CURRICULUM VITAE
UPCOMING
August 2024 Velvet Temple, Woken Dream, The Parlour Gallery, New Orleans, USA (in collaboration with Ryn Wilson)
August 2024 The Future Is Bright, Cave Gallery, New Orleans, USA
September 2024 The Birds Shall Return, Art Conscious, New Orleans, USA
SOLO & TWO-PERSON SHOWS
July 2021 HEAVY SHINE, The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada (with Dianne Lee), as part of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
Mar'19 HEAVY SHINE, The Front, New Orleans, USA (with Dianne Lee), guest curator M.C. Baumstark.
Oct-Nov'17 A Growing Dance, The Front, New Orleans, USA (solo show)
May'16 GUTS & VIGOR, L’Entrepôt, New Orleans, USA (with Dianne Lee)
Nov'12 The Restless Image, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK (with Sophie Goddard)
PAST EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
May 2023 Labor/Gesture/Labor/Gesture, The Parlour Gallery, New Orleans, USA
March 2023 Procreate Project Archive, Jack Arts/Build Hollywood digital display in Holland Park, London, UK
February 2023 CARE AND COLLABORATION, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas, curated by Sarah Sudhoff
December 2021 Unidentified Woman Musician, New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans, with The Crystal Efemmes and SLU Animation students.
November 2021 Ghost Orchid: Holograms, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas, with The Crystal Efemmes.
August 2021 Ultimum Spiritum, Wading Room, New Orleans, USA
March 2021 HEAVY SHINE at National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (with Dianne Lee)
Jul'20 - Jul'21 14th Annual Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase, Hammond, USA, curated by Cristina Molina.
Jan-Feb'20 of Maternality, at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK, curated by Catherine McCormack.
Nov'19 Forbidden Foods No.4: The Sunlit Garden (live performance), The Front, New Orleans, with The Crystal Efemmes.
Nov'19 The Fall, The Front, New Orleans, USA, with The Crystal Efemmes.
Oct'19 The Dark Grotto, SALON Gallery at Canal Place, New Orleans, with The Crystal Efemmes.
Oct'19 Forbidden Foods No.3: The Dark Grotto (live performance), SALON Gallery at Canal Place, New Orleans, with The Crystal Efemmes.
Aug-Oct'19 Identity Measures, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA, curated by Dr. Jordan Amirkhani.
Aug'19 Forbidden Foods Dinner Party No.2: Tree of Knowledge, Conversations with a Snake (live performance), Hotel Peter + Paul, New Orleans, USA, with The Crystal Efemmes.
Jun-Jul'19 The Jungle, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, USA
May'19 Forbidden Foods Dinner Party No.1: The Red Womb (live performance), Private Residence, New Orleans, USA, with The Crystal Efemmes.
Apr-May'19 Femaissance: GEMINI at Magazine Merchant House, New Orleans.
Dec'18-Jan'19 Tango, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, USA
Nov'18 Ten Years at The Front, The Front, New Orleans, USA
Oct-Nov'18 oh motHER, Custom House, Edinburgh, UK
Oct'18 Femaissance: Proserpina, The Lighthouse, New Orleans, USA
Aug-Sep'18 "And Now For Something New" Vol 1, LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, USA
Jul-Aug'18 Hide and Seek, Vivid Space, San Diego, USA
Jun'18 Pop Up Show 2018, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, USA
May-Jul'18 You Want a Piece of Me (Collaboration with Carlos Rolón and members of The Front, in conjunction with Rolón’s show Outside/In), New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA
Apr-May'18 Femaissance: Primavera, Oleander on Royal, New Orleans, USA
Mar'18 Visionary Bringhers, Future Tellhers, The Front, New Orleans, USA, with The Crystal Efemmes.
Feb-Mar'18 Honey Trap, The Front, New Orleans, USA
Jan'18 Unheard Voices, The Tigermen Den, New Orleans, USA
Dec-Jan'17 Clickbait, The Front, New Orleans, USA
Nov-Dec'17 Femaissance, Oleander on Royal, New Orleans, USA
Nov-Dec'17 Full House, The Front, New Orleans, USA
Aug-Oct'17 Louisiana Contemporary Presented by The Helis Foundation, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA, juried by Shantrelle P. Lewis.
Sept'17 Nasty Women UK, Stour Space, Hackney Wick, London, UK
June'17 FARE THEE WELL Postcard Show, The Arts Center, Coravallis, Oregon, USA
May'17 The People's City, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Feb'17 I'm Your Cannibal, The Front, New Orleans, USA
Jan'17 I [Love] America and America [Loves] Me, Box13 ArtSpace, Houston, USA
Oct'16 BAD BEHAVIOUR, Brixton East, London, UK
May'16 Beneath, I Am Moving (live performance), L’Entrepôt, New Orleans, USA
March'16 More Issues Than Vogue, Parse, New Orleans, USA
Nov'14 Body Sculpture II (live performance), The Front, New Orleans, USA
Nov'14 Oppositions and Parallels, The Front, New Orleans, USA
Sept'14 Body Sculpture (live performance), RUD AIR, Laxarby, Sweden
April'14 godsbridgeX, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, UK
March'14 ESPY PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2014, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK
Feb'14 FABRICATE, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK
Oct'13 neo:graduates2013, neo:gallery22, Bolton, UK
Sept'13 Object Abuse, Spinach, London, UK
Aug'13 VIDEOHOLICA, Varna, Bulgaria (screening of Bruised)
July'13 Nástupište Postcard Exchange, Topolcany, Slovakia
June'13 Assemblance, Bloc Studios, Sheffield, UK
June'12 Spectrum, Arundel Gate Court, Sheffield, UK
March'12 Photography, AGC Gallery, Sheffield, UK
March'11 Presence/Absence, The Showroom, Sheffield, UK
EDUCATION
Oct '09-'12
BA (Hons) Fine Art with First Class Honours, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Sept '06-'07
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Bucks New University, Buckinghamshire, UK
RESIDENCIES
May - Dec'19 Arts Council New Orleans SALON Artist in Residence, New Orleans, USA
May'17 - Present ARiM (Artist Residency in Motherhood: A self-directed, open-source artist residency to empower and inspire artists who are also mothers, created by Lenka Clayton)
Aug'14 RUD AIR, artist-in-residence, Laxarby, Sweden
June'12 SIA Graduate Residency, Sheffield, UK
PROJECTS
April'13 – April'14 The God’s Bridge Project, UK
A group project initiated by ARTworks in Teesdale, and mentored by renowned sculptor Tania Kovats. Ten artists (Ewan Allinson, Henna Asikainen, Charli Clark, Lesley Hicks, Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Steve Messam, Bryony Purvis, Gillian Tallentire, and Suzanne Williams) were asked to produce individual artistic responses to God’s Bridge, a naturally occurring geological feature of the Teesdale countryside.
Oct'12 – Present Form(ed), Canada/UK
Form(ed) is a cross-disciplinary investigation, exploring the bond between the vessel and the female figure. Clay vessels are made by Canadian ceramic artist Dianne Lee, and then re-worked or ‘unmade’, by visual artist Robyn LeRoy-Evans, before they are finally dried and fired. Both artists use their own body as the primary tool whilst forming and un-forming these sculptures.
GRANTS & AWARDS
2021 Ontario Arts Council (co-recipient with Dianne Lee for HEAVY SHINE at The Gardiner Museum)
March'18 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (co-recipient)
March'14 ESPY PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2014, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK (finalist)
June'13 Grand Prix de Découverte, shortlisted, Paris, France
May'13 FotoFilmic’13, shortlisted, Vancouver, Canada
PRESS
Review of A Growing Dance at The Front, by D. Eric Bookhardt, October 29, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
SLU Contemporary, 14th Annual Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase, [exhibition catalogue], 2020
FEELS Zine, Issue 11: Kinship, 2020
An Artist Residency in Motherhood, Mothers' Days, 2020
MILKED Magazine, No.01 "Volume", 2019 (cover artist)
Mulieris magazine, Mother, 2019
Antenna, The Front Round 5: January 11th 2014 - January 3rd 2016, 2017
Average Art Magazine, Average Art 10, 2017
ARTworks in Teesdale, ARTSCAPES, 2014
neo:gallery 22, neo:graduates2013 [exhibition catalogue], 2013
Hideyuki Mayusumi, preproom, with Bridget Collins, Robyn LeRoy-Evans, and Hideyuki Mayusumi, 2013 (an independent zine project initiated by Japanese photographer Hideyuki Mayusumi).
PODCASTS & DOCUMENTARIES
May'20 Axisweb “Live Out Loud” Podcast, Episode: Parenthood (in conversation with Emily Speed and Lauren McLaughlin)
Jul'13 “Bloc Projects”, for Regular Line: Nástupište – Sheffield, screened in Topolcany, Slovakia
COLLECTIONS
Toronto, Canada, private collection.
London, United Kingdom, private collection.
New Orleans, USA, private collection.
Houston, USA, private collection.
GALLERY & ONLINE AFFILIATIONS
2018 – Present Member Artist, Spilt Milk, Edinburgh, UK
Aug’16 – Dec'19 Member Artist, The Front, New Orleans, USA