Current
Project Liason Officer - Artistic Community. Iotic Labs
“The Comfort of Fictional Violence”. Works in blood and broken safety glass. Additive manufacturing by hand.
“Loser Mache”. Puppets and objects made from losing gambling tickets. Artist.
“Trim”. Web serial commissioned by SLGP. Writer.
Designer and visiting lecturer E15 Acting School.
2015
"If my dress could talk.." IoT creative technology research project at London College of Fashion with Iotic Labs. Project Liason.
"Crablines" Original commission for the Crouch River Festival. Artist.
2014
“Chelmsford Ideas Festival Mystery Hunt”. Social Interaction Scavenger Hunt. Commissioned by Chelmsford Ideas Hub.
“You Know What Sucks..” Short horror story commissioned by SLGP.
“The Pinnochion”. Educational Installation exploring principles of Computer Science. Commission by Home Live Art and Royal Holloway University.
“Hook The Dark”. Fortune Telling game for Home Live Art's Alternative Village Fete at Latitude Festival.
“Hockley Wild Hunt” Social Interaction Scavenger Hunt. Commissioned by Rochford District Council for Hockley Wild Woods Day.
2013
“A Scary Little Gathering” Halloween Storytelling Event by Scary Little Girls. Commissioned Writer: “The Jumper-Outer”.
Guest Lecture and Seminar at The University of Brighton. Mine Kaylan's Monday Lecture Series.
“TheRayleigh Mystery Hunt” Social interaction scavenger hunt through Rayleigh, Essex. Commissioned by Rochford District Council as part of the Rayleigh Arts Festival.
“Theatretrain at the O2”. Low resolution text and images for O2 Arenamation. Theatretrain, 02.
"All This Stuff: Archiving the Artist" LIBRI 2013. Photography.
Also a film from "I Am An Archive" shown at the Launch,
White Cube Bermondsey.
2012
“Lights On, Lights Off” Story Walk in Mousehole by Scary Little Girls. Commissioned Writer: “The Waywiser”.
"Uncollectables" and "Motes" for the Leigh Art Trail. Artist.
"The Changeling" East 15 Stage Combat Course. Dir. Tony Casement.
Designer.
2011
"Pests" featured in Whitechapel Gallery publication “Isles of Silly”. Artist.
2011–ongoing
"Yaw". Language design for SLGP. Writer.
2011–ongoing
“Uncollectables”. Installations built as Artist In Residence to The Toy Factor. Artside, Didcot Railway Center, SLGP, Leigh Art Trail. Artist.
2010
“Cafe Stories”. Written art work by Ania Bas. Collaborating editor.
2010–ongoing
“Pests”. Installation. Kunstlerhaus Moustonturm, NRLA, Bonkersfest, Brighton Basement, Artsadmin, Viewfinder Photography Gallery, South Hill Park, and Sydenham woods, and with Ania Bas as part of Isles of Silly commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery (and accompanying publication). Artist.
2010-ongoing
“Gloves On”. Installation to accompany touring theatre. Ragroof Theatre Company. Tour including Brighton Festival, RNT, Boxing clubs. Artist.
2010
“The Stock Character” short story for White Rabbit “Magic”. Writer.
2007–ongoing
“I am An Archive”. Live documentary. Barbara Steveni. APG, O+I, Tate Archive, Arnolfini, Raven Row. Artist, lead documentor.
2007-2011
“Me If You Lose”. Coffee morning games for art events. BAC, Fierce Festival, Whitstable Biennale, RNT’s Watch This Space, Latitude Festival, Cecil Sharp House, Feast on the Bridge and others. Artist.
2010
“You go on without me”. Installation and performance commission. V&A Museum of Childhood. Artist
2009
SLGP Group Exhibition. Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church. Artist.
2009
"5 poems for actors" comissioned by SLGP. Writer.
2009
“Kiosk”. Horror theatre. The Society of Wonders/SLGP. Writer, director, design.
2009
"Spectromantic Jigsaw" and "Fortune Falls". Two fortune telling mechanisms commissioned by The Basement, Brighton for White Night. Artist, design.
2009
“Droga” Live Art walk with Ania Bas and John Alexander Borley as part of the Southend Polish Festival. Publication available through Unbound, Live Art Development Agency. Artist, writer.
2009
“Imaginary Journeys: Wildworks Travel Agencies: Jettisons of Bude”. Installation commissioned by Wildworks. Artist, design.
2008–ongoing
Stage Management, Circus Big Top, Glastonbury Festival.
2008
“Klappe zu, Affe tot”(Hatch closed, Monkey Dead) Installation for Artsadmin and the National Review of Live Art. Artist.
2007
“The whole thing is completely natural, General. It is… only the wind making the stars sway.” Performance commissioned by Beacon. Artist, design.
2007
"O+I Between: Value". Art Event by O+I, South London Gallery, Critical Practice. Artist.
2007
"The Ladies Cage". Play by SLGP. Finborough Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange Studio. Production Manager.
2007
"O+I Scotland Revisit" Research trip revisiting APG’s activity in Scotland, Led by Barbara Steveni. Artist, lead documentor.
2007
“The bulb has blown in the lighthouse because I was only pretending to change the fuse”. Solo Exhibition. Viewfinder Gallery, Greenwich. Artist.
2004-2007
“Der Butcheroper”. A Society Of Wonders Live Art puppet show commissioned for the opening of Paul Spooner’s exhibition ‘At The Butchers’. Gallery 27, Cork Street. Also performed at Shunt, V&A, Camden Roundhouse, NRLA, RNT, Duckie. Artist, puppeteer, puppet design.
2006
Terror 2006 Horror festival. Union Theatre. Costume Design.
2006
Duckie: Euro Gay Shame. Artist.
2005
“The Fishmonger: An Affair”. The Society of Wonders. Short opera commissioned by Cabaret Mechanical Theatre for private view at OXO Gallery. Libretto, puppeteer, puppet design.
2005
“Duckie: Variety!” Visuals for Duckie's reopening De La Warr Pavillion. Artist, design.
2005
"Arcade Booths" at Duckie's Gay Shame. Artist.
2005
“Closing the Museum of Childhood”. Live-art dance collaboration between The Society of Wonders, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, and Stacked Wonky Dance Company. The Museum of Childhood. Artist.
2005
“The Dream of the House in the House”. Dance collaboration by Stacked Wonky Dance Company, The Society of Wonders and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Cecil Sharp House. Artist, design.
2005
“You Are My Favourite Pet”. Society of Wonders Puppet show for the Arrivano del Mare Puppet Festival, Cervia, Italy. Artist, puppeteer, design.
2005
“The State of Mind of Ghosts”. Dance Theatre by The Society of Wonders and Lady Inert. Chelsea Theatre. Artist, Sound design.
2005
APG archive – Art and Social Intervention: the Incidental Person. O+I and Tate Archive Collection symposium. Tate Britain. Artist.
2005
Maria Stuart. Historical theatre drama by SLGP. Union Theatre. Stage manager.
2004
“Wayside Shrines”. Installation for The Eden Project. Artist.
2004
"Abstract Pornography" at Duckie's Gay Shame. Artist.
2004
“Sap”. Dance puppetry. Lady Inert/The Society Of Wonders. Artist, design.
2004
"Stepback Traditional Dance Project". Dance theatre. Stepback. Various venues, including Brighton Basement, Purcell Room. Artist, design, documentor.
2003
“Bellerophon”. Outdoor Theatre. The Society Of Wonders. Carn Marth theatre quarry. Artist, performer.
2003
“The Constant Tin Soldier”. Outdoor theatre. Company Collisions. Brighton Festival. Fire effect design.
2001/3
“Cuckoo Tooth”, “Pig Man Joe”. Horror theatre. The Society of Wonders. Marlborough Theatre, Sallis Benney Theatre. Writer, director, design.
2002
“The Bread Knight”. Experimental visual theatre commissioned by Visions Festival: Puppetry into Dance. Writer, design.
2002-ongoing
Various work with Barbara Steveni as collaborating artist, including “I am an Archive”, "O+I Scotland revisit", "APG archive – Art and Social Intervention: the Incidental Person" - O+I and Tate Archive Collection symposium at the Tate Britain, and a position on the O+I board of directors. Artist, documentor.
2001
"Teambuild". Conference event by Anna Best. Delegate.
2001
"Cuckoo Tooth" Short Horror theatre. Marlborough Theatre. Writer, director, design.
2001
"Prometheus – thief o’ flames", Outdoor show by Tanakin Skinker. Research, fire.
2000
“Away Weekend”. By Anna Best, a residency with [a:n] magazine. Writer.
2000–2003
BA (Hons) Theatre and Visual Art, University of Brighton (1st class honours).
1998–1999
Apprenticeship to Kneehigh Theatre Company. Work included writing, devising, administration, directing, making, car park attending, stage management, research, production, marketing and performing, and a six-week attachment to the Royal National Theatre.