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 Sculpture, Fine Art, Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK
BA (Hons) Sculpture I Photography, Art & Art History, University of Toronto and Sheridan College, Canada
CURRENT / UPCOMING
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Lines of Empathy (group show /publication + curated by Giulia Ricci) 2nd -25th February 2023
V i d e o S o u n d A r c h i v e : S6 **artist interviews on February 7, 2023 @ 9 pm ET / L.A.
Performance Research Journal, issue 27.8 'On Blood' February 2023
RUN VERTICAL (Running up the Side of a Building): Live Performance (awarded Arts Council England funding)
RECENT
2022 Artseen Gallery, Cyprus, Exhibition and Live Performances, 'i miss the land but does the land miss me?'
2022 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Performing Rock (Basque) 2022 *MEM festival curated by Txema Agriano
2022 Wright + Doyle SS23 collection
2022 Performing Rock, Live performance, (and holding rock sculpture, Liane Lang) at Wirksworth Art Festival
2022 'Now Nancy' - SohoRadio - guest on the episode: Physicality
2022 Out of Site / Performance Lecture
2022 10 Magazine: Future, Balance, Healing [issue 68] Editorial by Jermaine Frances and Julie Ragolia
2022 Beyond Beck Road, London UK (apple video)
2022 Levels of Life: Photography, Imaging and the Vertical Perspective. LCC Gallery, London
2022 Out of Site public performances / FLOW curated by Beau Coleman, (streamed-live) Chicago
2022 Filet Gallery: Mañana Incierto, London UK
2022 We were never human: The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD) NYC
2022 tunglið, tunglið taktu mig - SÍM Group Show / Exhibition Hall, Iceland
2022 MASS CC (Crucible) - Thame-Side Studio Main Gallery UK
2021 Hundred Years Gallery, Live Performance, London UK
2021 C4RD (Centre for Recent Drawing) Residency (with co-authors) London UK
2021 Gryder Gallery, Summer Group Exhibition, New Orleans
2021 Here and There, online live performance, Philadelphia US
2021 Woolff Gallery, UNLOCKED, London UK
2020 Artspace, Gala, New Haven, NY
2019 An Arm's Reach, (solo exhibition) Gryder Gallery, New Orleans, US
2018 EMPIRE II, Oaxaco Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico
2018 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 (Finalist) Touring Exhibitions, UK
2018 Hampstead London AAF (represented by Woolff Gallery)
2017 EMPIRE II, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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 Campbell 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
2022 Artist Talk, MASS / Turps Banana Programme, Woolwich
2022 Out of Site / FLOW Performance Art Symposium; Performative Lecture / Chicago US
2022 3RD UCM CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY DRAWING
2022 1-Month Residency, SÍM, Iceland
2022 Drawing Room, London UK: Research Talk, Performance Drawing (with co-authors)
2022 Artist Talk, Talking Heads - Winchester School of Art
2021 Artist Talk on Performance Drawing - London Metropolitan University
2021 TURPS MASS CORRESPONDENCE COURSE
2021 Guest MFA in Studio Art, external examiner/crit. Guelph University, Canada
2021 Remote Visiting 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) 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 NEW LIFE BERLIN Art Festival, Germany
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 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
2021 Artist as Athlete, TRACEY, Drawing Matters Publication, York St John University, Vol.15 issue 1
2020 Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945 [co-author, Bloomsbury Visual Arts Publication]
2020 Black Book: Drawing and Sketching [Scientific Journal]. Vol 1 Issue 1 : RUN VERTICAL
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 Cognition through Drawing), written by Agnieszka Karasch, Kopaed Publishing (Germany), Munich Art Symposium
2012 On Duration Performance Research, vol.17/No.5, October, pp64-65, ISSN 1352-8165, Routledge, Oxford
2011 The Sense of Drawing 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