Artist / Writer / Curator
Education
/BA Hons Fine Art, Manchester School of Art, 2016-2019, First Class
/Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Manchester School of Art, 2015-2016, Distinction
Group Exhibitions
/The Naming of Things, Castlefield Gallery, Tbc 2021
/Underground Manoevres, Soft Spot, November 2020
/Picture Window, Soft Spot Online, May 2020
/Manchester School of Art Degree Show, June 2019
/Binary, Partisan, Manchester, April 2019
/Manchester School of Art Fine Art Auction, Holden Gallery, Manchester, April 2019
/Life Is Elsewhere, The Old Bank, Manchester, March 2019
/Why Smash Atoms? Ps Mirabel, Manchester, April 2019
/A Christmas Show, Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester, December 2018
Curation
/The Naming of Things, exhibition alongside Ryan Gander's The Annotated Reader at Castlefield Gallery, postponed until August 202.1
/Underground Manoevres, Soft Spot Online, November 2020 (accompanying ekphrastic texts).
/Flat Instance, Soft Spot, September 2020, Featuring work by Babs Smith, Owen Herbert and Ben Allan.
/Picture Window, Soft Spot Online, May 2020. Featuring work by Nina Porter, Hanne Lippard, Lydia Davies, Bryony Dawson, Georges Perec and Margeurite Duras.
/Pilot, Soft Spot, September 2019
/Life Is Elsewhere, Exhibition at The Old bank, Withington, March 2019. A pop-up exhibition with a bar and live performances in a closed-down NatWest branch. Curated as part of Soft Spot.
Soft Spot is a collective of artists: Bryony Dawson, Ed Gwyn Jones, Alfie Sellers, Rosie Burslem, Jay Mulholland and Saoirse Lewis. We curate a gallery space in the basement of Ps Mirabel Gallery in Manchester.
Publications/Other
/OFF_CENTRE: DRAFT #1 -- Performativity
‘a new artistic research journal presenting and sharing a process of thinking through’.
Edited by Katy Morrison, PINK. Available here.
/CHAIN/MAIL Issue 3: Greater Manchester/ Lancashire/ Cumbria - Corridor8
Edited by James Schofield with contributions from Katie Morrison, Mel Galley and cover artwork by Bryony Dawson. Available here.
/Podcast: In Conversation with Ryan Gander and Matthew Pendergast. We talk about art, language and the two exhibitions we had to postpone during the pandemic. Available here.
Awards
/Castlefield Gallery Spring Members Exhibition, selected by Ryan Gander, postponed Until 2021
/Castlefield Graduate Associates award 2019/2020
/Foyle Young Poets 2014, highly commended
Residencies
/Borrowdale, Lake District, England, March 2019
/Joya:air, Almeria, Spain, March 2018
/Foyle Young Poets 2014 Winners Residency, Arvon Centre, The Hurst, Shropshire