I am a PhD candidate and a Lecturer at Manchester School of Art. The title of my research project is ‘Creating Images of Belonging through Diasporic Touch’ and it is investigating Anglo-Swedish experience through artistic practice. After completing a BA(Hons) in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in 1999 I relocated to Manchester. I completed an MA in Visual Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2003. I have disseminated my PhD research at conferences such as: Association for Art Historians New Voices conference Image Matter: Art and Materiality (2015) at Manchester Metropolitan University, Writing Between the Lines at Cardiff Metropolitan University (2016), Nordic Research Network Bridges Between at University College London (2016), Nordic Research Network The North as Home at University of Aberdeen and the international conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Heritages of Migration: Moving Objects Stories and Home organised by Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham and UNTREF Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (2017).
Publications
When Words Falter, Open Arts Journal, Issue 7 (6), The Open University, 2019, online, https://openartsjournal.org/issue-7/article-6/
Recent Performances
Fragments From Sweden at Manchester Art Gallery as part of Tanya Bruguera’s School of Integration project, 19 June 2019, with Helena Lee
Between the lines of the EEA (permanent residence) form I imagine the north at FACT Liverpool, ‘Exploring Identity: Between being and belonging’ conference, 25th October 2017
Speaking from the gaps and overlaps, ‘New Modes of Art Writing’ symposium, MMU Student Union, 10th November 2017
Sidney Nolan’s Frames, Grain Barn, Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, ‘Artists’ Camp’ group residency exhibition, June 2017
Between the lines of the EEA (permanent residence) form I imagine the north, MIRIAD Open Space, ‘Northern Residency’ symposium, June 2017
‘Between the lines of the EEA (permanent residence) form I imagine the north’, MIRIAD Open Space, ‘Creative Provocations’ event, 13th December 2017
Recent exhibitions
Sidney Nolan’s Frames, ‘Artist’ Camp’ group exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, MMU, 13th-17th November 2017
Writing prose on my outstretched arm, Modus Operandi group exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, MMU, October 2016
Stay This Moment, Out of Place group exhibition curated by Iona Shaw, Grosvenor Gallery, MMU, 2015
Stay This Moment, Holden Gallery , MMU, Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, MA Show 2014, 3 – 12 October 2014
Stay This Moment, Nexus Art Café, 2 Dale Street, Manchester, 14th October – 13th November 2014
Too Small, Too Grey, Too Sparse, Lost and Found Project, Link Gallery, MMU, Chatham Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, 1st -25th April 2014
Corner of Mine, ‘Interim’ Paper #9 exhibition at Paper Gallery, 14-20 Mirabel Street, Manchester, 4th October – 17th November 2013