SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, CURATION, RESEARCH
current activity:
2018 ongoing – OUR DREAMS CANNOT BE LEGALISED / Lessons from la ZAD (commissioned by Future's Venture Foundation)
residencies / commissions:
2015 – Rutherford's Garden (The Manchester Museum / Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK)
2013 – Cape Farewell: Sea Change / Northern Isles Swan Expedition (Orkney & Shetland, UK)
2012 – Bug Cinema / Whale Oil to Whole Foods (Siuslaw Model Forest, Cornell Agroforestry Centre, NY, United States)
2012 – Life Friendly (Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK)
2009 – folly (Coed Hills Rural Artspace, Cowbridge, South Wales, UK)
group exhibitions & collaborative projects:
2020 – Take Back Control / Week 53 Festival (The Lowry, Salford, UK)
2019 – Ante-Art: May Day Festival (Kirkgate Centre, Shipley, UK)
2012/17 – Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource (touring exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art and other museums, United States)
2016 – Fruitful Futures: Imagining Pomona (LiFE - Living in Future Ecologies research group, Manchester, UK)
2015 – WAKE (Undegun Gallery, Wrexham, North Wales, UK)
2013 – HYDROLOGIC: Making Sense With Water (Emery Community Arts Centre, University of Maine, United States)
2012 – Counter Culture Nature (Liverpool city parks, Kerry Morrison / TATE Liverpool)
2012 – 3 Days Without Water (3 Piccadilly Place Gallery, Manchester, UK)
2012 – Whale Oil to Whole Foods (Greene County Arts and Cornell Agroforestry Centre, NY, United States)
2012 – WE ASSERT! A Manifesto (CIWEM Arts & Environment Network publication, London, UK)
2011/12 – Photernative (Helfa Gelf, touring collective, North Wales, UK)
2010/11 – Hydrography (with Stuart Carter / National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK)
2010 – space between (International Gallery, Liverpool Biennial 2010, Liverpool, UK)
2010 – Fabric of the Land: Origin of Colour (University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
2010 – What Matters Most? (ecoartspace / Exit Art, New York, United States)
2010 – Climate Change (Rhyl Arts Centre, Denbighshire, North Wales, UK)
2010 – High Tide presents... Mersey Basin (Art & Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
2009 – Climate for Change (FACT - Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK)
2008 – Gaia Project: URBAN/ECOLOGY (Liverpool Biennial Independents 08, Liverpool, UK)
2008 – Artranspennine08 (cross-regional, Pennines, Derbyshire, UK)
2008 – Screen Deva Studio (Chester Performs 08, media arts festival, Chester, UK)
2007 – When Anything Looms (Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, UK)
2005 – Being here - Being there: Landscape, Memory, Identity (Zion Arts Centre, Manchester, UK)
solo exhibitions, projects & screenings:
2018 – Commonweal 60th Anniversary Lecture: OUR DREAMS CANNOT BE LEGALISED / Lessons from la ZAD (Commonweal / University of Bradford, UK)
2018 – OUR DREAMS CANNOT BE LEGALISED / Lessons from la ZAD (ONCA, Brighton, and The Stove, Dumfries, UK)
2012 – ARK (St. Luke's Church, Liverpool Biennial Independents 2012, UK)
2009 – distance (Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK)
2008/09 – …all this could be lost (Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, UK)
2007 – Landscape Video Paintings (Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK)
curated exhibitions & projects:
2016 - Elemental: an arts and ecology reader (Gaia Project Press)
2015 – GAIA: Resonant Visions (HOME and The Whitworth Art Gallery – arts programme for SER 2015 6th world conference, Manchester, UK)
2013 – Green World: Arts & Ecology / GW79 special issue (Green Party magazine, UK)
2011 – International Environmental Photographer of the Year: At Water’s Edge (EDGEspace, Liverpool, UK)
2010 – space between (International Gallery, Liverpool Biennial 2010, UK)
2010 – High Tide presents... Water's Edge (UK-wide, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, UK)
2010 – High Tide presents... Mersey Basin (Art & Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
2009/10 – The Gathering Storm: COP15 Project (with Aviva Rahmani / FACT – Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK)
2008 – Gaia Project: URBAN/ECOLOGY (Gaia Cabinet, Albert Dock, Liverpool Biennial Independents 2008, UK)
2007 – Gaia Museum (Kinder Scout, Peak District National Park, Night of the Museums, UK)
2005 – Being here. Being there: Landscape, Memory, Identity (Zion Arts, Manchester, UK)
current activity:
2018 ongoing – OUR DREAMS CANNOT BE LEGALISED / Lessons from la ZAD (commissioned by Future's Venture Foundation)
residencies / commissions:
2015 – Rutherford's Garden (The Manchester Museum / Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK)
2013 – Cape Farewell: Sea Change / Northern Isles Swan Expedition (Orkney & Shetland, UK)
2012 – Bug Cinema / Whale Oil to Whole Foods (Siuslaw Model Forest, Cornell Agroforestry Centre, NY, United States)
2012 – Life Friendly (Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK)
2009 – folly (Coed Hills Rural Artspace, Cowbridge, South Wales, UK)
group exhibitions & collaborative projects:
2020 – Take Back Control / Week 53 Festival (The Lowry, Salford, UK)
2019 – Ante-Art: May Day Festival (Kirkgate Centre, Shipley, UK)
2012/17 – Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource (touring exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art and other museums, United States)
2016 – Fruitful Futures: Imagining Pomona (LiFE - Living in Future Ecologies research group, Manchester, UK)
2015 – WAKE (Undegun Gallery, Wrexham, North Wales, UK)
2013 – HYDROLOGIC: Making Sense With Water (Emery Community Arts Centre, University of Maine, United States)
2012 – Counter Culture Nature (Liverpool city parks, Kerry Morrison / TATE Liverpool)
2012 – 3 Days Without Water (3 Piccadilly Place Gallery, Manchester, UK)
2012 – Whale Oil to Whole Foods (Greene County Arts and Cornell Agroforestry Centre, NY, United States)
2012 – WE ASSERT! A Manifesto (CIWEM Arts & Environment Network publication, London, UK)
2011/12 – Photernative (Helfa Gelf, touring collective, North Wales, UK)
2010/11 – Hydrography (with Stuart Carter / National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK)
2010 – space between (International Gallery, Liverpool Biennial 2010, Liverpool, UK)
2010 – Fabric of the Land: Origin of Colour (University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
2010 – What Matters Most? (ecoartspace / Exit Art, New York, United States)
2010 – Climate Change (Rhyl Arts Centre, Denbighshire, North Wales, UK)
2010 – High Tide presents... Mersey Basin (Art & Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
2009 – Climate for Change (FACT - Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK)
2008 – Gaia Project: URBAN/ECOLOGY (Liverpool Biennial Independents 08, Liverpool, UK)
2008 – Artranspennine08 (cross-regional, Pennines, Derbyshire, UK)
2008 – Screen Deva Studio (Chester Performs 08, media arts festival, Chester, UK)
2007 – When Anything Looms (Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, UK)
2005 – Being here - Being there: Landscape, Memory, Identity (Zion Arts Centre, Manchester, UK)
solo exhibitions, projects & screenings:
2018 – Commonweal 60th Anniversary Lecture: OUR DREAMS CANNOT BE LEGALISED / Lessons from la ZAD (Commonweal / University of Bradford, UK)
2018 – OUR DREAMS CANNOT BE LEGALISED / Lessons from la ZAD (ONCA, Brighton, and The Stove, Dumfries, UK)
2012 – ARK (St. Luke's Church, Liverpool Biennial Independents 2012, UK)
2009 – distance (Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK)
2008/09 – …all this could be lost (Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, UK)
2007 – Landscape Video Paintings (Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK)
curated exhibitions & projects:
2016 - Elemental: an arts and ecology reader (Gaia Project Press)
2015 – GAIA: Resonant Visions (HOME and The Whitworth Art Gallery – arts programme for SER 2015 6th world conference, Manchester, UK)
2013 – Green World: Arts & Ecology / GW79 special issue (Green Party magazine, UK)
2011 – International Environmental Photographer of the Year: At Water’s Edge (EDGEspace, Liverpool, UK)
2010 – space between (International Gallery, Liverpool Biennial 2010, UK)
2010 – High Tide presents... Water's Edge (UK-wide, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, UK)
2010 – High Tide presents... Mersey Basin (Art & Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
2009/10 – The Gathering Storm: COP15 Project (with Aviva Rahmani / FACT – Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK)
2008 – Gaia Project: URBAN/ECOLOGY (Gaia Cabinet, Albert Dock, Liverpool Biennial Independents 2008, UK)
2007 – Gaia Museum (Kinder Scout, Peak District National Park, Night of the Museums, UK)
2005 – Being here. Being there: Landscape, Memory, Identity (Zion Arts, Manchester, UK)
