Curriculum Vitae

Earthbound: Art, Migration, and Material Culture. (Curator)

Fringe Arts Bath

(May-June 2025)

Postgraduate Research Summer Arts Conference University of Bristol 

Panel Presentation of Paper - Transcending Boundaries: Colonoware and the Artistic Frontiers of Displaced Indigenous Artisans.

(July 2024)

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Keep in Touch - an exhibition by 3rd Wrld and Broken Englizh at Host of Leyton

(November 2023)

London, England, United Kingdom

Immigrant Centuries- 2023 A.I.R. Postcard Exhibition (June-July 2023) 

Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Photographing Liminal Spaces: the migrants of Oujda, Morocco (June 2023)

Photos

Broken Englizh: Demystifying Decolonization Through the Power of Narrative (May 2023)
Open Call on Home

From the Roman Baths to Jigoku. (April 2023)

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Artist Talk

Kashima Beppu Artist in Residence Open Studio (December 2022) 

Beppu, Oita, Kyushu, Japan

Open studio sharing clay objects and asemic writing completed while in Japan.

Annual Queen’s University Belfast Centre for Public History Conference (September 2022)

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Panel presentation of paper: “Demonstrating a history of creative labor among the enslaved in 18th and 19th century America: a radical reimagining through the use of creative non-fiction and archival records in curating a museum exhibit on early American pottery production by enslaved laborers.”

A Gathering Together, Featured Artist (June 2022)

Washington District of Columbia, United States of America

Digital collage work featured in the Spring 2002 issue.

The Edge Gallery, Open Studio Exhibition, University of Bath/Holburne Museum (February 2022 -March 2022)Bath, England, United Kingdom

Open studio flier. 

Unlocked Art Expo 2021, 44AD Gallery (July 2021)

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Curated by Laura Harris and Sophia Zwaveling.

Creative Twerton Studio Residency (February 2023 - December 2023)

Twerton, Bath, England, United Kingdom 

Kashima Beppu Artist in Residence (November 2022 - December 2022)

Beppu, Oita, Kyushu, Japan

Kiyoshima Studio Residence.

Greensand Residency with Found Outdoors (July 2022)

Townsend Wood, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

https://youtu.be/vFIz072s74c

Afro-Indigenous Pottery Tradition in Barbados

(November 2024)

St. John, Barbados

Exploration of local Afro-Indigenous pottery tradition.

Casa Julfa Earth Magic Wild Clay Workshop 

(September 2024)

Montmorillion, France 

Weeklong exploration of wild clay, focusing on ancestral techniques and processes. Workshop covers locating, collecting, and processing raw clay, alongside ancestral methods of clay preparation, hand-building, and finishing techniques such as burnishing and terra sigillata; culminating in wood-firing using traditional methods.

ՈՒրարտու (Urartu ) Scholarship recipient, Terra - Ancestral (February 2023)

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

Research and development trip led by an indigenous family of traditional clay workers in Chiapas, Mexico. a weeklong immersive workshop including a start to finish process from collecting the wild clay, processing it, the various stages to hand building, burnishing and then decorating it with natural pigments and a final firing.

British Ceramics Biennial Community of Practice: Stories Beneath the Surface (August 2022 - October 2022)

Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

This workshop seeks to explore how absent identities and people can be centred in stories told through contemporary ceramics using museum collections, archives, oral histories and unofficial archives.

Moroccan - Algerian Border Photography (August 2022)

Oujda, Morocco, North Africa

Research trip that involved connecting with local communities of the Moroccan side of the border and documenting the social and physical landscape for future work. 

Mexican Ceramic Production Research (February 2020)

Merida, Yucatán, Mexico

Study of Mexican historical and contemporary ceramics with a focus on Mayan traditional ceramic motifs.

Moroccan Ceramics Research (July 2018 - January 2019)

Marrakech, Fes and Safi, Morocco

Study of Moroccan craft production focusing on the contemporary ceramic  industry and traditional apprenticeship system.

Sculpture Factory Research (June -July 2018)

Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China

Study of the history of Chinese ceramic and porcelain production, historical and contemporary.