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Education:
             
    1990-92
    Postgraduate Studies: Higher Diploma in Fine Art (Media)
    Slade School of Art, University College London
    
    1986-89             
    BA Fine Art (1st Class Hons)
    Goldsmith's College, University of London    
    

    Selected work:


    Paintings

    2008
     Transatlantic Pride Exhibition,
Clifford Chance, London. Curator: Michael Petry
     Curious Nature, Collyer Bristow, London; Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. Curators: Day + Gluckman

    2007                     
    Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London

    2005                 
    Lost and Found in Translation, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
    
    2004                 
    Hortus, Spacex Gallery, Exeter/Liverpool Biennial

    2003                 
    Fragrant, St.Peter's Church, London     

    
    Performances


    2007
    Hot Soak , ‘Intimacy’, home / Goldsmith’s College, London
     Not tonight darling, I’m washing my hair ,
     Smallbone of Devizes, London and Kent, Curator: Sigrid Wilkinson,

    2006                 
    Hot Soak, ‘Tract’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
    Spit, Rational Rec: Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London

    2005                 
    Hot Soak, home, London

    2003                 
    Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Performance photoworks in collaboration with Manuel Vason,
    Tate Gallery, Liverpool
    Le Cheveu, Performance soundwork, Galérie Éspace, Montréal, Canada

    2001                 
    cleanliness is next to godliness…but dirtiness is next to heaven, Dulwich Leisure Centre, London
    Not tonight darling, I’m washing my hair, home, London
    pucker - FA3 Performance Festival, Montréal, Canada
    Scene and Unseen Part II - Heterocyst by/with Tagny Duff, Eaton Centre, Montréal, Canada

    2000                 
    thirsty work, The desert, for Institute for the Arts, Arizona, USA

    1998                
    wet, La Centrale Gallery, Montréal & A-Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada

    1996-9             
    pucker, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada/CCA, Glasgow

    1995-2000         
    Solo acts, Regular act at the club 'Duckie', Royal Vauxhall Tavern & ‘Duckie Dancehall’/’Artskool’, London, plus
    invited to host/compère/perform at a variety of benefits and clubs, including Lux, LIFT, Mardi Gras, Manchester,
    Emma Hedditch’s bedroom, London.    

    
    Publications

    2006                 
    8 artists try not to talk about art, ed. Bridget Crone, Space/Artquest

    2003                 
    Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Cat., Tate Gallery, Liverpool

    2002                 
    exposures, ed. Manuel Vason, Lois Keidan and Ron Athey. Black Dog    


    Awards

    2007 + 2000      
    Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Visual Arts

    2006                 
    Trajectory Artist 2005/6 - Space/Artquest

    2002                 
    One-To-One Bursary - Live Art Development Agency & London Arts, 2001

    2001                 
    Combined Arts Production Award - London Arts, 2000/1
     Travel Award - British Council
    Research & Development - Arts Council of England, 1999



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