UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS (2020) is a project bringing together patient ambassadors for Blood Cancer UK and stem cell researchers working at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre. Through a series of stop-motion animation workshops held via Zoom, participants developed hand-cut animation sequences exploring their experiences of ‘the unknown’ in relation to living with blood cancer, the challenges of research and the global uncertainties of Covid-19. Animation materials included paper, velvet and issues of National Geographic published in 1960, the year Blood Cancer UK officially became a charity.
Commissioned by the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute as part of its Public Engagement programme, project outcomes include an animated film featuring participants’ stop-motion sequences (Futuramic Unknown, 2020) and an installation for the Jeffery Cheah Biomedical Center at Cambridge Biomedical Campus (The Night the Mountains Moved, 2020).
b. Dallas, Texas
Lives and works in Cambridge, UK
EDUCATION
MA Performance Practice as Research, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK
BFA Directing & Playwriting, University of Wyoming, US
SOLO EXHIBITION & COMMISSIONS
2021 Idle Hour, performance, Cambridge Leisure Centre, Commissioned by Cambridge Junction
Making Visible, public artwork collaboration with Hannah Jane Walker, Cambridge Biomedical Centre, Commissioned by Future City
Tourist, headphone sound-work, First Bus Wessex/Route 1, Commissioned by B-Side
2020 The Night the Mountains Moved, public artwork, Jeffery Cheah Centre, Commissioned by Wellcome-MRC Institute
2019 Sierra Tango Foxtrot, installation, English Heritage site Landguard Fort, Commissioned by Pier Projects
2018 9th and Castle, site-responsive performance, The House at Kettle’s Yard, Commissioned by Kettle’s Yard
Pence Sterling, public intervention, Millennium Fountain at Quayside, Commissioned by Other Ways
Still Murmuring, live event, Cambridge Festival of Ideas
My Vinyl Ate Your MP3, live event, Watch Out Festival, Cambridge Junction
P.S. We’re Still Here, live event, Cambridge Science Festival
Addendum to the Inventory, performance, The House at Kettle’s Yard
2017 Splitter, sound installation, Cambridge Junction
Perfect Day, 12-episode radio intervention, Commissioned by Cambridge Junction with Cambridge City Council
2016 Diplomat, digital film cycle, Commissioned by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
Marginalia, sound installation, Commissioned by Cambridge Junction
A VALE, temporary public installation, The Quad, UCL, Commissioned for the Festival of Culture
2014 The Fictional Woods, temporary public installation & headphone sound-walk, South Cloisters, One Day in the City, UCL
Fade Into View, headphone sound-walk, Commissioned by Cambridge Art Salon
2012 Point of Interest, temporary public installation & headphone sound-walk, the Roundhouse, London
The Invisible City, headphone sound-walk, South Cloisters, One Day in the City, UCL
2011 Bent Space, headphone soundtrack, Travelling Sounds Library, Forest Fringe
Coming Forth by Day, performance, BP Theatre @ the British Museum, Commissioned by the British Museum
Shore Leave, interactive game, Hide & Seek Sandpit, National Maritime Museum, London
The Portable Emporium, public installation & headphone sound-walk, the Roundhouse, London
The Healer, live installation, Scratch Festival, Battersea Arts Centre
2010 The Gold Rail, temporary installation & headphone sound-walk, The Old Vic Tunnels, Commissioned by The Old Vic Tunnels
Virtue in Flames, site-responsive performance intervention, Commissioned by the British Museum
The Invisible City, temporary installation & headphone sound-walk, Dark Carnival, The Old Vic Tunnels
Object 27, site-responsive performance intervention, BBC/Radio 4 'A History of the World in 100 Objects', Commissioned by the British Museum
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Global Conversations, 20th Anniversary Online Exhibition, CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities)
Constellation 18, Cambridge Artspace
Letchworth Open, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth
2020 Wide Open, Motion Sickness, Cambridge
2019 The Cambridge Show, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2018 A Raid on the Inarticulate, Crypt Gallery, London
Actions: the vision of the world can be different, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Numerology, online, Humble Arts Foundation
The Art of Relation, Cambridge Artspace
2017 Can You Hear Me?, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
Nasty Women, Cambridge Artspace
2016 Art Language Location, Cambridge
SOCIAL ARTS PROJECTS
2021 HERE/NOW, Commissioned by Kettle’s Yard, funded by Cambridge City Council and Arts Council England
2020 Unknown Unknowns, Commissioned by Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute
2018 The Gold 45 Prototype, Year-long community project, funded by Arts Council England
2017 The Bread Project, Commissioned by Kettle’s Yard for Harold Offeh’s Open House Residency
2016 Mapping Memory, Commissioned by Kettle's Yard for Isabella Martin's Open House Residency
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
Arts Council England, DYCP (2021)
Arts Council England, Project Grant (2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015)
Cambridge Junction, Residency (2019, 2016)
PUBLICATIONS
The Gold 45 Prototype, 7” flexidisc book (playable at 331/3), 2019
Actions: the vision of the world can be different, catalogue, Kettle’s Yard, 2018