CV
Selected Film Screenings |
| 2025 | Guardians of the Sundoor, Conjuring Creativity - Inhabiting Esoteric Ecologies, MKII, London, curated by Ben Jeans Houghton and Geraldine Hudson |
| 2022 | All is leaf, so to amplify the wonder, part of Serpentine gallery’s ‘Shape of a Circle in the mind of a fish’ series |
| 2021 | BREADROCK, I feel like doing this, Live Art Development Agency (LADA) 1 month artist focus |
| 2021 | BREADROCK, I feel like doing this, Braziers International Film Festival |
| 2020 | All is leaf, so to amplify the wonder Camden Arts Centre. Online plant connection guide commissioned including film work as part of The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree |
| 2020 | Tamesa, ICA, programme of highlights from history of London Short Film Festival experimental film strand |
| 2020 | Tamesa, Thames festival |
| 2017 | Folk In Her Machine, Alchemy Film Festival |
| 2016 | Nowheresomewhere, Somerset House Utopia season |
| 2016 | Tamesa, Flatpack Film Festival |
| 2015 | Tamesa, ICA, London Short Film festival, nominated for Best Experimental Film Award |
| 2015 | What lies Below, BFI, film commissioned by BFI/Wellcome Trust |
| 2014 | Folk in her Machine, part of late night opening of Jeremy Deller’s Venice Bienalle show ‘English Magic’, William Morris gallery |
| 2014 | Folk in her machine, PLACE: Occupation, Snape, curated by Gareth Evans |
| 2014 | Invisible Dialogue Jerwood gallery, Hastings |
| 2014 | Invisible dialogue Dresden Film Festival, in competition |
Selected Solo Shows / Installations |
| 2026 | The Hands that Dreamed of New Suns, large scale participatory artwork created by Stone Tellers for Horniman Museum's 125th anniversary |
| 2019 | All is leaf, so to amplify the wonder, Barbican curated Leytonstone Loves Film, installed in Church Lane Community Gardens |
| 2018 | I Carry You in my Eyes, Kestle Barton gallery, with Fourthland. Show evolved out of a 6-week residency |
| 2018 | BREADROCK, I feel like doing this, PEER, with Fourthland |
| 2016 | Nowheresomewhere, Barbican, 2-screen pedal powered film installation commissioned in foyer |
| 2016 | Nowheresomewhere, William Morris gallery, 2 screen-installation |
Selected Group Shows |
| 2023 | The Gleaner’s Society, EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art |
| 2021 | The binding object, Casa Solleric Kunsthalle, Palma de Mallorca |
| 2019 | PEER 20th anniversary show |
| 2015 | Tradition, Pumphouse gallery |
Participatory Projects | Performance | Public Programme Events |
| 2025 | Plant Connection Retreat led with artist Joe Walsh |
| 2025 | Plant Gazing series led with artist Joe Walsh at Jamyang Buddhist Centre.Supported by London Community Foundation |
| 2024 | Weaving the Vessel, participatory art project with Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers based around themes and practices of weaving, foraging and herbs, supported by Awards for All, including final participatory performance event |
| 2021-2 | (maternity leave) |
| 2020 | Unconscious Narratives for Unseen Films workshop programme with James Holcombe (Erehwon) for Tavistock Institute. |
| 2019 | All is Leaf, performance. Church Lane Community gardens for Barbican |
| 2019 | All is Leaf, programme of Summer workshops at Organiclea food growing cooperative, Walthamstow Garden Party, and Leytonstone Loves film |
| 2019 | All is Leaf, movement workshops as part of film production, led in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Fernanda Muñoz Newsome |
| 2019 | Art and Ecology talk for Soup, Water, Bread |
| 2019 | All is Leaf, Drawing Shed Estate, Walthamstow. Performance and plant connection gathering with estate residents |
| 2018 | Chant of the Whaleswan, Kestle Barton, Summer programme of workshops and performances in collaboration with Fourthland |
| 2018 | Cloth of a thousand, Kestle Barton, Spring programme of workshops with Syrian families and other Cornish residents |
| 2018 | I Carry You in My Eyes | Myth and Magic in Social Practice Symposium with PEER and Fourthland |
| 2017-18 | BREADROCK - public programme of workshops for PEER with Fourthland |
| 2017 | Wedding to the bread. performance and screening event on the Wenlock Barn Estate, Hackney with Fourthland |
| 2017 | Uncanny pleasure: all the colour nature possesses Tavistock Institute 70th anniversary festival workshop |
| 2015-16 | Nowheresomewhere public programme event and workshop series for William Morris gallery artist residency on site and at Organiclea, including ecological processing workshop, tinting film with natural plant dyes, and artist-led walking tour |
| 2016 and 2017 | Rosemary and time ecological filmmaking and film tinting workshop series, No.w.here |
| 2014 | Experimental Folklore workshop series, No.w.here |
| 2014 | New Community Spaces: Collaboration and Creativity in the Landscape, Hooke Park, Architectural Association, Dorset |
| 2014 | Stitching in time – Stitching into film cameraless filmmaking workshop, William Morris gallery |
Residencies |
| 2026 | Bellenden Rd community garden, year long research-based artist residency in partnership with SLUG together with artist Joe Walsh, supported by A-N and Freelands Foundation |
| 2025 | Casa Julfa, France. Ceramic residency |
| 2023 | Hogchester Arts, supported by A-N, developing new ceramic work with artist Chantal Powell |
| 2020 | New season threads, The Mothership, Dorset, June 2020, supported by the Mothership. |
| 2018 | I Carry you in my eyes, Kestle Barton, Summer 2018 |
| 2018 | Cloth of a Thousand, Kestle Barton, March 2018, ACE supported. |
| 2017 | Artist in Residence at the William Morris Gallery, selected from an open call |
| 2016 | Café Tissardmene, Sahara, Morocco |
Commissions/Awards |
| 2024 | Awards for All support for Weaving the Vessel |
| 2023 | A-N Bursary for making new ceramic works, Hogchester Arts |
| 2020 | Camden Arts Centre commission to create plant guide for The Botanical Mind show |
| 2020 | The Mothership supported artist residency |
| 2019 | Corporation of London and Heritage Lottery Organiclea Bee Wild project Grant support for All is leaf |
| 2019 | Loughborough London open fund award for Leytonstone Loves film performance event |
| 2019 | Barbican and Walthamstow London Borough of Culture support for All is Leaf |
| 2019 | Arts Council England for All is leaf, so to amplify the wonder |
| 2018 | Arts Council England (SW) - I Carry you in my Eyes |
| 2018 | Awards for All – I Carry you in My Eyes |
| 2018 | Arts Council England – Cloth of a Thousand Kestle Barton residency and PEER chaired symposium |
| 2017 | Arts Council England – BREADROCK |
| 2017 | Paul and Louise Cooke Foundation – BREADROCK |
| 2017 | A-N newsletter – awarded support to attend Documenta, Kassel |
| 2016 | Arts Council England - NowhereSomewhere |
| 2017 | Barbican Foyer Art commission – NowhereSomewhere |
| 2017 | Barbican support for Walthamstow Garden party installation |
| 2016 | William Morris Gallery award for residency, supported by ACE |
| 2015 | Wellcome Trust in partnership with BFI and No.w.here – What Lies Below |
| 2014 | NOW gallery – commission to make Tamesa |
| 2009-2013 | Arts and Humanities Research Council funding – practice-based Phd at LCC |
Publications |
| 2026 | All is leaf, so to amplify the wonder artist profile featured as 2-page spread in Serpentine gallery/Thames and Hudson major new publication ‘the Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish’ |
| 2019 | Social Housing in Performance, The English Council Estate on and off stage, Katie Beswick, published by Bloomsbury. Featuring BREADROCK |
| 2016 | We Cannot Unsee, Sequence journal |
| 2014 | Folk in Her Machine, ART/E/FACT issue 3: Experimental Folklore |
Selected Press |
| 2022 | Highlighted as one of the stand-out artists at EVA International by Cherry Smyth in Art Monthly |
| 2018 | BREADROCK at PEER Friday dispatch review by Caroline Douglas, director of Contemporary Art Society |
| 2018 | BREADROCK review by Luisa Buck, “I was greatly impressed by BREADROCK at PEER. The 16mm film is much more than a document of an exceptional community project. It pays tribute to a place and its people with a poetic richness that is utterly captivating and one of a kind.” |
| 2018 | BREADROCK, Art Monthly review by Cherry Smyth, “The black and white images give the air of found footage from a Maya Deren investigation of local witchcraft. Sometimes the aesthetic echoes the self-conscious myth-making of Ana Mendieta or Joseph Beuys; at other times it has the resourceful DIY look of a Derek Jarman movie. (The work presents) an alchemy that restores dignity and belonging.” |
Education |
| 2009-13 | Practice-based Phd in artist film, LCC with William Raban, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC funded) |
| 2004-6 | MA Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths college, pass with distinction |
| 2001-3 | Diploma in photography, Bellas Artes, Barcelona |
| 1994-7 | BA in Cultural Geography and Anthropology, Nottingham University |
Other Training |
| 2026 | Sound therapy training |
| 2024 | Yin Yoga / teacher training |
| 2024 | Rush Weaving, City Lit, together with ongoing weaving research |
| 2012- | Ongoing movement/somatic practice and research |
| 2017-9 | Sensory Herbalism Practitioner Course with Seed Sistas, Dorset |