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Selected Shows and Residencies
RETENT, experimental novella, JOAN publishing, stocked internationally, 2026
TBC, joint exhibition with Melanie Counsell at Worse Projects, London 2025
I Will Make You My Dinner, joint exhibition with Ferdinand Evaldsson at St Chads Project Space, London, 2024
Reading at Camden Arts Centre, London 2024
Wait With Your Friends and Do Your Best to Stay There, JOAN publishing, stocked internationally, 2024
High House residency, Norwich, 2023
Thing Theory, group exhibition at 243 Luz, Margate, 2023
On Air - On Site, 48hr festival at The Institute of Sonology and The Hague, the Netherlands, 2023
Outcast on the Ocean, in conversation with Alice Rekab for A/WA at Auto Italia, London, 2023
Live broadcast for Plus X on Cashmere Radio + 88.4FM, Berlin, 2023
Raw Nerves, group exhibition at Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2023
Absence Makes the Heart, group exhibition at General Information, London, 2022
Peripheral Alliances residency and exhibition at Kunstverein München/ Ammersee, Germany 2022
MELTDOWN, group exhibition at Ridley Road Project Space, London, 2022
Natural History, solo exhibition at Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich, 2021
Arcadia, group exhibition at Bold Tendencies, London, 2021
Crypsis Pairing, solo exhibition at Art Lacuna supported by Arts Council England, London, 2020
A Land of Incomparable Beauty, group exhibition at Collective Ending, London, 2020
Lathe of Heaven, solo exhibition at Lily Brooke, London, 2019
MODE, group exhibition at 55 Great Marlborough Street, London, 2019
Class of 2019, at Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2019
Bare Mountain, joint exhibition with Sara Knowland at Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2018
Reading at Objects In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2018
1+1=3 [in the bubble], group exhibition at Museion, Bolzano, Italy, 2018
Merry Widows, solo exhibition at White Cubicle, London, 2018
No Place To Spit, group exhibition at Set Space, London, 2017
The Hive Mind, group exhibition at Koppel Project, London, 2017
Iterare! Iterare!, solo exhibition at URBANEK, London, 2017
Addams Outtakes, group exhibition at Roaming Projects, London, 2017
Alto Refix solo exhibition at GAP Glurns Art Point residency, Glorenza, Italy, 2016
Maresklepy, published online, Form IV, 2016
HYPO, solo exhibition at Coleman Projects, London, 2015
Residency at Troy Town Art Pottery, London, 2014
Prizes and Grants
CARG research fund, 2023
Arts Council England, 2020
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Travel Prize, 2019
Gilbert Bayes Grant, 2019
Salaman-Seelig Art Prize, 2018
Art Collecting Society Award, 2018
Elephant Trust Grant, 2015
Press