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Forthcoming/Current exhibitions

2010 Winner of "The Times/The South Bank Show Breakthrough Award", Nominated as the representative for the Visual Arts
  Fortress of Solitude: Soul Archive, Solo Installation, 176 Project Space, London
 

Royale with Cheese, AICON Gallery, London, curated by Niru Ratnam

  The Incident, Primo Alonso Gallery, London, curated by Jim Howard

Solo exhibitions / projects

2009-10 Fortress of Solitude: Soul Archive, 176 Project Space, London
2009 The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, Solo screening, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
  Crossroads, Solo exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol, touring to Turner Contemporary, Margate, and 176 Project Space, London
 

The Underground Soul, Solo exhibition, Brighton Art Festival, Grey Area, Brighton

2008 Artprojx Dojo: Duels and Dualities, Artprojx Space, London
2007 Fortress of Solitude, Jerwood Platform for Artists, Cell Project Space, London
  The Way of the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, Platform China Project Space, Beijing, China curated by David Thorp, supported by The British Council

Selected Commissions / Prizes

2009 Daiwa Award for travel to research "Child of the Atom" in Hiroshima, Japan
2008 Made Up, The Bluecoat, as part of the Liverpool Biennial
  Tatton Park Biennial
2007 Spike in the City, commission by Spike Island, Bristol
  Artscouncil Individual Artist's Award
  British Council Visiting Arts Award
2006 The Man who Fell to Earth, commission by Heron Mill, Cumbria
2005 Soul of the Lakes, Grizedale Arts commission for Cumbriana Proof, Coniston, Cumbria

2004

Radio Nights, Artangel Interaction commission, a film made in collaboration with The Avenues in North London, The Gate Cinema, London
  Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, winner of the £6000 award
  Enter the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, performance as a hermit, Painshill Park, Surrey, commissioned by Danielle Arnaud & Parabola for Tempered Ground
2003 Ya get me?, Artangel Interaction commission, a film made in collaboration with The Avenues in North London, that centres on the use of language inside subcultures
2002 Beck's Student Prize for film & video, runner up prize winner, ICA, London
1999 Medway Open, Gillingham, Kent, winner of £5000 award selected by David Thorp & Permindaur Kaur

Selected exhibitions / residencies   

2009 Stranger Things Are Happening, Aspex, Portsmouth
  Personal Affects, A.I.R. Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn, The Netherlands
2008

"Far West", Arnolfini, Bristol; touring to A Foundation, Liverpool and Turner Contemporary, Margate

  "Museumnight 2008: Tomorrow is Humourless", screening event at Stedelijk Museum Bureau (SMBA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  " I/Legitimate", Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, Brazil
  "Made Up", the Bluecoat, as part of the Liverpool Biennial
  "Tatton Park Biennial", Cheshire
 

"Sonic Youth", Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland & touring to Wallace Gallery, New York, USA

  "Phenomena", Pori Art Museum, Finland
  "The David Blandy Special", screening at 176 Project Space, London
  "Jerwood Moving Image Awards", Finalist
  "Artprojx Hi Fi" at Anthology Film Archives, The Armory Show, New York
2007

Art Review's invited comic contribition, December Issue

  "Persona Non Grata", curated by Ben Judd , One in the Other, London
  "My Still Life as a Personal Object," Alma Enterprises, London
  "The Great Escape- New Art from London", White Flag Projects, St Louis, USA, curated by Katrina Hallowell
  "A Second Life", Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland, curated by Barnaby Drabble
  About Turn, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
  Artsadmin Screening Programme, Artsadmin Studios, London
  tank.tv DVD of selected video artists, distributed by Thames & Hudson
  Artradio, exhibition & residency, Cornerhouse, Manchester
  Artprojx at Greenland Street presents, Liverpool
  The Communism of Form: Sound + Image + Time, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
  Extend Your Neck, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
  100 Tage=100 Videos, Kunstvereine Gl Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Big Family Business, The IMÇ Buildings, Istanbul
2007 16 Hour Museum, AIT, Tokyo, Japan
  Köln Show 2, Vera Gliem Galerie, Cologne, Germany
  Role Model, The John Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
  Air Video, Air Space, Stoke on Trent
2006 Media Attention, G39, Cardiff
  IASPIS residency and Open Studio Event, Stockholm, Sweden
  Street: behind the cliché, group show, Witte de With Gallery, Rotterdam
  Because the Night, Artangel Interaction, Bethnal Green Town Hall, London
  I don't know what else to do with myself!, Video Screening & discussion, AK28 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  The Mothership Collective, South London Gallery, curated by Harold Offeh
  [Incorporaciones+Polesello] Recientes, Macro-Museo de arte contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina
  Kaleidoscope, screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Turtle, Chelsea Space, curated by Michael H. Shamberg
  Represent, two person show at Gasworks, London
  FILMPERFORMANCE, Modern Art Oxford
  Kill your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts
  Culture Bound, VII East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2005 Monitor, LOT, Bristol, curated by Sally Shaw
  Adding Up, screening, Sous-Station Lebon, Nice, France
  Thirteenth Raindance Film Festival, tank.tv showcase, London
  Gasworks Gallery/Triangle Arts Trust residency at El Levante, Rosario, Argentina
  About Time, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark, curated by Nikolaj Larsen
  Cumbriana Proof Grizedale Arts, Cumbria
  Projekt Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
  The Mind is a Horse (Part 2), Bloomberg Space, London
  Astigmatic 2005 festival, Tank.tv, Gdynia, Poland
  It is hard to touch the real, touring video archive, organised by Maria Lind, to Kunstverein Munich, Germany , Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden; Yeans, Gothenburg, Sweden; Unge Kunstnerers Samfund UK, Oslo, Norway; Tallinn Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia
  Faltering Flame: Aspects of the Human Condition in Contemporary Art, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, curated by David Thorp
  Biennale! Artist Film & Video, Temporarycontemporary Gallery, London, selected by Jananne Al-Ani, touring to Dashanzi International Arts Festival, Beijing, China, and Raum 3, Berlin
2004-5 Romantic Detachment, residency & exhibition, curated by Grizedale Arts & The Henry Moore Foundation, PS1 Gallery, New York, USA & touring to Chapter, Cardiff, Wales; Q Gallery, Derby; Folly, Lancaster
  New Contemporaries 2004, Liverpool Biennale & The Barbican, London 2004
2004 Ethnic Marketing, Centre d'art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, curated by Tirdad Zolghadr
  I almost feel like doing it again ¼ , K3 Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland, curated by Barnaby Drabble
  Agora, Transition Gallery, London
  Tempered Ground, Museum of Garden History, London, curated by Danielle Arnaud & Parabola
  Body-Con: conscious bodies, A touring exhibition, various venues, Japan, curated by Roger Mcdonald, AIT
  Itchy Park, art event, Limehouse Town Hall, London, curated by Emily Wardill
  Art, Identity and the Unconscious in the Age of Transnationalism, Conference & film screening, Tate Modern, London, organised by the Freud Museum & The Slade, UCL
  Volume, film programme, part of   Commotion, organised by Picture This, Arnolfini and St. George's, Bristol
  Artist's Films on Music Culture, National Film Theatre, in collaboration with the Hayward Gallery, London
  Tape291 Video Open, 291 Gallery, London
  Artist's Residency at Grizedale Arts, the Lake District
  Emergency, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
  Nothing If Not Satirical, The Nunnery, London, curated by Pryle Behrman
2003-4 Domestico 03, group exhibition, Central Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  Nothing Special, group exhibition, FACT, Liverpool, curated by Claire Doherty
2003 Family Business, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London, curated by Matthew Poole & Danielle Arnaud
  Lux Open 2003, Royal College of Art, London
  Beck's Student Prize for film & video, selected by Sam Taylor Wood & Peter Saville, ICA, London; CCA, Glasgow; Edinburgh Festival & ArtSway, Sway
  New Video, Galleria Morcilla, Barcelona, Spain
2002 Someone must have been telling lies, Forde Espace, Geneva, Switzerland, curated by Ceri Hand
  Deliberate Regression, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, curated by Vita Zamen
2000 The Big Torino Arts Festival, Turin, Italy
  Wooden Heart, AVCO Gallery, London
1999-00 New Contemporaries 1999, part of the Liverpool Biennale, & Milch, London
  River Deep, Mountain High, Gallery Westland Place, London and Duncan of Jordanstone Gallery, Dundee, curated by Kelly Taylor & David Risley
1999 Temptation/Boredom, Outline Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998 Originals#2, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London

 

Education

1976 Born in London  
1995-98 Chelsea College of Art BA Hons Sculpture

2001-03

Slade School of Art MA in Fine Art Media

Collections

Anita and Poju Zabludowicz Collection  
V22 Collection  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                                                                                           

 






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