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Education  
2015    University of East London: PGCE  
2013    Goldsmiths, University of London: MFA Fine Art (Merit)
2011    Chelsea College of Art and Design, London: PG Dip Fine Art (Distinction)
2007    Oxford Brookes University, Oxford: BA Hons Fine Art (First Class Degree)
  
Exhibitions  
2024   3OWORKS3ODAYS, Artquest, online publication  

2023   Mood, OVADA, Oxford   

2022   What a Waste? Holborn Viaduct, London – curated by Jarelle Francis   

Anything But Paint, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield     

Abstract: Contemporary Art Open, Surface Gallery, Nottingham   
2019   #35 Annual Open Exhibition, CGP London, Gallery by the Pool, Southwark Park, London   

3OWORKS3ODAYS, 12ø Collective, online publication  
2018   #34 Annual Open Exhibition, CGP London, Gallery by the Pool, Southwark Park, London   

Designed Howlings: radical jokes and secrets, curated by SxRVxVE, Ugly Duck, Tanner Street, London   
2017   D!N-DINS @ Art Licks Weekend, The Old Fire Station (Acme Studios), London (30thSept. & 1stOct. 2017) 

Drawing for Sculpture, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire (June – Oct. 2017)   

Lands End, Lastation, Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy (July – Aug. 2017) *   

Seven Counties Open, OVADA, Oxford (May – June 2017) * 

Breaking Ground, The National Football Museum, Manchester (March – June 2017) *   

Din-Dins, group presentation/performance of participatory sound art, The Old Fire Station (Acme Studios), London   
2016   Din-Dins, group presentation/performance of sound art, The Old Fire Station (Acme Studios), London   
2015   Silent Movies, Q Park, Cavendish Square, London (selected by hArtslane Studios) 

Liminal Space, Temporary Arts Project Space (T-A-P), Southend, Essex (part of a residency – Aug. 2015)   

Extreme Land, Lastation, Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy (part of a residency – July 2015) * 

3OWORKS3ODAYS, 12ø Collective, online publication    
2014 Thinking / Drawing, Curious Projects, Eastbourne, East Sussex    

Occupy Democracy, Samia Gallery via Parliament Square, London 

Plot, Machines Room, Lime Wharf, Vyner Street, London    

Hazard, Word of Warning, hÅb + The Larks, Manchester 

Proposals archive included within The Residency, King's College, London*  

AIDD Launch Event, Harts Lane Studios, London  

Studio. Tomorrow. Buy me things like machines.Showspace, Fitzrovia Gallery, London (run by East Street Arts)
2013  Goldsmiths MFA Show 2013, Goldsmiths College, University of London  

Joya: Arte + Ecologia, Almeria, Spain  
2012  Peckham Open 2012, Peckham Space, London  

Unhinged Festival, Electric Brixton, London  

Goldsmiths MFA Interim Show 2012, Goldsmiths College, University of London  
2011  PG Dip. Final Exhibition 2011, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London  

Cable Street, St. Georges Hall, Cable Street, London  

A Show in the Dark, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London  

PG Dip. Interim Show 2011, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London  

Brenda Landon Pye Portrait Prize 2011, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London  

F M T (part II), Chelsea College of Art and Design, London  Chelsea Postcard Auction, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London  

MYSPACE, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London  
2010  Legacy I, L.I.U., Salmon Court, Formans Smokehouse Gallery, Hackney, London  

The Big Society, Space Station Sixty Five, London  

Silent Auction, OVADA, Oxford    

War and the Body, Blackall Studios, London *  

A Moving Exhibition (part III), Wilson Williams Gallery, London  
Contemporary Translation in Suprematism, Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston Super-Mare  

Dead Time and Negative Space, Tra'la @ Goodenough College, London  

Minimalism Massimo, The Gallery at Willesden Green, London  
2009  My Mind Is The Only Thing I Know Really Exists, Menier Gallery, London  

Silence, Exile, and Cunning, Oxford Town Hall, Oxford  

Now You See It, Notfamousyet, Oxford  

Not Outer Space, Frunt @ Nexus Art Café, Manchester  
2008  The Dreaming Spires, OVADA Project Space, Gloucester Green, Oxford  

Pontoon: Art Exhibition in, on & over The River Thames, Oxford    

Geography, The Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire  

Obsessions, Modern Art Oxford  
2007  The Nightfair Before Christmas, OVADA, Oxford  

The Oxford Arts Festival, The Jam Factory, Oxford*  

Spark @ The Fireplace Gallery, 103 St. Clements Street, Oxford  

Oxford Brookes University Fine Art Degree Show 2007, Oxford  

Aspirin, Modern Art Oxford
  
Residencies
2015   Breaking Ground, former site of Bradford Park Avenue FC (now an archaeological site), Bradford – an Arts Council England funded project developed in partnership with the National Football Museum Manchester (September 2015) * 

Liminal Space, Temporary Arts Project Space (TAP), Southend, Essex (August 2015) 

Default 15: Extreme Land 2015, Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy (July 2015) *
2013    Joya: Arte + Ecologia, Almeria, Spain    
2012    Merz Barn Project, Ambleside, Cumbria   
  
Speaking engagements / Teaching / other  
2024   Artquest Painting Salon 3: online group crit covering the work of Oliver Palmer and Hava Stone 

2021   Lecturer in Art, Buckinghamshire College Group: Amersham Campus, Amersham, Buckinghamshire (Aug. 2021 – present)   
2016 Breaking Ground: Art, Archaeology & Mythology, Book Launch presentation and signing, Bradford Park Avenue FC's Club House, Horsfall Stadium, Bradford * 

Teacher of Art and Photography, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire (2016 – 2021)   
2015   Art and Photography Teacher, Maidenhead, Berkshire (Sept. 2015 – Aug. 2016)   

Micro Teach presentation, Barking and Dagenham College, Essex 

Default15: Extreme Land 2015, Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy * 

Microteach presentation, Desborough College, Berkshire Micro Teach presentation, 

Woking College, Surrey Micro Teach presentation, 

Bellerbys College, Oxford   

AIDD (Action Intervention and Daily Deployment) Sunday Brunch Discussion, AIDD Collective, London  

Is there still a place for drawing as a tool for thought in our digital age? Thinking / Drawing Salon, Curious Projects, Eastbourne   
2014   Sailing Desires, Artists' Talk (Giorgio Garippa and Oliver Palmer), The National Maritime Museum, London * -   Giorgio Garippa and I were asked to give a presentation about a project proposal we wrote together for the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford. The presentation covered both the project and the topic of artists' interventions in to museums and theories of interpretation. We gave the presentation to an audience of MA Gallery and Museum Studies students from Kingston University, the Head of MA Contemporary Heritage at Kingston, the Senior Interpretation Curator of the National Maritime Museum and the Head of Formal Learning at the museum. Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), 

Havering College, Essex Teaching Placement (BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design), Havering College, Essex (Sept. 2014 – June 2015)  

Micro Teach presentation, Basingstoke College of Technology, Hampshire 

Visiting Tutor (BA Fine Art), Oxford Brookes University (May 2014)  

Micro Teach presentation, Amersham and Wycombe College, Buckinghamshire  

Micro Teach presentation, Havering College, Essex 

Visiting Tutor (HNC/HND Fine Art), Barking and Dagenham College, Essex (Nov. 2013 – Mar. 2014)  
2013   Visiting Tutor (Foundation Diploma), Reading College, Berkshire (Dec. 2013) 

Cover Teacher (AS / A-Level Film Studies and AS / A-Level Media Studies), Aylesbury College, Bucks (Oct. - Dec. 2013)  Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), Barking and Dagenham College  

Pecha Kucha in More Utopia!'s Utopia Forum, Goldsmiths, University of London – I wrote and then gave a presentation entitled Postcards From Utopia: John Hinde's Re-imagining of the Worker's Holiday.  

Art as Truth-Procedure, Goldsmiths, University of London – a short lecture I wrote and presented for a seminar.
2012    Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), Goldsmiths, University of London  

On The (Re)construction of a Universal Subjectivity, Goldsmiths, University of London – a short lecture I wrote and presented for a seminar.  
2011    Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), Goldsmiths, University of London  

Artist's Talk (presentation of my practice), Chelsea College of Art and Design  
2010    Artists Talk (presentation of my practice to A-Level students), Havering Sixth-Form College, Essex  

War and the Body, Blackall Studios, London * –    I spoke for cameras and an audience about a collaborative art work Giorgio Garippa and I were showing in the exhibition War and the Body. The presentation and exhibition were organised by the War and Media Network and Beers.Lambert Contemporary Art and was funded by City University London. The exhibition grew out of collaborative work between artists and academics in the MARS Project and ran in conjunction with the War and the Body Conference at the Imperial War Museum.  
  
Curatorial
2011   F M T (part II), Chelsea College of Art and Design   

2009    Silence, Exile, and Cunning, Oxford Town Hall, Oxford * 

2007  Spark @ The Fireplace Gallery, 103 St. Clements Street, Oxford    

Aspirin, Modern Art Oxford
  
Shortlists   
The Pier Commission, The Exchange, Erith, London (the final stage of selection culminated in a public vote) (Aug. 2017) 

Urban Hinterland(residency), ramoslübbert, Arnis, Germany (July 2017) 

West Yorkshire Archaeological Services Project, East Street Arts, Leeds (June 2017) 

Priors Hall Park Public Artwork Commission, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Corby, Northamptonshire (Dec. 2016) *
  
Links   
http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/whatson/breaking-ground-art-archaeology-and-mythology   

http://make8elieve.com   

http://www.12ocollective.com/#!previousprojects/cpg5 

http://www.wordofwarning.org/archive/2014-hazard/ongoing/   

http://www.2021visualartscentre.co.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions-archive/drawing-sculpture/ 

http://www.warandmedia.org/war-and-the-body-exhibition/   

http://thepoolexhibition.com/Oliver-Palmer   

http://www.artlicks.com/events/1287/legacy-i   

www.notfamousyet.co.uk/home/2009/8/4/the-show-stealer.html  

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/history_heritage/1161382.ASPIRIN__Brookes_Student_Art__Modern_Art_Oxford/
  
Publications   
Gabie, Neville and Wood, Jason 2016: Breaking Ground: Art, Archaeology & Mythology, Manchester: Axis Projects Publishing (ISBN 978-0-9554825-6-4)   

Amin, Heba and Girelli, Francesca 2017: Extreme Land: Apulia, Italy: Ramdom   

Make8elieve #13: Graphs, Charts & Gridspp. 134, 144–145, 176–177. 260–261 (digital: previouslyavailable at make8believe.com)
  
Collections   
The National Media Museum, Bradford * 

The National Football Museum, Manchester *   

The University of Bradford * 

Private collection, London 

Ms. A. Bowron, Oxford   
 
 
NB: *indicates collaborations with Giorgio Garippa   



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