CV
Education
2022 PhD Visual and Material Cultures: ‘Wet Rest: Excess as Liquid Praxis in Art and Curating’. Northumbria University, Newcastle. Examined by Dr Zach Blas and Prof Andrea Phillips and passed with no corrections July 2022. Supervised by Dr Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson.
2011 MA Contemporary Art Theory w/ scholarship, Goldsmiths, University of London
2007 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bristol UWE / Universität der Künste, Berlin
2002 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall
Research Participation
2022- Visual and Material Practices Research (VAMP), invited member, UWE Bristol
2022-24 Creativity is Mistakes, Disability Arts Cymru
2019-22 Liquidity Cohort invited member, MARs Goldsmiths, University of London
2017-22 Wet Rest, founder and convenor, monthly practice-based research and reading group with a focus on liquidity, floatation and sensory deprivation, held between Goldsmiths, University of London and Res.
2017- 19 Social Morphologies Research Unit (SMRU), invited researcher. University College London (UCL).
2017- AAS [artist collaboration] artist researcher, performer and writer with AAS www.aasgroup.net
2010-4 KIOSK [research collaboration] with Susannah Haslam and Lucy Britton
Published Writing and Speaking Engagements (selected)
2026 [forthcoming]Wet Rest [monograph] New York: Punctum.
2025 [forthcoming] ‘Flooding the World’, an introduction to Bridget Crone’s ‘Liquid Bodies Liquid Worlds’, in Bassam el Baroni and Matthew Poole (eds) The Edinburgh Companion to Curatorial Futures, Edinburgh University Press.
2025 ‘Froath on the Sea’ [writing commission], in Kirsten Cooke (ed.), Aqueous Humours Fluid Ground, published by The Poor House Reading Room, Melanie Jackson and Goldsmiths, University of London.
2024 Watery Speculations, curated and convened conference stream of 19 papers across 6 panels, over 2 days. London Conference in Critical Thought 2024, University of Greenwich.
2024 Ways of Writing in Art and Design [guest editor] University of the West of England VCRG special edition of Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, issue 17.1 Bristol: Intellect.
2024 ‘The Outside is Already Inside’ [journal article] in Ways of Writing in Art and Design University of the West of England VCRG special edition of Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, issue 16.2, Bristol: Intellect.
2024 Ways of Writing in Art and Design [guest editor] University of the West of England VCRG special edition of Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, issue 16.2 Bristol: Intellect.
2023 [forthcoming] with sound artist Sonia Levy, Dark, Sloshing and Unseen Tails, Feeder Canal Bristol sound commission. Invited by Rachael Champion and Jonathan Trayte.
2023 ‘Vaseline Dream’, [text] in Sluice magazine edited by Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson.
2023 ‘Bright Shadow: when that now falls’ [writing commission] on the work of Gail Howard. Freelands, g39, Cardiff.
2023 ‘Excess: altered states as bodily protocols of desire’ [conference paper] in Thinking-Feeling Desire in the Now: post-capitalist desire and practices of the body. London Conference in Critical Thought, London Metropolitan University.
2022 ‘Aspirational Horror’ [text and diagram] with Melanie Jackson. In Stella Bruzzi and Maurice Biriotti (eds), Lockdown Cultures: The arts and humanities in the year of the pandemic, 2020-21, Comparative Literature and Culture Series, UCL Press ISBN: 9781800083394
2022 Wet Rest: Excess as Liquid Praxis in Art and Curating [PhD thesis] Northumbria University, Newcastle, examined and awarded by Zach Blas (University of Toronto) and Andrea Phillips (Northumbria University Newcastle), supervised by Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson.
2021 Mother of Purl [commissioned text] with artist Ido Radon, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, Oregan
2021 Psychedelic Hydrology [presentation] Rupert Lithuania
2020 Liquid Worlds [speaker], De Montford University Leicester
2020 RETRIEVAL. [commissioned essay] for artist Sarah Browne, Public Feeling, InContext4, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Wet Rest: Speculative Ontologies [conference paper], Trans-States, University of Northampton
2019 Wet Rest [performance-reading], FSAS Dublin
2019 Wet Rest & Astral Rot [performance-reading] Supernormal Festival
2019 SURVIVOR (F). with Mer Maggie Roberts, in ‘From Survivor (F) to The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime)’, Koenig Books, Serpentine Gallery ISBN: 3960986866
2018 UFO Memesis, essay and AR installation. Commissioned by Quad, Derby and Green Man Festival. AR installation in collaboration with Megan Broadmeadow and Darius Powell.
2018 Deformation Attends Her panel discussion for Verity Birt, Black Tower, London
2018 Gorsedd Interview with Nathalie Boobis in Art Licks Issue 22
2018 Liquid Transmutations with Sarah Jury and Helen Kaplinsky in Alembic, Res. / AND Publishing.
2018 Alembic, with Sarah Jury and Helen Kaplinsky (eds.) Res., AND Publishing ISBN: 9781908452702
2018 Astro-Chthonic Anomaly. Commissioned by CGP London.
2017 White Noise Propositions with Mer Maggie Robertson the work of Suzanne Treister. Commissioned by IMT Gallery London.
2017 Blaxxun [radio play performance] with Johnny Mugwump for ‘BROADCAST’, Supernormal, Braziers Park.
2014 Sci-Fi Paganism [commissioning editor] Enclave Publishing. ISBN: 0993069703
2014 New Rock in Sci-Fi Paganism [writer] Enclave Publishing
2012 Methodologies of Survival with KIOSK in How to Sleep Faster 3, Arcadia Missa publishing
2011 Methodologies of Destabilisation [book chapter] with KIOSK in Space (Re)Solutions, Intervention and Research in Visual Culture Transcript Verlag