Upcoming:
Upcoming:
Here comes the ideology, clutch your pearls close
at Freelands Foundation as part of their artist programme's cohort 2's show, with small selection of work from my project Cekca Het: Trans Panic which showed at Mission Gallery, and @g39, Cardiff, as part of No Time To Plan An Ending (also including Becca & Clare, Freya Dooley, Rebecca Gould Will Roberts, Neasa Terry), in 2021
Cekca Het: Trans Panic is me, me then and now. It’s a mess of noise and memory, hope and fear; it’s a paene to the long lost and a statement of intent; it’s an exploration of secrecy and a lived life; it’s a search for a safe place within the hard wild reality of being trans.
The following is a text edit from Trans Panic magazine, produced as part of the exhibition at Mission Gallery, Swansea in 2021.
I'm caught between different states, officially: born and created in one, with time, experience, life, loves, people, messages, communications, paperwork to match (in the eyes of others); and living in another, one that I have been dreaming of, manufacturing and living for as many years as I can remember, to (re)make myself anew. I now have yet more proofs of who I am and will be; proofs on paper and trails online, proofs in stone, written, drawn, recorded; official statements in full. I have the beginnings of another whole lived life.
This is another new year. I'm about 11 in new years; I am coming to that time when in my earlier life I like to think I made myself; me, my heart, my fears, my wants and desires, my places and loves, my confusions. It was the '80s; I was sneaking Smash Hits and Melody Maker under the covers, figuring the closest I'd get to being a woman was Martin L Gore, ffs.
The work has been made during 2020/21, while based at g39, Cardiff on a Freelands Foundation fellowship, and developed from work supported by a grant from Arts Council Wales.
For a look around my studio go here. This virtual studio tour was commissioned by Freelands Foundation and scanned and produced by The Net Gallery.
Current
2019 - Freelands Fellowship through g39, Cardiff (2019 - 2022)
2021 - Cekca Het: Trans Panic
2021 - group show This Is No Time To Plan An Ending, g39, Cardiff
Upcoming:
2022 - group show, cohort 2, Freelands Fellowship, Freelands Gallery, London
Awards
2020 - Arts Council of Wales grant
Residencies
2019 - Warp library residency at g39, Cardiff - inc event, piulot launch of Cekca Het project
Readings/Performances at
2019 - Cekca Het @Shindig, Warp library g39, Cardiff
2018 - Cut and Stick, Ollie Quinn, Queens Street, Cardiff
2018 - There are no celebrities..., Three Doors Up, Queens Arcade, Cardiff
2017 - Cardiff Artists Books, Printhaus, Cardiff
2017 - Off the Page, Chapter, Cardiff
Commissions
2019 - visual/written response to Somewhere in the crowd there's you, Freye Dooley
2018 - artwork for Carw's album Skinshed
Solo showings
2021 - Mission Gallery, Swansea
2017 - The Back Wall, Oriel Myrddin,
2016 - Arcadecardiff, Queens Arcade, Cardiff
2015 - The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber
2015 - Spit and Sawdust, Cardiff
2013 - (with Emily Welham) Artlink, Hull
2011 - Corridor Gallery, 20/21, Scunthorpe
2011 - Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
2011 - Meeting Room Gallery, South Square, Thornton, Bradford
2010 - Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
2005 - Being Around, various venues, Shrewsbury Arts Festival, Shrewsbury
2004 - Waiting Room, Newtown Station, Newtown, Powys
2002 - First Floor, Leicester University Library, Leicester
2000 - Coffee Lounge, Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough
1995 - Ozten Zeki Gallery, South Kensington, London
Group exhibitions
2021 - This Is No Time To Plan An Ending, g39, Cardiff
2021 - Conqueer, Strange Brew, Bristol
2017 - Impressions of Wales, Oriel Ynys Mon
2016 - City Stories, Mission Gallery, Swansea
2011 - Make Room, Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff
2011 - Open up North, Brewery Arts Centre and Abbott Hall, Kendal
2010 - Open, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
2008 - if you build it they will come, g39, Cardiff
2008 - re:drawing, Oriel Davies Gallery, Powys
2001 - Open, City Gallery, Leicester
1998 - Out, Crescent Arts, Scarborough
1995 - Northern Graduates, Royal College of Art, London
Degree shows
1997 - Custard Factory, Birmingham , BIAD, Univeristy of Central England
1995 - Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
