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grants / awards / residencies

2026

WinterSessions Residency - V2 (Rotterdam, NL)

2025

Awards for Artists - Paul Hamlyn Foundation (UK)

Artist Award recipient - Henry Moore Foundation (UK)

2024

Rabbits Road Press/UCL Residency (London, UK)

LUX Critical Forum (London, UK)

2023

Freelands Foundation Award - Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK)

CPH:DOX Intro:Dox (Copenhagen, DK)

2022

Lodestars - Film London (London, UK)

CPH:DOX BFI/Doc Society Delegation (Copenhagen, DK)

2021

Jury Member - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) (Amsterdam, NL)

Aesthetica Art Prize - longlist (UK)

2020

Bloomberg New Contemporaries (UK)

Trellis Commission - University College London (London, UK)

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA): Best Children’s Documentary Award - Jury Special Mention (Amsterdam, NL)

Gasworks Residency (London, UK)

2019

British Film Institute/DocSociety Made Of Truth Award (UK)

Guardian/Joseph Rowntree Foundation Award - Doc/Fest (Sheffield, UK)

Constellations - UP Projects/Flat Time House (London, UK)

Finding Space commission - Institute of Physics (London, UK)

2018

Artists film commission - Orwell Foundation (London, UK)

Shortlisted: Border Crossings Award - Open City Documentary Festival (London, UK)

2017

Winner: British Special Mention Award - Depict!/Encounters Festival (Bristol, UK)

Digital Artist Residency - Museum of Oxford/DaR (Oxford, UK)

London Creative Network - SPACE (London, UK)

2016

Channel 4/Random Acts Award - Channel 4/Big Dance/Mayor of London (London, UK)

2015

Artist Film Maker Residency - Entelechy/Albany (London, UK)

Digital Artist Residency - Centenary - Ben Uri Gallery (London, UK)

Artists' film award - BFI/no.w.here/Wellcome Trust (London, UK)

Shortlisted: Depict! Award - Encounters Festival (Bristol, UK)

exhibitions / screenings

2026

WinterSessions exhibition - V2 (Rotterdam, NL) - 26th February

2025

Never Sleep, Four Corners (London, UK) - 8th-11th October

2024

H is for Hostile Environment, UCL East (London, UK) - 27th June - 9th August

2023

Never Sleep, Chisenhale Project Space (London, UK) - 14th-18th December

Pass The Camera: Works by Edwin Mingard, WORM (Rotterdam, NL) - 29th March

2022

Prophecy, Mead Gallery (Coventry, UK) - 7th May - 26th June

H Is For Hostile Environment, Rio Cinema, presented by Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK) - 11th May

2021

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) (Amsterdam, NL) - 17th-28th November

Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, UK) - 5th November

Bloomsbury Festival (London, UK) - 21st October

Baltic Open (Gateshead, UK) - 6th January - 6th June

Aesthetica Future Now Symposium (York, UK) - 28th April - 3rd May

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece) - March

London Short Film Festival (London, UK) - January

2020

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) screening in Competition - November (Amsterdam, NL)

Doing Your Homework, Eating Your Dinner, Drawing A Picture - Flat Time House (London, UK) - 18th January

2019

Life Rewired - Barbican Centre (London, UK) - 30th October

Art Night 2019 - Kings Cross, (London, UK) - 22nd June

Creekside Open curated by Sacha Craddock - APT Gallery (London, UK) - 15th June - 4th July

Creekside Open curated by Brian Griffiths - APT Gallery (London, UK) - 11th May - 2nd June

Finding Space - Institute of Physics (London, UK) - 30th April-17th May 2019

2018

Reflection (public realm installation) - Norman Road, Greenwich (London, UK) - 2018-2020

Mubi/Sundance (moving image installation) - Sundance Film Festival (London, UK) - 30th May

Encounters/Depict! national cinema programme (Nationwide, UK) - 2018

WALK (playing with Divine Order) - Glasgow Film Theatre (Glasgow, UK) - 9th March

2017

LCN Artists' Showcase - SPACE Studios (London, UK) - 23rd-25th November

The Xenophobia of Time? (group exhibition) - Clerkenwell Gallery (London, UK) - 30th May - 4th June

World Day 2017 - Journeys of Storytelling - P21 Gallery (London, UK) - 17th February

Channel 4 Random Acts - Flying/Falling - 4OD/Random Acts - 16th December 2016 - 15th Jan 2017

Out Of Chaos - Ben Uri Centenary Exhibition Tour - Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle, UK) - 1st November 2016 - 28th February 2017

2016

Don't Let Me Down - Gallery 48 (London, UK) - 1st December - 16th December

Random Acts S2 Episode6 - Channel 4 (UK broadcast) - 15th Dec

Ben Uri Past Present and Future - Christie's (London, UK) - 24th May - 7th June

Unexpected: Continuing Narratives of Identity and Migration - Ben Uri Gallery (London, UK) - 16th February - April 24th

2015

Out Of Chaos - Ben Uri: 100 Years in London Centenary - Somerset House (London, UK) - 2nd July - 13th December

We Cannot Unsee (artists' film commission group show + Q&A) - King's College London (London, UK) - 16th December

Depict! Award - Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival - Watershed (Bristol, UK) - 19th September

We Cannot Unsee (artists' film commission group show + Q&A) - no.w.here (London, UK) - 24th September

We Cannot Unsee (artists' film commission group show + Q&A) - BFI (London, UK) - 20th May

A Musical Box (experimental film/music programme) - LSFF - ICA (London, UK)

London Stories (short film programme) - LSFF - Hackney Picturehouse (London, UK)

2014

Carbon Paycheque/DC (live performance) - Kino Climates - Star and Shadow Cinema (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - 6th November

BRASS Commission - Durham International Festival - Durham University Music School, Palace Green (Durham, UK)

Next Stop Byker (Public art installation commission) - Byker Metro Station (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - January - June

2013

Living Library (showcase and talk) - European Alternatives - Shakespeare and Co. (Paris, France) - 13th October

Surreal Worlds (short film programme) - LSFF - Curzon Soho (London, UK)

SERCO + Q&A - Migration Research Seminar - Sussex University (Brighton, UK) - 11th March 2013

SERCO - Oxford House (London, UK) - 15th - 30th April

2012

Building the Big Society - GIFT - Central Gateshead public streets (Gateshead, UK)

Alice In Bed (group show) - Culture Lab OffSite (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)

A New Film Aesthetic? (talk) - The Thought Menu - Limazulu (London, UK) - 28th July

curating / programming

2025

Co-curator with LaToyah Gill, the commons (London, UK) - monthly, July - December

2024

Chisenhale Social Practice Forum, Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK)

Programme Adviser and Q&As host - Sheffield DocFest (Sheffield, UK) - March - July

2023

Programme Adviser and Q&As host - Sheffield DocFest (Sheffield, UK) - March - July

2022

Programme Adviser and Q&As host - Sheffield DocFest (Sheffield, UK) - March - July

AiR Drop - remote artists residency programme (UK-wide) - January 2021 - April 2022

2021

Curatorial Adviser - Amber/SIDE (Newcastle Upon Tyne) - April (ongoing)

Special Adviser (Art for Social Justice) - Independent Film Trust (UK wide) (ongoing)

2020

Skip/Intro - artists film commissioning programme (UK-wide) - July - December

A Passage Through Passages (Brunei Gallery, SOAS) - 17 January - 21 March

2016

Reflections (London, UK) - August - October

2015

HERE, NOW - Contemporary Films About London and Migration - Deptford Cinema (London, UK), Oxford House (London, UK), The Link (Thamesmead, UK) - 14th August - 12th September

New Worlds - Films About Global Youth Experiences - Deptford Cinema (London, UK) in collaboration with the Deptford Cinema programming group, BFI, Picturehouse Cinemas, BFI and Film London

2014

Dekalog 25th anniversary retrospective - Deptford Cinema (London, UK) in collaboration with the ICA, BFI and Polish Cultural Institute - 2nd-16th December

2013

Together - film programme + Q&A - no.w.here (London, UK) - 1st June

2011

The House of Sweet Magic - Helen Hill retrospective - Star and Shadow Cinema (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - 4th January

teaching and public speaking

2025

Experimental Film Masterclass, BFI Future Film Academy (London, UK) - 11th October

Artist Mentor, MA Performance: Screen, Central Saint Martins (London, UK)

Have Some Imagination, BALTIC (Gateshead, UK) - 7-9th October

2024

Artist Mentor, MA Performance: Screen, Central Saint Martins (London, UK)

2023

2022

2021

BFI Future Film Academy (London, UK) - 2nd September - 5th December

South London Gallery - guest artist in association with New Contemporaries (London, UK) - March - May

2020

BFI Future Film Academy: Redefining Rebellion (online, UK) - 2nd September - 5th December

2019

Summer school artist trainer - Film Mai Aproape (Bacau, Romania) - 13th - 23rd August

2018

Festival jury member - Hyjnesha në Fron (Pristina, Kosovo) - 23rd-27th August

Filmmakers Roundtable - BFI Future Film Festival (London, UK) - 14th February

Lecture: Alternative cinema exhibition - De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) - 12th February

Random Acts mentoring - Channel 4/Screen South/Gulbenkian (London and Canterbury, UK) - January-February

2017

The Politics Of The Frame - Experimental Film Masterclass - Newcastle University Fine Arts Department (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) - 3rd February

2016

BFI Film Academy - experimental film 2016 - BFI (London, UK) - 28th September - 10th December

2015

Stop Play Record - ICA/Channel 4/Chisenhale Gallery - Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK) - 31st October - 27th November

Masterclass: Moving Image for Artists - Bow Arts (London, UK) - 23rd September

The Cat On The Shoulder: Aaton LTR for Artists - no.w.here (London, UK) - 13th June