Writing and publications
- 2021 (forthcoming) Excavate: The Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall, Faber (co-editor, with Bob Stanley)
- 2020 Wysing Broadcasts: current research playlist
- 2019 The Fields Here Are Full of Ghosts, a limited edition looseleaf publication released by Wysing Polyphonic label
- 2019 Pivotal Moments, eds Sonya Dyer, SPACE/London Creative Network (contributor)
- 2019 “Becoming Baby: Stupidity, boredom, time and escape” in Doggerland: A reader on Sociality & Idiocy (essay)
- 2018 – ongoing Accompanying essays for exhibitions at Ex-Baldessarre, Bedford, curated by Andy Holden: Estate of Hermione; Silly Symphony (Ollie Dook, Elly Thomas, Andy Holden, Bobby, Philippe, Sputnik); Sour Persimmons Chasm (group).
- 2018 Some Notes on Wayne’s World, Cruelty, Kindness and Radical Vulnerability, The Bad Vibes Club Reader, eds Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Beth Bramich (essay)
- 2017 Marriage is Punishment for Shoplifting in Some Countries (email newsletter)
- 2017 Digital Voodoo, or Tragedy Plus Time, Laugh magazine #3 (text piece)
- 2014 At Home He’s a Tourist, Lots of Planets Have a North (text piece)
- 2014 Art Theory Urban Dictionary, Hoax #3 (text piece)
I am also a regular contributor (essays, profiles, contemporary art reviews, books) to various publications including: The Wire, Tribune, Corridor 8, Art Licks, This is Tomorrow, Garageland etc. You can find more details in the Writing section above.
Exhibitions and projects
- 2019 All His Ghosts Must Do My Bidding, Wysing Arts Centre (new commission for Wysing’s 30th anniversary show, feat. Elizabeth Price, Heather Phillipson, Tai Shani, and more – more here)
- 2017 Award Machine Reading Group, Grrrr! London (event)
- 2017 Truth Machine, Grrrr! London (group show)
- 2017 Researcher, Abstractions of Holderness, Bob Stanley/Esther Johnson film commission for Mind On The Run, a Basil Kirchin weekend for Hull 2017 City of Culture
- 2016 London’s Hottest Grassroots Arts Spaces (mail project)
- 2015 LUSTRE FABRICS, Saltaire Arts Trail (solo)
- 2014 The Pure Ideology Personal Brand Workshop, Legion TV, London (solo project)
- 2014 Situational Aesthetics, Airspace Gallery, Liverpool (group show)
Readings, performances, talks
- 2020 Print Perform Present, The Tetley, Leeds (reading)
- 2019 Doggerland x Montez Press Radio, live broadcast (archived as Doggerland Podcast #5)
- 2019 Silly Symposium, reading/performance at Ex-Baldessarre, Bedford
- 2018 Wysing Arts Centre residency event: Reading / in conversation with Lucy Mercer (more here)
- 2018 Shady Todmorden #3, curated by Roy Claire Potter (reading)
- 2018 Pivotal Moments (Space Arts / London Creative Network): Reading / in conversation with Donna Lynas
- 2018 Marriage is Punishment for Shoplifting in Some Countries: Wayne’s World, beta bros and radical vulnerability, Flat Time House, London (Bad Vibes Club lecture)
- 2016 Children are the Shock Troops of Gentrification, Liverpool Biennial (reading)
- 2014 Lots of Planets Have a North, The Tetley, Leeds (reading)
Awards and residencies
- 2020-21 Jerwood Arts / FACT Digital Fellowship (more here)
- 2020 Longlisted, UEA New Forms Award
- 2018 Residency at Wysing Arts Centre (more here)
Press
- Bob Stanley and Tessa Norton present a Front Room Family Disco, Faber Social, May 2020
- “The making of a truly radical arts centre buried in the Cambridgeshire countryside”, interviewed for feature about Wysing Arts Centre, Louise Benson, Elephant Magazine, July 2019
- Feature on All His Ghosts Must Do My Bidding, FAD Magazine, July 2019
Education
- MA Cultural & Critical Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
- BA Law (!), University of Cambridge
