Biography
Commissions, Residencies and Projects
2024-25
Breaking Bread, exploring bread and bakeries in Waltham Forest, funded by Arts Council England and London Borough of Waltham Forest
2022-23
Christopher Robbins Woodland Walk, historical and ecological trail and educational workshops for a project led by Matter Architecture commissioned by Waltham Forest Council in memory of Cllr Chris Robbins
2021-22
People Making Things Happen, a project documenting the 10 year history of The Mill in Walthamstow, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund
2019-21
Sweet Harmony; Radio, Rave and Waltham Forest 1989-94, a National Lottery & LBWF funded project exploring rave music and pirate radio in Waltham Forest, 1989-94 (supported as part of Rendezvous Projects)
2018-20
Lightboxes and Lettering, National Lottery funded project exploring the printing industry in east London (led as part of Rendezvous Projects)
2019
Linear Park: Plot Lines, collaboration with Matter Architecture
Self Build, project exploring sheds and allotments in Waltham Forest
No Smell, No Dirt, No Trouble, commission for UCL as part of Trellis
2018
Aldershot Heritage Trail; research and development working with Futurecity and Hat Trick Design
2017
Not A Split Second; Remembering the Docklands Bomb, collaboration with George Legg
WE (part 2), 2016-17, continuing project exploring the Warner Estate, funded by Heritage Lottery Fund & Arts Council England
Hampton Square wall panels at Sheen Lane Centre, Mortlake, commissioned by Richmond Arts Centre at Orleans House Gallery
2016
Social Cement, residency at Tate Modern Switch House Community Room
Artist in residence, Hackney Museum & Hackney Archives
Lea Bridge Links, funded by Waltham Forest Council (Rendezvous Projects)
Art Cannot be Taught, commission for Borough Road Gallery
2015
The Works, commission in Cambridge for Brookgate and Hill / Commission Projects.
2014
Good Company, part of Ilford This Way, commission for Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure
Home on High, commission for The Legacy List
W.E. (part one) first part of a project exploring the Warner Estate in Waltham Forest, in collaboration with Katherine Green.
Coxsone Sound Outernational meets SW1 Radio, collaborative event at Tate Britain
2013
Carnaby Echoes, commissioned by Shaftesbury PLC and curated by Futurecity
A Club Collection, commissioned by the London Legacy Development Corporation as part of Forecasting North
2012
Hostings, as part of A Million Minutes; Air Studio / Islington Council
2011
Light Up Your Street and Mapping Your Manor, commissioned by the Olympic Delivery Authority and supported by Arts Council England
Tate Local & Pembroke House, project working with Tate Modern Regeneration & Community Partnerships at Pembroke House, Walworth
The Peninsula Papers, commission for Stream, Greenwich
Residency in Leysdown, Sheppey, commission for Art at the Centre, Swale
2010
The Absent Collector, Crate Project Space, Margate
The Buxhall Bee, Hackney Wick, commission for Space Studios, London
2009
Poetry Machines, Saison Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London
2008
The Stratford Grapevine; commission for Art on the Underground
Residency at Lokaal 01, Antwerp
2007
Beacon Art Project, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
Canvey Guides as part of Art U Need; an Outdoor Revolution. Public art commission on Canvey Island, Essex managed by Commissions East and curated by Bob & Roberta Smith
2005
Residency at the former asylum on San Servolo Island, Venice
Hanging Around, wall commission for Bookartbookshop / Richard Makin as part of ‘5131N 0005W’
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Making the Cut, Winns Gallery, Walthamstow
2019
Self Build, Bodega 50, Walthamstow and Walthamstow Garden Party
2017
Not a Split Second, Republic, London
2016
WE: the ex-Warner Estate in Waltham Forest, Vestry House Museum, London
2015
Reading Room, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, Canada
2012
Thames Delta, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, Essex
2011
The Tyranny of Grammar, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton
2010
Fourteen Interventions, Swedenborg House, London
The Absent Collector, as part of Bad Translation, Crate, Margate
2009
Remains, ICIA, University of Bath (solo)
Micro-Pages, touring to libraries in UK
Å Reise (to travel), Galleri VOX, Bergen
Reg Perfect and the Squeegees, Portman Gallery, London
This Was Now; the Russell Herron Collection, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
Poetry Machines, Saison Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London (solo)
Afterwards, curated by Sharon Kivland, Mead Gallery, Warwick
2008
Haunts, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (solo; included publication)
If You Build It They Will Come, G39, Cardiff
No Letters, Nettie Horn Gallery, London
2007
Hope and Despair, Cell Project Space, London
O Dreamland, Greatstone, Kent; Transition Gallery / Club Shepway
Paulo Post Futurum, Museum of Breda / Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands
Someone Had a Real Problem, Zelle Arte Contemporanea, Palermo
2006
Peace Camp, Brick Lane Gallery, London
Lucy Harrison, Work 1999-2006, Michael West Gallery, Isle of Wight
Rag and Bone, Three Colts Gallery, London
Tres Riches Heures, Lokaal 01, Breda, Le BLAC, Brussels & Keith Talent Gallery, London
Deck of Cards, 39 Gallery, London
2005
La Cheba Dei Mati (‘The Madmen’s Cage’), San Servolo island, Venice, curated by Irene Calderoni (catalogue)
After the Fact, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle (with Thomas Demand, Emma Kay, Matt O’Dell, Abigail Reynolds, Jamie Shovlin, Martin Vincent; catalogue)
For and From, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, curated by Pete Fillingham
Carpet Slippers No Protection, George Rodger Gallery, Maidstone, Kent (publication)
Budget Bureau for Language and Applications, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva
2004
Pilot, Limehouse Town Hall, London
Family Sagas, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
13th International Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia (catalogue)
Handluggage, K3 Project Space, Zurich
2003
Please Take One, 39, London
A Reader, DomoBaal Contemporary Art, London
2002
x mistakes y for z, Rotermann Salt Storage Exhibition Hall, Tallinn, Estonia, and Kilpkonna Gallery, Viljandi, Estonia (catalogue, newspaper)
Lightbox, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury (CD-ROM catalogue)
2001
Never Look Here, Foyles Bookshop Gallery, London (with Christiane Baumgartner & Marilene Oliver)
Index, Stoke Newington Library, London
A Matter Of, curated by Les Buckingham, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
The Value of Straight Thinking, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast
More Jets to More Places, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2000
New Contemporaries 2000, Milton Keynes Gallery, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (catalogue)
Fathom, The Study Gallery, Poole, Dorset
North East Open, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Anxious Words, curated by Sharon Kivland, Waterstones, Piccadilly
The Poster Show, Cabinet Gallery, London / Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
1999
Limit Less, curated by Matthew Higgs, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Panoramic, Eagle Gallery, London
A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis, curated by Sharon Kivland, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London
1998
A to Z, curated by Matthew Higgs, The Approach, London
Forest, The Bull & Last, London (co-curated with Bob Matthews)
Pretty Vacant, Artezium, Luton
What Difference Does it Make?, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery
Dryll / Pistol, G39, Cardiff
Education
1997-99
MA Fine Art Printmaking, Royal College of Art, London
1994-97
BA Fine Art, Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury
1993-94
Foundation course, Northbrook College, Sussex
Teaching
2014-17
Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art (3D), Central St Martin’s
2014
Visiting Lecturer, Middlesex University
Visiting Lecturer, MA Fine Art, Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn
2001-2013
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Print & Digital Media) at University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury (formerly KIAD).
Visiting lecturing including: Central St Martin’s, Royal College of Art (Printmaking), Camberwell College of Art MA, Kingston University, Ruskin College Oxford, Winchester College of Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sunderland University, Northumbria University.