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EXHIBITIONS, INVITED TALKS, AND PANELS

2022 London Doctoral Design Centre:  Presentation, invited to lead panel discussion, The Design Museum, London

2021 No Comply: Exhibitor, Somerset House, London

2020 Truro Skatepark: Exhibitor, The Experience of Making, Skateboarding Photography and Videography, Truro

2019 Innoskate London: Curator, UK Skateboard Photography 1990-Present Day, The Smithsonian Institute supported by Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

2019 Arts University Plymouth, Talk, Documentary as Method, An Interdisciplinary Approach to Visual Research, Plymouth

2018 London Design Festival: LDoc Curatorial Team, London

2018 London Design Festival: Exhibitor, Skateboarding Media - A Collective Experience, London

2018 Royal College of Art: Panel speaker at the Design & Communication Symposium, BBC White City Place, London

2018 London Doctoral Design Centre:  Research Presentation, London

2017 London Doctoral Design Centre: Research Presentation and Panel Speaker, London

2015 Lorient Interceltic Festival: Exhibitor, Lorient, Brittany

2014 Centrepoint: Curator, Picture 24,  London.

2011 The Poly Gallery: This Will Make You Human, Collaborative Exhibition, Falmouth

2010 The Poly Gallery: By The Way, Collaborative Exhibition, Falmouth

2009 Orange Dot Gallery: Curator, Fifteen Years Of Skateboarding Photography by Leo Sharp, London

 

Awards and Grants 

2017 London Doctoral Design: AHRC PhD Doctoral Award, Royal College of Art

2014 Smithsonian Institute: Smithsonian Fellowship,  Washington DC

2014: Nominated for the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) in the category of Best British Short Film for ‘Island Queen’

2014: REA Grant 2014, Falmouth University, Networking Grant, Los Angeles, America

2013: REA Grant, Falmouth University

 

 

 

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2020: Conference on The Constructed Environment, Negotiating Skateboarding's Unobservable Experiences and Visual Identity

2018: International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes, Paper presentation, Blood, sweat and tears: How did skateboarding’s Thrasher T-shirt become the Fashionista’s ‘Off Duty’ look?

2018: International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes, Winner of the Best Presentation Award

2018: Pushing Borders, Presentation

 

Journal 

2020- 2021: Founding Joint Editor, Itinerant Space. Questioning the role of communication, democracy, and diversity within academic publishing, the aim of Itinerant Space is to examine what these standards of communication symbolise, and query systems of publishing.