My work engages shifts in understanding that occur adjacent to emergent technologies with particular regard to translation and boundary conditions. My research examines how amid new tools of datafication formal categorical assumptions are unsettled; images become statistical gradients, writing renders visual imagery, and new phenomenologies of scale are encountered to provisionally derange empirical assumptions and foster sensations of non-correspondence. To this end, while my sculptural installations employ technology as an external framing system, they do so to refocus discussion toward reaching, imaginative and sympathetically desiring explorations often harnessed by emergent devices. My most recent project, an investigative performance series ‘Moving in Relation’ with The Common Guild in Glasgow has brought together collaborators working in movement, sound and academic thought to research material encounters with datafication and its influence on physical bodies.
I work across written performance, moving image and sculptural installation. I am presently Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University and was previously Associate Professor at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University.
Recent exhibitions include 'Moving in Relation', The Common Guild Glasgow (2023); 'Cumulo', with URRA, Buenos Aires (2022); the radio play Fabric Noir with Jude Browning for Radiophrenia (2022); OCAT Shenzhen (2021); Edinburgh Art Festival (2019); Galeria Arsenal, Białystok (2016); Toronto Film Festival (2016); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2015); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); Langen Foundation, Neuss (2015); Sydney Biennial, Australia (2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); and Tate Britain (2011).
I have published with MAP Magazine, The Kink in the Arc (ed. Paul Becker, 2017), SPAM zine, PARSE Journal University of Gothenburg, C Magazine, Canadian Art and 2HB. My award winning practice has led to my research being translated into eleven languages and commissioned by leading international organisations such as Alchemy Films UK, The Toronto International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Chisenhale Gallery; and Funded by Creative Scotland, The Canada Council for the Arts and Hope Scott Trust. I was awarded a Leverhulme Prize in 2016 and the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2014.
I work across written performance, moving image and sculptural installation. I am presently Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University and was previously Associate Professor at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University.
Recent exhibitions include 'Moving in Relation', The Common Guild Glasgow (2023); 'Cumulo', with URRA, Buenos Aires (2022); the radio play Fabric Noir with Jude Browning for Radiophrenia (2022); OCAT Shenzhen (2021); Edinburgh Art Festival (2019); Galeria Arsenal, Białystok (2016); Toronto Film Festival (2016); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2015); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); Langen Foundation, Neuss (2015); Sydney Biennial, Australia (2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); and Tate Britain (2011).
I have published with MAP Magazine, The Kink in the Arc (ed. Paul Becker, 2017), SPAM zine, PARSE Journal University of Gothenburg, C Magazine, Canadian Art and 2HB. My award winning practice has led to my research being translated into eleven languages and commissioned by leading international organisations such as Alchemy Films UK, The Toronto International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Chisenhale Gallery; and Funded by Creative Scotland, The Canada Council for the Arts and Hope Scott Trust. I was awarded a Leverhulme Prize in 2016 and the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2014.