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Like a split in a feather it can come back together • Where is my mind • Take the biggest breath • Worry work • Curiousity is often restful • Worry casting • Help is on the way • Worry casting • Lichen lover • Shetland gay bird checklist • Something large passing overhead • Instructions for time travel with west burra quartz • Magnetic tape drawings • Everything will be different forever • Worry work • Gustiness • Teeming
Further information
CV
Bio
Born in Banbury, England, in 1988.
Lives and works in Burra, Shetland.
Current work
Gaada + Toogs Artist Workshop, Shetland, 2018-present
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Publishing (solo)
Worry-casting, film, 3’43”, 2023
Worry-casting, pamphlet, 20pp, 2022
Instructions for Time Travel with West Burra Quartz, folding woodcut multiple, (London: SWAP Editions), 2020
Teeming stereo pair, boxed multiple, 2018
Deep voicelessness, text installation with Savorr for Wysing Polyphonic, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 2016
Conversation for an oscillating home, Lithograph folded banger pamphlet, 2015
Towards the voice, print, and void, Offset book, 2014
Black billowing clouds, c40 cassette, 2013
Where the seiche sips, c20 cassette + pamphlet, 2012
Borderlands, Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives, book, 45pp, 2012
Neighbourhood Spook, c20 cassette, 2010
Moors, CDr + pamphlet, 2009
Publishing (collaborations)
A Brand New View, Sound composition + animation with Amy Gear for Illusive Utopias, Generator Projects, Dundee, 2022
We Axe For What We Want, Risograph + Silkscreen book, 124pp, (Shetland: Gaada), 2021![]()
Pushing, Reaching, Falling, Replacing, Contributed sound compositions to community collaboration by Jenny Sturgeon, 2021
Honds Reach Up, Sound composition + animation with Amy Gear, Shapes of Water, Travelling Gallery, Scotland, 2020-21
Ferning, Foaming, Bloom, Sound installation with Amy Gear, Shetland Museum & Archives, 2019
Dark Matter(s), Offset book, (London: Arts Council England), 2017
Noting R0 G255 B0, SightUnseen, Toner book, (London: Techne, RCA), 2017
Lean-to, assorted boxset (London: RCA), 2015
Yesterday’s Wrong Thinking, pamphlet, (London: RCA), 2014
Above as Below, c15 cassette + etching, with Alex Simpson, 2014
Theorie vom Ruinenwert & Heidegger’s Hütte, Illustrated book for Martin Bagwell, 2011
Trunk, CDr + treasure chest, with Birdengine, (Brighton: Woodland Recordings), 2008
Born in Banbury, England, in 1988.
Lives and works in Burra, Shetland.
Current work
Gaada + Toogs Artist Workshop, Shetland, 2018-present
*
Publishing (solo)
Worry-casting, film, 3’43”, 2023
Worry-casting, pamphlet, 20pp, 2022
Instructions for Time Travel with West Burra Quartz, folding woodcut multiple, (London: SWAP Editions), 2020
Teeming stereo pair, boxed multiple, 2018
Deep voicelessness, text installation with Savorr for Wysing Polyphonic, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 2016
Conversation for an oscillating home, Lithograph folded banger pamphlet, 2015
Towards the voice, print, and void, Offset book, 2014
Black billowing clouds, c40 cassette, 2013
Where the seiche sips, c20 cassette + pamphlet, 2012
Borderlands, Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives, book, 45pp, 2012
Neighbourhood Spook, c20 cassette, 2010
Moors, CDr + pamphlet, 2009
Publishing (collaborations)
A Brand New View, Sound composition + animation with Amy Gear for Illusive Utopias, Generator Projects, Dundee, 2022
We Axe For What We Want, Risograph + Silkscreen book, 124pp, (Shetland: Gaada), 2021
Pushing, Reaching, Falling, Replacing, Contributed sound compositions to community collaboration by Jenny Sturgeon, 2021
Honds Reach Up, Sound composition + animation with Amy Gear, Shapes of Water, Travelling Gallery, Scotland, 2020-21
Ferning, Foaming, Bloom, Sound installation with Amy Gear, Shetland Museum & Archives, 2019
Dark Matter(s), Offset book, (London: Arts Council England), 2017
Noting R0 G255 B0, SightUnseen, Toner book, (London: Techne, RCA), 2017
Lean-to, assorted boxset (London: RCA), 2015
Yesterday’s Wrong Thinking, pamphlet, (London: RCA), 2014
Above as Below, c15 cassette + etching, with Alex Simpson, 2014
Theorie vom Ruinenwert & Heidegger’s Hütte, Illustrated book for Martin Bagwell, 2011
Trunk, CDr + treasure chest, with Birdengine, (Brighton: Woodland Recordings), 2008
Curator
Toogs: Digging deeper, Gaada, Shetland, 2023-25![]()
No artist is an island, Gaada, Shetland, 2022-23![]()
Safeland, Gaada, Shetland, 2021-22![]()
Weemin's Wark, Gaada, Shetland, 2020-21![]()
Screenprint Show, Gaada, Shetland, 2018-19![]()
Exhibitions (solo)
Foley fricatives, Figure Three, Baltic 39, Newcastle, 2016
Conversations for an oscillating home, Royal College of Art, London, 2015
Exhibitions (selected group)
100 Years of Visual Arts Scotland, Dalkeith Palace, 2024
Mak a Laaang Erm, Toogs Artist Workshop, Shetland, 2023![]()
Mak a Laang Erm, Gaada, Shetland, 2022![]()
Mak a Lang Erm, Gaada, Shetland, 2021![]()
SWAP #5: Island, SKELF [online] + Fuel Tank, Deptford, 2020
Space Station ØY, Motí x ØY Festival, Papa Westry, 2018
Dark Matters, Guest Projects, London, 2017
Photocopy Show, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol, 2017
Hidden, Dyson Gallery, London, 2017
Multiplied, Christie’s, London, 2015
PR!NT, Impressions & Expressions, Editions & Seditions, La Cambre 346, Brussels, 2015
Lean-to, Tenderbooks, London, 2015
Aren’t: Alternative Audio Guide for the National Gallery, London, 2015
Objects Of, Café Gallery Projects, London, 2015
Performing Print: Bring the Archive Alive, Christie’s, London, 2014
Yesterday’s Wrong Thinking, Café Gallery Projects, London, 2014
Now, Then, After, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2013
Murmurs, The Horse Hospital, London, 2011
Selected Performances
Worry-casting, Homemade, Mareel, Shetland 2023
These Pits & Abysses*, CLF Café, London, 2016
Guiding William and Maria, Chambers*, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham Spa, 2016
Choir of Potatoes, Stop Bugging Me*, Tintype Gallery, London, 2015
Band II Collage, All silent but for the buzzing*, Dyson Gallery, London, 2014
Extra Bones, Utrophia, Deptford, 2012
Toogs: Digging deeper, Gaada, Shetland, 2023-25
No artist is an island, Gaada, Shetland, 2022-23
Safeland, Gaada, Shetland, 2021-22
Weemin's Wark, Gaada, Shetland, 2020-21
Screenprint Show, Gaada, Shetland, 2018-19
Exhibitions (solo)
Foley fricatives, Figure Three, Baltic 39, Newcastle, 2016
Conversations for an oscillating home, Royal College of Art, London, 2015
Exhibitions (selected group)
100 Years of Visual Arts Scotland, Dalkeith Palace, 2024
Mak a Laaang Erm, Toogs Artist Workshop, Shetland, 2023
Mak a Laang Erm, Gaada, Shetland, 2022
Mak a Lang Erm, Gaada, Shetland, 2021
SWAP #5: Island, SKELF [online] + Fuel Tank, Deptford, 2020
Space Station ØY, Motí x ØY Festival, Papa Westry, 2018
Dark Matters, Guest Projects, London, 2017
Photocopy Show, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol, 2017
Hidden, Dyson Gallery, London, 2017
Multiplied, Christie’s, London, 2015
PR!NT, Impressions & Expressions, Editions & Seditions, La Cambre 346, Brussels, 2015
Lean-to, Tenderbooks, London, 2015
Aren’t: Alternative Audio Guide for the National Gallery, London, 2015
Objects Of, Café Gallery Projects, London, 2015
Performing Print: Bring the Archive Alive, Christie’s, London, 2014
Yesterday’s Wrong Thinking, Café Gallery Projects, London, 2014
Now, Then, After, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2013
Murmurs, The Horse Hospital, London, 2011
Selected Performances
Worry-casting, Homemade, Mareel, Shetland 2023
These Pits & Abysses*, CLF Café, London, 2016
Guiding William and Maria, Chambers*, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham Spa, 2016
Choir of Potatoes, Stop Bugging Me*, Tintype Gallery, London, 2015
Band II Collage, All silent but for the buzzing*, Dyson Gallery, London, 2014
Extra Bones, Utrophia, Deptford, 2012
Education
MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art, 2013-15
BA (Hons) Illustration, University of Brighton, 2007-10
Collections
Word and Image Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum
Special Collections and Archives, Bishopsgate Institute
RCA Print Archive, Royal College of Art
Sound & Moving Image Archive, The British Library
Department of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London
Selected Public, Research, Awards etc
Trustee, Scottish Contemporary Art Network, 2024/25
Artist Residency, Cove Park, Scotland, 2023
Fanzinekveld, Pamflett, Bergen, Norway, 2022![]()
Artists Drop In: working in rural settings, a-n, 2022
40 Years 40 Artists, a-n.co.uk, online, 2021
What if...?/Scotland, Scotland + Venice, V&A Dundee, 2021
an Artist Bursary, 2020
Curatorial North, SCAN + An Talla Solais, Ullapool, 2019/2020![]()
Cultivating Communities, a-n Assembly + Tendency Towards, Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen, 2019![]()
Hau did ju ever iskeip, Off Site Project Google Maps Residency, Online, 2018
Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award, Creative Scotland, 2018
House Taken Over, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, 2018
Visiting Artist, Printmaking Department, Ruskin School of Art, 2017–18
Print Futures Award, 2017
Visiting Artist, Norwich University of the Arts, 2017
The little strange sound was the living voice of the brooding presence, David Toop x Wysing Arts Centre, 2016
Visiting Artist, University of Brighton, 2016
Voiceprints, Printmaking Today feature, (London: Cello Press), 2016
Technical Instructor in Printmaking, Royal College of Art, 2015–18
Visiting Artist, Manchester School of Fine Art, 2015
Shelia Sloss Graduate Award, Printmaking Council, 2015
I can see for miles and miles and miles, article, ARC Issue #18 (London: RCA), 2014
MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art, 2013-15
BA (Hons) Illustration, University of Brighton, 2007-10
Collections
Word and Image Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum
Special Collections and Archives, Bishopsgate Institute
RCA Print Archive, Royal College of Art
Sound & Moving Image Archive, The British Library
Department of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London
Selected Public, Research, Awards etc
Trustee, Scottish Contemporary Art Network, 2024/25
Artist Residency, Cove Park, Scotland, 2023
Fanzinekveld, Pamflett, Bergen, Norway, 2022
Artists Drop In: working in rural settings, a-n, 2022
40 Years 40 Artists, a-n.co.uk, online, 2021
What if...?/Scotland, Scotland + Venice, V&A Dundee, 2021
an Artist Bursary, 2020
Curatorial North, SCAN + An Talla Solais, Ullapool, 2019/2020
Cultivating Communities, a-n Assembly + Tendency Towards, Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen, 2019
Hau did ju ever iskeip, Off Site Project Google Maps Residency, Online, 2018
Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award, Creative Scotland, 2018
House Taken Over, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, 2018
Visiting Artist, Printmaking Department, Ruskin School of Art, 2017–18
Print Futures Award, 2017
Visiting Artist, Norwich University of the Arts, 2017
The little strange sound was the living voice of the brooding presence, David Toop x Wysing Arts Centre, 2016
Visiting Artist, University of Brighton, 2016
Voiceprints, Printmaking Today feature, (London: Cello Press), 2016
Technical Instructor in Printmaking, Royal College of Art, 2015–18
Visiting Artist, Manchester School of Fine Art, 2015
Shelia Sloss Graduate Award, Printmaking Council, 2015
I can see for miles and miles and miles, article, ARC Issue #18 (London: RCA), 2014