CV
Education
2021-25 Phd, technē-AHRC funded/practice-based, University of Westminster, London.
Thesis title: Crafting counterhegemony: using porcelain to interrogate ideological Whiteness
2012-14 MA Art & Politics (Distinction), Goldsmiths College, University of London
2008-09 PG Diploma Fine Art, Wimbledon College, University of the Arts, London
2005-06 BA Hons Ceramics (First Class), University of Westminster, London
2003-05 Diploma Fine and Applied Arts (Distinction) London Metropolitan University
Conference papers/presentations/journal articles/book chapters
2025 Book chapter “Crafting counterhegemony: A reflection” in The Scholarship of Making: Craft as Method,
as Knowing, as Decolonisation and Connecting, published by Taylor & Francis
Book chapter “Crafting counterhegemony: A reflection” in Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics,
part of Brill’s book series Studies in Art & Materiality
“Food for thought: decolonial dining and dreaming as anti-racist praxis”, in Volume 2 of 'Race' and Socially Engaged Research
Working Paper
2024 Holt Journal Issue 2: Situations. Article entitled “Provocation in Porcelain”
‘Race’ and Socially Engaged Research Conference, York University; paper presentation
entitled “Decolonial dreaming as anti-racist practice”
“Provocation in Porcelain”, a talk given as part of the Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich salon seriese”
“Content Warning Whiteness” video presentation for techne/UAL Fleshing It Out Symposium
2023 AAH Global New Voices – Resistance, Art and Visual Thinking; paper entitled
“Stirring up whiteness as antiracist resistance”
University of Westminster CREAM Symposium; paper entitled “Shattering Whiteness”
University of Westminster Social Sciences Conference; paper entitled “Unmasked: the
blinding discomfort of being exposed as white”
2022 IIPPE Conference, Bologna, Italy, Committee on Activism: paper entitled “Shattering
whiteness: using porcelain as a tool to promote racial justice”
Association for Art History Art & Activism Symposium; paper entitled “Shattering Whiteness”
University of Westminster CREAM Symposium; paper entitled “White Out”
University of Westminster Social Sciences Conference; paper entitled “Beyond Woke Whiteness”
Awards and grants
2023 Globally Engaged Research travel grant for IIPPE Annual Conference, Madrid, Spain
Professor Geoffrey Petts Memorial Fund for fieldwork at Valentines Clays, Stoke on Trent, England, UK
2022 Globally Engaged Research travel grant for IIPPE Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy
Globally Engaged Research Award for Node Course, Decolonizing Curatorial and Artistic Practices
2021 technē/AHRC doctoral award with CREAM, University of Westminster
2019 Residency at Hawkwood College for Future Thinking
2017 a•n Professional Development Bursary
2017 British Council Venice Fellowship
2016 Open Society Foundations Fellowship
2016 Arts Council/British Council Artists' International Development Fund Grant Award
2013 Passion for Freedom Ambassador Award
2010 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
2010 Urban Dialogues Award
2008 RBS Bursary Award, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
Selected exhibitions
2022 John Blanke Project, The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2021 Bow Open selected by gal-dem’s Leyla Reynolds
2020 ‘Mission’ at St James’s Piccadilly, London
Together Alone, Hampstead Heath, London
2019 Bow Open, Nunnery Gallery, London
Material Flow, Museum in the Park, Stroud
Creekside Open, selected by Sacha Craddock, A.P.T. Gallery, London
Sink Without Trace, P21 Gallery, London
Crown, a solo commission at All Saints Leyton, London
Sweet Strength (solo show), Austin Forum, St Augustine’s Hammersmith, London
2018 The Great Divide, Ovada, Oxford
Bow Open, selected by Mark Titchner, Nunnery Gallery, London
This Temporary Matter, Fringe Arts Bath Festival
A Month at the Venice Biennale: Work by British Council Fellows, RAW Lab, London
2017 Käfig, Hackney Wick, London
Creekside Open selected by Jordan Baseman, A.P.T. Gallery, London
2016 Commission for Great Fire 350 celebrations, All Hallows by the Tower, London
HouseRules, Canary Wharf, Art Licks, London
Bow Open, Nunnery Gallery, London
White Gold, Galerie de Stoker, Amsterdam
2015 HouseRules, Art Licks, London
Ceramics Open, Salisbury Art Centre
Office Sessions IV, Soho, London
Dis/placed, Shoreditch Town Hall, London