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Foreigness,  Kumu Art Museum, Estonia, curated by Olga Jurgenson 2019
An independent study, the future of artists and architecture? TACO, London. curated by Thamesmead Texas, 2019
Martians Send Videos Home, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2019
Transient Visions, Spool Contemporary Art Space, New York, USA, 2019
Strangelove Time Based Media Festival, 
Touring to The Photographers Gallery,  London;
Turner Contemporary, Margate; Fabrica, Brighton; Hop Projects CT20; Quaterhouse, Folkestone; UK,  2019

P a s t
BMIFF, Film Festival,  Braziers Park, UK  2019
FRACTO, Experimental Film, Berlin, 2019
Ann Arbor Film Festival AAFF, Michigan, USA, 2019
Oakland Film Festival, (Semi Finalist), US 2019

Visions in The Nunnery P2, (lead artist Melanie Manchot)  Nunnery Gallery, London, UK 2018
Anthology Film Archives,  New York City, USA 2018
Suburbinale, Groß-Enzersdorf, Austria, 2018
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick UK 2018
Les Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, France, 2018

Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2018

Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York 2017
EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany 2017
Short Circuit, Brighton 2017

Tirana Film Festival, Albania 2017
Foreigness, Curated by Olga J
urgenson, Contemporary Art Space in Batumi, Georgia 2017
Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London UK 2016
Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France 2016
Sluice Screen Prize  (Finalist) Touring Islington Mill, London Uk 2016

Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada 2016
Brand New Blinkers, DIY Space, London, UK 2016
Nominated for Jury Prize Montreal Underground Film Festival,  Canada 2016
On the Road, Mediawave Festival, Hungary, 2016
Finalist for FACT and Channels Artist Bursary , Liverpool/Melbourne 2016
Super 9 Film Festival, (Semi Finalist), Super 9 Space,Lisbon, Portugal
Inaugural Sluice_screens ↄc Prize, (Other Shortlisted artist Lawrence Lek) Horse Hospital, London, UK 2015

Film Screening, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, September 2015
FIVA International Video Art Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015
28es Instants Vidéo, Marseilles, France, 2015
ikono, On Air (TV and on live steam) Video Art Festival, Australia, 2015
Altered States as part of Coastal Currents Arts Festival, Hastings, UK 2015
Instants Video  Art and Performance Biennale, Palestine 2015
Fonlad DIGITAL Festival, Portugal 2015

AVI Festival 2015 Independence Square. Netanya, Israel 2015

JW3 Film Salon, Artists Film Salon London UK 2015
Videoextravaganza, (4 person show ) with Pipilotti Rist,  Fischli and Weiss, Dias Digital Art Space, Denmark 2014
ikono, On Air (TV and on live steam) Video Art Festival, Australia, 2014
Streaming Festival,
the Hague, Netherlands, and Zagreb, Croatia, and Online Edition,  2014
The Lab Film Festival at Hackney Wicked, London, UK, 2014

Adventures in the Other Screen Trade, Outcasting, Spike Island, Bristol, 20th May, 2014
Behold, A Nunnery Gallery presentation, The Ivy, 12th May, London, 2014
CologneOFF  @ FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Pt Portugal, May 17th 2014
Oslo Screen,
Norway, 2014
Kurzfilmtage Recommendations, 17th International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland 2013
Winter Shuffle, St Clements Hospital Mile End, London ( funded by Arts Council England) 2013
Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia 2013
Sluice Art Fair, Outcasting, London, UK, 2013
Blinc, Outcasting, Moving Image Festival, Wales 2013
Channels, Australian Video Art Festival, Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia,2013
CologneOFF - International Videoart Festival, JCIC Vilnius & Kedainiai Regional Museum, Lithuania, 2013
Compulsion, St Clements Gallery, Shuffle Festival, Mile End, London, UK 2013
LUC Film Festival, Leamington, UK 2013
art:screen, IP Gallery, Växjö, Sweden, 2013
Pluspace , Coventry, UK 2013
Outcasting, Cardiff, Wales. 2013
After Dark, Moving Image and Projections, Cuckoo Farm, Essex, UK 2013
The Lab Film Festival, London, UK 2013
The Inaugural Artlacuna Film Festival, ArtLacuna Space, London 18th/19th May 2013
Shooting Wall Film Festival, PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA. USA. May 2013
Souvenirs from Earth, Art TV Station for Film and Video Art, Online 2013
[Un]natural disaster  Festival Miden, Special Screening presentation of La Soirée de Votanique, Athens, Greece 2013
Best of the London Underground Film Festival London, The Horse Hospital, London 2012
DysTorpia, Media Series, Queens Museum of Art New York City, USA 2012
Short Movies Night, Arbeit Gallery, Islington, London, UK 2012
Miden Festival, Athens, Greece 2012
MAsh Rome, The Architecture House, Rome, Italy 2012
Ex-pos-ure, U Space Gallery, Atlanta, USA 2012
Beyond Zero, Flexi Space, London UK 2012
Right Here Over There, LAL, Kentucky, USA 2012

Hoopla! Sugarhouse Studios, London 2012
Mulitplexer, Multiplexer Gallery, Las Vegas, USA 2012
Souvenirs from Earth, Art TV Station for Film and Video Art, Online 2011

Streaming Festival 7th Edition, Online 2011
Colour out of Space, Video art and performance festival, Brighton, UK 2011
Les Inattendus, Nantes, France 2011
Cyberfest, Art Hall, POLIGRAF organised by National Centre for Contemporary Art in St Petersburg, Russia, 2010
Servile-ance, x- ray at the Perseverance, London UK 2010
mikro_makro  aktivitetshuset Flensburg, Germany 2010
InCounter, HBC Berlin, curated Melanie Clifford, Stephen Shielland Erica Scourti Germany 2010
Les Inattendus, Featured director, Lyons, France 2010
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2010
mikro_makro, Galeria Interdyscyplinarna MCK Slupsk, Poland 2010
Aurora, Common Ground, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich. UK 2009
GHost II, The Belfry Project Space, St John’s Church in Bethnal Green, London, UK. 2009
Steaming Festival 4th Edition, International Festival for Audio Visual Art, Online, The Hague, 2009
Town and Country, Soup and Cinema, Project Space Leeds, 2009
Scare in the Community, CORE arts, London 2009
Summer Screen, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, 2009
Betting on Breakfast, The Roxy, Stockholm Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden 2009
Visual Deflections, Includes work by Pipolotti Rist, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London 2009
Blue Movies, Fringe of the Fringelands, Greenway, London 2012 Olympic site, Curated by Hilary Powell, 2009
Olympic Visions 2009, The Nunnery Gallery, London 2009
Visions in the Nunnery 2009, The Nunnery Gallery, London 2009
BoS at Kurye International Video Festival, Istanbul Turkey 2009
Undergound City, Divus, Shoreditch, London, 2009
Frieze Film 2008 (Also shown on Channel 4), Road Movie Part 11, edited by Jennifer Ruff. 
Betting on Shorts, ICA -  London, Point Ephemere- Paris, KIBLA Multi Media Centre -Maribo,  Kino Rialto- Stockholm, Romanian Cultural Institute- Bucharest, Mikrokosmos Prince- Athens Kinoklub- Novi Sad, CCCB Pantalla Hall- Barcelona, Romanian Cultural Institute – Bucharest, Kadir Has University -Istanbul, Lanificio-Naples, Crna Kuka/ Kinoklub- Novi Sad, Teater Scenario- Thessaloniki, Kulturpalast- Wiesbaden, November 2008
GHost, The Belfry Project Space, St Johns Church in Bethnal Green, London, UK. 2008.
Videophile Festival, Phoenix, Brighton 2008
Reading Experimental Film Festival, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, 2008
Orebro International Videoart Festival, Orebro, Sweden. 2008
Drawing on Life, Campaign for Drawing. Participatory installation created with artist Albert Potrony,The Wellcome Trust 2008
PureScreen 21: Follywood, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 2008
Gstaad, Film Festival, Switzerland. 2008
Stardust or the Last Frontier, Screening, MACVAL, Contemporary Art Museum near Paris, curated by Thibault Capéran 2007
Stimulus Respond, cross arts event, curated by Jack Boulton, Edinburgh 2007
Another Roadside Attraction, Shoreditch, (3 works selected) London 2007
Shortwave, Brick Lane, London 2007
Visions in the Nunnery, international exhibition of artists working with the moving image. The Nunnery Gallery, Bow, London 2007
East End Film Festival, (2 selected works) Rich Mix Cinema and Genesis Cinema, London 2007
Video Art Screening, curated by Jonas Nilson, Vasteras, Sweden 2007
Fresh, Undergound and Overground, South Hill Park, Bracknell, 2007
Rencontres International, Film and Video Festival, Paris, Berlin.  2006
The London Special, Clerkenwell Video and Film Festival, London. 2006
Gstaad, Film Festival, Switzerland. 2006
Projecktor, Café Gallery Projects, Southwark, London. 2006
B Tween 06, Forum 25,  National Museum of Photography, Film and Television Bradford. 2006
Betrayed by the Senses, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London.  2006
Visions in the Nunnery, the Nunnery Gallery, Bow, London.  2006
Wormhole Saloon 11, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.  2006
International Video Art Festival, Cardiff, Wales.  2006
Hybridomas, RampArt, Whitechapel, London.  2005
Seeing Things, Showing with Tim Braden, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall.  2005
Ancoats Hospital Outpatients, group show (DJ Simpson, David Burrows, Simon Morley, Chantal Joffe, Martin Westwood) The Nunnery Gallery, London. 2004
Pop, Soho Square, Interactive installation. Showing with Mark Titchner, London.  2004
Visions at the Nunnery, the nunnery gallery, Bow, London.  2002
Field of Vision, Penwith, Cornwall.  2002
Super 8 Station, Station, Bristol.  2002
Obsessions, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall.  2001
PALPitations, PALP.  The Old Telephone Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall.  2001
Conceptual Interiors, Royal Beatrice Gallery, Southampton.  2001
Transition, Newlyn Gallery,  Cornwall.  2000
Right Here Right Now, YOTA showcase, Watershed, Bristol. 2000
Margherita, SW Arts, Year of the Artist, touring show including venues Eden Project, Cornwall, Watershed Bristol.  2000 
Remote, Art today Foundation, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  2000
Critics Choice, selected by Charlotte Mullings, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall.  2000
 Dividing Lines, Newlyn Society of Artists, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall.  1999
NSA, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.  1998
Return of the Showgirls, The Workstation, Sheffield. 1998
Sculptural Objects, Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth, Devon.  1997
Light/Weight, Peninsular Program as part of St Ives International’s A Quality of Light in association with TATE St Ives, Cornwall.  1997
After Eden, Ikon Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.  1996
Critics Choice, selected by Sacha Craddock, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall.  1996
       

A w a r d s  
British Council Travel Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival AAFF 2019
Arts Council England Award to fund new video work Bungalow, 2013
Arts Council England, exhibition award Visions in the Nunnery, 2007
ALIAS, Arts Council South West, Research Grant, CST.   2004
National Touring Award, ACE, Coal Salt Tin, PALP.  2003
National Touring Research and Development Award, ACE.  2003
Individual Artists Award, (Major), SWA.  2002
Regional Arts Lottery Award, PALP.  2002
Travel Award, SWA, PALP.  2001
Awards for All, Lottery grant, PALP.  2001
SWMDA, South West Media Development Agency Exhibition Grant.  2001                  
Penwith District Council, Exhibition Grant. PALP.   2001
South West Arts, Year of the Artist Award.  2000
ALIAS South West Arts, Research Grant. PALP.  2000


 
C u r a t i o n
Visions in The Nunnery 2018, Co Curator with Sophie Hill, 3 month programme of moving image and performance with lead artists Tina Keane, Melanie Manchot, Bedwyr Williams
Visions in the Nunnery 2016, Organiser and Co Curator with Cinzia Cremona. Ten week programme of moving image and performance events  Including work by Marina Abramovic, Dryden Goodwin, Ori Gersht, Susan Hiller, Uriel Urlow
The Ivy , Screening for associated Nunnery Gallery, The Ivy, London UK 2014
Visions in the Nunnery 2010, Organiser and Co Curator with Cinzia Cremona. Supported by Rebecca Savage and Valentina Ferrandes. Programme of moving image and performance events over 3 weeks. Included work by Franko B, Tacita Dean and Susan Collins.
Olympic Visions, Curator and Event Organiser. Showing work by artists who have made work in response to London 2012, The Nunnery Gallery, London 2009
Visions in the Nunnery, International Screening, Event organiser and co curator for international selection. The Nunnery Gallery, London 2009
Visions in the Nunnery 2009, Curator/ organiser with Cinzia Cremona. Includes by by Karen Knorr and Michael Nyman.
Visions in the Nunnery 2008, International Screening, City Choreographies, curated by Tracey Warr and Works on Water curated by Ricarda Vidal. Event organiser and co curator for international selection. The Nunnery Gallery 2008
Visions in the Nunnery, International screening of video art, film and installation, co curator and main organiser, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow, London  2007
NODE.L the nunnery gallery. Bow, London.  2006
Visions at the Nunnery.  International screening of video art, film and installation, project organiser and curator. The Nunnery Gallery, Bow, London  2006
Art in Romney Marsh, Mentor curator. Site specific work in 6 medieval churches, Romney Marshes, Kent.  2005
Coal, Salt, Tin.  National Touring Show, Leeds, Cornwall, Newcastle.  2003     
Wish You Were Here, Touring show, Cornwall.   2003
Field of Vision, Arts Festival and site specific exhibition, Ludgvan, Cornwall.  2002
Visions at the Nunnery, digital media show. the nunnery gallery, London.  2002
PALPitations, Penzance, Cornwall.  2001
Shed, site specific work, Penzance, Cornwall.  2000