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Selected Press
Natalie Bradbury discusses the Alien Sex Club tarot deck in The Fourdrinier,  April 2020.
Coverage of Co-Factors at Suttie Arts Space in The Northern, February 2020
Coverage of The Fourth Wall in The Herald, September 2019
Coverage of The Fourth Wall in The National, September 2019
Coverage of The Fourth Wall on Mood of Collapse, June 2019
Coverage of The Fourth Wall in Creative Review, June 2019
Interview for Elephant Magazine, March 2019
Review of CAPSID in Creative Review, December 2018
Review of CAPSID in We Make Money Not Art, December 2018
Discussing CAPSID on Radio 4 Front Row, November 2018
Review of CAPSID in The Lancet, July 2018
Review of Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness in Art Review, May 2018
Review of Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness in Studio International, April 2018
Discussing Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness on Radio 4 Front Row, November 2017

Selected One and Two-Person Exhibitions
2021 Jezreel's Tower, Estuary Festival and Exeter Phoenix.
2020 Lockdown Tarot, Plymouth Art Weekender.
        Co-Factors, Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen.
2019 Crep Suzette (with Bert McLean), LUVA Gallery, London.
       The Fourth Wall, Look Again Festival, Aberdeen.
       Brexit Gothic, DKUK, London (forthcoming).
2018 Booze Guitar, Matt'as Gallery, London.
         CAPSID, CGP London and HOME Manchester.
2017 Alien Sex Capsule, Artlink, Hull.
       The Zany Capsid, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham.
2016 Dark Side of the Moob, Vogue Fabrics, London.
         Dream Season Part One, commissioned by UP Projects, online.
2015 Alien Sex Club, Ambika P3 London and Camp and Furnace Liverpool.
         Courtship Disorder, White Cubicle, London.
2014 Trance Time, MODEL, Liverpool.
         Turn My Oyster Up, Whitstable Biennale, Kent.
         SPOOLBASE, Westhill Garden Centre, Aberdeen.
         Post, La Scatola Gallery, online.
2013 The Rococo Riots, Vitrine Gallery, London.
2012 The Oil Baron's Club, Smart Consultants, Aberdeen.
       Cuntstone and Clown (with Cian Donnelly), Five Years, London.
2011 Double Exposure, Vitrine Gallery, London.
        LE-zi BAR as part of The Event, The Lombard Method, Birmingham.
         The Tarot Garden, MEANTIME Project Space, Cheltenham.
         its all over yer face, Peabody Yard Studios, London.
2010 Chopsticks Optional (with Corinne Felgate), The Nunnery, London.
         John Walter, Maiden, London.
         Pinacoteca - Pina Colada, Galerie ArsProToto, Germany.
         Bar Zsa Zsa, Paradise Lost, London.
         John Walter, Canary Wharf, London.
2009 She's My Beard (with Elke Zauner), The Hex at Balfron Tower, London.
         Pigs Don't Sweat, Galerie ArsProToto, Erlangen, Germany.
2008 Hotdog/Jumping Frog/Albuquerque, (with Maria Zahle), Tisvildje, Denmark.
         Germany-1, England-1, (with Elke Zauner), Temple University, Rome.
         John Walter & Mark Epstein, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle.
2007 Maximum Noise, Galleria Marabini, Bologna.
2006 In The Garden of Sexual Diseases, Toni Heath Gallery, London.
2005 Big Books, Bookartbookshop, London.
         Delayed Gratification(with Mark Epstein), Space-twotentwo, London.
2004 Big and Little Epics, Kings Cross Business Centre, London.
         Wonka Wigs (with Mark Epstein), 72 Welbeck Street, London.
2001 Seekers who are Lovers, St. John’s College, Oxford.
2000 John Walter and Tom Woolner, Ruskin School of Drawing And Fine Art, Oxford.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Holiday Fun, Firstsite, Colchester.
2021 21 Fathoms, ASC Gallery, London.
        Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London.
2020 Queer Algorithms, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland.
2019 Paisley Art Institute 131st Annual Exhibition (guest artist), Paisley.
       1d for Abroad, Tintype Gallery, London.
2018 Somewhere in Between, The Wellcome Collection, London.
2017 Coming Out, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
       Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness, Hayward Touring, The MAC Belfast.
2016 Essex Road III, Tintype Gallery, London.
         Everything Else, Nga Taonga,Wellington, New Zealand.
2015 Party Out of Bounds, Visual AIDS at LaMaMa Gallery, New York.
2014 Lily & Mim, 60 Schoolhill Aberdeen.
         Hangwoman, Schwartz Gallery London.
         Scoop, Philips de Pury London.
         Sex Shop, Folkstone Triennale and Transition Gallery London.
2013 Motel de Nowhere Xmas Fete, Motel de Nowhere, London.
         Ceri Hand Summer Fete, Ceri Hand Gallery, London.
         PLAYpark, Rubislaw Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen.
         KALEID 2013, KALEID editions, London.
         ARTFLEA (‘The John McCririck Memorial Bar’ with MEANTIME), Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud.
         LUPA 15, London.
         LUPA Colony, The London Art Fair.
2012  20 Rue Jacob, Galeria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland.
         The News, Vanilla Galleries, Leicester.
         May 29th, Tether, Nottingham.
         Circa 1960, Guest Projects, London.
        The Perfect Nude, Wimbledon Space, London.
2011Two Peacocks, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle.
        Space Station Zsa Zsa, Pumphouse Gallery, Battersea.
        Attempts to Get Inside the World, Lewisham Art House, London.
        MEANTIME Multiplex(with Jamie Quantrill), MEANTIME Project Space, Cheltenham.
        Thrilling at a Distance (with Victoria Watson), Parfitt Gallery, Croydon.
        Public House, Hiru Dance Company, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, London.
        Rummage Sale, Barbican Gallery, London.
        BAT Pack II, Mile End Pavillion, London.
        Smokefall, Tintype Gallery, London.
        The Shape of Things (curated by Silia Ka Tung), Ferrate Gallery, Israel.
        Apocalypstick (curated by Jeremy Willet & Sian Hislop), The Nunnery, London.
        Send My Love to Everyone in Japan, Quare, London.
2010  Teaser, Galerie ArsProToto, Germany.
         BAT Pack, Mile End Pavillion, London.
         The Art of Function, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wrexham.
2009   Oxford Contemporary, OVADA, Oxford.
         A Night of Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, The Dolphin, London.
         Askewdovoodoo, The Stag’s Head, London.
         P1, Bow Arts Open, London.
2008  Flat Examination (with the Hex), V22 Wharf Road Project, London.
         Bewegte Kunst 2008, Galerie ArsProToto, Erlangen, Germany.
         Spazi Aperti 6, Romanian Academy, Rome.
         Tutti Frutti, The British School at Rome The Director's Apartment, The British School at Rome.
2007   Party at the American Academy, The British School at Rome.
         Spazi Aperti 5, Romanian Academy, Rome.
         Transit_2, The British School at Rome.
2006  Transit_1, The British School at Rome.
         Queer Eye, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
2005  Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space and Touring.
         The Risky Business of Import/Export or How we moved from East London to New York, The Tank, New York.
2004  The Relaxed Audience or Why We Are So Wise, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London.
2003  Category-B, The Empire, London.
2002  Four Colleges Show, ATKearney London Headquarters, London.
         Red Mansion Spero Prize, London Institute Gallery, London.
         Painting in the Park, Woburn Square, London.
         Hang the Curator - Slade Postgraduate Painters present…, Faroe Road Studios, London.

Performances
2021 Hilary Mantel MEGAMIX, Exeter Phoenix.
2020 m_Doomsday{Shitney(exorcism)}, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland.
2014 Trance Time, MODEL, Liverpool.
2013 LUPA 15, London.
2012 Raise the Hallows, Power Lunches, Dalston.
       Mint Juleps (with John Swindells), as part of Ciao! Modernism, Guest Projects London.
        Cuntstone and Clown (with Cian Donnelly) Five Years, London.
2011 Cuntstone and Clown (with Cian Donnelly) Vitrine Gallery, London.
        Masonic Yoda, MEANTIME Project Space, Cheltenham.
        DJ Shitney Cuntstone, RETREAT: In the City, Lewisham Art House, London.
        Tarot with Shitney, Motel de Nowhere, London.
2010 Shitney Cuntstone, Cabaret Melancholique, London.

Screenings
2021 Both Sides Now 6: Viral Futures, Videoclub,Hong Kong.
2020 Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand.
2019 Cinema Queer, Sweden.
2018 EDGING, LUX, London.
2016 Dream Season Parts One and Two, The Glory, London.
2015 GURUJI, The Horse Hospital, London.
         SQUIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival), Glasgow.
         Transatlantic, Lux Moving Image and Cranford Collection at DRAF, London.
         #COCKSANDCUNTS, Kaleidoscope Video Club, online curated by Francesca Gavin.
2014 Cloud.Love. DAM Gallery, Berlin.
2012  In The H.I.V. Garden, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
2012  Psycho Sexual Objects, Architectural Association, London.

Writing
2017 Ed. Walter, John. Shonky, The Aesthetics of Awkwardness. Hayward Publishing.
2014 STRATEGIC POSITIONING, Poetry Club magazine, Glasgow.
2012 John Tiney at Gallery Vela, review for Mousse Magazine.

Curatorial
2022 Patternicity (co-curated with Christina Niederberger), ASC Gallery, London.
2019 Al Dente, SKELF, online.
2017 Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness, Hayward Gallery Tourin: The MAC Belfast, DCA Dundee and Bury Museum & Art Gallery.
2015 Lily & Mim, 60 School Hill Aberdeen, SMART Consultants.
2012 Nite Slutz, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA.
2012 Ciao! Modernism (with Anna Bunting-Branch) as part of Circa 1960, Guest Projects, London.
2011 Two Peacocks, Gallery North, Newcastle.
2011 Space Station Zsa Zsa, Pump House Gallery, Battersea.

Education
2013- 2017 PhD, Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster.
2012 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
2001-2003 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, MFA.
1998-2001 Oxford University, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, BFA.
1997-98 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, BTEC Foundation.

Commissions
2020 Plymouth Art Weekender.
2019 Paisley Pattern mural, Paisley.
2018 Facebook headquarters, London.
2016 Chambers Wharf Commission, Thames Tideway Tunnel, Bermondsey.
2013 McCombie Court Mural, commissioned by Smart Consultants for Aberdeen Inspired, Aberdeen.

Residencies
2020 Kavli Institute, The Netherlands.
2019 i-Park Foundation, Connecticut.
         Cement Fields Residency, Kent.
2017 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
2012 RETREAT, Howgill Fells, Cumbria.
2011 MEANTIME Project Space, Cheltenham.
         RETREAT, Howgill Fells, Cumbria.
2006-08 Sainsbury Scholarship, The British School at Rome
2006 Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.

Awards
2020 Churchill Fellowship.
        Arts Council Emergency Fund.
2019 Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant (for Mobius Hospice).
2017 Hayward Curatorial Open (for Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness).
2016 Artists' International Development Fund.
         Arts Council England Grants for the Arts (for CAPSID).
         Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award.
2014 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts (for Alien Sex Club).
         Wellcome Trust Small Arts Award.
2011 Arts Council England Lottery Fund (for Two Peacocks).
2005 Arts Council England Grants to Artists.
2003 Project Award, Slade School of Fine Art.
2002 Audrey Wykeham Prize, Slade School of Fine Art.
2001 Vivian Leigh Prize, Ashmolean Museum Oxford.
        Fitzgerald Prize, Exeter College Oxford.
         Amelia Jackson Fund, Exeter College Oxford.
1999 Anatomy Prize, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art Oxford.
        Exonian Bursary, Exeter College Oxford.

Scholarships
2013-2016 AHRC PhD Studentship
2001 – 2003   AHRB Bursary

Collections
Arts Council Collection.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Private Collection, Munich.
Private Collection, Frankfurt.
Private Collection, Bologna.

Teaching
The University of Glasgow.
Open School East.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
King’s College London - School of Nursing and Midwifery.
The Architectural Association, London.
Royal College of Art, London.
Edinburgh College of Art.
Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen.
Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Temple University, Rome.
Slade School of Fine Art, London.
Camberwell College of Arts, London.
Kingston University, London.

Conferences
2017  Engage Conference – Exploring Collaboration, Bristol.
2014  Buildings and the Body Symposium, University of Southampton.
2010  ARTISTS + SCHOOLS + GALLERIES = WHAT NEXT?, Whitechapel Gallery, London.