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Publications + Readings

  • 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

  • 2024

    Reading at Lisbeth, Berlin for SORE #1 Launch

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    Exhibition Texts for Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin: Audrey Levinthal, Stefan Hirsig, Katherine Bradford

  • 2024
  • 2023

    Reading at San Seriffe, Amsterdam for SORE #1 Launch

  • 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

  • 2023

    Reading at Soft Launch, Cittipunkt, Berlin, curated by Adrienne Chung

  • 2023

    Catalogue text for Patric Sandri, published by NOA Contemporary

  • 2023

    Trapped Nerve, published in SORE: collection of artist writings edited by Mathilde Heuliez

  • 2023

    Trapped Nerve, published as a risograph edition by Eartbound Press

  • 2022

    Reading at GRAT, Poropati, Berlin, curated by Sofie Naufal and Yael Esti Mor

  • 2022

    A Trapped Nerve in an Eyelid: text in response to PIVOT, an exhibition at Castlefield Gallery with Corridor8

  • 2020

    Underground Manoeuvres: series of texts accompanying group exhibition curated by Soft Spot

  • 2020

    CHAIN/MAIL Issue 3, Corridor8, Cover design

  • 2020

    Two poems in OFF_CENTRE: DRAFT #1: Performativity, Publication by PINK, Manchester

  • 2020

    Castlefield Gallery Podcast: In Conversation with Bryony Dawson, Ryan Gander and Matthew Pendergast

Selected Exhibitions (as artist)

  • 2023

    ‘Reader’: performance in collaboration with members of my reading group ‘Non Productive Readers’, hosted by Viscose Journal during their Between Bridges residency, Berlin

  • 2023

    ‘Dear all’: group exhibition curated by Hope (London), Kingsgate Project Space (London)

  • 2022

    ‘The Naming of Things’: Group exhibition featuring Swrihana Spong, Sarah Tripp, Jessica Higgins, Lydia Davies, Jeanne Constantin and Bryony Dawson, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

  • 2021

    ‘Strange and Uncertain’: artist film commissioned by Islington Mill and screened online for their 'Memories of Living' series.

  • 2019

    'Life Is Elsewhere': Group exhibition curated by Soft Spot, The Old Bank, Manchester

Selected Exhibitions (as curator)

  • 2022

    ‘The Naming of Things’: Group exhibition featuring Swrihana Spong, Sarah Tripp, Jessica Higgins, Lydia Davies, Jeanne Constantin and Bryony Dawson, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

  • 2020

    Flat Instance, Group exhibition with Babs Smith, Owen Herbert and Ben Allan, Soft Spot, Manchester

  • 2020

    Picture Window, Online exhibition with works by Hanne Lippard, Lydia Davies, Nina Porter, Bryony Dawson, George Perec and Marguerite Dumas, 2020

  • 2019

    'Life Is Elsewhere': Group exhibition curated by Soft Spot, The Old Bank, Manchester

  • 2019

    Pilot, Group Exhibition at Soft Spot, Manchester, 2019

Selected Freelance Clients, 2020–Present

  • 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

  • 2024

    Frieze New Writers Workshop, organised by Frieze and Phileas, Vienna, 2024

  • 2022

    Corridor8 Bursary to develop a written response to PIVOT at Castlefield Gallery

  • 2019

    Selected by Ryan Gander OBE as guest-curator for the Castlefield Gallery’s Member’s Exhibition

  • 2019

    Castlefield Gallery Graduate Associates Award

  • 2019

    PS Mirabel Gallery Graduate Curatorial Residency Award (as part of Soft Spot)

  • 2014

    Highly commended: Foyle Young Poet of the Year award and later invited to join the winners’ Arvon residency

Education

  • 2019

    BA Fine Art, Manchester School of Art

  • 2018

    Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Manchester School of Art

Collaborations/Other