Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
2023 Birthing the Mother, Malta Society for the Arts, Palazzo de la Salle, Valletta, Malta
2023 Working Together: On Remoteness and Abstraction, Black Box3 Gallery, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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
2023 Raw, Cooked, Rotten, Malta Society for the Arts, Palazzo de la Salle, Valletta, Malta
2023 Blue Futures, The Word, South Shields, UK
2023 Tendrils with no way of knowing, The OME, Newcastle University, UK
2022 The Beauty of Early Life, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022 Habit, Ability!, NewBridge Project Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2022 How We Live Now, Newcastle Contemporary Art, UK
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 Departure Foundation, Sunderland (curated by Louise Ashcroft)
Grants and Awards
2023 Be The Sea, Seascapes community networking grant
2022 BioDwelling networking events, Higher Education Innovation Fund, Newcastle University
2021 Be The Sea, Seascapes, Sunderland University and Durham Wildlife Trust
2021 Working Together (QR Funding, Northumbria University)
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 / Workshops
2023 Scar Tissue: Data and Language, Cultural Negotiation of Science and DJCAD, Dundee University
2023 NonHuman Sense, Contemporary Art Speakers Programme, DJCAD, Dundee University
2023 Be the Sea: Engaging Coastal Communities. Blue Futures Gathering 2023. The Word, South Shields
2023 Nonhuman Sense, Colloquium, Art Laboratory Berlin
2023 Transgenic Petting Zoo, Taboo, Transgression and Transcendence in Art and Science, Malta
2023 Listening to our Anthropomorphism, Creative Arts Practice and MedHum Symposium, Newcastle University
2022 Part of the Landscape, ECR Provocations, Landscape Centre for Research Excellence, Newcastle University
2022 Sharing Experiences in Hybrid Setups, Roundtable at Hybrid Lab Network, University of Porto
2022 Situated Listening, Online Panel hosted by The Listening Academy, London
2022 Sharing Space: Interdisciplinary Approaches Beyond STEM and STEAM, Hybrid Lab, i3s, Porto, Portugal
2022 BioDwelling: Living with Living Material, FEMeeting, Evora, Portugal
2022 BE THE SEA – Sounding Coastal Communities, Audire 2022, Braga, Portugal
2022 Working on the Edge – Transforming Human/Non-Human Relationships, FELASA 2022, Marseilles, France
2021 Re:Sound - Sound as Evidential Medium in an Age of Crisis, Posthumanities Hub Seminar, Linköping, Sweden
2020 International Women’s Day: A Celebration of Women in Art, Commercial Union, Newcastle
2020 Keynote: Unseen Entanglements, Beyond Resistance, Edinburgh 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 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 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 Bio Art & Unknown Futures, iGEM bootcamp, UCL, London
Teaching / Workshops
2023 Invited as reviewer for Bartlett Crit, Newcastle University Fine Art Degree Show
2022 Royal College of Art, Guest Lecturer, MA workshop, Performative human/microbial relations
2022 Newcastle University, Tutor, Fine Art MFA Seminar, Art Performing Science.
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
2019 Ways of Working, BxNU, BALTIC39, Newcastle
2019 Re-Medi-Ate, Louise Mackenzie & Lyn Hagan, Architecture Charrette Week, Newcastle University
2019 Bio-Aesth-Ethics Mini-Masterclass, Bio-Design Lab, University of Edinburgh
2017 Transformation, Transgenic Bio-Art Workshop, ASCUS Lab, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2015/6 Nature, Fine Art Undergraduate Seminars, Northumbria University, Newcastle
2015 DIY DNA Workshops, The NewBridge Project and Newcastle University
Writing
2024 Situated Listening, edited volume (co-editor) with Routledge (forthcoming)
2024 Can I Be Honest? Commentary in Researching Animal Research, Manchester University Press
2024 Viral Culture, edited volume (co-editor) with Bloomsbury
2023 BioDwelling: A Participatory Approach to Living with Living Material, Technoetic Arts, Volume 21, Issue Women in Art and Science,
Oct 2023, p. 243 - 263
2023 Bioprotopia, edited volume (co-editor) with Birkhäuser
2023 Alive Together – Interdisciplinary Practice in Human/Non-Human Relationships, book chapter with Anna Olsson in Teaching, Research,
Innovation and Public Engagement, Springer
2023 Viral Experiments, book chapter in Pattern and Chaos: Making and Meaning, Intellect
2022 Sharing Space: Interdisciplinary Approaches Beyond STEM and STEAM in Hybrid Labs On Transdisciplinarity: Knowledge Through
Experience, Best Practices Book and Conference Proceedings
2022 Thinking Through the Body, book chapter with Maria Antonia Gonzales Valerio in Integrated Science, Springer
2022 Ruptures and Wrongfootings – Destabilising Disciplinary Cultures, Leonardo 2022; 55 (2): 186–190
2021 Staying in Touch: Artistic Research During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Artnodes Journal, No. 27
2021 Offering the Body: Performing proximity in the use of cellular material’, Technoetic Arts, Vol. 18:2&3
2021 Microbial Sensing: Constructing Perception Through Technological Layers, Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 30
2020 Evolution of the Subject, Top Ranked Abstracts, Leonardo Journal, Vol. 53, No. 5, Oct 2020
2019 Working with Lively Material, Microbiologist, June 2019
2019 Zone of Inhibition, PUBLIC Journal, Issue 59, Intellect
2018 Evolution of the Subject, TransImage2018, Edinburgh, figshare, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6104684.v2
2017 Wishful Thinking, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 15:2, pp. 181-93
Memberships/Associations
2023 Associate of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Newcastle University
2021 Director, ASCUS Art and Science
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
2023 Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice, Year 3 Co-Lead, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
2022 Newcastle University, Research Associate, Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment
2021 University of Porto, Researcher, Tutor and Mentor, Hybrid Lab Network
2021 Northumbria University, Senior Research Assistant and Tutor, Fine Art and Applied Sciences.
2020 Newcastle University, Associate Lecturer, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, MA
2019 Northumbria University, Research Associate, The Cultural Negotiation of Science, Fine Art
2014 Freelance Tutor, Fine Art, Northumbria University, Newcastle University
2010 Sculptor’s Assistant, part time, Joseph Hillier, Co. Durham
2011 Artist & Founder, Imagination Workshops, North East
2010 Art Teacher, My Performance Factory, Gateshead
1993 Accenture, Senior Manager and Founder of Prince’s Trust Volunteers Network
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