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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

E-Flux

Elephant

FAD

Art Monthly

FLOORR

Art Reviews 2021