November 2017) S T R E T C H, Galleri Bokboden, Bergen.
(August 2017) Studio is Sudden, Giles Bailey & CIRCA Projects, The Northern Charter, Newcastle upon Tyne
(October 2016) Art in Urban Context: Living Our Lives at One Remove?, Rom8, Bergen
(May 2016) Doubles Series + Mintier, group show selected by Lucy Clout and Clare Charnley, East Street Arts, Leeds
(September 2015) A Quiet Position, sound installation curated by Jez Riley French and Phoebe Riley Law for End of the Road Festival, Wiltshire
WRITING, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
(Forthcoming) Radical Gestures, Art Licks issue #26
(March 2020) The Kink in the Arc
(July 2019) Katy Bentham Interview: Left Bank Leeds Art Prize 2019 The State of the Arts
(April 2019) Barby Asante: Declaration of Independence (exhibition review) Corridor8
(January 2019) The Ignorant Curator (festival review) MAP Magazine
(November 2018) Eros in Blue (co-editor), a collection of new writing from the Northeast designed and printed in collaboration with Foundation Press
(March 2016) Verdure Engraved, 2016 issue #1, curated by Jez Riley French
(November 2015) Underscore, a project celebrating the graphic score, curated by Jayne Dent
AWARDS
2019 Jerwood Arts Bursary
a-n Mentoring Programme
Left Bank Leeds Art Prize (shortlisted)
2018 The Luby’s Legs Grant, HMO Projects
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival Bursary
2016 The Bartlett Travel Scholarship, Newcastle University