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EXHIBITIONS

Solo Shows/Events

2016/17
‘The Triumph of Crowds’ Downtown Art, New York Dec 2017, Directed by Fiona Templeton, Performed by ‘The Relationship’
(Winner of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers 2016)

‘N scale’ performance and launch, Conway Hall, London (May 10th) 2017

2012
‘One + One’ Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda and Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland
‘Horizontal Ontologies’ Art Currents Institute Gallery, New York

2010
‘One + One (The Reading)’ Rea Garden residency, Birmingham

2009
‘Isoli [cont.]’ Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University, Coventry (Jan. 09)
‘The Face of Another’, part of ‘Curating Knowledge’ Alsager Arts Centre, MMU, Cheshire

2007/8
‘Vexations’ part of Site Platform, Site Gallery, Sheffield

‘In Place of the Page’ (collaborative project) at:
2004
July/August Standpoint Gallery, Coronet St. Hoxton, London
June/July Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland
2003
Sep. – Nov.: London Open House Weekend, Sugarhouse, ACME live-work space
Nottingham Central Library, Angel Row, Nottingham
‘A Sense of Place’ conference, The Old Library, Cardiff

2000 – 2002:
‘Mobile Porch’ Under the Westway, London
‘Incubation, Writing and the Internet’ conference, Nottingham
‘Dartington Gallery’ Dartington, Devon

2003:
‘Habitat’ (work in progress) at Unit 2 Gallery, Whitechapel, London

 Group Shows/Events

 2016/17
‘Daybreak’ group exhibition, Asylum, AMP and Safe Houses, Peckham, London

2015
‘Diagrams’, curated by Niamh McDonnell. Pallas Projects, Dublin and QSS gallery, Belfast
‘Why Would I Lie?’ research exhibition, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

2013:
‘Beyond The Frontier’ (video in public sites) New Ross, Wexford, Ireland
‘Platform, In the Making’, Site Gallery, Sheffield

2012:
‘Live Notation’, AHRC research group day of performance/presentations, Arnolfini, Bristol

2011:
‘A Game of Two Halves’, two person show, Lewis Gallery, Rugby
‘L’ultima cena’, Refettorio di San Michele, Pescia, Italy

2010:
‘Beyond Fontana’ Studio 1.1, London, curated by Stephanie Moran
‘A Site of No Special Interest’, Solihull Gallery, Birmingham

2009:
Creekside Open 09, selected by Mark Wallinger. APT gallery, Deptford, London
‘Unspeaking Engagements’, Chulalongkorn University Gallery, Bangkok. Group show curated by Steve Dutton and Brian Curtin.
‘The Other Side of Waiting’ Homerton Hospital, London – integrated artworks by feminist art-architecture collective ‘taking place’.

2008:
‘Drawing Breath’ group show, Lugar Do Desenho, Foundation of Julio Resende. Porto,
Portugal
‘Re-Cognition’ Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, UK
‘Art/Home Movies, High Rise Cinema’ Park Gallery, Falkirk, Curated by Alex Hetherington

2007:
‘L’Isola Di’, (exhibition and residency) San Servolo Servici, Venice, Italy

2006:
‘Spatial Imagination’ Domo Baal Gallery, London

2005:
‘Starwatch’ Poster work for ‘51N / 00W’ at bookartbookshop, London. Curated by Richard Makin

2004:
‘Place/Displace’ Group show and symposium at Unit 2 Gallery, Mile End Park Ecology Centre and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
‘Para Sites’ Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset (curation commission and residency)
’SPELT!’ at, The Horse Hospital, London
‘Watch This Space’ Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
‘tEXt 04’ Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
Film screening at ‘Snap’ exhibition and screening, Diorama Gallery, London

2003:
‘Writing Instructions, Reading Walls’, The Poetry Society Cafe, London

2002:
‘Tristero’ Online artist in residence. Hosted by Film and Video Umbrella, London
‘The Studio and After’ symposium, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
‘Creative Re-Use: The Body of Knowledge’, Arnolfini & University of Bristol
‘Taking Place 3’ Sheffield University, School of Architecture

2002 – 2004:
Curator of ‘LLAW’ (Public textworks) for ‘bookartbookshop’, Hoxton, London

RESIDENCIES

2010 Rea Garden residency, (hosted by Behind Closed Doors) Birmingham, UK
2007/8 In-gallery residency and commission, Site Platform, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2007 San Servolo Island residency, Venice, Italy
2006 British School at Rome residency funded by Irish Arts Council, Travel & Mobility Grant
2002: ‘Labculture’ artist’s residency PVA, Bridport, Dorset

PUBLICATIONS: CATALOGUES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

2017
Forthcoming Commissioned essay for ‘The Creative Critic: Writing for/as Practice’ Edited by Dr. Emily Orley and Katja Hilevaara, Routledge, London and New York

2016
Commissioned essay for ‘Repertorio, Teatro e Danca’ edited by Jane Linden and Patrick Campbell, Brazil

2012
One + One catalogue with commissioned essays by Cherry Smyth, Dr. Mia Lerm-Hayes and Steve Dutton. Published by Highlanes gallery, Ireland.

2009
I have drawn away, I have not left my place, Essay for Building Material journal (Issue on interdisciplinarity, Autumn 09) Published by Architects Association of Ireland.
Creekside Open 09 catalgoue, APT gallery, London
Isoli [cont.] review by Cherry Smyth, CIRCA magazine, Issue 128, Summer 09
Isoli [cont.] catalogue, Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry, Essay for Graham Chorlton exhibition ‘Bristol Road’ catalogue, Rotunda Gallery, Birmingham

2008
‘Drawing Breath/Respirar Arte’ catalogue, Lugar Do Desenho, Porto, Portugal

2008
Commissioned essay on ‘Vexations’ by Alex Hetherington, Published on Site Gallery website.
‘L’Isola Di’ catalogue, published by San Servolo Servici, Venice, Italy.
Catalogue Essay, The Blossoming of Perspective, a study by Penelope Haralambidou,
Domo Baal Gallery, London
‘Stray Sods, 8 Dispositions on the feminine, space and writing, illustrated essay in ‘Altering Practices’ edited by Doina Petrescu, Routledge, London

2006
Catalogue Essay, ‘Urban Lighthouse’, Coventry
‘Spatial Imagination’ Exhibition catalogue, Published by UCL.

2005
‘Transmission:Speaking & Listening’ Sheffield Hallam University / Site Gallery UK

2004
‘Bartlett Works’ Published by The Bartlett, UCL in association with August Projects
‘Here Are My Instructions’ from exhibition curated by Olsen & Johanknecht, Gefn Press, UK
‘Para Sites’ Exhibition catalogue. Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset UK
‘Film and Video Umbrella Projects 2002 – 2004’ London

2002
‘Scroope 14’ Architecture Journal, Cambridge, UK

1999:
‘Visible Language 33.1’ Rhode Island School of Design, USA
‘Contemporary Visual Arts’ UK

ARTIST’S TALKS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2015
‘Why Would I Lie?’ Research conference and exhibition, Dyson building, RCA, London

2013
ELIA Teacher’s Academy, Utrecht & Amsterdam (with Jane Ball)

2010
‘-writing’ Bartlett School of Architecture symposium, UCL, London
‘International Association of Word & Image Studies’ conference, UU, Belfast
Eastside Projects (ESP) artist talk in connection with Rea Garden residency

2008
‘Translated Acts’, ICFAR, Central St. Martins College of Art, UOA, London
‘Writing Digital Media’ presentation and network launch. Tate Modern, London

2006
‘E and Eye; electronic poetry, visual art and writing’. Tate Modern, London

2005
‘Dear Alaric..’ with ‘taking place’ at Technologies of Place conference, Academic Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2004:
‘Habitat’ at ‘Subvoicive Colloquium 2004’ Camden People’s Theatre, London
‘In Place of the Page’ at ‘Partly Writing’, Southampton University
‘taking place’ presentation at ‘Becoming Space’, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

2003:
‘In Place of the Page’ at Birkbeck Poetry Forum, UCL, London
‘Habitat’ at ‘Bodies of Evidence’ symposium, Royal Holloway University, London

2002:
‘In Place of the Page’ at ‘The Annex Gallery’, New York

2000:
‘Liminalities’ Performance conference, Brunel University, London

1999:
‘Perspectives: Irish Identity in the 20^th C’ Aberdeen University
‘Alterities: feminism and architecture’ Ecole De Beaux Arts, Paris
‘Ephemeralities of Writing’ University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
‘Visual Cultures’ IAWIS Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA

1997:
‘Mixed Messages; Image, Text, Technology’ University of North Carolina, USA