current/upcoming
CURATORS’ CHOICE at The Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester - 30 March - 14 April 2024
THE BEAUTIFUL EAST, Group show curated by Simon Carter - 26 July - 30 August 2024
Two collages in the Priseman Seabrook Collection of British Prints, Drawings and Photographs are now available as prints through ART UK
Tutor of Art and Design and Art History at The Sixth Form College, Colchester (2002 - present)
selected exhibitions
solo
2023 PAPERED at Old Grocery, Wivenhoe, September 8-10 2023
2022 On Paper at ART:OASIS Frinton-On-Sea 13 May - 24 June 2022
2018 Sylvan, Off The Rails project, Wivenhoe
2014 Grubbing: A night of collage, foraged food and crate dug music at The Waiting Room, Colchester
group
2024 EXTEMPORE 24 at Tension Fine Art, London 22 February - 2nd March 2024
2024 FIERCE SCANDAL at Lido Stores, Margate, 8 February - 2 March 2024
2023 PASTE TABLE GALLERY group show with Nick Cash/Sophie De Stempel at The Muse Gallery, London 1-17 September
2023 TRANSITIONS - selected works from Cut Me Up Magazine at Kolaj Fest, New Orleans. Exhibition/Symposium by Andrea Burgay, 7 - 11 June
2023 CAS Spring Exhibition at the Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios - 30 March - 16 April
2022 PASTE TABLE GALLERY group show at Tension Fine Art, London. 11-20 August 2022 (curator Nick Cash)
2022 UNTITLED at RED Gallery/ Red Property Partnership, Dalston, London 13 June - 1 July (curators Tony Gohagan and Puck Van Doorn)
2022 BORDERS 2 Ipswich Art Gallery, Colchester and Ipswich Art Society, 14 May - 19 June
2022 POST IT Project de Krook Library Ghent, Belgium. A COUPEE collage collective exhibition 13-18 May (curators Brunhilde Borms and Bram Antheunis)
2022 Corporeal Gestures - Fragmentary Explorations in the Cultivation of the Human Body. School of Architecture, Portland State University (curator Clive Knights) Portland State University School of Architecture - 4 April - 29 April 2022
2022 A ROOM OF HER OWN - Irving Contemporary, Oxford - 8 March - 24 April 2022
2021 The Death of Practice, PASTE TABLE GALLERY x W3 Gallery, London - 8-14 November (curator Nick Cash)
2021 I Didn’t Lick It Bruton Correspondence School x Bruton Museum, Somerset (project initiated and curated by Rebecca McClelland and Chris Roberts) 24 July -25 September
2020 BORDERS at Firstsite Gallery Colchester. A joint project with Colchester and Ipswich Art Societies
2020 COUPEE Collage collective World Collage Atlas project, Stichting KunstWerkt Schiedam, Netherlands
2020 The Offcut Project Hex Prints London. A fundraising initiative organised by The Print Block studio, Kent.
2020 Schwitter's Army Merz Gallery Sanquhar Scotland (curated by Ric Kasini)
2019 The Art Auction, Firstsite Gallery Colchester
2019 CAS at Beecroft Art Gallery Southend
2019 Coupee Collective World Collage Atlas project @Verbeke Foundation Belgium
2019 Fanzineist Vienna Art Book + Zine Fair
2019 Lost in Wonderland The Minories Gallery, Colchester (small group show)
2018 In(visible) Espacio Gallery London (Zine)
2017 Disponere at 5thBase Gallery London. Curator Ingrid Anderson (small group show)
2017 Small World at PS Mirabel Gallery Manchester (Manifest Arts Festival)
2016 Collagism: A Survey Of Contemporary Collage. The Art Space Museum Ontario, Canada in collaboration with Kolaj Magazine
2016 Celebrate Landscape Art Exchange, University of Essex
2016 A Collection of 7 Artists at The Sentinel Gallery, Wivenhoe (small group show)
2016 POSTKARTE at Art in the Shed, Wivenhoe Bookshop. An international show of postcard-sized art (artist and curator)
2015 The Sentinel Gallery Opening Exhibition Wivenhoe
2015 Firstsite Open Firstsite Gallery Colchester
publications
2023 Contemporary Collage Magazine #24 (U.K) 2023
2023 OLTRE paper collage fanzine #6 (Milan) May 2023
2022 Contemporary Collage Magazine #12 Jacques Villeglé ‘La Mémoire Composite’ Notes on an exhibition (exhibition review)
2022 BORDERS exhibition catalogue (Simon Carter/Noah Carter) p41
2022 CORPOREAL GESTURES - Fragmentary Explorations in the Cultivation of the Human Body. Exhibition catalogue, Clive Knights p119
2020 TH INK issue #2 objectextion. Editor Aaron Beebe (New York)
2020 OLTRE paper collage fanzine #4 (Milan)
2020 DEFACED Zine #3 Red Zone, May 2020 (cover page artist, curator and editor)
2019 Cut Me Up magazine #3, July 2019. Editor Andrea Burgay (New York)
2019 DEFACED Zine #2, May 2019, A World Collage Day Special Edition (cover page artist, curator and editor)
2018 DEFACED Zine #1, October 2018 (artist and editor)
2018 Contemporary Visual Art Zine CVA Zine #9 (editor Jamie F Simpson)
2002 Craft Art in South Africa, editor Elbé Coetsee (p177-178 Wola Nani)
2002 Craft South Africa, editors S.Sellschop, W.Goldblatt and D.Hemp (pp 166-167 Wola Nani)
interviews/reviews/features
2020 UNSEEN SKETCHBOOKS Interview with Margo Sarkisova
2020 TOOMBES.COM Printed Tales review of DEFACED ZINE by Niko Vartiainen
2019 Underpinned Magazine Creative Motherhood: Are children really the enemies of promise? Deborah Talbot (0nline)
1997 The Big Issue South Africa, Issue 1, Trendy Township Trash, Interview with Lisa Baxter
projects/curation/workshops/product design
2023 Collage workshop at the Old Grocery, Wivenhoe, September 8 - 10 2023
2020 The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library New York
2019 Collage workshop and DEFACED Zine launch for World Collage Day at Wivenhoe Printworks 11 May 2019
2018 SAFE at Art Exchange Gallery, University of Essex. Staff co-ordinator for student art exhibition curated by Art History students from The Sixth Form College, Colchester
2016 POSTKARTE Art in the Shed, Wivenhoe Bookshop, an international exhibition of postcard-sized work co-curated with Sylwia Kramarz
1998/99 Greatmore Studios Cape Town, South Africa. Studios administrator. Studios launched as part of Triangle Network, an international network of artist studios which includes Gasworks London and The Bag Factory Johannesburg
1998 Thupelo regional workshop co-ordinator. A regional art workshop hosted by the South African National Gallery (Iziko) Cape Town
1997 Signs of Life Signs of Hope. Wola Nani Cape Town. AIDS awareness project featuring the collaborative works of people living with HIV and local artists. Workshops in Khayelitsha, Nyanga, Pollsmoor Prison and Baragwanath Hospital Soweto (curator)
1997 Ndebele AIDS Awareness Mural with Betty Mathibela and Anthea Methven at The Pan African Market, Cape Town
1998/99 Philani project Cape Town. Product design and skills training (Philani Flagship)
1995/98 Wola Nani Cape Town. Income generation manager. Product design and skills training. Launched the Labels range of papier-mâché bowls
collections
Public: Priseman Seabrook Collection of British Prints, Drawings and Photographs (UK), Verbeke Foundation Coupee World Collage Atlas (Belgium), Merz Gallery (Scotland), Brooklyn Art Library (USA)
Private: collections in Germany, Canada, South Africa and the UK