Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
2020/1 Offering the Body, Anatomy Lab, Summerhall, Edinburgh (dates tbc)
2019 Pithos (One Possible Story of our Lively Material), METAMORPHOSIS, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2019 A Celebration of Life, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle
2018 Evolution of the Subject, Gallery North Project Space, Northumbria University
2017 Viral Experiments, Queen's Hall Art Centre, Hexham
2014 transformation content, Holy Biscuit Gallery, Newcastle
Selected Exhibitions/Works
2021 Staying in Touch, FACTT Arte Institute, Lisbon
2020 Acquired Immunity, Ars Electronica, Linz
2020 Con(tacto), Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal
2020 Zone of Inhibition (film screening), ISEA 2020, Montreal, Canada
2019 Zone of Inhibition (film screening), Black Box Opened, Experimental Studio, BALTIC39, Newcastle, UK
2019 BLACK BOX Pop-Up Cinema Film Programme, IGM, Newcastle
2018 Lively Material (film screening), Unhallowed Arts, Perth, Australia
2018 Lively Material (film screening), Viral Culture, Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA
2017 #FEED, Queen's Hall Art Centre, Hexham
2017 The Stars Beneath Our Feet, Private Screening for SfAM, BALTIC CCA, Gateshead
2017 Life Support at SfAM, BALTIC CCA, Gateshead
2017 Genocentric, Contemporary Connections, Edinburgh International Science Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2017 Moving On Up, Moving On Out, NewBridge Studios, Newcastle
2016 Pithos, The Late Shows, BALTIC39, Newcastle
2016 Gravitational Wave Space Station, Basement 6 Collective, Shanghai
2016 Paradigm Electronic Arts, Summerhall Gallery, Edinburgh
2015 Paper Table Wall and After, National Taiwan University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, curated by Chris Dorsett & Sian Bowen
2014 ISAP 2014, Sydney, Australia
2014 Oxygen Revolution, Eulogy, VANE Contemporary Art Gallery, Newcastle
2013 Life Support, Synthesis, Manchester Science Festival
2013 Beyond Human, Arthouses, Whitley Bay Film Festival, Whitley Bay
2013 Oltramarino I & II, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle & Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2013 All The Same, 4’33” Silent Film Festival, Newcastle
2013 Symbiosis, The Late Shows, Moorbank Botanical Gardens, Newcastle
2013 Eve's Curse, Great North Museum, Newcastle
2012 Departure Foundation, Sunderland, curated by Louise Ashcroft
2011 International Charity Art Auction, Gallery 6, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Nature’s Creativity, Alnwick Gardens Gallery
Competitions/Commissions/Residencies
2021 Art Hostel Commissions, East Street Arts, Leeds
2020 Transformation Content Revisited, Lockdown Archive Project, Gateshead Arts
2019 Lumiere 10th Anniversary, Durham
2018 Deep Time Sisyphus, Commission for Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM), Charles Darwin House, London
2017 ASCUS Artists are Present Micro-Residency at SfAM Conference, BALTIC, Gateshead
2016 PhotoEspaña 2016, Madrid
2015 Lumiere 2015, Durham
2015 Domestic II, Manchester
2015 AND Festival, Grizedale Forest
2015 Microbes as Material, Lancaster, Abandon Normal Devices & Lancaster University
2014 Eden Project, UK, Human Microbiome 5 Year Exhibition (shortlisted)
2014 Photography Prize, ISAP 2014, Sydney, Australia
2012 Zeitgeist (ZAP) Open, London
2012 North East Student Prize, Departure Foundation, Sunderland
2010 Student Art Competition, Newcastle Building Society
Grants and Awards
2020 Big Local Gateshead, Helix Arts and Gateshead Arts, film-making and teaching project, Loose Connections
2020 a-n Time Space Money Bursary
2020 Braiding Friction, Working Group on COVID-19 and art, Bio Friction and Cultivamos Cultura
2019 a-n Artist's Bursary
2019 Northumbria University and Biochemical Society funding for Ways of Working
2018 EngageFMS, Newcastle and Northumbria University seed funding for Black Box project
2015 Bio Art & Design Awards, The Netherlands (Honorary Mention)
2014 Grants for Arts Funding, Arts Council England
2013 New Graduates Award, Forefront Collective, Manchester
2013 Ncl+ Alumni Association Student Initiative Fund
Talks / Writing / Teaching / Workshops
2021 Hybrid Intelligentia in Art and Science. Course mentor, teaching module, artificial intelligence in art, science and humanities
2020 Alive Together. Course leader, teaching module, human/animal relationships in art, science and humanities
2020 Thinking Through the Body, Book Chapter in Integrated Science, Springer Nature (forthcoming)
2020 Evolution of the Subject, Book Chapter in Viral Culture, Bloomsbury (forthcoming)
2020 Odd Combo II – Artists in Collaborative Practice, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle (forthcoming)
2020 International Women’s Day: A Celebration of Women in Art, Commercial Union, Newcastle
2020 Keynote: Unseen Entanglements, Beyond Resistance, Edinburgh University
2019 Ways of Working, BxNU, BALTIC39, Newcastle
2019 Re-Medi-Ate, Louise Mackenzie & Lyn Hagan, Architecture Charrette Week, Newcastle University
2019 Zone of Inhibition, PUBLIC Journal, Issue 59
2019 RE:SOUND Media Art Histories, Aalborg, Denmark
2019 Broadcast Bartender: The Art & Science of Memory, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle University
2019 Metamorphosis, Artist Talk, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2019 ArtSciLab, Sunderland University
2019 Bio-Aesth-Ethics Mini-Masterclass, Bio-Design Lab, University of Edinburgh
2019 Working with Lively Material, Microbiologist, June 2019
2019 Women in Film and Science, Literary & Philosophical Society, Newcastle
2018 FEMeeting, Sao Luis, Portugal
2018 Bodyworks Symposium, Northumbria University
2018 TransImage2018, Edinburgh
2018 Shift & Signal Podcast
2017 ISEA2017, Manizales, Colombia
2017 TTT2017, Ionian University, Corfu
2017 Transformation, Transgenic Bio-Art Workshop, ASCUS Lab, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2017 Dialogues: When Art Meets Science, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2016 Nonhumans Symposium, Northumbria University
2016 Global Resonances, Northern Bridge 2016, BALTIC
2016 Untourage #3, webseries, Baltan Laboratories, The Netherlands
2016 Sonic Environments, Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane, Australia
2016 Transformations: Sharing Knowledge in Medical Humanities, Northumbria University
2016 Bodily Matters VI - Micro Matters: Genes and Cell Cultures, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, London
2016 London LASER 16, University of Westminster, London
2016 ISEA2016, Hong Kong
2015/6 Nature, Fine Art Undergraduate Seminars, Northumbria University, Newcastle
2015 DIY DNA Workshops, The NewBridge Project and Newcastle University
2015 Bio Art & Unknown Futures, iGEM bootcamp, UCL, London
Memberships/Associations
2020 Screen Education Edinburgh (Trustee)
2020 Integrated Science Association, USERN
2020 Hybrid Lab Network
2018 FEMeeting, Women in Art, Science and Technology
2018 LUX Tyneside Critical Forum
2014 The Cultural Negotiation of Science
2014 Associate of the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University
Education
2018 BxNU, BALTIC & Northumbria University, Newcastle, Practice-led PhD
2013 Newcastle University, BA Fine Art (First Class Honours)
2011 Newcastle College, Fine Art Foundation Degree (Distinction)
1992 University of Strathclyde, BA Joint Hons in Psychology and Industrial Relations
Employment
2010 - 2013 Sculptor’s Assistant, part time, Joseph Hillier, Co. Durham
2011 - 2013 Artist & Founder, Imagination Workshops, North East
2010 - 2011 Art Teacher, My Performance Factory, Gateshead
1993 - 2004 Accenture, Senior Manager and Founder of Prince’s Trust Volunteers Network
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