CV
Education
2009 Practice-led PhD Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University (start date)
2009 MFA Photography & Media, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Combined & Media Art (2:1), Sheffield Hallam University
2000 Tampere Polytechnic, Finland
Exhibitions & Performances
2011
LoBe Art Kunst Gallery, Berlin, two-person show with Kerstin Honeit.
2009
Greater LA MFA Exhibition (GLAMFA), California State University Long Beach?, Long Beach, CA
MFA Conversations Part II, I-5 Gallery, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles
Why Theory: MFA Graduation Exhibition, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles
Why Video: MFA Video Screening, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Between the Surface / Art Harvest LA, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
Site Work, group show, Deep End Ranch, Santa Paula, California
Woman As Image, thesis exhibition, D301, CalArts
2008
Mid-Residence Exhibition, group show, CalArts
Let’s Twist Again, performance evening, CalArts
Fuzzy Pictures, group show A402, CalArts
Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Series of Nine, solo show A402, CalArts
2007
Call it a Rebus/Make it a Rebus, group show Main Gallery, CalArts
Déjà Vu, three person show, BLOCspace, Sheffield
As If One Wasn’t Enough, group show, 20-21 Centre, Scunthorpe
Dancer A, dance routine for camera, part of Anachron Gen’s contribution for HAG’s (Host Artists Group) touring DVD and screening programme, ‘Host 7: Home Disco’, screened at Consortium, Amsterdam and Colar…Te…Gallery Centro De Arte Independiente, Santander, Spain and Sheffield.
2006
Just for Fun, performance evening, organised by Webster Gotts & Robin Close, Sheffield
Paint it Black, group show, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2005
Office of Outsourced Opinion, an intervention at Art Sheffield 05, with Matt Lewis
Member’s Show, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Bath Fringe Festival, collaboration with Karen Welsh, Bath
2001
Degree Show, Sheffield Hallam University
1999
Susan, solo show, The Small Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University
Writing & Conference Papers
2010
Is the Showgirl a Friend? Transmission: Hospitality, Sheffield Hallam University
Assembling My Critical Tools, Creating Friction: An Interdisciplinary Creative Practice Postgraduate Conference, Newcastle University
2009
The Tallulah Moment, essay for ‘Why Theory’, MFA catalogue
The Agency of Narcissism, essay circulated via the CalArts Reviews mailing list
2007
Walk/Dont Walk, text for Alexis Hudgin’s exhibition, CalArts
Review of Richard Prince Exhibition NY for FAD BLOG December 2007
2005-6
Text pieces for Anachron-Gen exhibitions:
This Changes Nothing, BLOCspace, Sheffield, We Belong Everywhere, Sheffield Libraries, Something Short of a Terrible Nightmare, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Residencies
2010 Terra Summer Residency in Giverny, France
Bibliography
‘Artist of the Day’, COAGULA Art Journal, online, LA 13th February 2010
‘Notes from the LA Scene: An Analysis on Flexible Identities’, Tracy C Gorden, GLAMFA 2009 Catalogue
‘Déjà Vu’, Amanda Tricken, Metro Newspaper, South Yorkshire, 5th October 2007
‘Members Show @ S1 Artspace’, Oonagh Jaquest, BBC South Yorkshire Website 2005
Awards
2009-12 Sheffield Hallam University Bursary
2008, 09 Dean’s Award, CalArts
2008 Student Council Grant, CalArts
2008-9 CalArts Graduate Scholarship
2008 American Association of University Women, International Fellowship
2006 Inspiral Start-Up Grant, Sheffield
Commissions
2007 People are Living in Goole, collaboration with Matt Lewis, mapping the social clubs and voluntary organisations in Goole, commissioned by Goole Town Council.
Collections
2009 Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Indiana, USA