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Current Roles
Escape Game Designer
Escape Kent
June 2021 - Present
Freelance Graphic Designer
Poca & Pan
October 2020 - Present
Previous Roles
Lecturer in Art and Graphic Design
at West Kent College
October 2019 - June 2021
Assistant Lecturer in Political Theory
University of Kent
September 2017 - May 2018
Online Teaching Assistant in Politics, Art and Resistance
Future Learn MOOC course, University of Kent
April 2018 - May 2018
Assistant Manager
Noah's Ark Pools
March 2018- September 2019
Lead Artist of Tate Exchange Associate Team
MA in Politics, Art and Resistance
University of Kent
June 2014 - April 2017
Outreach Teacher in Art, Politics, and Education
University of Kent and Partner Schools
December 2014 - June 2016
Manager
RCL Pools
February 2014 - September 2014
Assistant Manager
Romack Construction
May 2012 - November 2013
Education
PhD in Political and Social Thought
Passed without Revision
University of Kent, 2020
Examined by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Drakopoulou
MA in Political Theory and Practices of Resistance
Distinction
University of Kent, 2013
BA (Hons) Fine Art
2.1
Arts University Bournemouth, 2012
BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art and Design
Merit
University for the Creative Arts, 2009
Prizes and Awards
Sir Ernest Barker Prize for my innovative melting Art-Thesis
2021
Social Sciences Seminar Leader Teaching Prize for my creative experiential pedagogy
Postgraduate Experience Award 2016
(For LEPIII)
Creative Campus Grant 2016
(for LEPIII)
The Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award 2014
University of Kent 50th Anniversary Scholarship 2014
Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 2014
The Signature Art Prize: The Peoples' Choice Award 2014
The Winter Pride UK Arts Award 2014
The Signature Art Prize: The Peoples' Choice Award 2012
The Dorset Visual Arts Prize Award 2012
Publications
'Pussy Riot Vs. Trump: Becoming Woman to Resist Becoming Fascist'
with Natalie Dyer, Diana Teggi, and Patricia de Vries
in Deleuze and Fascism
ed. by Rosi Braidotti and Rick Dolphijn
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming
'How do you make yourself a chapter without organisation?'
with Phil Gaydon, Conor Heaney, and Iain MacKenzie
in Critical Methods for Studying World Politics: Creativity and Transformation
ed. by Erzsebet Strausz, Shine Choi and
Anna Selmeczi
London: Routledge (2019)
'A Schizo-Revolutionary Labial Theory of Artistic Practice'
in Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism: Alliances and Allies
ed. by Janae Sholtz and Cheri Carr
London and New York: Bloomsbury Press (2019)
'The Teaching excellence framework: perpetual pedagogical control in postwelfare capitalism'
with Conor Heaney
in Compass: A journal of learning and teaching
Vol 10 no. 2 (2017)
with Iain MacKenzie
in Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
Vol 2 no. 1 (2014)
Zines
'Learning, Exchange and play: Practicing a Deleuzian Pedagogy'
with Conor Heaney and Iain MacKenzie
in Plank
Iss 1: techniques of art and protest (2017)
Featured In
Future Now
York: Aesthetica Publishing, 2015
The Aesthetica Art Prize 2013: 100 Contemporary Artists
York: Aesthetica Publishing, 2013
The State of Art: Sculpture and 3D Vol 2
London: Bare Hill Publishing, 2014
The State of Art: Sculpture and 3D Vol 1
London: Bare Hill Publishing, 2013
The Catlin Guide 2013: New Artists in the UK
London: Catlin Holdings Limited, 2013
by Justin Hammond
Lectures and Presentations
'Art Practice'
Visiting Artist Programme
University of Kent, February 2021
'Pussy Riot Vs. Trump: Becoming Woman to Resist Becoming Fascist' with Natalie Dyer, Diana Teggi, and Patricia de Vries
Deleuze Symposium
Utrecht University, May 2018
'A labial Theory of artistic Practice'
Panel - Women studies
Virtuality, Becoming and Life
Deleuze Studies Conference
University of Roma Tre, July 2016
'The Classroom as a Space of
Encounters: Doing Pedagogy Differently'
with Conor Heaney
Panel - The Affective in Political
EcologIes: Arts as Ways to Cultivate Resistances
International Conference for the European Network of Political Ecology Stockholm, March 2016
'Agora Session: A Pedagogy of Difference'
with Conor Heaney
Agora: Institutional Critique Series
University of Kent, November 2015
'Towards a Deleuzian Onto-Pedagogy of Difference'
with Conor Heaney
PaneL - The Neoliberal University:
Gender, Class, & Sexuality
Social Class in the 21st Century
University of Amsterdam, October 2015
'Labial Art-Politics: A Feminist Artistic Practice of Resistance'
Aesthetics and the Feminine
University College Cork, July 2015
'Labial Art'
with Iain MacKenzie and Lola Frost
LGBT History Month
University of Kent, February 2015
'Labial Art-Politics'
What does aesthetics want from us and IR?
University of Warwick, September 2014
'Labial Art-Politics'
Critical Theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation
Rosi Braidotti Summer School
Utrecht University, August 2014
'Labial Art-Politics: A Feminist Artistic Practice of Resistance'
Critical Practices and Experimentation Conference
University of Copenhagen, April 2014
'Dripping: Art and Resistance'
with Iain MacKenzie
LGBT History Month Lectures
University of Kent, February 2014
'Feminism: Now!'
with Baiba Antonovica
University of Kent, March 2013
Workplayshops / interventions
'An Enfolded Theory-Practice of Art and Politics'
Protest Lab: Act Up
Metal at Edge Hill Station, Liverpool, October 2019
with CCCU, University of Kent, People United, Valley Kids, Whitstable Biennale
four day event
Tate exchange
Tate modern, April 2017
'fuck excellence: constructing a
joyous pedagogy'
with Conor Heaney
Joyful Ontologies
Social Theory Centre and the Warwick Performance and Politics Network
Warwick University, September 2016
'Learning, Exchange and Play III'
with Conor Heaney
full day workplayshop event
University of Kent, September 2016
'Learning, Exchange and Play II'
with Conor Heaney
Transforming Moments: Dissonance, Liminality and Action as Learning Experiences
Conference long exhibition
University of Kent, January 2016
Agora: Institutional Critique Series
University of Kent, November 2015
Practicing a Deleuzian Pedagogy'
with Conor Heaney and Iain MacKenzie
Techniques of Art and Protest
PLANK Research Network
King's College London, September 2015
Exhibitions
Art Trail: LGBT History Month
University of Kent, February 2015
Bursary Exhibition
The Royal British Society of Sculptors
London, September 2014
Broomhill National Sculpture Prize
Barnstaple, Summer 2014
The Signature Art Prize: Winners
Exhibition
DegreeArt Gallery, London, April 2014
The Signature Art Prize
Spitalfields Market, London, March 2014
Winter Pride Art Awards UK 2014
Tobacco Dock Victorian Vaults, February 2014
Winter Pride Art Awards UK 2014
CHART Gallery, Chelsea, February 2014
Doing the thing itself: Resistance in Practice
University of Kent, January 2014
Zealous X
The Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, November 2013
Recent Graduates' Exhibition 2013
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, October 2013
Encounter
Lilford Gallery, Canterbury, July 2013
(Solo exhibition)
Matter, Life and Resistance
Conference long exhibition
University of Kent, July 2013
(Commissioned solo exhibition)
Dorset Visual Arts: Dorset Art Fair
Kingston Maurward House, Dorchester, June 2013
High House Gallery, Oxfordshire, May 2013
Recent Graduates' Exhibition 2012
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, October 2012
The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, July 2012
Caged
AUCB, Bournemouth, June 2012
Open Bracket
Artsway Gallery, Sway, New Forest, November 2011
Out of Sight
Wilkinson's Underground Car Park
Bournemouth, September 2011
(Out of Sight Exhibition Video Tour by Fred Nicholas)
Beach Break Live
Pembrey Country Park, South Wales, June 2011
Walk of Art
Boscombe Chine, Bournemouth, May 2011
Breaking the Boundaries
The Art Works Gallery, Poole, April 2011
alt.space presents: Behind Closed
Doors
Two Winton Houses, Bournemouth, April 2011
Competitions
This Is
60million Post Cards, Bournemouth, October 2010
Work and Research Experience
Art Residency
With 9 artists
France
March 2018 - April 2018
Organiser and Graphic Designer
Politics & International relations, University of Kent, Canterbury
January 2018 - March 2018
Rosi Braidotti Masterclass
in Posthumanism and Deleuze
(one of ten participants selected)
Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome
June 2016
Collaborator, Co-Organiser and Graphic Designer
Learning, Exchange and Play (LEP), a pedagogical collaboration with Conor Heaney
September 2015 - Present
Co-Organiser and Graphic Designer
September 2015 - September 2016
Co-Ordinator, Committee Member, Curator, and Graphic Designer
Art Trail LGBT History Month, University of Kent, Canterbury
October 2014 - March 2015
Rosi Braidotti Summer School
Critical Theory Beyond Negativity:
the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation
Utrecht, The Netherlands
August 2014
University of Kent delegate
NUS Women's Conference 2013, York
March 2013
Art Internship
with London based artist Stuart Semple
August 2011 - October 2011