Artist CV

b. Reading, UK, 1986.
Lives and works in Reading, UK.

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Residencies: 

2023: UVA Artist-in-Residence, Nizza Monferrato, IT

2021: Cove Park Independently Funded Residency, Helensburgh, UK

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Open Access, Edinburgh, UK

Scottish Sculpture Workshop Open Access, Lumsden, UK

2020: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Reach Scotland Residency, UK 

2019: Kingsgate Project Residency Programme, London, UK

Digital Artist Residency, Oxford, UK 

2018: OUTSET Residency Programme, London, UK 

2016: By Other Means, London, UK

2008: Grizedale Arts Centre, Lake District, UK 


Awards/Scholarships/Collections: 

2021: Develop Your Creative Practice Fund - Arts Council England

2020: Time, Space, Money Grant – a-n Bursaries

2019: Professional Development Award – OVADA

Grant for production of new work – The Elephant Trust

2015: Vice Chancellors Scholarship – Camberwell College of Art

2014: Jonathan Yates Collection - St Edmunds Hall Art Fund

2009: John Brookes Memorial Prize - Oxford Brookes University


Publications: 

2013: Conjunction Zine Issue 3 ‘Disco

Conjunction Zine Issue 4 ‘Grief

Sleek Magazine, Autumn Issue 'Future Perfect'

 

Education:

2018 - 2019: Camberwell College of Art: Digital Print Research Fellowship

2015 - 2017: Camberwell College of Art: MA Visual Arts Printmaking - Distinction

2005 - 2009: Oxford Brookes University: Fine Art BA (Hons) - Distinction

Selected Exhibitions: 

2024: Realm of Dusk - (with Tom Sewell) 571 Gallery, Reading, UK

2023: A New Face in Hell - The Hawthornvale Space (Window display), Edinburgh, UK

A Tally of Distempered Parts - (with Tom Woolner) ASC Gallery, London, UK

2022: Golem - Lot Project, London, UK

The RSA Annual Exhibition - The Royal Scottish Academy of Art, Edinburgh, UK

2021: The Necker - (with Issy Wilkinson)APT Gallery, London, UK

A Modern Model of an Unseen Scene – Safehouse Peckham, London, UK

2020: MK Calling – MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK

2019: The Weather Garden – Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

Remember Me – Project Space @ MRS, Oxford, UK

The Listener – (with Cath Watson) Three Colt Gallery, London, UK

Troglodyte Antiphon – (with Leah Stweart) Intercession Gallery, Northampton, UK

Wild Service – Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK

OVADA Open – OVADA Gallery, Oxford, UK

Fly Tipping – (with Nancy Dewhurst) Old Fire Station, Oxford, UK

2018: A Casual Texture – (with Leah Stweart) OUTSET Baker Street, London, UK 

2017: MA Summer Shows – Camberwell College of Art, London, UK

And if a double decker bus... – Kingsgate Workshop, London, UK

Print in Space / Space in Print – Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK 

2016: National Original Print Exhibition – Bankside Gallery, London, UK

On Paper – North Gallery, Norwich, UK              

Ink & Bind 2 – Camberwell College of Art, London, UK 

2015: Ink & Bind – Camberwell College of Art, London, UK

Work in Progress – Tom’s Etching Studio, London, UK 

2014: Sebastian Thomas & Cath WatsonNew Work - Bus Stop Gallery, Oxford, UK

A Catalogue of Uncertainty(with Cath Watson) The  Missing Bean, Oxford, UK

A Return to Splendour – St Edmunds College, Oxford, UK 

2013: Proposed Additions – OVADA Warehouse, Oxford, UK

Farewell to Eden – The Keen Bean Coffee Club, Oxford, UK  

2012: Blessing Force 4 – Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

Superficial Cuts – Oxfork, Oxford, UK

Real World Paper Kingdoms – Old Fire Station, Oxford, UK 

2011: Get Your Pritts Out For The Lads – Sassoon Gallery, London, UK

Blessing Force 1 – The Old Bookbinders, Oxford, UK

The New Industry – North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, UK

2010: Cognoscibility – OVADA, Oxford, UK 

2009: The Pleasure Is All Mine – Auto Italia South East, London, UK

Platform 22 (Free Range) – Truman Brewery, London, UK

Oxford Brookes Degree Show – Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford, UK

Lewd Animals – O6 Gallery, Abingdon, UK  

2008:  The  City: Visions & Realities – National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania

Obscene – Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK