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Artist's
CV: Mocksim |
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List of Works |
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Mocksim Home |
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e-mail: m AT mocksim
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Recent Exhibitions,
Events and Works |
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Dec-11 |
APEC Studios |
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Hove, East Sussex, UK |
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Animations Me Mam Mam Me presented as part of Rear Window, a Cinecity event. |
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Nov-11 |
Road Books |
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Iniscarra, Co. Cork, Eire |
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Proposal included in
publication 21 Proposals for the Turbine Hall compiled and produced by Judy Kravis & Peter Morgan,
launched in Novemver 2011 |
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Nov-11 |
APT Studios |
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Deptford, London |
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Participated in Engine ChatChat event hosted by
Elizabeth Murton |
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Oct-11 |
Cecil Sharpe House |
Primrose Hill, London |
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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. |
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Jul-11 to Sep-11 |
Les Recontres D'Arles |
Arles, France |
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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. |
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Feb-11 |
University of Brighton |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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 |
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Feb-11 |
Art's Pace |
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Piccadilly Circus, London |
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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. |
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Nov-10 |
Phoenix Gallery |
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Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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Rearing routine performed by the artist at event called DIASTR |
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Nov-10 |
Friese-Greene Gallery |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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. |
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Nov-10 |
West of England Academy |
Bristol, UK |
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Print (a virtual
photograph) exhibited as part of annual Autumn Exhibition |
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Aug-10 |
Earwig! Arts Festival |
Tuam, Co. Galway, Eire |
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Film Coffing screened as part of We Like Shorts |
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Jul-10 |
The Joinery |
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Dublin, Eire |
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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. |
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Jan-10 |
Moksha Caffe |
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Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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. |
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Sep-09 |
APEC Studios |
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Hove, East Sussex, UK |
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1m x 2m print/photo Guaranteed Insurance produced. Accompanying text written by Dr. Mark
Leahy. |
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Aug-09 |
MakeShift |
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Fusina, Venice, Italy |
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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. |
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May-09 |
APEC Open 2009 |
Hove, East Sussex, UK |
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Seven paintings and an
incomplete work (incorporating hamster-modified business cards) displayed
during Brighton's annual Fringe Festival |
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Apr-09 |
Red Roster Café |
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Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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. |
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Nov-08 |
APEC Studios |
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Hove, East Sussex, UK |
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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 |
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Sep-08 |
Permanent Gallery |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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. |
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Mar-08 |
Lighthouse |
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Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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. |
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Jan-08 |
Recay |
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Lewes, East Sussex |
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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. |
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Dec-07 |
Grey Area |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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 |
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Oct-07 |
Frieze Art Fair |
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London, UK |
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Print of Practice Description displayed in
Resonance FM space, curated by Bob & Roberta Smith |
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Sep-07 |
Private collector |
London, UK |
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Completed print There is a Failing Man commissioned by
private collector |
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May-07 |
Freeman Centre |
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Sussex University, UK |
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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 |
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Mar-07 |
Cowley Club |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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Rearing performed by the artist as part of a regular event called In Every Home a Heartache |
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Nov-06 |
Whitechapel Art Gallery |
London EC1, UK |
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Rearing directed by the artist and performed by Naughty the Clown (aka
Dave Thompson) as part of Wormhole Saloon |
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Sep-06 |
Grey Area Gallery |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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 |
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Sep-06 |
Private collector |
Vienna, Austria |
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Completed print Some Buildings Die of Old Age
commissioned by private collector |
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Sep-06 |
Brighton Marina |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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 |
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Jun-06 |
University of Brighton |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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 |
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May-06 |
Freeman Centre |
Sussex University, UK |
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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? |
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May-06 |
Grey Area |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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Piecing exhibited as part of two week exhibition called Trouble with Them. The work included a Live Art during the
opening with Rosie Rogers |
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Apr-06 |
Athens Video Art Festival |
Greece |
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Ending animation projected as part of this annual festival |
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Jun-05 |
University of Brighton |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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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) |
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May-05 |
Falmouth Art Centre |
Cornwall, UK |
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Animations projected
as part of Max10 event |
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Nov-04 |
Tate Modern |
London, UK |
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Cup21 and five other objects placed in gallery as part of an
intervention with Stolen Ready-Mades |
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Sep-04 |
Sallis Benny Theatre |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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Markov15 animation projected as part of Big
Blip 04 |
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May-04 |
Fairfields Arts Centre |
Basingstoke, UK |
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Animations Train04 and Tyre06 projected as part of annual digital arts festival Zeros&Ones |
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Latest Education |
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Apr-10, ongoing |
University of Sussex |
East Sussex, UK |
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DPhil, Practice Based,
Supervisors: Prof. Sally Jane Norman, Prof. Blay Whitby |
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Jun-08 |
University of Brighton |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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PGCE Post-Compulsory
Teacher Training |
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Jun-06 |
University of Brighton |
Brighton, East Sussex, UK |
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MA in Fine Art:
completed with Distinction |
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mocksim |
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Employment & Practice |
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1) Practising Artist |
APEC Studios |
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Hove, East Sussex, UK |
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a) Details of own work
listed in Exhibitions above |
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b) Creative
collaboration, support and/or commercial work: |
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May-11 |
The Doomsbury Set in
discussion at Coventry School of Art. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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May-08 |
Supported Jonathan
Gilhooly's Empyrean Speculum, an
intervention at Anish Kapoor's work Sky Mirror in Brighton |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Nov-06 |
1960s activist
documentation exercise for youtube user RevQuest |
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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 |
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3D Modelling and
Animation for Essex Exchange
public art proposal led by Richard Wells |
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2) Lecturer Art & Design (PT) |
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Course Leader, BA in Digital Media, City College Brighton
& Hove (currently on Sabbatical) |
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Lecturer, MA in
Digital Media Art, University of Brighton |
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Lecturer FdA in Photography, City College Brighton
& Hove (currently on Sabbatical) |
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