CV
Education:
2016-2020
The Slade School of Fine Art
Fine Art, BA, First Class Honours
2015-2016
Barton Peveril Sixth Form College,
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Awards and prizes:
The Alfred W. Rich Prize,
2020.
The Barto Dos Santos Memorial Award,
2020.
The Slade School of Fine Art departmental nominee for the UCL Faculty of the Arts & Humanities Rosa Morrison Memorial Medal,
2020.
Residencies:
Creative Fellowship,
The Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, London,
2021.
OUTPOST Remote Residencies,
OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich,
2020.
Group exhibitions:
Featured in the feature-length film 'Wayfinder' by Larry Achiampong,
Wayfinder: Larry Achiampong & JMW Turner curated by Larry Achiampong, (Larry Achiampong solo show),
Turner Contemporary, Margate,
2022.
New Contemporaries, 2021,
South London Gallery, London,
Selectors: Hew Locke, Tai Shani, Michelle Williams Gamaker,
2021-2022.
New Contemporaries, 2021,
Firstsite, Colchester,
Selectors: Hew Locke, Tai Shani, Michelle Williams Gamaker,
2021.
Words to Be Looked At (postponed)
Wolfson College Library, Oxford,
Curator: Carey Young,
2020.
The Small Press Project 04: Visions of Protest,
The Slade Research Centre, London,
Curators: Liz Lawes, Lesley Sharpe, Sarah Pickering, Egidija Čiricaitė, and David Blackmore,
March, 2019.
The Small Press project 03: Sound,
The Slade Research Centre, London,
Curators: Liz Lawes, Lesley Sharpe, Sarah Pickering, and Hannah Dargavel-Leafe
March, 2018.
Royal Trash,
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London.
Curator: Giulia Casalini,
March, 2017.
The Masters - Intaglio,
The Bankside Gallery, London.
Curator: Norman Ackroyd RA.,
November, 2016.
Publications:
Poems featured in The Poetry Shed,
Newcastle: ‘Inside Writing’, NCLA online archive,
2020.
Poems featured in Colour and Poetry,
London: Slade Press,
2020.
Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land (Review),
The Socialist Review,
July/August issue, 2018.
Poem featured in: Exquisite Corpse,
London: Slade School of Fine Art,
2018.
Follow Them True, (Review),
Socialist Worker,
January, 2018.
Futurators Overthrow,
Portsmouth: Aspex Gallery publication,
2016.
Lectures, conferences, and symposia:
Colour and Poetry: A Symposium - Slade Research Centre, (pre-recorded video featured as part of a virtual panel of speakers and poets)
The Slade Research Centre, London,
March, 2022.
Colour and Poetry: A Symposium - Slade Research Centre, (featured as part of a virtual panel of speakers and poets)
The Slade Research Centre, London,
March, 2021.
Colour and Poetry: A Symposium - Slade Research Centre, (featured as part of a panel of speakers and poets)
The Slade Research Centre, London,
March, 2019.
Protest! Voices of Dissent in Art and Text, UCL Special Collections symposium, (featured as part of a panel of speakers and performers)
University College London, London,
March, 2019.
Anti-Racism In The Age Of Trump And Brexit - 4th Annual European Conference (London), Platypus international conference, (featured as part of a panel of speakers)
Goldsmiths, University of London, London,
February, 2018.
The People’s Symposium,
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth,
July, 2016.
Radio:
Chalk Hill (co-author and co-performer)
Panic FM,
2020.
Walter Rodney and Martin Carter: Voices of Revolution from Guyana,
No Bounds Radio,
2020.
Research:
Visiting Research Fellowship,
The Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, London,
2022.
Member of The Museum of British Colonialism's Paper Trails Research Community.
Commissions:
UCL East UCL Provost Prize Commission,
UCL, London,
Ongoing
Unite! Rebuild! Pull Through!
Commission for Portsmouth Creates, outdoor public art trail,
Poster: hand-coloured drypoint, enlarged,
2020.
A Radical History of Portsmouth,
Trafalgar House, Portsmouth,
Mural: enlarged etching pasted on wall, ink and graphite on wall,
2019.
A Historical-Materialist conception of Portsmouth,
Trafalgar House, Portsmouth,
Mural: graphite and acrylic paint on wall,
2016.
Teaching:
2022,
Artist-facilitator/workshop co-leader,
CREATE London, London
2018-2022,
Etching, drypoint, and monoprinting workshop co-leader,
University College London: UCL Access and Widening Participation, London