b. 1981, Ontario Canada
lives and works in London, UK
PhD Fine Art, [Running as Drawing] Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UAL, London, UK
MFA Fine Art, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
BA (Hons) Art & Art History, University of Toronto and Sheridan College, Canada
Upcoming / Current
Woolff Gallery, UNLOCKED, 2021
TURPS MASS CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 20/21
RUN VERTICAL (Running up the Side of a Building): Live Performance (awarded Arts Council England funding)
Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945 (co-author, Bloomsbury Publication) September 2020.
Past Exhibitions /
2019 An Arm's Reach, (first solo exhibition) Mac I Gryder Gallery, New Orleans, US
2018 EMPIRE II, Oaxaco Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico
2018 Jerwood Drawing Prize (Finalist) Touring Exhibitions, UK
2017 EMPIRE II, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2018 Hampstead London AAF (represented by Woolff Gallery)
2017 Monochrome, Woolff Gallery, London
2017 EMPIRE II, curated by Vanya Balogh, Castello (during the 57th Venice Biennale) Venice, Italy
2017 Circle Drawing: Live Performance @ International Rural Expo, Huron County, Canada
2016 Tickner McLusky Bell & Young Gallery 46, 'topophobophilia', Whitechapel, London
2016 Metal at Southend-on-sea, Sight (Unsighted), Southend-on-Sea, UK
2016 House of Illustration, Drawn Together, drawing performance, Kings Cross, London
2015 Notes on a Table, Drawn Conversations, exhibition, Conventry University
2014 Del Mar Para Ti, poca GALLERY, Spain
2014 Deptford X, London Contemporary Arts Festival, London
2014 Seeafar, Folkestone Fringe Festival, Folkestone, UK
2014 The Waste Land Trilogy (group exhibition, initiated by Lisa Peachey) The Mayflower, Rotherhithe, London
2013 Draw to Perform, Line Dialogues IV, Performance Space, Hackney, London
2012 Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions, Vancouver Art Gallery (curated by Daina Augaitis)
2012 Restraint, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London
2011 VAM, Belmont Art Collection, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Tensao, Antigo Tribunal da Boa-Hora, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 Running as Drawing, Lethaby Gallery, UAL, London
2011 Skype vs Night Sky, Papay Gyro Nights International Contemporary Art Festival, Orkney Scotland
2010 Non-Negotiable, Byam Shaw School of Art Exhibition Space, London
2010 Arc: I Draw for You, The Centre for Drawing UAL, London
2009 Drawn Together, The Centre for Drawing UAL, London
2008 Circles, Window Gallery, Charing Cross Rd, London
2008 Wrapped and Encased, Independents Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2008 Through the Darkly Glass, (Group exhibition, at Kenny Schatcher's ROVE Gallery, Hoxton Square, London
2008 SEE-ME (Lee Cambell Projects: BATS Open Studios (Bow Arts Trust, London, UK)
2007 Phase Space, (Group exhibition, initiated by Lisa Peachey and Ellie Smith) Brunswick Gallery, London
2007 Fwd: Cult – Forward Culture, Nolias Gallery, Liverpool Road, London
Conferences / Lectures and Residencies
2021 Guest MFA in Studio Art, external examiner/crit. Guelph University, Canada.
2021 Remote Visting Artist: Post Baccalaureate in Studio Lecture Series and crits at Brandeis University
2020 Artist Lecture: Bath University, hosted by Robert Luzar
2020 Artist Talk: MFA in Studio Art, hosted by Sandra Rechico, Guelph University, Canada.
2019 Artist Talk: Art & Art History, Program Lunchtime series at Sheridan College / UTM, Canada.
2019 Approaching Estate: Furtherfield Gallery, London
2018 Sport / Spectacle: Performing, Labouring, Circulating Bodies... Kings College, London
2017 Drawing Matters: Symposium; paper presentation, York St John University, U.K
2016 The Future of the Document: documenting performance (co-presented with Lee Campbell and Adrian Lee) City, University of London
2016 RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016; film screening host and co-curator of the 3-part event (London, Leeds, Cardiff)
2015 In this Neck of the Woods, (initiated by Susan Trangmar and Steven Ball) Central Saint Martins, UAL, London
2014 Dialogues on Performance III: Draw to Perform, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London
2014 Performing site, Falmouth University, UK
2012 Sensingsite, performance and talk, initiated by Susan Trangmar, Duncan White and Steven Ball, Parasol Unit, London,
2012 DRAWING OUT 2012: The Drawn Out Network, The Center for Drawing, UAL, London
2012 Fields of Vision – Conference at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
2011 DRN/UNIDCOM, Drawing and Design Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 Artist-in-Residence (with PDC), Arc I Draw for You, The Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon UAL, London
Publications
2020 Black Book: Drawing and Sketching [Scientific Journal]. Vol 1 Issue 1 : RUN VERITCAL
2020 Endurance Running as Gesture [...]' by Andrew Filmer in Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol3 issue 1, ISSN: 1048-6801.
2019 An Arm's Reach, Artist Book, publication. Printed by Book Works UK. ISBN 978-1-78972-638-1.
2017 Body, Space & Technology Journal Vol16 SIGHT (UN)SPECIFIC (co-author with L.Campbell and A. Lee).
2014 PhD Thesis title, ‘A Line is a Brea(d)thless Length: Introducing the physical act of running as a form of drawing’.
(Director of Studies: Anne Tallentire, Supervisors: Joanna Greenhill, Jordan Baseman.)
2013 Zeichnen als Erkenntnis (Cognition through Drawing), written by Agnieszka Karasch, Kopaed Publishing (Germany), Munich Art Academy symposium, October.
2012 On Duration, (co-written with J. Grisewood) Performance Research, vol.17/No.5, October, pp64-65, ISSN 1352-8165, Routledge, Oxford.
2011 The Sense of Drawing, (co-written with J. Grisewood) conference paper & UNIDCOM/IADE, International Publication, Lisbon.
2009 Studio International, January Issue. 2010 Drawn Together, co-written (M. Foá, J. Grisewood, B. Hosea, C.McCall).
2010 Tracey: Contemporary Drawing Research’, online journal, September Issue.