summary of your recent artistic work, experience and achievements
In 2015 I completed an ACE GFTA funded 330 hour durational performance of the phrase A Penny For Your Thoughts (APFYT) in which I sat on the pavement outside three cultural venues wearing a suit, framed inside a hazard taped hula hoop ‘stage’, engaging members of the public in conversations about my artistic work, experience and achievements. After a studio visit, Lynda Morris, guest curator of Modern History, invited me to exhibit work from my object based practice (collecting multiples of the same postcards) at The Atkinson, Southport. Preston City Council (PCC) commissioned me to produce Clades (2015), two ‘families’ of hazard taped A-Frames, part of their Lancashire Encounters Festival. Castlefield Gallery (CG) invited me to exhibit my work at the 2015 Manchester Contemporary Art Fair. In 2014 I was selected for a solo show at CG, which included performing the phrase ‘drawing a line in the sand’ for 30 hours over 5 days. CG programme manager Matthew Pendergast and independent curator Elizabeth Wewiora invited me to participate in a group show at Toast about collecting called Hankering for Classification. I performed Level Headed (2014) as part of Hazard, a 1 day public performance event in Manchester organised by Word of Warning. In 2013, I was commissioned by PCC working in partnership with public art programmers, In Certain Places, to perform the phrase ‘two steps forward, one step back’ walking up and down The Harris Flights (2013) for 68 hours over 1 month.
