James Lingwood observed, ‘we learn to interpret the conversations associated with photography, cinema, painting, street signs and so on,’ and our knowledge of these systems ’lead us to believe that the world is a fixed and orderly place’ (in Kester, Rachel Whitread’s House, 1995).
Biography
Currently I move between London and Toronto. I studied painting aOCA(DU) and then in Florence, Italy. Later, I moved to London and studied printmaking and painting at The Slade School of Fine Art. Now as a PhD candidate at RCA, I (re)consider the landscape, the nature of site and conversations associated with media, in the context of art practice. I use photography, drawing and video installation and other media within my art practice and research.
I am a founding editor on a team continuing to develop an online academic research journal supporting artistic and design research. This experimental platform itinerant space disseminates research practice. itinerant space is supported by the School of Communication at RCA. itinerant space, Issue 2: iterations was published in July 2024.
Current academic roles
PhD candidate (part-time) at the Royal College of Art, London, England, 2016 – 2024. My research title is, Inside here: Dispersal as a strategy in landscape based critical-documentarist art practice Keywords: space, video, landscape, structural film, experimental film.
Founding Editor on a new online academic research journal at RCA. itinernant space is an experimental platform launched in 2021 and supporting research practice in Art and Design research. 2020 ongoing. As well as disseminating research, itinerant-space supports PGR students who wish to gain experience in publishing.
Peer Review member for Estudos em Design, academic research journal published in Brazil. 2020 ongoing.
Peer Review Program Committee role for EVA London Conference. 2020 ongoing.
Education
PhD candidate, School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art.
Thesis title Inside here: Dispersal as a strategy in critical-documentarist landscape-based art practice. Thesis submission Sept 2024.
HDip Painting and printmaking, Slade School of Fine Art (1988)
Graduate studies, Painting, OCA Studio, Florence, Italy (1984)
AOCA Diploma, Ontario College of Art, Fine Art, Painting, Toronto, (1983)
Selected Recent Exhibitions
Ars Electronica Art Festival, Linz, Austria, screened my video installation the sky is taught by falling series installation, in September 2023.
EVA London 2023, the sky is taught by falling video series was screened in a pop-up exhibition of works by artist researchers during this conference in July.
Hopscotch, RCA PhD Research Biennale 2023, screened my video installation the sky is taught by falling (2023) video installation, image above, at The Copeland Gallery in June.
Studio open event at Park Studios, 2023 a double screen installation in the series of the sky is taught by falling, and 35mm photographs from this series.
Without Boundaries screened my video series private (2022) and included my graphite works on mylar of studio tools, White City, RCA, 2022.
Itinerant space screens my vault series video online, published 2020 and was within the soft launch of the pilot issue in 2021. Link to this video here
Another Land, enclosed line installation, 35 mm photography, sand, vitrine, Kingston Museum, London, 2019.
I Scared My Computer, screened water drawing a video installation during Know Your Home, a cross campus programme of exhibitions and events, RCA, 2019.
Intentions: Conversations, Experiences and Knowledge, screened my vault series video and a collaborative sound installation Script. Catalogue ISBN 978-1-910642-30-6.
31ºC, ASC Gallery, exhibited Shelter, a collaborative video installation. This collaboration developed Exchange Project and Script for Intentions in 2017.
‘are we recording now?’ an intervention using sound for the Design Museum’s opening weekend, London, 2016.
Of Improvisation, a pop-up exhibition at Apiary Studios, London, 2015, launched Inside here by kmbosy (Android and iOS).
Inside here, marks the start of my PhD research. A long CV is available on request. I’ve shown my work in London for many years, starting out as a gallery artist at Creaser Gallery on Portobello Road and then at Mercury Gallery on Cork Street in the 1990s. Since then my work had been held at the Eagle Gallery in Farringdon.
Selected Presentations and links to published papers
Book Launch in May 2024 at Peckham 24 for murmurings, murmurings, She Speaks Up book publication. Image contribution.
itinerant space, founding editor, issue editor for issues 1 and 2, launch for itinerant space, Issue 2: iterations, July 2024.
itinerant space, a iterative (book) publication launch July 2024.
Implying the Surface, Guest-curator, Animation Studies 2.0, Society for Animation Studies, February - March 2024.
She Speaks Up book publication. Image contribution (2023).
What do you think about when you think about skies? co-authored article, written and image contributions, itinerant space, 2023.
PROVA, Journal 5, book launched in 2022.
vault, itinerant space, Issue 1: Pilot, launch of this new academic research journal, 2021.
Media languages: video practices, co-authored paper, EVA London 2020.
PROVA, Sick Love, Journal 5, RCA Arts and Humanities research journal online, vault, written and image contribution, p. 188-189, RCA, 2020.
Daydreaming space and the digital monument, paper published in Estudos em Design, 2019.
Signs of expression, co-authored paper presented at CIDI, Brazil, published in InfoDesign Journal, 2019.
Multiple means of expression made available by digital media, co-authored paper, EVA London 2019.
we all look at the same sky, Film 7, Intentions: Conversations, Experiences and Knowledge, RCA, cover image, image and written contribution.
Inside here by kmbosy, online artwork launched at Of Improvisation, Apiary Studios, London, 2015.
Editing, Peer Review, and Committees
RCA PhD Research Biennale 2023, organising committee member for the physical space; this Biennale also has an online component.
itinerant space, co-editor Issue 1, The Pilot Issue & Issue 2: Dispersal, Royal College of Art, 2021 to present.
A founding editor of academic research journal itinerant space, Royal College of Art, 2020.
Peer Review member of the team for Estudos em Design, the peer review team for this academic research journal published in Brazil, 2020 to present.
Peer Review Program Committee member for EVA London Conference, 2020 to 2023.
Conference Chair, CONGIC, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2019.
Conferences / Presentations / Webinars / Workshops
Book launch for itinerant space, book publication, RCA, in July 1st, 2024. In my role as an issue editor, a launch is planned for itinerant space, Issue 2: Dispersal, RCA, online in June 2024. Discussions include a symposium or performative showcase of works for the book publication launch later in 2024.
Research Presentation to Entanglement Research Lab, School of Arts and Humanities, RCA, March 2024.
Zine workshop, prototype book iteration for itinerant space, co-lead by issue editors, SoC, Royal college of Art during the Doctoral Training Programme, Feb 2024.
Silent Disco, Introduction to Performance workshop with Boston University students. February 2024 on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath.
itinerant space, workshop on peer review, Issue 2, Open Call, RCA Research Biennale, Copeland Gallery, 2023.
EVA London 2023
itinerant space, Doctoral Training Programme, RCA, July 2021.
Soft-launch for itinerant space Issue 1: Pilot, during RCA Research Biennale 2021.
itinerant space, event, Research Open Studio, researchers from across RCA were invited to join this collaborative project, RCA, 2020.
Media languages: video practices, webinar, Encontro em Design Contemporaneo, LabDesign Contemporaneo, Universidade Estadual Paulista Campus Bauru, Brazil, 2020
Delay, itinerant space workshop, Methods of Intent research group, RCA, 2020.
EVA London 2020
CIDI & Conference Chair for CONGIC, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2019.
EVA London 2019
Trajectories II exhibition & events, workshop What is public space? Waterman’s Art Centre, 2019.
Intentions: Conversations, Experiences and Knowledge, offered opportunities for testing practice-based research. RCA, White City, 2017.
What is public space? a zine workshop event at RCA, Research Summer School, 2017. Image below is of my zine workshop for Research Student Student Training at RCA in 2018 and 2019.
longer CV available on request
