2019
Groundings: Liberation Through Growth [May, Lincoln]
Curation and Catalogue
Along with four other students from the University of Lincoln Fine Art Course, I mentored a vulnerable person recovering from drug dependency, teaching them valuable art skills in order to produce a body of work for an exhibition. The service user I worked with produced seven artworks in total, varying in style and medium. Whilst teaching we also donned the role of facilitator, talking through their anxieties and struggles of recovery which they expressed through their work. This was a wonderful opportunity to bring courage and new life to a vulnerable person and that enthusiasm shone through in the work that they produced.
UKYA Nottingham City Takeover [February, Nottingham]
Public Performance in Old Market Square with xyz.alpha collective
As part of a University collective, I was commissioned to perform as part of UK Young Artists Takeover of Nottingham. We created an hour-long performance right in the heart of the city to highlight the struggles that the female population ore often exposed to, but not talked about. My performance surrounded the topic of the workplace, climbing the social ladder, fighting your way to the top whilst constantly being knocked off of your path by discrimination – all whilst wearing high heels that made my feet bleed during the performance that in turn led me to collapse from exhaustion in the middle of a busy city.
2018
Bodies of Practice [December, University of Lincoln, Project Space Plus]
Curation and Performance
As part of my mid-degree show, I performed an interactive piece known as Cautiously Hopeful. The theme surrounded sentimentality and was formed from a discovery of old postcards in a charity shop. Many of these postcards were over 80 years old, the recipients and senders were likely long gone – from this, the conversation of response and sentimentality was brought up within the audience.
Failure and Consequence [May, University of Lincoln]
Curation and Exhibition
My first exhibition in the University Gallery and I was project lead. Failure and consequence seemed a natural culmination of all of our practices, how something in a way had failed or ceased to be and the consequences that were created. The prints I displayed were self-portraits created on a circa. 2001 computer art programme that I used back in Primary school. This was created with such effort and it was incredibly hard to create anything of detail - so ultimately it failed. I was left with three prints that did not look much like myself.
The Soliloquy of Binary [May, University of Lincoln, BA Fine Art Studio]
Performance
This performance was developed around Binary and Bisexuality and how many people like myself who were not properly educated or brought up in Catholic communities, struggled to come to terms with the notion of being Bisexual. I lost many nights of sleep as a teenager due to this, and so my performance exhibited my nightly routine. I lay on the floor of the studio, twisting and turning as I do every night struggling to get to sleep - over this a soliloquy I wrote plays, telling my story of coming to the realisation I was Bisexual whilst living as a Catholic at the time.
2017
Frameworks [December, University of Lincoln BA Fine Art Studio]
Performance
A combination of sound and painting performance. I painted an interpretation of an original sound piece, those were constructed from sounds of the city and my everyday life as I experienced living on my own for the first time.
UAL Origins [July, Truman Brewery, London]
Exhibition of “JL123”
Out of 1000’s of UAL Art Foundation students across the country who were entered, I was chosen as part of a select group to exhibit as part of FREE RANGE/ORIGINS in London at the TRUMAN BREWERY. This was my first big opportunity to exhibit in the London art scene, giving me the insight into a professional artistic environment. The work I exhibited was a piece of music ‘JL123’, written after the single largest air disaster in history, in which a passenger jet suffered total mechanical failure. 520 people lost their lives on the side of a mountain due to a faulty repair, each chord in the composition represented the seat number of a passenger who was killed.
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