EDUCATION
2002-2005
BA (Hons) Fine Art, North Wales School of Art and Design (NEWI)
2001-2002
BTEC Foundation Art and Design, Liverpool Community College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND
COMMISSIONS
2005
Garden
Furniture, Focal Solo, Festival of Contemporary Art and Light, Ruthin
SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2009
Arctic Fox, Vulpes Vulpes, London
Rendez-Vous 09, Xth
Biennale de Lyon, Institut d'art contemporain, Lyon
Trade City,
Contemporary Art Manchester, CHIPS Building, Manchester
Dumb Objects,
Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool
Safe To Touch, Hub
National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, Lincolnshire
Drawn In, The Lost
Soul & Stranger Service Station @ the Bluecoat, Liverpool
2008
If You Build It They
Will Come, g39, Cardiff
Creative Cargo - Made
in Garston, New Slaughterhouse, Garston, Liverpool
Maze, The Garston
Embassy, Liverpool Biennial Pavilions project, Garston, Liverpool
Touching Art Touching
You, BlindArt Permanent Collection, Catmose Gallery, Oakham
2007
How Does Your Garden
Grow? Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
Real Writers'
Residency Programme, Curated by Real Institute, g39, Cardiff
2006
The Royal Standard
Annual Commercial Exhibition, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
dyingfrog artists
residency, Independents Biennial Liverpool, St Nicholas Parish Church,
Liverpool
noisefestival.com
exhibition, Independents Biennial Liverpool, View Two Gallery, Liverpool
BlindArt, Sense &
Sensuality, Bankside Gallery, London
Surface, Young
Curators 2006, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
Young Wales VII, Royal
Cambrian Academy, Conwy
ReNew06: A
Collaboration, Hope Street Gallery, John Moores University, Liverpool
2005
The Third Degree,
Wrexham Arts Centre, Wrexham
Garden of Delights,
Platt Fields Park, Manchester
Domestic Intervention
Project, Magnolia Art Space, Wrexham
Look Bright, Crescent
Arts, Scarborough
2004
Our House, Henshaws
Arts and Crafts Centre, Knaresborough
Oriel Davis Open,
Oriel Davis Gallery, Newtown
20:20, Oriel Corwen,
Corwen
CURATED PROJECTS
2009
Under The Bridge,
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk Poland
Eight artistic
interventions in the public space of Gdansk and Liverpool, May - October 2009
Some People Deserve Everything They Get, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
Some People Deserve Everything They Get assembled the most remarkable, outstanding, significant and superlative artists graduating from courses the length and breadth of the country in 2009. These graduates outshone their peers with unrivaled aesthetic choices; climbing the supreme ladder of success to pass with flying colours...
Black Smoke Machine Gun Club, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
Working with Glasgow-based duo littlewhitehead during their residency at The Royal Standard as they radically transformed the gallery space, working in response to experiences and found items from their time in Liverpool.
SALE, The Royal
Standard, Liverpool
SALE transformed the
white walled galleries at The Royal Standard into an an 'Art Superstore'
stocked with hundreds of artworks by over 80 artists from across the UK and
beyond. With constant special offers and fluctuating prices, SALE helped
to tempt the gallery visitor into buying that 'must have' artwork. Utilising
retail systems and language more commonly found in the supermarket and in turn
questioning the nature of the commercial art world and how it functions.
2008
For The Likes of Us,
Liverpool Biennial - Cities on the Edge Programme, Garston, Liverpool
Curating a series of
interventions occurring directly on the streets of Garston during Liverpool
Biennial 2008 as part of the Cities on the Edge programme, resulting from an
exchange between artists and communities of Garston, Liverpool and Gdansk,
Poland
NAVIGATOR, The Royal
Standard, Liverpool
The inaugural
exhibition in the Royal Standard's new home drew on the organisation's
relocation to the periphery of the city centre. Set against Liverpool's rapidly
changing urban and cultural landscape, NAVIGATOR reflected on a process of
re-mapping and re-routing through familiar and unfamiliar territories.
Characters: The People
Behind the Portraits, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
Co-curated portrait
exhibition as part of Sefton Council's 2008 Capital of Culture celebrations,
writing the accompanying catalogue
2006
noisefestival.com
exhibition, Independents Biennial Liverpool, View Two Gallery, Liverpool
Selected and curated a
physical showcase exhibition of the best 'fine art' submissions received at
noisefestival.com during the Independents Biennial Liverpool at View Two
Gallery. The project was featured as a documentary on BBC2's Blast
Friday, 22nd September
2006
AWARDS
2004
First prize under 25,
Oriel Davis
Open
PUBLISHED WRITING
2009
a-n magazine, Coller
Elective, exhibition review, July 2009
2008
Characters: The People
Behind The Portraits, Atkinson Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue, ISBN
978-1-874516-17-0
2007
a-n magazine, Journey, Movement and Place, exhibition review, July 2007