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Papers and Publications:
Haptic and tender practices of ancient rural and contemporary urban stone circles • Symposium Paper • The Lithic Gathering: shifting temporalities and mythologies of ritual stone structures • Manchester Metropolitan University, March 2025
The (Amusement) Arcades Project: Lit Places at the Land’s Edges • Presentation • Institute of Place Management, Manchester, December 2024
Seaside Pleasures • Exhibition catalogue essay for ‘Super Fun Tyre’, an exhibition by Stuart Robinson • 2024
Let it WIP! Foundation Atmosphere • Conference Paper • Foundational: Exploring the Legacies and Impacts of Foundation Art & Design Education • Royal College of Art, August 2024
Between the Floors: Art School Atmospheres • Symposium Paper • Group for Learning in Art and Design Higher Education: Gathering Ourselves Symposium • Central Saint Martins, September 2023
’Between illumination and darkness: Blackpool’s contemporary arcade atmosphere’ • Book Chapter • Consuming Atmospheres: Designing, Experiencing and Researching Atmospheres. London: Routledge, October 2023
Insights: Public Lecture Series: Sharing recent research from The (Amusement) Arcades Phd Project and drawing coastal connections to current Holden Gallery exhibition: The Scholar Stones Project by Yelena Popova • Holden Gallery, February 2020
Rethinking Seaside Amusement Arcades through Sensation and Affect • Conference Paper • Royal Geographical Society Mid-Term Conference • Manchester Metropolitan University, April 2019
Sensation and Affect down at the Seaside Arcade • Conference Paper • The Royal College of Art NAFAE Student Research Conference, March 2019
Slots o’ fun! • Article • Holiday Issue of Modernist Magazine, Autumn 2018
Sounding the Seaside Amusement Arcade • Presentation • Institute of Place Management, Manchester, May 2018
Sensing the Amusement Arcade • Conference Paper • Provoking Discourse: Annual Postgraduate Research Conference • Manchester Metropolitan University, March 2018
Reconsidering British amusement arcades in the 1980s through the sensory and the temporal • Conference Paper • Recording Leisure Lives: Men’s Women’s and Children’s Leisure in 20th Century Britain Conference • University of Bolton, April 2017
Artworks and Exhibitions
‘Clay stills from stone circles _and site-writing labels: WIP’ (clay pressings, site writing labels) • ‘Circling the stones: Beermat as artwork’ (photo, fieldnotes, beermat print) • Artworks in group Exhibition • The Stones Project: Glossop Weekender, Ancient Stones and Contemporary Art • Victoria Hall, Glossop, June 2024
‘Clay stills from stone circles: WIP’ (clay pressings) and ‘Circling the stones: Beermat as artwork’ (photo, fieldnotes, beermat print) • Artworks in Group Exhibition • The Stone Circle: Exploring ritual landscape at O! Peste Destroyed, Manchester, April 2024
‘Barber Shops of Levenshulme’ (film) in collaboration with Kamran Ali • Screenings/Exhibitions: Cinema in the City hosted by FACT Liverpool (13 August 2021), Bankley Studios & Gallery (21 November 2021), HOME Manchester Open Exhibition (24 Jan -27 March 2022) and Cinema Screening (26 February 2022)
‘Sounding the Seafront’ (series of seaside arcade soundwalk-works) • Conference Exhibition • a-n Assembly conference, September 2021
‘Coin-Operated: Seaside Amusement Arcades’ (film/photos/found objects/place-writing) • Solo Exhibition • Fish Factory Gallery, Cornwall, July 2019
‘The (Amusement) Arcade’s Project’ (photo and accompanying written synopsis) • Group Exhibition • Images of Research at The Holden Gallery, Manchester, March – September 2019
‘Funland cafe’ (photo) • Group Exhibition • Sense of Place at White Room Gallery, Sheffield, December 2018 – January 2019
‘Fruit Machine’ (film) • Group Exhibition • Process at Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester, May – June 2016
*see instore for details (performance/intervention) • Virtual Interactive Exhibition at The Trafford Centre, December 2015
‘The Blue Guide’ (photo-collage) • Group Exhibition • Mapping Memory at Unfold: British Art Show Fringe, Leeds, October – December 2015
‘The Amusement Arcades Project: Soundscape” (sound installation) • Bankley Open Call at Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester, October 2015
'‘Photo, Postcard, Slide, Postcard, Photo’ (photo) • Group Exhibition • The Imaginary Museum: Art Library as Archive at Leeds College of Art and Leeds Central Library, Leeds, March – May 2015
Residencies
Artist Residency at Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, developing archive of seaside and seaside arcade soundwalks • July 2021
Artist Residency at Fish Factory Studios & Gallery, Cornwall, exploring Cornish amusements culture • July 2019
Lecturing
Senior Lecturer and Fine Art Pathway Lead for Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Levels 3/4) • Manchester Metropolitan University, 2023 - Present
Guest Lecturer for MA Fine Art and Curation (Level 7) • ‘Artist Ethnography: An approach to place experience’ • Manchester Metropolitan University, 2024
Lecturer for Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Levels 3/4) • Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015 – 2023
Lecturer for Contextualising Practice in Art/Design/Media (Levels 4/5) • Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015 – 2022
Lecturer for Independent Research Project Art and Design (Level 6) • University of Salford, 2017 – 2018
Unit Leader for ‘At Your Leisure’ Special Topic for Design (Level 5) • Liverpool Hope University, 2017
Lecturer for Art and Design History and Critical Study (Levels 4/5) • Wigan School of Art, 2016 – 2017
Education
PhD ‘The (Amusement) Arcades Project’ • Interdisciplinary Art and Geography PhD Scholarship at Manchester Metropolitan University • Supervisory Team: Prof Tim Edensor, Dr Jenny Holt, Prof Steve Millington • Completion in 2024
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education • Manchester Metropolitan University • 2015 – 2017
Postgraduate Certificate in Post Compulsory Education specialising in Art and Design • University of Bolton • 2014 – 2015
MA Visual Culture • Manchester Metropolitan University • 2011 – 2013
BA (Hons) Illustration • University College Falmouth • 2003 – 2006
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design • University College Northampton • 2002 – 2003
Professional Development Courses
‘Environment and Carbon Literacy’ • Manchester Metropolitan University • 2023
‘An Empowered Approach to Embedding Contemporary EDI values in creative education’ • University of the Art London • 2022
’Audio Visual Practice as Research’ • Birkbeck University of London • 2022
‘Soundwalking: Designing and Incorporating Sound into Urban Design’ • School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University • 2022
‘Art Criticism’ • Central Saint Martins, UAL • 2011
Other Work
Co-organisation of The Lithic Gathering: shifting temporalities and mythologies of ritual stone structures • Symposium • Manchester Metropolitan University, March 2025
Co-organisation and co-curation of The Stones Project: Glossop Weekender, Ancient Stones and Contemporary Art • Exhibition • Victoria Hall, Glossop, June 2024
Ethics Officer • Department of Art and Performance • Manchester Metropolitan University • 2024 - Present
Instagram Researcher in Residency • Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University • May 2021
Project Co-ordinator for Exhibiting Research: A Training Programme for Academics • Manchester Metropolitan University, May 2018 – June 2019
Project Co-ordinator • Archives Alumni: Social Media Student Work Campaign Project • The Visual Resources Centre, MMU, 2014
Exhibitions and Contemporary Interventions Developer • Manchester Art Gallery, 2012
Permanent Galleries Audio-guide Project • The People’s History Museum, 2012
Exhibitions Co-ordinator • Sutton House, Hackney, The National Trust, 2011
Business Development Account Manager, Key Account Manager. Clients included Pearson Group Ltd, Penguin Books, The Guardian, The Times, The National Portrait Gallery, Historic Royal Palaces, TATE • Bridgeman Art, 2007 – 2011
Exhibitions Assistant • The Association of Illustrators, 2007
Exhibitions Assistant • Imagination Ltd, 2006
Areas of Expertise
Artist-ethnography, sensory and auto-ethnography, fieldwork, walking as art practice, site-writing and fieldnotes, lens-based media, soundwalk recording, clay as expanded drawing in the environment, artist’s bookmaking, visual and material cultures, contemporary art history and theory, curating and exhibitions, investigative art processes, research as practice, art education, working with archives.