Sally Waterman
Sally Waterman’s interdisciplinary arts practice and research is concerned with the interpretation of literature into an elusive form of self-portraiture, drawing upon writers such as Henry James, Derek Jarman, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf.
Her practice-based PhD used T.S Eliot’s 1922 poem, ‘The Waste Land’ as a framework to examine her self-representational strategies and adaptation methods, culminating in a collection of photographic and video installations (2005-2010). Waterman re-invents the source material through a fragmentary re-scripting exercise, seeking autobiographical associations with certain images, themes, characters or concepts, enabling the recollection and re-imagining of memory.
Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally since 1996, including Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales; Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery, London; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; CCA, Glasgow; Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Berlin Short Film Festival, Istanbul Experimental Film Festival,Tasmanian International Video Art Festival, International Kansk Video Festival, Russia and the Family Film Project, Porto, Portugal.
Waterman has co-curated artist film programmes, which have also featured her work at ViSiONA festival, Huesca, Spain; Birkbeck cinema, London; Close-Up cinema, London; Richmond American International University, London; and CCA, Glasgow.
Her photographs have featured on book covers for Virago, Random House, Harper Collins and Faber & Faber and her work is held in public collections including The National Art Library at the V&A, London; The School of Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale Center for British Art, New York.
Published academic writing includes ‘Performing Familial Memory in Against’ in Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory (Bloombury, 2018), ‘Re-imagining the Family Album through Literary Adaptation’ in Global Photographies: Memory–History–Archives (Transcript, 2018) and 'Staging Sermon: Performing Autobiographical Memory Through The Waste Land' in The Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography (IGI Global, 2023).
She was a visiting fellow at the University of London (2011-2012), where she organised the 'Family Ties: Recollection and Representation' conference, and was a founder member of the Family Ties Network research group. During its ten year activity, the group organised sixteen seminar and study day events across the UK in higher education institutions and galleries and curated two exhibitions at The Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, London and at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.
Waterman is currently employed as a part time archive manager for the photographer, Juergen Teller alongside her own practice and research. She is an experienced educator, and has worked in academia for sixteen years at various institutions teaching across photography, fashion photography, film, video art and contextual studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at Plymouth College of Art, University of Plymouth, Ravensbourne University and University for the Creative Arts.
(I've uploaded works from 2005-present, but for older works from 1996 onwards and for more information on each project, please see www.sallywaterman.com)
Education
2004-2010 PhD Media & Photography: ‘Visualising The Waste Land: Discovering a Praxis of Adaptation’, University of Plymouth
2006-2007 Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE) University of Plymouth
1995-1996 MA Image & Communication (Photography), Goldsmiths College, University of London
1992-1995 BA (Hons) English with Design Arts, University of Plymouth
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Wellow, Clayden Gallery, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight
2018 In the Cage, Liddicoat & Goldhill Project Space, The Printworks, Margate, in association with ‘Journeys with The Waste Land’ at Turner Contemporary (Curated by Lucy Howarth)
2017 Waves, Journey, Voyage, Special Collections and Archives, Goldsmiths, University of London
2015 Translucence, the [...] space, Mission Gallery, Swansea
2012 Waste Land, Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
2010 Waste Land, Scott Building, University of Plymouth
2008 Waste Land: Game, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art
2007 Still-Moving, Viewfinder Photography Gallery, London
2005 Making Our Mark, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (Michael West Gallery)
2005 Making our Mark, Scott Gallery, University of Plymouth
2002 Hidden Within, Five Princelet Street Gallery, London
2001 Forest Fears, The Spitz Gallery, London
2000 The Other Side of a Mirror, Kingsgate Gallery, London
1997 Through the Banisters, Mary Ward Centre Cafe Gallery, London
1996 The Waves, Dimbola Lodge, Isle of Wight
Joint Exhibitions
2017
So Cheerio For Now, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London (Joint show with Jacqueline Butler)
Group Exhibitions/Screenings
2024
Fisura International Experimental Film & Video, Mexico, Screening of 'Against'
Exploring Grief and Loss through Art , Willesden Gallery, London, UK: 'Against' shown in group exhibition
2023
The Dreaming, WIA Gallery, Lewes, UK: 'Against' and 'In the Cage' shown in group exhibition
MicroActs 16, Corner, London: Screening of ‘Against’
Experimental Film Fest, New Bern, North Carolina, USA, Official Selection of 'Against'
Madrid International Short Film Festival, Spain, Online screening of 'Wellow'
2022
Family and Other Ties, Foyer Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK: 'Past Present' photographs and 'Wellow' installed
Kinofilm International Short Film Festival, Manchester, British New Wave 2 programme at the Mini-Cine, Screening of 'Wellow'
Barcelona International Short Film Festival, Spain, Screening of 'Syncopation'
MicroActs 11, VFDalston, London, UK: Screening of 'Syncopation'
At Home, Fabrica, Brighton, UK (In Partnership with Short Circuit Films): Screening of 'Syncopation'
Crossing the Screen, International Film Festival, Eastbourne, UK: Screening of 'Wellow'
2021
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey: Screening of 'Wellow'
Tactus - 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece: Festival screening of 'Against', 'Syncopation' and 'Between Us' (Online and physical edition)
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, BilbaoArte, Bilbao, Spain: Screening of 'Wellow'
Streetlight, Roman Susan Art Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Window projection screening of 'Syncopation'
Video Art Miden, Greece, 'Just before the earthquake', curated YouTube programme: Screening of 'Syncopation'
Room for Books, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Norway: Voyage Boxed installed, featuring 'February' concertina book
2020
Southampton Film Week, Online festival screening of 'From our Mothers' Arms'
The New Black, Void Collective online exhibition: ‘Against’ (2014) from ‘Translucence’ selected
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City NY, USA: Online festival screening of 'Between Us'
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, BilbaoArte Fundazioa, Bilbao, Spain: Screening of 'Syncopation'
Flight/Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova, Gallery Incantations, Genova, Italy: Screening of 'Syncopation'
At the Fringe International Arts Festival 2020, Tranås, Sweden: Online festival screening of 'Against'
19th International Kansk Video Festival/SOPROMAT-TV, Russia, Online festival screening of 'Syncopation'
Berlin Short Film Festival, Online festival screening of 'Syncopation'
MK Calling, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes ('Syncopation' and Between Us' shown as looping video installations)
2019
Family Film Project, Porto, Portugal: Screening of 'Syncopation'
51 Zero, International Moving Image and Contemporary Art Festival, UCA Canterbury: Screening of ‘Wisdom’
Tracing the Tide: Art Walk Porty Festival , Portobello beach, Edinburgh: Screening of 'Rural Shadow Walks' and 'Urban Shadow Walks'
Crossing the Screen International Film Festival, Eastbourne: Screening of 'Syncopation'
5th Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia, Bogotá, Colombia: Screening of 'Syncopation'
SPLICE Film Fest, Film Noir cinema, Brooklyn, New York City, USA: Screening of 'So Cheerio for Now'
Home on the Move, 'Movement and Identity’ symposium pop up exhibition (Screening of 'Syncopation'), Tate Modern, London (Curated by Ricarda Vidal and Manuela Perteghella as part of the 'Talking Transformations' project)
2018
Southampton Film Week, Screening of 'Home. A Structure on Trial'
Tasmanian International Video Art Festival, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania: 'Against' installed
Home on the Move, Whitstable Biennale, Ledbury Poetry Festival and the Poetry Library at the Royal Festival Hall, London (Curated by Ricarda Vidal and Manuela Perteghella as part of the 'Talking Transformations' project)
A Journey with The Waste Land, Turner Contemporary, Margate
At the Violet Hour, The Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate, in association with ‘Journeys with The Waste Land’ at Turner Contemporary (Curated by Chiara Williams and Shaun Stamp)
2017
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York: Screening of 'So Cheerio for Now'
Family Reunion, Pi Artworks, London (Curated by Jessica Ziskind)
A Walk with The Waste Land, Dreamland, Margate, Part of 'Margate Bookie‘ festival led by Elspeth Penfold: Screening of 'Fortune-telling/Re-telling'
Let's Talk About Vivienne, Old Kent Market, Margate, Part of POW, Thanet and Turner Contemporary ‘Walking The Waste Land’ Research Group walk: Screening of 'In the Cage'
Filming the Personal, CCA, Glasgow: Screening of 'So Cheerio for Now'
2016
Berlin Experimental Film Festival, Moviemento Kino, Berlin: Screening of 'Against'
Crossing the Screen, International Film Festival, Eastbourne: Screening of 'So Cheerio for Now'
Embodied Methodologies, 4th Annual practice-based research conference, Royal Holloway, University of London: Screening of 'Against'
Bodies of Water, Force 8, Methodist Chapel, Bridport, Dorset: Screening of 'February'
Filming the Personal, Close-Up cinema, Shoreditch, London: Screening of 'The Deep Sea Swell'
I’ll Tell You My life: Remembering, ViSiONA festival, Auditorium of the Council of Huesca, Spain: Screening of 'Against' and ‘Wisdom
Grammar of Wavelength, Western Isles Museum, Stornoway, Lewis, Scotland (Voyage Boxed shown)
Voyage Boxed, Galerie UQO, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Usurp Zone5 Film Festival, Experimental Art Gallery, Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India: Screening of 'Against'
2015
Usurp Zone5 Film Festival, Harrow, London: Screening of 'Against'
Voyage Boxed, Herhúsið, Siglufjörður, Iceland
Bodies of Water, Cornwall Film Festival, Murdoch House, Redruth: Screening of 'February'
Bodies of Water, Plymouth University: Screening of 'February'
2014
Family Ties: Re-Framing Memory, Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, University of London
Sweet Thames Run Softly, The Duke's Head, Putney and The Mayflower, Rotherhithe, London: Screening of 'Against', 'Urban Shadow Walks' and 'Rural Shadow Walks'
Image-Movement-Story conference, Roehampton University, London: Screening of 'In the Cage'
Bodies of Water, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol: Screening of 'February'
Turn the Page, Artist book fair and exhibition, Fusion Gallery, The Forum, Norwich: 'Voyage' edition and screening of 'February'
Out of the Box, FAB, Fringe Arts, Bath
Art in a Box, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
Public and Personal Archives: Creative Negotiations, Creativity Zone, University of Sussex, Brighton
The Innocents: GHost at Camberwell Free Film Festival, St. Giles Church, London: Screening of 'Turn of the Screw'
2013
8 Studios From Here, Deptford X, London
Liminal, Camberwell Space, University of the Arts, London
Voyage: Sea Journeys, Island Hopping & Trans-Oceanic Concepts, Künstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany
2012
Ghost IV Presence and Absence: The Haunted Landscape, St John on Bethnal Green, London
Off the Shelf: the Self and Subjectivity in the Artist’s Book, Stockwell Studios, London
The Uncanny, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, Lancashire
Art in Romney Marsh, St Mary in the Marsh, Kent
Liquidity, Jill Craigie Cinema, University of Plymouth: Screening of 'February' as part of the 'Water:Image' conference
Standpoint Open: Diamonds in the Rough, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (West Gallery)
2011
Crop, Avenue Gallery, School of the Arts, University of Northampton
Who is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You?, Micro Gallery, The Firestation, Windsor
Last Friday Shorts, CoExist Gallery, TAP, Southend-on-sea: Screening of The Deep Sea Swell and The Awful Daring of a Moment’s Surrender
Photo Book Works, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
2010
Photo Book Works, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA
Nightmare conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London: Screening of Turn of the Screw and participation in panel discussion with filmmaker Sarah Miles
Place, Identity and Memory, Reading Lasses Bookshop, Wigtown book Festival, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
2009
Place, Identity and Memory, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Place, Identity and Memory, Stranraer Museum, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Framing Time and Place: Repeats and Returns in Photography, Scott Gallery,
University of Plymouth
Deptford Dark Nights, London, Art Services Un-incorporated. Screening of Urban Shadow Walks
2008
What Happens Next? Pitzhanger Gallery and Manor, London
Moving Out, LOCATE Research group, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth
Inferno, The Shipwright’s Palace, Deptford, London: Premiere screening
Immersion, LOCATE Research group, Scott Building, University of Plymouth
The Art of Research: Research Narratives, Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Art & Design
2007
Escapes, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art
Journey, Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales
Regard, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art
2006
Uncurated, Faircharm Studios, Made in Deptford Festival, London
4th International Artist’s Book, King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvar, Hungary
Put Away Those Childish Things, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art
Renderyard Film Festival, Escape Art Gallery, London: Screening of Passing Through
2005
Imprint, Frame Zero, London, Photomonth (Joint show with Tessa Bunney)
Journey, The Clifford Fishwick Gallery, University of Plymouth, (Exeter)
Made in Deptford Festival, Café Crème, London. Screening of Higher Ground/Underground
Forest, Nottingham Castle Museum and Arts Gallery
Forest, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales
Forest, York Art Gallery
2004
Forest, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Trace Editions, Hirschl Contemporary Art, London
Haunt, Sherborne House, Dorset
2003
Earthbound, Arches, Resolution way, Deptford X, London
Cross Currents, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (Michael West Gallery)
2001
Shifting Horizons, Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Shifting Horizons, School of Art, Burslem, Stoke on Trent
2000
Shifting Horizons, Midland Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham
1999
To the Lighthouse, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (Michael West Gallery)
1998
Garden Gallery, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (Rope Store Gallery)
1997
Similar Differences, Ostholstein Museum, Eutin, Germany
1996
Similar Differences, Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay, California, USA
Commissions
2017-2018
Talking Transformations
Created artist video based on English translation of a Romanian version of a Polish poem, organised by Dr. Ricarda Vidal and Dr. Manuela Perteghella
2013
Art & Adventure, London: Created short experimental video projection for touring live performance of 'A Moment of Mishearing' by Amit Chaudhuri in Oxford, Norwich, Bombay, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, New Dehli and Calcutta. Producer Roger Elsgood.
2012-2013
Rethink Your Mind, UK: Judge for mental health arts competition, organised by AdvanceUK, SISO and HowRU?
2006/2007
Art & Adventure, London: Contributed a short experimental video for a multimedia adaptation of Dante’s Inferno. Producer Roger Elsgood, Director William Richards
2004
Polaris Productions Ltd, London: Stills photographer on film set of Gas, directed by Sylvie Bolioli
2003
Trace Gallery, Weymouth (www.traceisnotaplace.com): Journey Home Limited edition artist book (35 in edition)
Since 1997
Millennium Images Ltd: Photographs used for book covers and editorial projects
Clients include: New Scientist, Faber & Faber, Random House, Routledge & Virago
1997
The Garden Gallery Project, ‘Cassies’, Billingham, Isle of Wight: Photographs made in response to private garden exhibition (July 1997)
1997
Bateau Ivre Theatre Company, London: Director of Photography: Provided visuals for set design and promotion
Bibliography
Books
Ingham, Mark; Milic, Nela; Kantas, Vasileios; Sara Andersdotter, Sara; Lowe, Paul (Eds.). (2023) 'Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography' IGI Global (Contributing chapter)
Arnold-de Simine, Silke and Leal, Joanne (Eds.) (2018) Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory, London/New York: Bloombury (Contributing chapter)
Helff, Sissy and Michels, Stefanie (ed) (2018) Global Photographies: Memory – History – Archives, Bielefeld: Transcript (Contributing chapter)
Wells, L, Newton, K and Fehily,C. (eds) (2000) Shifting Horizons: Women's Landscape Photography Now, London: I. B. Tauris.
Journal Articles
'Family Ties Network', Exposure: The Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, Spring 2017, Vol. 50:1
Waterman, S. 2019. 'The ‘Waste Land’ project: Framing Practice-based Research Through Literary Adaptation', Journal of Media Practrice and Education, Vol. 20:2, 2019
Exhibition Catalogues
'Art in a Box' (2014) Exhibition catalogue with text by Joanna Bryant, Great Missenden, UK: One Church Street Gallery.
'Voyage: Sea Journeys, Island Hopping and Trans-Oceanic Concepts' (2013) Exhibition catalogue with essays by Nancy Campbell, Imi Maufe and Rona Rangsch, Dortmund, Germany: Kunstlerhaus Dortmund.
'Photo Book Works' (2010) Exhibition catalogue with text by Alicia Bailey, Denver, USA: Abecedarian Gallery.
'Place, Identity and Memory' (2009) Exhibition catalogue with text by Julian Watson, Dumfries & Galloway, UK: Gracefield Arts Centre.
'Fourth International Artist's Book Exhibition' (2006) Exhibition catalogue with text by Katalin Izinger and Buzz Spector, Székesfehérvár, Hungary: King St. Stephen Museum.
'Forest' (2004) Exhibition catalogue with essays by Caroline Smallwood, Yvonne Aburrow and Roger Kelly, Wolverhampton, UK: Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
'Haunt' (2004) Exhibition catalogue with introduction by Maev Kennedy, Sherbourne, UK: Sherborne House.
Artist Bookworks
'Je Veux (I Want)' (2003) Paris: One Star Press. (700 editions, 230 artists)
'Journey Home' (2003) Artist book (35 editions)
'Voyage Boxed' (2014) Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany (50 editions, 18 artists)
Collections
Dortmund Kunstlerhaus, Germany; Edinburgh School of Art, UK; John M. Flaxman Library, The School of Art Institute of Chicago; Goldsmiths, University of London; King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvar, Hungary; Manchester Metropolitan University; National Art Library, V&A; Penrose Library, University of Denver; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK; Tate Library, London, UK; University of Glasgow; University of Northampton, University of Plymouth, Yale Center for British Art, New York; private collections
Artist Residencies
Nov 2012-May 2013 Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A): Wimbledon College of Art, London
Curatorial Projects
October 2022
Family and Other Ties, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey
Lead curator of group exhibition featuring co-ordinators Suze Adams, Nicky Bird, Jacqueline Butler, Rosy Martin, Lizzie Thynne and Sally Waterman as part of the Family Ties Network, alongside nineteen other artists selected from an open call from the FTN community.
February 2017
Filming the Personal, CCA, Glasgow: Co-curator of film programme exploring paternal relationships, featuring work by Duncan Cowles, Jill Daniels, Anthea Kennedy, Theresa Moerman, John Smith, Alia Syed and Sally Waterman.
April 2016
Filming the Personal, Close-Up cinema, Shoreditch, London: Co-curator of film programme exploring paternal relationships, featuring work by Duncan Cowles, Jill Daniels, Anthea Kennedy, Theresa Moerman, John Smith, Alia Syed and Sally Waterman.
February 2016
I’ll Tell You My life: Remembering, ViSiONA festival, Auditorium of the Council of Huesca, Spain: Co-curator of film programme featuring work by Suze Adams, Jacqueline Butler, David Jackson and Sarah Pucill , alongside her own videos as part of the Family Ties Network
July 2014
'Family Ties: Re-Framing Memory', Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, London: Lead curator of group exhibition featuring member's Suze Adams, Nicky Bird, Jacqueline Butler, Rosy Martin, Lizzie Thynne and her own work as part of the Family Ties Network
3rd November 2012
'Tracing Ancestral Homelands', Richmond American International University, London
Co-organiser of Family Ties Network film screening event of 'Communion' (2012) by Suze Adams and 'On the Border' (2012) by Lizzie Thynne.
8th & 9th March 2012
'Family Ties: Recollection and Representation', Senate House, University of London
Organiser of conference and film screening event in association with the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. Keynote speakers included Rosy Martin and Professor Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University. Film screening of '2001 - A Family Odyssey: Ophelia's Version' (2002) accompanied by film director, Sarah Miles in conversation with Dr. Lucy Reynolds
Academic/Teaching Experience
February 2021-February 2025
University for the Creative Arts, Rochester and Epsom: Senior Lecturer in Fashion Photography & Photography
October 2017-January 2020
UCA, Rochester: Associate Lecturer for BA Photography and BA Fashion Photography
October 2013-January 2020
Ravensbourne University, London: Associate Lecturer in Contextual Studies and Dissertation Supervisor
Sept 2011-June 2012
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London: Visiting Fellow
Nov 2007-May 2008
University of Plymouth: Associate lecturer for BA Media Arts
Sept 2005- Jan 2009
Plymouth College of Art: Lecturer in Film Arts (Part time 0.3)
2001/2002
Roger Asham Primary School, Walthamstow, London: Visiting Artist
August 1996-1998
National Portrait Gallery, London: Assisted on summer photography workshops
Artist Talks and Papers Presented
21st May 2025: Artist Talk, The Still and Moving Image The Margate School
19th May 2025:Artist Talk, BA Photography, Plymouth Photo Festival Arts University Plymouth
18th March 2025: Artist Talk, BA Art History, Regent's University, London
27th September 2024: 'Wellow: Recounting ancestral memories of place through lens based autobiographical practice', Archival Practices in Contemporary Visual Arts: A Model and a Source, Reframing the Archive: International Conference of Photography and Visual Culture, 5th Edition (Online)
20th June 2024: 'Embodying Childhood Memory through the Archive and Fictional Characters', Early Career Researcher conference, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
13th March 2024: Artist Talk, BA Art History, Regent's University, London
July 2019-July 2023: Annual Artist Talk, MA Photography and MA Fashion Photography University for the Creative Arts, Rochester
23rd October 2018: Artist Talk, BA Photography, Coventry University
6th October 2018: Artist Talk, ‘Ideas of Intimacy’, Family Ties Network research seminar, Ravensbourne University London
15th June 2018: ‘The ‘Waste Land’ Project: Framing Practice-Based Research Through Literary Adaptation', Contexts of Film Practice, MeCCSA and Media Practice and Education Practice Network Annual Symposium, University of Lincoln
7th May 2018: In conversation with Lucy Howarth, 'In the Cage' exhibition, Liddicoat & Goldhill Project Space, The Printworks, Margate
10th April 2018: Artist Talk, BA Liberal Arts, Regent's University, London
13th February 2018: 'Visualising the Home', Research, Learning and Teaching Conference, Ravensbourne, London
2nd December 2017: Artist Talk, 'Journeying Home', Family Ties Network research seminar, University of Greenwich, London (in association with the ‘So Cheerio for Now’ exhibition, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery)
14th July 2017: 'PastPresent: Re-Photographic Representations of the Family Home Through Literary Adaptation' Visualising the Home conference, University of Cumbria
9th September 2016: ‘Interpreting The Waste Land: Literary Fragmentations and the Disembodied Self’, (Dis)Connected Forms: Narratives on the Fractured Self conference, University of Hull
27th January 2016: Artist Talk Plymouth College of Art 3rd Annual Visual Culture symposium, London
5th December 2014: Artist talk, 'Family Matters', Family Ties Network seminar, Watershed, Bristol
10th July 2014: 'Literary Revisions of the Family Album: Between Remembering and Forgetting’, Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory conference, Birkbeck, University of London
28th June 2013: Artist Talk, Family Ties Network research seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University
17th May 2013: 'Staging Sermon: Performing Literary Narratives', Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary, UAL Research Forum, London College of Communication
13th November 2012: Artist Talk, BA Media Practice, University of Sussex
27th October 2012: In conversation with Professor Liz Wells, 'Waste Land' exhibition, Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
18th October 2012: Artist Talk, BA English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
29th June 2012: 'Re-imagining the Family Album through Literary Adaptation’, How History Enters Photography symposium, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany
18th June 2012: Artist Talk, MA Image & Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London
11th May 2012: Artist Talk, BA Photography, Plymouth College of Art
10th May 2012: 'Poetic Wanderings: Visual Interpretations of Home and Place', Home and Place: Nature and Landscape Study Day, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
4th July 2011: Artist Talk, MA Image & Communication, Goldsmiths College, London
9th June 2011: Artist Talk, MA Photography, University of West London
16th February 2011: ‘Literary Transformations: A Self-Representational Arts Practice’, Research Seminar, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick
22nd June 2010: Artist Talk, MA Photography, Thames Valley University
29th April 2009: ‘Picturing the Self in Metaphorical Waste-Land-Scapes’, LAND/WATER research seminar, University of Plymouth
5th July 2008: ‘Face-to-Face: The Photographic (Self) Portrait’ conference, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
8th May 2008: Artist Talk, MA Photography, Thames Valley University, London
30th April 2008: Artist Talk, ‘The Waste Land: PhD Work-in-Progress’, Plymouth College of Art
16th April 2008: ‘Manoeuvrability and A Game of Chess’, research seminar, School of Media and Photography, University of Plymouth
16th February 2008: Artist Talk, ‘What Happens Next?’ exhibition, Pitzhanger Gallery and Manor, London
18th December 2007: Artist Talk, ‘Still-Moving’ exhibition, Viewfinder Photography Gallery, London
22nd November 2007: Artist Talk, BA Photography, Plymouth College of Art
14th May 2007: ‘Memento Mori: ‘PastPresent’ and ‘Fortune-telling/Re-telling’, research seminar, Plymouth College of Art
2nd May 2007: ‘Shadow Walks’: The Unreal City Experience’, research seminar, School of English, University of Plymouth
30th April 2007: Artist Talk, MA Image & Communication, Goldsmiths College, London
7th March 2007: ‘PhD Work in Progress’, research seminar, School of Media and Photography, University of Plymouth
9th October 2006: ‘A Research Journey’, BA Photomedia, Plymouth College of Art
12th June 2006: Artist Talk, MA Image & Communication, Goldsmiths College, London
15th February 2006: ‘Interpreting T. S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, research seminar, School of Media and Photography, University of Plymouth
9th April 2005: Artist Talk, ‘Making our Mark’ exhibition, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
1st December 2004: ‘Introduction to PhD project’, research seminar, School of Media and Photography, University of Plymouth
1st March 2004: Artist Talk, MA Image & Communication, Goldsmiths College, London
28th April 2003: Artist Talk, MA Image & Communication, Goldsmiths College, London
21st February 2003: Artist Talk, ‘Cross Currents’ exhibition, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
24th June 2002: Artist Talk, MA Image & Communication, Goldsmiths College, London
10th March 2002: Artist Talk, Five Princelet Street Gallery, Spitalfields Women’s Literature Festival
Awards
2025: Knowledge Exchange Fund, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom: Reimagining 'The Face: Cultural Shift' exhibition in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery
2018: Small Research Grant, Ravensbourne University London, 'Ideas of Intimacy’ Family Ties Network seminar
2017: Small Research Grant, Ravensbourne University London, Participation in ‘Visualising the Home’ conference, University of Cumbria
2012: John Coffin Lecture Fund, University of London, ‘Family Ties: Recollection and Representation’ conference
2004-2010: Research fee remission scholarship, University of Plymouth
Membership
2012-2022: Family Ties Network (Arts Research Group)
Since 2008: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Since 1996 : Millennium Images Ltd (www.milim.com)
1996-2006: Iris: The International Centre for Women in Photography (www.irisphoto.org)
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