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EDUCATION:

MA
Curating Art & Public Programmes - Distinction - Whitechapel Gallery/LSBU (2024).

BA
Fine Art (HONS) - 1st Class - University of Lincoln (2008).

AWARDS:

2023  
National Lottery Project Grant - Arts Council England.

2020  
National Lottery Project Grant - Arts Council England.

2018  
Festival Fund - Roger De Haan Charitable Trust & Creative Folkestone.

2016  
Grants For The Arts - Arts Council England.

2015  
Arts Producer Award - The Arts Foundation.

2013  
Work Week Prize (shortlisted) - ARTQUEST.

2012  
Artist Intl. Development Fund - British Council & Arts Council England.

APPOITMENTS:

VSSL Studio
Artistic Director (2020-present).

Royal Society of Arts
Fellow (2018-present).

Live Art U.K.
Consortium member (2013-present).

]performance s p a c e [
Creative Director. (2011-present).

RECENT EXHIBITION:

2024
Benjamin Sebastian: Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light - Solo Exhibition - Herbert Read Gallery - Canterbury (UK).

2023
Pretty Doomed - Group Exhibition - Ugly Duck - London (UK).

2023
FACET - Group Exhibition - VSSL Studio - London (UK).

2023
Benjamin Sebastian + Alicia Radage - Group Exhibition - VSSL Studio - London (UK).

2022
3 Reflections² - Live Installation - Institute of Contemporary Art - London (UK).

2021
PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the U.K.- Group Exhibition - Ugly Duck - London (UK).

2021
PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the U.K.- Group Exhibition - ]performance s p a c e [ - Folkestone (UK).

2021
PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the U.K.- Group Exhibition - VSSL Studio - London (UK).

2021
Working With Entities//Setting Intents - Solo Exhibition - VSSL Studio (UK).

RECENT SPEAKING:

2024
FACET EXPANSED: On HERMAPROGENESIS & Centering Queer Art - VSSL Studio - London (UK).

2023
LGBTQ Contemporary Art: Then & Now - City Hall - London (UK).

2023
Archiving Performance Art - as part of Pretty Doomed - Ugly Duck - London (UK).

2022
Art, Memory & Place - Turner Contemporary - Margate (UK).

2021
PSX Podcast Series - ]performance s p a c e [ - Online.

2021
Curating Live Archives - University of Dundee - Scotland (UK).

RECENT CURATING:

2024
Achipelago: Visions in Orbit - Whitechapel Gallery - London (UK).

2024
HERMAPHROGENESIS: Marcin Gawin - VSSL Studio - London (UK).

2023
June Lam - VSSL Studio - London (UK).

2023
FRUTAS MADURAS: Rocío Boliver - VSSL Studio - London (UK).

2023
INTERSECT: Jamila Johnson-Small + Daniella Valz Gen - Live Art Development Agency - London (UK).

2023
INTERSECT: Kelvin Atmadibrata + selina bonelli - Live Art Development Agency - London (UK).

2023
C0041: Time’s Up - Luca Bosnai - VSSL Studio - London (UK).

2022
Decrypting Performance Art: Rocío Boliver - ]performance s p a c e [ - London (UK).

2022
TIDING - ]performance s p a c e [ - Folkestone (UK).

2021
PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the U.K. - ]performance s p a c e [, Ugly Duck & VSSL Studio - Folkestone & London (UK).

2021
Gathering in a Time of Plague - VSSL Studio - London (UK).

RECENT TEACHING:

2017
Curating Performance - BA Performance Arts - Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

2016
Curating Performance - BA Performance Arts - Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
RECENT WRITING:

2023
Metamorphosis of Masculinities - Published by the Academy of Fine Arts - Prague (CZ).

2020
The Occurrence - Impossible Performances - Published by Helen Davison - London (UK).

2019
Lines Cut Through Us All - Published by CLAY - Leeds (UK).

2019
(re)collecting (f)ears - contribution -Published by ]performance s p a c e [ (on behalf of selina bonelli) - London (UK).