Biography / CV / Contact Me

I am an artist and writer ‘who works experimentally with literatures, translations, script and screenwriting, text, space, performance, drawing, and the moving image. This includes an investigation of the problematics and ambiguities of an expanded understanding of translation—between languages and language codes, and between modes of writing, reading and speaking’. (Thank you to Derek Horton for writing a better description of my current practice than I ever could). I am a co-editor at Gordian Projects, a small press operating at the intersection of artist’s book, literatures, art writing, and archive. I am an Associate Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University on the MFA/MA/BA Fine Art, an Associate Lecturer at the University of Bolton on the BA Fine Art, and a tutor for the Poetry School’s International Programme, and I am completing a PhD, Scripting Silence: The Expanded Screenplay as Present-Traumatic Language. A am very lax when it comes to updating my activities on here, and for providing images of current work, so contact me to see an up to date CV and/or digital portfolio

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Selected recent Performances, Residencies, and Exhibitions

(see also Upcoming Events, Readings, and Performances page)

Current

  • imPerfekt: eine Ausstellung zur Barrierefreiheit 12 June–1 November 2021, Mewo Kunsthalle, Memmingem, Germany: Emma Bolland, Daniele Buetti, Anna Coleman Ladd, Adi Hösle, Nikola Irmer, MASBEDO, Bruno Metra & Laurence Jeanson, Annegret Soltau and Marc Quinn

Past

  • I was the 2019 #interrupteur Knowledge Exchange artist-writer in residence for the University of Sheffield’s School of  Arts and Humanities. During the residency I hosted and worked with guests including Helen Clarke, Angelina D’Roza, Rachel Genn, Ashley Holmes, Jan Hopkins, Brian Lewis, Roy Claire Potter, No Matter (Jazz Linklater, Nell Osbourne, and Hilary Reid), and Hester Reeve.
  • Sh! ffLight! an art-writing zaum poem text text written and performed in collaboration with Helen Clarke, performed as part of WRITING PHOTOGRAPHS at Tate Modern, 2018
  • SHADY DEALINGS WITH LANGUAGE, performance readings from Emma Bolland, Alan Cunningham, and Mira Mattar. Curated by Roy Claire Potter. The Magic City, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, 2018.
  • ON VIOLENCE at Offprint, (see Publications for details of On Violence), performative readings from Emma Bolland, Paul Buck, Kirsten Cooke, John Cunningham, Vanessa Place, and Jala Wahid, Tate Modern, 2018
  • LONE WOMEN IN THE NOT QUITE LIGHT – FLASHES OF WILDERNESS. Readings, performances and discussion, with  Clare Archibald, Naomi Frisby, Alison Boyes, Emma Bolland, Dani Abulhawa, Hayley Flynn and Sameena Hussain. Part of the Manchester ‘Not Quite Light‘ weekend
  • An ERRANT, or Improper Form, a collaborative durational writing and film editing  ‘fansubbing’ performance with Rachel Smith, the University of Sheffield, 2018
  • Intimité/Intimacy (performance reading with Sharon Kivland), part of Camerades at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, 2017
  • Violet (performance reading), part of The Dreamers at Pages International Artist Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds, 2017
  • INT/EXT (solo exhibition), Wild Pansy Project Space, University of Leeds, 2016
  • Testing Testing (exhibition), SIA Gallery, Sheffield, 2016
  • Micromegas Vagabond Flux (exhibition), Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, 2016
  • Preparation for the Novel: The Editions (exhibition), Pages International Artist Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds, 2016
  • Lectolalia #2 (Speak Read) (solo exhibition), Bank Street Arts, 2015
  • Lectolalia (performance reading) at Small Publishers, Conway Hall, London
  • Lectolalia (film screening and performance reading), part of the Leeds College of Art and Design Library Interventions, 2015
  • Lorem Ipsum (exhibition), Pages International Artist Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds, 2015
  • Micromegas Vagabond Flux (exhibition), Université de Lille 3, Lille, France, 2015
  • The Is of the Thing (lectophobia mix) (film screening and performance reading) at the Artists’ Book Market, Baltic, Gateshead, 2015
  • The Is of the Thing (performance and film screening), part of Unsettled By And Open To: Shady Dealings with Language, (curated by Roy Claire Potter and David Berridge) Matts Gallery, London, 2014
  • MilkyWayYouWillHearMeCall (collaborative exhibition with Judit Bodor and Tom Rodgers), Wild Pansy Project Space, University of Leeds, 2012

Collections

I have work in public collections including the V&A Museum Art Library (London), The National Poetry Library, Tate Britain Library and Archive (London), Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, the Centre de Livres d’Artistes (France), and in private collections.

Teaching

  • 2015–current: Associate Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University. MFA and BA Fine Art, and the oHPo Radio research/pedagogy project.
  • 2014: Visiting Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. MFA Art, Society and Publics.
  • 2009–2010: Teaching Assistant (printmaking), Huddersfield University (University College Barnsley campus), BA Art and Design.
  • 2006: Associate Lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University (now Beckett), BA Fine Art.
  • 2004–2005: Associate Lecturer, Leeds College of Art and Design, BA Interdisciplinary Art and Design, ‘Professional Practice’ and ‘Collaborative Strategies’ modules.
  • 2004: Visiting Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton.
  • 2002–2004, Associate Lecturer, Huddersfield University, Lecturer in Visual Culture for BA Interactive Arts (teaching contextual studies) and BA Interactive Computer Design (Visual Culture module)
  • 1991–1993, Bradford College of Art and Design, Lecturer in Theoretical Studies, BA Art and Design.
  • I have also been a visiting speaker at several institutions, including the Université de Lille 3 (France), the University of Leeds, and Lancaster University.

Professional Practice / Mentoring / Other

I have delivered professional practice and mentoring schemes for emerging artists for a number of organisations, including Inkwell Arts, East Street Arts, The Art House UK; and I conceived and co-ran the Place and Memory project, a supported, Arts Council and NHS funded ‘alternative art school’ project for artists and writers who had struggled to access formal education. I have also delivered arts programmes in a range of mental health settings, from community to secure forensic environments.