CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Press Officer
Special Projects Curator
KALEID editions
23-25 Redchurch St E2 7DJ
PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS
2010
Artist
Suspect Packages,
Collaboration with Michael Hampton, performative investigation of his body of work and feature article
October 2009
Participating Artist
The Hesitation Waltz
at Emergency 2009
, Manchester
An interactive installation in which participants follow a set of instructions
in an apparently empty room, testing endurance, the willingness to follow rules and to obey
July 2009
Solo Performance
At Home Produced
by Switch Performance
Competition to win bespoke Live Art made
for your home exploring exciting new possibilities for the commissioning, purchasing and collecting
of Live Art
Artist/Director
The Time Is 15.15
at Sprint Festival,
Camden Peoples Theatre, London
Collaboration with Jung Eun Yoo, devised performance exploring memory as the foundation of personal identity
and the dynamics of repetition, What is a human being without memory? Can we choose which moments make us who
we are?
May 2009
Solo Performance
L’Enterrement de la Vie D’une Jeune Femme
, part of
Tales from the Electric Forest
, St Pancras Church Crypt, London, site-specific durational performance
Participating Artist
The Tour de Bord Experiment,
warehouse, East London
200 Miles site-responsive
interactive installation exploring the speed of encounter in the metropolis All The King’s Men
durational
solo performance contrasting the classics physics example of entropy, the reassembling teacup, with the human spirit
of perseverance
April
2009 Artist / Director
The Time Is 15.15
at Enterprise Festival 2009
, The Space, Isle of Dogs
Collaboration with Jung Eun Yoo
November 2008
Solo Performance
Sugar Duty, Sweet Daddy
at my site | in space 4
, Resistance Gallery,
London
Curated by Switch Theatre, site-specific intervention workshop followed by durational performance
exploring ideas of duty, labour, guilt and contrition
April – June 2008
Artist / Director
Home Suite
private residences, London, commissioned by The Collective, supported by
Arts Council England, site-specific promenade performance series in 7 parts
A chorus of 7 identical females
navigate the spaces of domesticity over a period of 7 days weaving a narrative arc that describes the evolution
of a marriage, its bearing on romance and the effect of both on domestic routine and the role of a housewife
July 2007
Organising Artist
Art Monopoly
, Hampstead Heath, London, Subversion of traditional board game to
raise awareness of art funding issues
June 2007
Participating Artist
Quilters Quadrille
, Rules and Regs
, a space, Southampton
Site-specific participatory event in medieval vault made in response to imposed rules. Audience members were
presented with a set of dance steps to be performed at will on the prepared dancefloor, responding to a
constant metronome strike
May 2007
Choreographer
Napoli Scorticata
, A Lotos Collective production, O’ Theatrone, Naples, Italy
Site-specific promenade performance in deconsecrated church, offering the audience refuge form a 'memory plague'
based on Neapolitan mythology and Il Pentarmerone
by Giovanni Batiste Basile
April 2007
Artist / Director
Tea at Tesco Disco,
Hedges & Butler, London
Tea
was redeveloped for The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
theme; as the tea party unfolds
its ritualistic mannered preparations are gradually subverted and the attached characters’ relationship slides
into an evermore grotesque display of power and dominance
March 2007
Art Director
The Window,
London A Pebble Productions short film, directed by Ana Vilenica
November 2006
Artist / Director
Matin Après-Midi,
Camden People’s Theatre, London
Promenade performance exploring habit and ritual, freedom and control within time, moving through nine levels
of a house from attic to cellar, characters in each room respond to the constant rhythm of the hours
October 2006
Artist / Director
Gods Man Heroes Chaos,
curated by Lotos Collective, Charing Cross Window Gallery L
Amuse-Gueule
a durational performance exploring contrasting relationships of control and dominance
Tea
reprised the Dining Room scene from Matin Après-Midi
introducing an element of restraint
reating an uneasy power struggle.
September 2006
Artist / Director
Picnic,
Mile End Artspark, London
Site-specific promenade performance, a
surreal take on traditional English pursuits, a chorus explore the absurd and the mundane as they move around the
park, now transformed into their fantastical playground, set to a curious soundtrack of nature.
July 2006
Artist / Director
Matin Après-Midi,
Cochrane Theatre, London
May 2006
Artist / Director
El Tiempo Indomito,
Antiguo Hospital San José, Santiago de Chile
Site-specific promenade performance based on One Hundred Years of Solitude
fusing music, dance and
circus skills, narrating the journey of wandering gypsy souls in search of a home.
February 2006
Participating Artist
Untitled (Rocking Chair)
at Homebound
, private residence, East London
Durational site-specific performance, a Miss Havisham character rocks endlessly, bound to her environment, at once
too young and too old
January 2006
Director
Tetherings,
Cochrane Theatre, London
Duet in 4 acts, dancers are attached to each
other by ever-shortening plaited wigs as their relationship increases in dependency, the self collapses
February 2005
Participating Artist
The Art of Love,
Oxo Tower Wharf, London
January 2005
Participating Artist
The Burial of Isabella Dale
, St Pancras Church Crypt, London,
Through her constructed world of nostalgia, Fry finds her predecessor by two hundred years
CURATOR
March 2010
Curator
scripturacontinua,
KALEID editions, London
Performance season exploring writing,
ritual, repetition and oralisation, featuring Sheila Ghelani, Jordan McKenzie, Helen Schoene and Francis Elliott
September 2009
Curator
15 minute factory,
The Rag Factory, London
3-day festival of performance, live music, art, cabaret and crafts
May 2009
Curator
15 minute factory,
The Rag Factory, London
4 rooms of performance, live music, art, cabaret and burlesque
November 2006
Curator
A Season of Contemporary Performance,
Camden People's Theatre, London,
experimental performance by Central Saint Martins graduates
January 2005
Curator
The Burial of Isabella Dale,
St Pancras Church Crypt, London,
Site-specific
group show featuring sculpture, video installation and performance
WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES
February 2009
Facilitating Artist
Embodying Moment,
Feminist Research Methods Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
Practice-led workshop and panel discussion on perception and experience of moment through physical gesture
with reference to live and video performance works
November 2008
Facilitating Artist
The Compass Rose,
CHAT (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory)
Conference, UCL, London, Interactive installation exploring the physical mapping of memory
REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
A 3 Day Arts Festival With a Difference,
Glass Magazine 2009
Life Is Suite,
Ossian Ward, Time Out, 1 May 2008
Dark, dreamless sleep,
Rhoda Koenig, The Independent on Sunday, Arts Books Culture, 30 January 2005
EDUCATION
- September 2005-September 2006:
MA Scenography, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
- September 2000-July 2003:
BA Hons Fine Art, Middlesex University
- September 1999-July 2000:
BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art & Design, Kingston University
- September 1998 - July 1999:
European Baccalaureate, European School of Brussels II, Belgium
