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as writer:
as painter:
as exhibition maker:
2026
Some Notes on Looking: a feather from a jay's wing
Kingsgate Project Space, London
The Harder You Look, The Harder You Look (essay)
in Dr Johanna Love: Dust
University of Brighton
2025
The Errant Colaborators (a play within a play)
Mirror, Plymouth
Seventeen years, twice lived (essay)
in Christopher P Green & Charlie Duck
41/42 / hweg, Penzance
In between days (essay)
for Ed Saye at Chapel Arts Studios, Andover
What we talk about when we talk about abstract painting (essay)
in A Gesture, An Action... Touching
Stephen Buckeridge / APT, London
2024
(note - at the end of 2024 I had twin babies)
On the Ha-Ha Lawn (group), curated by Leigh Curtis & Simon Keenleyside
Fisherman's Mission, Leigh-on-Sea
The End of Europe: Steven Claydon
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Worlds Still on a Wire (group), curated by Scott McCracken
Canal Boat Contemporary, London
Burn down the galleries (essay)
in Painting (n,v) (editor)
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Assembly (group) curated by Contemporary British Painting
Rye Creative Centre, Rye
The Afterlife of Objects (essay)
in Colin Booth, Making Strange
2023
Dentons Art Prize (group), selected by Tim A. Shaw & Niamh White
Dentons, London
And One Day the Apple Fell
BlackBox, UCA Farnham
Everything is Happening (gallery notes / essay)
for Karolina Albricht
One Creechurch Place (in association with JGM Gallery), London
Man Digging (2nd version)
Exeter Phoenix Galleries, Exeter
to the birds (solo with contributions from Kofi Boamah, Ed Saye, Billy Crosby, Geraldine Swayne, Laura Wormell, Mahali O'Hare, Simon Burton, Kiera Bennett, Casper White, Hannah Murgatroyd, Alex Gene Morrison, Scott McCracken, Anne Ryan and Lucas Rankin)
Exeter Phoenix Galleries, Exeter & Landing @ ESPS, St Leonards-on-Sea
Man Digging (1st version)
ESPS, St Leonards-on-Sea
Twenty-Nineteen (group), curated by Neil Zakiewicz
Campbell Works, London
2022
Still Life: Georges Braque (essay)
Turps Banana Magazine (issue 26)
The Return
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Jeffery Camp (gallery notes)
The Approach, London
Lucky Treasure: Steven Claydon (with Nina Royle)
WORLD SERVICE, St Just
Donkeys (2-person with Nina Royle)
WORLD SERVICE, St Just
Motorhead under Kenidjack (with Nina Royle)
WORLD SERVICE, St Just
Damien Meade (gallery notes / essay)
Plus One Gallery, Antwerp
Its Beginning To And Back Again (solo, including works by Nina Royle and Casper White)
Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea
Its Beginning To And Back Again, Again (solo, including works by Nina Royle and Casper White plus invited artists Geraldine Swayne and Alice Hartley), curated with Patrick Adam Jones
Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea
Leaving the Door Ajar: why being open and closed is better than being either open or closed (essay)
in Neil Zakiewicz
Domo Baal Gallery, London
Composition (essay)
in Abigail Reynolds: Tre
publication to accompany the launch of a new window at Kresen Kernow, Redruth
T-shirts and sweatshirts for French Connection
2021
Handful of Dust (solo)
TA MargATe (Trafalgar Avenue), Margate
Jeffery Camp: Some People Dream a Lot
Kestle Barton Gallery, Cornwall
Jeffery Camp: Some People Dream a Lot (editor, essay)
Kestle Barton & Art Space Gallery, London
YOUR FOOT IN MY FACE and other tectonic strategies
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Past-Oral (group), curated by Simon Bayliss & Lucy Stein
Lower Hewood Farm, Chard
Jacqui Hallum: Workings & Showings (editor, essay, interview)
Kingsgate Project Space & Anomie, London
2020
KPS (Kingsgate Postal Service) (with Ellie Davies & Mary Macken Allen)
Kingsgate Project Space, London
These Things I Could Never Describe (group), curated by Alex Small
Alex Small Studio, Northampton - stream only
The Bronze Mortar (essay)
in Amalgam: Collected Writings by Nina Royle
Kingsgate Project Space & Folium, London
2019
Fungai Benhura, Stella Vine
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Lunar Gardening
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Casper White, Jochen Klein
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Lorna Robertson, Robert MacBryde
Kingsgate Project Space, London
2016
Lovers and other spectres
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Night Swimming (group), curated by Casper White
Mission Swansea
Jacqui Hallum, Leon Kossoff
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Ima-Abasi Okon, Alessandro Raho
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Still Life Settings (group), curated by Andreas Rüthi
Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Pwlleli
The Kiss or Jesus' Boyfriend or Poison Boyfriend (editor, essay)
Kingsgate Project Space
2017
and if a double decker bus...
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Jack Bodimeade, Jack Goldstein
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Oh, let me in (essay) in MA Printmaking 2017
Camberwell College of Arts, London
Listening to the Form (group), curated by Tamara Van San
Panthera.today, Brussels, Belgium
Stiwdio/Lle (group), curated by Casper White & LLE
Bay Art, Cardiff
The Kiss or Jesus' Boyfriend or Poison Boyfriend
Intercession Gallery, Northampton & Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea
After the Party (with Francesca Anfossi)
In Case @ Intersession Gallery, Northampton
2016
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: 22 Painters (group), curated by Alex Gene Morrison & Kiera Bennett
Charlie Smith, London
Particular Conditions (PrintMare2): 100 badges from international artists (group), curated by Finlay Taylor
millimetre02 at Kingsgate Project Space, London, SUBstore, Koenji, Tokyo & Tadahon-ya, Kyoto, Japan
Ingredients, Method, Serving Suggestion (group), curated by Alaena Turner
A.P.T. Gallery, London
In this Soup we Swim
Kingsgate Project Space, London
Uncommon Chemistry
Observer Bld, Hastings
Coffee and Peaches (solo), curated by Jacqui Hallum
LIDO at ESPS, St Leonards-on-Sea
2015
Natural Staking: Jacqui Hallum & Tamara Van San
Standpoint, London
2014
Summer Saloon Show (group)
Lion & Lamb, London & Aldeburgh Beach South LOOKOUT Project, Aldeburgh
I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart: 21 Painters in Britain (with David Rhodes)
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
Strange and Wonderful (essay)
in I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart: 21 Painters in Britain
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
against Nature (group), curated by Finlay Taylor
Camberwell Space
2013
Pneu (group)
Electro Studios Project Space, St. Leonards-on-Sea
Jesters, Trojan horses, demigods and toxic rice (essay)
in MA Printmaking 2013
Camberwell College of Arts, London
Making Believing (essay)
in Holly Story: Make Believe
Stour Vallery Arts, Challock
2012
Sailing close to the wind: a concise appreciation of Tamara Van San (essay)
in Oroonoko!, Tamara Van San & Rein Dufait exhibition catalogue
Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, Belgium.
Reproduced in Tamara Van San: Indian Shuffle
Tornado Editions, Brussels (2014)
Green Fuse (group), curated by Laetitia Yhap
Hastings Art Forum & Isobel Blackman Centre, Hastings
2011
We've Plumbed This Whole Neighbourhood: Christopher Owen & Tamara Van San
LIDO @ Electro Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea
April is the cruelest month, breeding
LIDO @ Electro Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea
2010
How to do the Flowers (with Jacqui Hallum)
millimetre:01, Camberwell, London
The Dance Card (with Jacqui Hallum & David Rhodes)
LIDO @ Electro Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea
AA2A Artists-in-Residence (group)
George Roger Gallery, UCA Maidstone
2007-08
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed (group), curated by Rebecca Shatwell
alt.gallery, Newcastle & CCA, Glasgow
2006
Everything Must Go (group)
VTO, London
2005
Rub Out the Word (group), curated by Michael Wilson
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Centre, Brooklyn, New York
Park Life (group)
Clifford Chance, London
2004
Plaza Suite (group), curated by Free Association, with Uwe K. Guenther
Union Gallery, London
Floral Habitat (group)
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
Sundays and Public Holidays (solo project)
Sculpture Mound, Pump House Gallery, London
From Here to Eternity (and back again)
GENERATORprojects, Dundee
Something is Already Happening
Rosy Wilde, London
A Concert in the Egg (group), Curated by Jo Stella-Sawicka & Emma Robertson
The Ship, London
an elegant universe: Dietmar Lutz & Giles Round
GENERATORprojects, Dundee
2003
about you and your fears (group)
McManus Galleries, Dundee
I Want! I Want! (group)
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland & Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Cover Up Landscape and Natural History Series Part 5: Into the Grey (with Finlay Taylor)
Cover Up, London
Cover Up Landscape and Natural History Series Part 1: Into the Red (with Finlay Taylor)
Cover Up, London
2002
diversion (group), curated by Danielle Arnaud
Museum of Garden History, London
Sound and Vision (group), curated by Beth Greenacre for David Bowie's Meltdown
Foyer, Royal Festival Hall, London
The Ink Jetty (group)
Neon Gallery, London
2001
Entomology Vandal (group), curated by Finlay Taylor
Cover Up, London
Love Will Ruin Your Mind (solo)
Hockney Gallery, RCA, London
MODERN LOVE in düsseldorf and london
hobbypopMUSEUM, Düsseldorf & VTO, London
1999
Trust (solo)
Nylon Gallery, London
Cathedral (group)
BoBo's, London.
1996
Yerself is Steam (group), curated by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
85 Charlotte Street, London