Curriculum Vitae

b. 1982, Black Country, UK
Working in Hastings, UK

Education

2023 Filmmaking - Raindance Film Centre, London.
2018 MA Fine Arts - Byam Shaw School of Art (CSM, UAL), Merit
2010 BA Vis Comms - University of Wales Trinity St David, 2:1

Commissions

2024 Community Film – CeriHand, Private Commission, UK
2024 A Duet: Lying On behalf of All Women (Film) – Phoebe Davies, UK
2023 Artist-in-residence, Hampshire Motocross Club, South East, UK
2022 Cat Royale (Panelist), Blast Theory, Brighton.
2021 Level 09 Kinetics - Google, Central Saint Giles, London
2020 The Fantastic Mr Vox - Brighton
2017 Factory: The Seen and The Unseen – Clare Twomey. Tate Modern
2016 Camberwell Arts Festival, London
2015 Mercedes-Benz, London
2014 Liquid Landscapes - Diageo, Park Royal, London
2013 Coca-Cola, Piccadilly, London
2012 HRH, Buckingham Palace, London
2011 Arnolfini: 50 Years Of Looking Forward, Bristol
2001 Off The Wall - Redbull, Cheltenham

Awards

2025 Trustee - Spike Island (Shortlist)
Churchill Fellowship, UK (Longlist)
2024 De La Warr Pavilion x Flatland Projects Studio Programme Recipient, UK
2022 Artist to Watch 2022, ArtConnect
2019 Aesthetica Art Prize ‘Top 100 Artist’, UK
2018 Artquest SEED Award, UK (Finalist)
Arebyte Gallery Residency – Mayfair, London, UK
David Ward International Award for Innovation Recipient, UK
Solo Award, Chiara Williams Contemporary, UK (Longlist)
2015 Best Moving Image, Drum Awards, UK (Shortlist)

Selected Press

2022 ArtConnect Interview
2019 Aesthetica Magazine, 2019 Edition
2017 A5 Magazine, November Edition
WOTISART Magazine, November Edition

Forums

2025– Media Advisor & Board Member - Capa First Response
2024 Mentor - Arts Emergency, Manchester, UK
Flatland Futures Artist Writing Forum
2018 Visiting Artist - XD Pathway BA(hons), Central Saint Martins, UAL

Solo Exhibs

2020 Omniipresent – Nomadland.

Group Exhibs

2026 BRS Union at BARC, Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
2025 Taking Time - Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
2020 The Digital Quilt – Art In Flux, INDEXprojects, UK
2019 Dear My Little Prince / Extended show – MoCa, Busan, South Korea
2018 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, UK
Dear My Little Prince – K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
(H)AKT: Art & Haktivism – Curated by Dene Atger, Ugly Duck, Tanner St, London, UK
Mayfair Fringe Festival – Mayfair, London, UK
Show One – Lethaby Gallery, Granary Square, London, UK
Coeval / Prototype – Artist-led. Archway, London, UK
2017 Overpr!nt – le Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée, Belgium
2016 Studio Complex – Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London, UK
Metaphors & Spatiality – Sichuan University Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Speedball / Prototype – Artist-led. Archway, London, UK
Postgraduate Art Auction, by Southeby's – Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
Visual Poetry – Black Stone Gallery, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Metaphors & Spaciality – Wuhouci Gallery, Shanghai, China
Frameless / Prototype – Artist led. Archway, London, UK
Annihilation – curated by D. Rubinstein. Lethaby Gallery, Granary Square, London, UK
Somehow You and I Collide – curated by M. Hulson. The Laundry, London, UK
Annihilation / Prototype – Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London, UK
An Age Of Our Own Making – Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London, UK
2015 Open Studio Show – Artist-led. WAS, London, UK

Work Experience

2025– Producer – Capa First Response
2025 Consultant - Atelier 21 Future School
2023 Advisor – Blast Theory
2019-2025 Senior Product Designer – 4A
2019-2021 Senior Product Designer – RSA
2019 Senior Learning Designer – LTG
2018 Senior Designer – Grey Agency
2016-2025 Senior Visual Journalist – BBC
2016-2018 Senior Production Designer – Channel4
2015-2025 Senior Production Designer – ITV
2015 Director & Producer – The Autonomy Project
2015 Senior Creative – Wonderful Content
2015 Senior Brand & Product Designer – Kemistry
2013-2015 Senior Designer & Art Director – Sedley Place
2013-2014 Production Designer – Sky
2010-2012 Junior Designer – Sky

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