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Recent Exhibitions, Events and Works
 
Dec-11 APEC Studios Hove, East Sussex, UK
Animations Me Mam Mam Me presented as part of Rear Window, a Cinecity event.
 
Nov-11 Road Books Iniscarra, Co. Cork, Eire Top
Proposal included in publication 21 Proposals for the Turbine Hall compiled and produced by Judy Kravis & Peter Morgan, launched in Novemver 2011
 
Nov-11 APT Studios Deptford, London
Participated in Engine ChatChat event hosted by Elizabeth Murton
 
Oct-11 Cecil Sharpe House Primrose Hill, London
Participated in annual Artists Disguised Procession to top of Primrose Hill wearing images which are part of an on-going initiative related to clothing/fashion photography. Top
Jul-11 to Sep-11 Les Recontres D'Arles Arles, France
Contra-Invention (originally at Brighton Photo Biennial Fringe 2010: see below) selected for From Here On an exhibition which is jointly curated by Clément Chéroux, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels, Martin Parr and Joachim Schmid.
 
Feb-11 University of Brighton      Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Guest performer/speaker at The Pub (a fully functioning pub in an art gallery) organised by art students as part of their 2nd year show: Grammar, Nonsense and Imagination
Feb-11 Art's Pace Piccadilly Circus, London Top
Flasher Series: mildly explicit, secretly taken, phone-pics of reflections in mirrors, surfaces, including kitchen oven of private home where event Bite The Hand That Feeds You took place.  Photos taken with flash On to obscure. Pictures were then blown up and stuck, piece by piece, onto the original reflective surfaces.
Nov-10 Phoenix Gallery Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Rearing routine performed by the artist at event called DIASTR
Nov-10 Friese-Greene Gallery Brighton, East Sussex, UK
The culmination of two years investigation into the photographs Traffic Wardens take as proof of illegal parking when they issue fines.  The exhibition Contra-Invention ran during Brighton's Photo-Fringe event with the Photo Biennial. Top
Nov-10 West of England Academy Bristol, UK
Print (a virtual photograph) exhibited as part of annual Autumn Exhibition
 
Aug-10 Earwig! Arts Festival Tuam, Co. Galway, Eire
Film Coffing screened as part of We Like Shorts
 
Jul-10 The Joinery Dublin, Eire Top
Looping films Flying Slow and Coffing displayed as part of solo exhibition at The Joinery, Dublin: Mockeyah.  Displayed together with five other pieces: Landing, Dying, Piecing (Live Art with Fergus Ryan), Recay and Re-hearse. 
 
Jan-10 Moksha Caffe Brighton, East Sussex, UK
A (Fibonacci) series of nine 'traditional and reasonably unchallenging' paintings, for which, during production, the artist strove to remain earnest, displayed for a month in solo exhibition Mocksim hits Moksha.  A Live Art event took place around these paintings on 11th Dec 09.  The show was 'co-rated' by Huw Bartlett.
 
Sep-09 APEC Studios Hove, East Sussex, UK
1m x 2m print/photo Guaranteed Insurance produced.  Accompanying text written by Dr. Mark Leahy. Top
Aug-09 MakeShift Fusina, Venice, Italy
Looping film Re-hearse screened as part of intervention MakeShift, sponsored by (Carlo Scarpa designed) Camping Fusina, Venice.  Also collaborated with in SMS generated art exhibition.
May-09 APEC Open 2009 Hove, East Sussex, UK
Seven paintings and an incomplete work (incorporating hamster-modified business cards) displayed during Brighton's annual Fringe Festival
 
Apr-09 Red Roster Café Brighton, East Sussex, UK Top
At Pecha Kucha event in Brighton presented materials relating to latest initiative Operation Cork in which paintings were donated to each gallery in London's Cork Street as an act of charity to help them through the current economic downturn.
 
Nov-08 APEC Studios Hove, East Sussex, UK
1m x 2m print/photo Fame is a Two Party Dick displayed along with work in process as part of Brighton's Photo Fringe festival
 
Sep-08 Permanent Gallery Brighton, East Sussex, UK
A group of 'chuggers' enter a gallery during intervals between performances, to give away and collect pound coins from polystyrene cups.  The activity titled Money 4U took place at Testing Grounds, a quarterly event curated by Nadege Derderian at Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK. Top
 
Mar-08 Lighthouse Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Two video pieces Now Man, No Man and a peformance involving Dave Thompson and utilising the online world Second Life, Feed Lack Loop, presented as a Lighthouse Digiville event.  Curatorial support by Daniel Pryde-Jarman.
 
Jan-08 Recay Lewes, East Sussex
One hundred copies of animation Recay distributed (on DVD) to residential streets in the town of Lewes.  The hope was that feedback would be received.  To date no one has attempted to contact the artist.
Dec-07 Grey Area                  Brighton, East Sussex, UK Top
Three pieces Now Man, An Attempt at an Autobiography and Post Disorder displayed as part of group show (with Daniel Pryde-Jarman and Jayne Eagle) called Vacancy.  An Attempt at an Autobography involved Live Art on the opening night with Dave Thompson
Oct-07 Frieze Art Fair  London, UK
Print of Practice Description displayed in Resonance FM space, curated by Bob & Roberta Smith
Sep-07 Private collector           London, UK
Completed print There is a Failing Man commissioned by private collector Top
May-07 Freeman Centre Sussex University, UK
Resigning, a prototype performance (later evolving into Feed Lack Loop) involving the use of an avatar in on-line world Second Life and real performer for Critical Incident 2007
Mar-07 Cowley Club         Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Rearing performed by the artist as part of a regular event called In Every Home a Heartache
 
Nov-06 Whitechapel Art Gallery    London EC1, UK Top
Rearing directed by the artist and performed by Naughty the Clown (aka Dave Thompson) as part of Wormhole Saloon
 
Sep-06 Grey Area Gallery      Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Participated in the creation of a group work with fifteen other artists.  On one wall in the gallery painted with blackboard paint, each artist responded to the title Famous Last Words over a period of sixteen days
 
Sep-06 Private collector       Vienna, Austria
Completed print Some Buildings Die of Old Age commissioned by private collector Top
 
Sep-06 Brighton Marina         Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Rearing, created and directed by the artist, performed by Naughty the Clown (aka Dave Thompson) as part of activities at the Brighton Food and Drink Festival
 
Jun-06 University of Brighton   Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Six pieces Landing, Dying, Ending, Framing, Piecing, Sinking and two collaborative works Playing (with Jayne Eagle and Colleen Walker) and a group piece in the main gallery (with seven other artists) displayed as part of final Fine Art MA show See Sea Asymptote
 
May-06 Freeman Centre           Sussex University, UK Top
Participated in Critical Incident 2006 with the Institute of Unnecessary Research.  Aspects from an older performance You May not Drink from the Holy Cup were explored further.  Also participated in a panel discussion: Unnecessary Research-What's the Point?
 
May-06 Grey Area                  Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Piecing exhibited as part of two week exhibition called Trouble with Them.  The work included a Live Art during the opening with Rosie Rogers
 
Apr-06 Athens Video Art Festival  Greece
Ending animation projected as part of this annual festival Top
 
Jun-05 University of Brighton      Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Four pieces displayed as part of Fine Art MA show Giving Birth to Monsters.  These were You May not Drink from the Holy Cup (performance by Naughty the Clown aka Dave Thompson), Cormac's Cup, Commuter, and Wake up and Smell (or A Spectre is Haunting)
 
May-05 Falmouth Art Centre  Cornwall, UK
Animations projected as part of Max10 event
 
Nov-04 Tate Modern                  London, UK Top
Cup21 and five other objects placed in gallery as part of an intervention with Stolen Ready-Mades
 
Sep-04 Sallis Benny Theatre Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Markov15 animation projected as part of Big Blip 04
 
May-04 Fairfields Arts Centre Basingstoke, UK
Animations Train04 and Tyre06 projected as part of annual digital arts festival Zeros&Ones Top
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Latest Education
 
Apr-10, ongoing University of Sussex East Sussex, UK
DPhil, Practice Based, Supervisors: Prof. Sally Jane Norman, Prof. Blay Whitby
Jun-08 University of Brighton Brighton, East Sussex, UK
PGCE Post-Compulsory Teacher Training Top
Jun-06 University of Brighton Brighton, East Sussex, UK
MA in Fine Art: completed with Distinction
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Employment & Practice
1) Practising Artist APEC Studios Hove, East Sussex, UK
a) Details of own work listed in Exhibitions above Top
b) Creative collaboration, support and/or commercial work:
May-11 The Doomsbury Set in discussion at Coventry School of Art.
Feb-11 With three others (MIMOC Art's Pace) organised an event and exhibition  Bite The Hand that Feeds you, in central London.  Helped promote, designed materials and invited artists to participate.  Other artists included Simon Morse and Rosalind Davis.
May-10 Negotiated use of venue (part of a real doctor's surgery) and collaborated with two others, Huw Bartlett and Jonathan Gilhooly, in running Open Art Surgery through Brighton Festival Fringe.  For this paintings and other donated artefacts were treated as patients needing diagnosis, treatment or cure.
Dec-09 tiktoc (bi)annual launch event involving performances and interventions by ten artists, musician/singer Chris Warren and professional clown Dave Thompson.  The event co-organised by Huw Bartlett took place at Moksha Caffe, Brighton in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of the artist's paintings.
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Aug-08 Negotiated sponsorship, arranged venues, curated and organised MakeShift fringe exhibition involving screenings (arranged by Daniel Pryde-Jarman) and Text Generated Art experiments at Fusina on the Venice Lagoon.
May-08 Supported Jonathan Gilhooly's Empyrean Speculum, an intervention at Anish Kapoor's work Sky Mirror in Brighton
Jul-08 Performed a reading of sections of Flan O'Brien's The Third Policeman as part of Jonathan Gilhooly's event: Virtually Self-Working
Mar-08 Collaborating with artist's collective Common Culture to film three stand-up comedians, performing simultaneously, in an empty venue for an initiative called Comic Battles
Nov-07 Collaborated with Peter Seddon and Barry Barker for 'curatorial interjection' Tête-à-Tête which focused on a history painting by Paul Delaroche. Responsible for animations which were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Art, Nimes, France for 3 months to Feb 08
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Feb-07 Led and organised a series of Discussions under title Art & Revolution at Grey Area, Brighton
Nov-06 1960s activist documentation exercise for youtube user RevQuest
Nov-05 Supported artist's collective Common Culture (Mark Durden, David Campbell and others) in an initiative called Local Comic which involved filming stand-up comedians in an empty venue
3D Modelling and Animation for Essex Exchange public art proposal led by Richard Wells
2) Lecturer Art & Design (PT)
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Course Leader,  BA in Digital Media, City College Brighton & Hove (currently on Sabbatical)
Lecturer, MA in Digital Media Art, University of Brighton
  Lecturer FdA in Photography, City College Brighton & Hove (currently on Sabbatical)