Art CV

Exhibitions

2021 (forthcoming) Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House (group)
2021 Uncertain Data, FACT, Liverpool (group)
2019 All His Ghosts Must Do My Bidding, Wysing Arts Centre (group)
2017 Truth Machine, Grrrr! London (group)
2015 LUSTRE FABRICS, Saltaire Arts Trail (solo)
2014 Situational Aesthetics, Airspace Gallery, Liverpool (group)

Projects and performances

2019 Silly Symposium, reading/performance at Ex-Baldessarre, Bedford
2018 Marriage is Punishment for Shoplifting in Some Countries: Wayne’s World, beta bros and radical vulnerability, Flat Time House, London (performance lecture)
2017 Award Machine Reading Group, Grrrr! London (performance/event)
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)
2014 The Pure Ideology Personal Brand Workshop, Legion TV, London (solo project)

Writing and publications

2021 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 Arts Centre’s Wysing Polyphonic label
2019 Pivotal Moments, ed. 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); Sour Persimmons Chasm (group).
2018 Some Notes on Wayne’s World, Cruelty, Kindness and Radical Vulnerability, The Bad Vibes Club Reader, ed. Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Beth Bramich (essay)
2017 – ongoing Writing about contemporary art (essays, profiles, contemporary art reviews, books) for various publications including: The Wire, Tribune, Corridor 8, Art Licks, This is Tomorrow, Garageland
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)

Readings and talks

2021 (forthcoming) Festival of Words, Halifax
2021 (forthcoming) Excavate! Panel discussion with Adelle Stripe and Bob Stanley, HOME, Manchester
2021 Excavate! Book launch, Rough Trade, London
2020 Print Perform Present, The Tetley, Leeds (reading)
2019 Doggerland x Montez Press Radio, live broadcast (archived as Doggerland Podcast #5)
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
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

Selected press

4 Columns (Excavate reviewed by Sukhdev Sandhu)
Louder Than War (Excavate reviewed by Audrey Golden)
Backlisted (podcast – Excavate reviewed by Andy Miller)
Bigmouth (podcast – interview with me and Bob Stanley)
Little Atoms (podcast – interview with me and Bob Stanley)
Word In Your Ear: The Folklore of The Fall (podcast – interview with me and Bob Stanley)
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