Statement
I work across a range of media. Using visuals and sound that draw upon video games, cartoons and the internet I have looked at ideas around feminism, capitalism, speculative digital utopias and the condition of being a millennial.
I was born the same year as the public release of the internet. As a digital native, fantasy was always close and the classic characters of the 90s and 2000s have given way to the avatars and social media personae of today. My output is the result of a ravenous consumption of media, from the high polish of MTV; the jagged polygons of early PlayStation games; YouTube videos, and the lo-fi social media posts of my online contacts. Gloss and superficiality meet anti-capitalist critique, anxiety and a quest for a pleasurable life. I look into how the internet is used as a tool of expression, including ideas around agency both of the individual and of digital material. I contribute to the circulation of digital matter in all its excess, colour, glamour and repugnance: sometimes rapid-fire, sometimes a shifting, translucent dreamscape. I consider how the blurring between human and machine is changing experiences of womanhood, and how becoming cyborg is both a fantasy and reality, the future and the present.
CV
EDUCATION
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, 2018 - 2020
BA Fine Art, Birmingham School of Art, 2010 - 2013
Solo and DUO SHOWS
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Data_Blood III, External Pages, online
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Now that we know the world is ending soon...what are you gonna wear?, Cheap Cheap Gallery, Birmingham, UK
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Electric Lady Land, Enclave Lab, London, UK
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Taking Up Space, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Selected group shows
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Saturday Morning Animation Club, online [upcoming]
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Wells Kitchen, Wells Projects, London
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Companions, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
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Careful Networks, Phoenix, online
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Collective Intimacy: Reviving a Live Programme, The Showroom x theVOV
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Piper in the Woods, isthisit? www.isthisitisthisit.com
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Afro Futures_UK: Unravelling New Futures, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
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Super Black, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
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Thick/Er Black Lines present a screening of Black British Women/Femme Filmmakers, 180 The Strand, London, UK
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Vague But Exciting, Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK
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WRO Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
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Afrotech Fest, Rich Mix, London, UK
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WE RUN THIS, BOM, Birmingham, UK
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Cybertwee exhibition, Cybertwee Virtual Headquarters app
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Futura Free: A Sensing, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London, UK
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Galleri CC at Supermarket Art Fair 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
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Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, USA
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Fierce Festival 2015, BOM, Birmingham, UK
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Fierce Festival 2014, Friction Arts, Birmingham, UK, and online at thisistomorrow.info
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New Art West Midlands, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
PROJECTS
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Visiting Practitioner, Chelsea College of Arts, London
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Algo | Afro Futures, Vivid Projects, Birmingham. Recording of performance livestream here.
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Young Art Kommunity (YAK) workshops, Firstsite, online. Video 'Our House' available here, part of the exhibition 'House Share'
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Youth Collective Workshops, Camden Arts Centre, online
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Cyberrr Sounds, part of NEAR FUTURE, Montez Press Radio
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It Gets Lighter From Here, event for Winter Solstice for Culture Central (via Vivid Projects), online
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1997 BC, a commission for Big Window accompanied by essay 'Regarding the Nineteen-Nineties' by Ketter Weissman, www.bigwindow.org
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Green Screen Dreams workshop, part of Late At Tate Britain: Dystopian Narratives, Tate Britain, London, UK
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Artist talk "The Conch", South London Gallery, London, UK
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Family Artist in Residence workshops, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
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Living on the Margins conference 2019, University of Westminster, London, UK
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Cyber Grrrl workshop, BOM, Birmingham, UK
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Guest speaker at 14-18 Now workshop, Lewisham Southwark College, London, UK
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Panel conversation "Navigating Spaces Switching Locations", Grand Union, Birmingham, UK
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Panel conversation "Democracy and Data" as part of Hello Culture, Birmingham, UK
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Panel conversation "IRL to URL", BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
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Screening/talk at Jenn Nkiru Presents: New Transmissions, New Pathways, ICA, London, UK
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Q&As as part of Random Acts Playback, the Phoenix, Leicester and Flatpack Hub, Birmingham, UK
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Accelerator Artist Talks, Birmingham School of Art, UK
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First Acts Future Ambassador for Random Acts, UK
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*Dancing Girl Emoji* residency, online via Delta Sorority
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Panel conversation "Gender Resistance in Utopia", 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London, UK
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"Taking Up Space", a commission for Channel 4's Random Acts, UK
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Video editing/green screen workshops in partnership with MAIA Creatives and Birmingham City Council, UK
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SOUP Part One: Feminism residency, STRYX arts, Birmingham, UK
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Created new work for journal Contemporary Other
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Contributed to an ongoing secret online project by They Are Here
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Commissioned to create new work for event µChip 3, Birmingham, UK
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Screening/panel conversation "Online Social Networks As Medium", mac, Birmingham, UK
AWARDS & GRANTS
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Frank Bowling Scholarship, University of the Arts London
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Fierce FWD bursary
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Fierce FWD microbursary
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ESP Graduate Bursary
PRESS