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Publications + Readings
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2025
Half Someone Else’s: contribution to Becoming a Poet: a forthcoming anthology of essays by former winners and shortlisted nominees of the Foyle Young Poet of the year award, edited by Dr Anthony Wilson, forthcoming 2025
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2024
Reading at Lisbeth, Berlin for SORE #1 Launch
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2024
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2024
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2024
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2024
Exhibition Texts for Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin: Audrey Levinthal, Stefan Hirsig, Katherine Bradford
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2024
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2023
Reading at San Seriffe, Amsterdam for SORE #1 Launch
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2023
Exhibition Texts for Galerie Efremidis, Berlin:
So Fragile a Thing: Cecile Lempert; TYVMXZU!!, Na Kim; Life Like Looking, Arthur Laidlaw + Hayley Tompkins -
2023
Tha-at’s Right: essay responding to a film by Rowland Hill, Motor Dance Journal issue 2
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2023
Reading at Soft Launch, Cittipunkt, Berlin, curated by Adrienne Chung
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2023
Catalogue text for Patric Sandri, published by NOA Contemporary
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2023
Trapped Nerve, published in SORE: collection of artist writings edited by Mathilde Heuliez
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2023
Trapped Nerve, published as a risograph edition by Eartbound Press
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2022
Reading at GRAT, Poropati, Berlin, curated by Sofie Naufal and Yael Esti Mor
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2022
A Trapped Nerve in an Eyelid: text in response to PIVOT, an exhibition at Castlefield Gallery with Corridor8
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2020
Underground Manoeuvres: series of texts accompanying group exhibition curated by Soft Spot
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2020
CHAIN/MAIL Issue 3, Corridor8, Cover design
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2020
Two poems in OFF_CENTRE: DRAFT #1: Performativity, Publication by PINK, Manchester
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2020
Castlefield Gallery Podcast: In Conversation with Bryony Dawson, Ryan Gander and Matthew Pendergast
Selected Exhibitions (as artist)
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2023
‘Reader’: performance in collaboration with members of my reading group ‘Non Productive Readers’, hosted by Viscose Journal during their Between Bridges residency, Berlin
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2023
‘Dear all’: group exhibition curated by Hope (London), Kingsgate Project Space (London)
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2022
‘The Naming of Things’: Group exhibition featuring Swrihana Spong, Sarah Tripp, Jessica Higgins, Lydia Davies, Jeanne Constantin and Bryony Dawson, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
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2021
‘Strange and Uncertain’: artist film commissioned by Islington Mill and screened online for their 'Memories of Living' series.
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2019
'Life Is Elsewhere': Group exhibition curated by Soft Spot, The Old Bank, Manchester
Selected Exhibitions (as curator)
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2022
‘The Naming of Things’: Group exhibition featuring Swrihana Spong, Sarah Tripp, Jessica Higgins, Lydia Davies, Jeanne Constantin and Bryony Dawson, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
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2020
Flat Instance, Group exhibition with Babs Smith, Owen Herbert and Ben Allan, Soft Spot, Manchester
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2020
Picture Window, Online exhibition with works by Hanne Lippard, Lydia Davies, Nina Porter, Bryony Dawson, George Perec and Marguerite Dumas, 2020
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2019
'Life Is Elsewhere': Group exhibition curated by Soft Spot, The Old Bank, Manchester
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2019
Pilot, Group Exhibition at Soft Spot, Manchester, 2019
Selected Freelance Clients, 2020–Present
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Haverkampf Leistenschneider; KW, KW Freunde, Collective Tools Project and Cie Yan Duyvendak, Mire Lee, Berlin Biennale; Studio Simon Fujiwara, NOA Contemporary; Gallery Weekend Festival 2023 (Berlin); Efremidis (Berlin); Brandenburgischer Kunstverein; Kunstraum Kreuzberg; SAVVY Contemporary
Awards, Residencies, Grants
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2024
Frieze New Writers Workshop, organised by Frieze and Phileas, Vienna, 2024
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2022
Corridor8 Bursary to develop a written response to PIVOT at Castlefield Gallery
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2019
Selected by Ryan Gander OBE as guest-curator for the Castlefield Gallery’s Member’s Exhibition
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2019
Castlefield Gallery Graduate Associates Award
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2019
PS Mirabel Gallery Graduate Curatorial Residency Award (as part of Soft Spot)
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2014
Highly commended: Foyle Young Poet of the Year award and later invited to join the winners’ Arvon residency
Education
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2019
BA Fine Art, Manchester School of Art
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2018
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Manchester School of Art
Collaborations/Other
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2024
Web Design for Garance Bonard, with development by klon.xyz
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2023
Web Design for Thaddé Comar, with development by klon.xyz
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2022
Director and Editor of music visualiser for Deathbed Hangover by Ben Gregory, Transgressive Records