She also co-founded the music group/ artist-collective Ravioli Me Away in 2013 in London with Sian Dorrer and Rosie Ridgeway. They have since produced an Opera, toured internationally, released 4 albums and much more...
Born in Leicester UK (1985) and lives in Birmingham UK and is currently The Wheatley Fellow at School of Art, Birmingham City University and Eastside Projects.
She recived a Postgraduate Diploma with The Gold Medal Award from The Royal Academy Schools London in 2014 and her BA in Fine Art and Contemprary Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2007.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Il Y Aura (There Will Be), The South London Gallery, London, 9 March - 5 June – UK
Il Y Aura (There Will Be), Gaudel De Stampa, Paris – FR
2019
View from Behind the Futuristic Rose Trellis – by Ravioli Me Away, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge including touring performance to: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; The Box, Plymouth; Block Universe Performance Festival and The Albany, London – UK
2018
We May Believe Or We May Never Know, The White House, CREATE, Dagenham - UK
2017
Weddings And Babies, Pilar Corrias, London – UK
Taking Stock, Opening Times, Online commission
2016
The Next Step, Two Queens, Leicester – UK
2015
It’s Not Who You Are, it’s How You Are, collaboration with Atomik Architecture, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2013
They keep putting words in my mouth: An Operetta of Sorts, Pilar Corrias, London (duo exhibition with Ken Okiishi) – UK
PERFORMANCE
2020
Ballad of Simple Woman, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, ‘In The Round’ curated by Rose LeJeune, Pi Artworks – UK & Abu Dhabi – AE
2019
What Not to Wear Out My Soul, Art Night 2019 | Walthamstow & Kings Cross, ‘Curators Programme’ commissioned by Helen Nisbett, London – UK
View from Behind the Futuristic Rose Trellis – An Opera by Ravioli Me Away, touring production to:
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; The Box, Plymouth; Block Universe Performance Festival at The Albany, London – UK
2016
You’ve got my back and I’m on your side, presented by le FRAC Champagne-Ardenne at the Reims Scènes d’Europe Festival, Reims – FR
Liste festival, curated by Keren Cytter, Basel – CH
2015
You’ve got my back and I’m on your side, ‘The Bear Pit’, Focal Point Gallery and curated by Grand Union, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2014
I’ve said yes now that’s it, Outpost, Norwich – UK
I’ve said yes now that’s it, ’Interim’ solo presentation, The Chisenhale Gallery, London – UK
AFTER/HOURS/DROP/BOX, Spike Island, Bristol – UK
2013
Situation/Event, Gasworks, London - UK
AFTER/HOURS/DROP/BOX, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford – UK
I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You, Dover Street Arts Club presented by Gregor Muir, London – UK
Stage Night, The Horse Hospital curated by Tai Shani, London – UK
2012
AFTER/HOURS/DROPBOX, And/Or Gallery, London – UK
2011
Performance in conjunction with exhibition The Pedestrians Charles Atlas and Mika Tajima, South London Gallery, London – UK
2010
The Coelacanth Journal Launch, Vilma Gold, London – UK
2009
A Taste of the Kitchen Sink, presented by The Coelacanth Press, South London Cultural Centre, London - UK
Spartacus Chetwyned’s Helmut Newton Ladies Nights, GSK Contemporary: Event Horizon, Royal Academy of Arts, London – UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL, Museum Leuven, Belgium, 16.11.23–19.11.23
Fabriano Contemporanea International Contemporary Art Biennial, Fabriano, IT
2018
Are Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat, Travelling Gallery - Touring Scotland
2016
Lucy Stein & France-Lise McGurn present NEO-PAGAN BITCH-WITCH!, Evelyn Yard, London – UK
2015
Italy, Watch it Gallery, London – UK
The Boys The Girls The Political, curated by Lynton Talbot and Hana Noorali, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
The Fifth Artist, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge – UK
Dear Luxembourg (Yours Bucktooth grl), Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg – LUX
2014
Too Much, Two Queens Gallery, Leicester – UK
Royal Academy Schools Show, The Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London – UK
FOAM; touring project by Mat Jenner, P/N Gallery, AND/OR & Wysing Arts Centre – UK
2013
Triangle Arts Trust Residency Exhibition, Muscat – OM
V22 Young London 2013, V22 Biscuit Factory, London – UK
Home Theater, Baro Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil – BR
Premiums, The Royal Academy, London – UK
2012
6th Tropical Lab, (curator: Charles Merewether), ICA Singapore – SG
2007
Shot by the Sea, Claremont Art Space: Hastings Film Festival, Hastings – UK
FILM SCREENINGS
2022
IL Y AURA (There will be), Art Lovers Movie Club, ArtReview Online
2020
TRANSMISSIONS, Season 1 Episode 2, curated by Tai Shani, Hana Noorali and Anne Duffau; hosted by Sophie Jung, online.
2019
Artists, Music Videos, PROJECTIONS Film Programme, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle – UK
Interruptions, Screening, Holden Gallery MMU, Manchester – UK
2016
Bedlam Film Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh – UK
2015
The Back and Forth (we're too close to focus), Buenos Tiempos, Int. online exhibition
Scene Four: Home, Flat Time House, Peckham Multiplex Cinema, London, UK
Open Source, commissioned by Anna Gritz, Gillette Square, London - UK
2014
Marmalade Me, South London Gallery, London – UK
Imagined Futures, Basement.TV at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford – UK
2013
Ora Serrata: The Boundary Between the Retina and the Ciliary Body, Cashama, Harlem Art Festival, New York – USA
2012
What You Once Thought Was Real, 113 Dalston Lane, London – UK
RESIDENCIES, AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2022
Wheatley Fellowship, School of Art, Birmingham City University and Eastside Projects – UK
LaunchPad Lab, Artists Residency, Charante – FR
FLUXUS, funding recipient for “IL Y AURA”
FOUNDATION FOUNDATION funding recipient for “IL Y AURA” exhibition at South London Gallery, London
Cnap (Centre National des Arts Plastiques), funding recipient for “IL Y AURA” exhibition at Gaudel de Stampa
2021
Arts Council DYCP Grant – UK
2019
The Arts Foundation Awards - Visual Arts Category (shortlisted)
2018
Arts Council - Project Grant (touring) for The View From Behind The Futuristc Rose Trellis – UK
2017
Solaris Artists Residency, Bordeaux – FR
The White House, Residency, CREATE, Dagenham - UK
2016
Back-To-Front-Space Residency, Primary, Nottingham – UK
2015
‘The Bear Pit’ Residency, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea – UK
2014
Wysing Arts Centre, Autumn Residency; The Future, Cambridgeshire – UK
Digital Fellowship, The Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Gold Medal, The Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Performance Studio Residency, curated by David Thorp, London – UK
2013
Triangle International Artists Residency, The British Council and Omani Society of Fine Arts, Muscat – OM
Gasworks International Performance Residency, Gasworks, London – UK
6th Tropical Lab Residency, La Salle, Singapore – SG
Holbeck Trust Scholarship – UK
Hiscox Award – UK
2012
Leverhulme Scholarship – UK
PUBLICATIONS & DISCOGRAPHY
‘IL Y AURA (THERE WILL BE); THE LINES’, Interjection Calendar
2022/08, published by Montez Press, guest edited by
Onyeka Igwe, 2022
‘Naughty Cool’ by HMS RMA, 12” LP vinyl & digital download, released on ALTER, 2021
‘The View From Behind The Futuristic Rose Trellis’ by Ravioli Me Away, Double 12” vinyl & digital download, released by Wysing Polyphonic, 2019.
‘The Annotated Reader’, ed. Ryan Gander & Johnathan P. Watts, pub. Dent-De-Leone Books, London, 2019
Artist| Work| Lisson, Lisson Gallery, Pub. Cornerhouse Publications, 2017
‘Living Is A Myth’ by Ravioli Me Away, 12” LP vinyl & digital download, released on Upset The Rhythm, 2016.
‘The Inevitable Album’ by Ravioli Me Away, 12” LP vinyl & digital download, released by Good Job records, 2014
Young London Artists 2011-2014 (V22 Young London), Pub. Grey Tiger, 2014
TEACHING / TALKS / TUTORIALS (HIGHER-EDUCATION)
Lecturer in Fine Art (0.5), University West of England, Bristol 2021 - 2022
Visiting Tutor, Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London, 2020 -2021
Visiting Tutor, Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London since 2017 - ongoing
Artist Talk, Cooper Union, NY, 2020
Artists Talk, New York University, NY, 2020
Panel discussion; Moving image in the gallery, The Gallery, De Montfort University, Leicester, 2019
Artists Video Production Workshop Series, Arts University
Bournemouth, 2019
Visiting Tutor and Artists Talk, BA Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores, 2017
Visiting Tutor and Artists Talk, BA Fine Art, Farnham University for the Creative Arts, 2017
Visiting Tutor and Artists Talk, BA Fine Art, Northumbria University, 2016
Visiting Tutor and Artists Talk, BA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, 2016
Associate Lecturer/Visiting Practitioner, BA Fine Art/ Sculpture, Camberwell College, UAL, 2014 - 2016
Visiting Tutor, MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, UAL, 2016
Visiting Tutor, BA Fine Art, Kingston University, 2016
Performance and moving image workshop, BA Fine Art, Brighton University, Brighton, 2016
Associate Lecturer/Visiting Practitioner, BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College; University of London 2013 – 2015
Visiting Artist, School Of The Damned, 2015
Performance workshop, at Wysing Arts Centre with Norwich University of the Arts, BA Fine Art students, 2015
Festival of Blackboards Conference; Arts, education and social change, Cubitt, London, 2014
Visiting Tutor and Artists Talk, BA Fine Art, UWE, Bristol, 2014
Visiting Tutor and Artists Talk, BA Fine Art, DMU, Leicester, 2013
THEATRE
2021-2022
Sound designer and composer, We Will Be Happy Here, Sound designer, Spare Tyre, Touring production, London
2020
Freelance Task Force, Covid 19 free-lancer response initiated by FUEL. Personal sponsor -Spare Tyre
2015-19
Production Designer, Acting Director: The Garden, (ongoing touring) Spare Tyre Theatre Co.
2012
Costume Designer: Spare Tyre Band, Touring London
Production Designer: Picture Me - International Woman's Day, Spare Tyre Theatre Co., New Diorama Theatre, London
2011
Productuon Designer: Once Upon A Time, Spare Tyre Theatre Co.
Production Designer: Trojan Woman, Spare Tyre Theatre Co.
Designer and facilitator: Medowgate Bus Project, GLYPT (Greenwich & Lewisham Young Peoples Theatre)
PARTICIPATORY/WORKSHOPS
2019
Improvised performance, music and story-telling, for young people with Learning Disabilities, ‘All Sorts’, Heart n Soul, The Albany, London.
Costume, performance and music, Family workshops, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge.
Costume, performance and music, for young people with Learning Disabilities,
with Funky Llama group, Plymouth.
2018
SoundLab, project improving accessibility in digital music, Heart n Soul, London
2012
5 day immersive Art and Performance Workshops, The Great Escape Festival: Summer Camp for Adults with learning disabilities, Camden Society, London.
Immersive Installation Workshop, for Because We're Worth It!: National Summit on Participatory Arts, Connected Culture, ICA, London
Dance and Design Workshops for Adults with learning disabilities, The Colour House Theatre, London
2011
Live Art, sound and design Workshops for young people with learning disabilities, The Broadway Theatre, Dagenham
Dance and Design Workshops for Adults with learning disabilities, Tara Arts, London
Once Upon A Time, Dementia Research and Development project – Knightengale House Care home, Spare Tyre Theatre co.
Fashion Workshops for young people with learning difficulties, Watermans Arts Centre, Hounslow
2010-11
Becoming the Art, Inquiry Project:, Combined Arts workshops with children with learning disabilities, Spare Tyre Theatre co. partnership with Trinity School, Dagenham
2010
Fashion Workshops for teenagers in foster care, Watermans Art Centre
2009
T-shirt printing workshops for children, Watermans Arts Centre
Fashion/textile making workshops for adults with learning disabilities, Spare Tyre co, Watermans Arts Centre