Education
2020-22 – MA Writing, Royal College of Art, Pass without Corrections
2017–20 – BA Design, Goldsmiths University of London, 1st Class Hons
2016–17 – Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Banbury College
2014–16 – Chenderit Sixth Form, A levels: English Lit. (A*), Fine Art (A), History (B)
Professional Experience
2022- present – Abigail Nocon, Access Support
Support Worker for creative studio founder and writer with development and running the studio. Responsibilities include: copywriting & transcribing; concepting; support with task management; research and support with grants; support with emails & communication.
2019- present – Sticky Fingers Publishing, Co-Founder & Editor
Sticky Fingers Publishing is an intra-dependant feminist press based in London, which I run alongside Kaiya Waerea. We are a feminist, queer, disabled led publishers producing work at the intersection of design, academia, art, visual culture and performance. We share all tasks including: writing; editing; designing; production; admin.
stickyfingerspublishing.cargo.site
2023 – Goldsmiths UoL, BA Design, Associate Lecturer
2022 – Literally-no-pleasure, Matthew Richardson at Lucky, München, graphic designer
2022 – Access Consultant, Europa, RCA2022 Visual Identity
2021–22 – Bookseller, Waterstones
2021 – ARC Magazine: Proxyerotics, Art Direction
2021 – Wiped, Export Radio, 2019 – Graphic Designer Hey, Look, Something Is Happening, Goldsmiths BA Design Degree Show, Editorial & Events Commitee
2019 – Oxford Green Print, Studio Assistant
2019 – Something and Son, Studio Assistant
2019 – Warner Records UK, Art Direction Assistant
2019 – Print Club London, Exhibitions Intern
2019 – Tomorrow’s Great Pageant, Post Workers Theatre, Co-Author
2018–19 – DIY Space for London Print Collective, Facilitator
Residencies & Awards
2022 – Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Award, shortlisted (as Sticky Fingers Publishing)
2022 – Peripheral Alliances Residency at the Ammersee with Kunstverein München
2022 – Royal College of Art Writing Prize: Notes Towards a Definition for Iridescence
2021 – Another Gaze Critics Workshop, Open City Documentary Film Festival
2021 – How To Begin, Louise Olwin (online)
Talks & Workshops
2022 – It Will All End in Tears: Writing Rage with Sticky Fingers Publishing, Figs in Wigs Calm Down Dear: Camden People’s Theatre
2022 – Camberwell UAL, MA Graphic Visual Communication, visiting practitioner talk with Sticky Fingers Publishing
2021 – Work is a Verb: Zine making workshop with Sticky Fingers Publishing, ‘Bodies of Work,’ We Are Superfluous
2020 – Postmodern Rom-Com, Re-writing workshops, online
2019 – The Anti-Tour, developed with The Natural History Museum
Selected Writing
2023 – Jumbo’s Last Stand, Sticky Fingers Publishing, forthcoming
2023 – Inventory of Infinitums, in ‘Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) (c.1985) by Paul Thek’, Pilot Press
2023 – The Realest Thing There Is, PlusX, forthcoming
2022 – No Place For Our Quick Stuff, Passe Avant
2022 – Symbio.Scenes: Michelle O’Higgins and Alex Scobie at Cafe Babette, Deptford Culture Review
2022 – Food Diary, Fortified Gazette
2022 – My Mother Mitochondrion, Wild Stone: a journal with RCA Sculpture Students and Poor House Reading Rooms. Held in private and public collections including Poor House Reading Rooms, Van Gough House London, and Tate Archive
2021 – BODYMOVIEMACHINE, ARC Magazine: Proxyerotics
2021 – BOMB Retrospective: Cookie Mueller Revisited by Sticky Fingers Publishing, BOMB Magazine
2021 – Night Slugs, The Pluralist
2020 – Treatise on Mould, ‘Ending, Stopping, Closing,’ Scrawl Society
2020 – Script for a Postmodern Rom-Com, FDBNHLLLTTFGROUNDLESSNESS
Exhibitions
2022 – Peripheral Alliances, group show at Lucky, München
2022 – Moments of Clarity, solo show at Lucky, München
2022 – I’M BORED OF READING I WANT REVENGE, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Lunchtime Gallery (Glasgow)
2019 – Great Unrecorded History | Art Show, University of Birmingham Gender and Sexuality Liberation Associations, MAC Birmingham
Selected Sound
2022 – present – Sticky Fingers In Your Ears, periodical slot with Repeater Radio
2021 – Just Speak Nearby, featured partnership with Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford
2020 – Scrawl Sound, ‘Ending, Stopping Closing’ Extract from Treatise on Mould, Export Radio
Selected Publishing with Sticky Fingers
2023 – A Masturbatory Reader, foreword by Emily Pope
2022 – Pagemasters Print Fair
2022 – Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair
2022 – Memoirs of a Child Plot Hole: How to Escape Yourself Without Even Trying, by Evelyn Wh-ell
2022 – Notes on Intra-Dependant Publishing
2022 – Montez Press x Babeworld, Interjection Calendar 7 launch & performance night
2020- present – Sticky Fingers In Your Letterbox, Monthy Mail-out
2020- present – Dead Lovers, (Various authors)
2019- present – Artist Self Publishing (ASP) Fair 5-7
2019- present – FDBNHLLLTTFPublications (Various authors)
Research
feminist new materialism, poststructural feminism, pedagogy, pop culture, philosophy, embodiment, materiality, texture, eroticisms, trashiness, access, publishing histories, queer phenomenology, slits & wounds, futurity
Creative Interests
creative non-fiction, short story, cultural criticism, review, zine making, self publishing, image making, distro, radio, live voice, performance
Skills
publication design & layout, risograph printing, graphic design, copywriting, editing, reviewing, workshop facilitation, consultancy, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Zoom
References available on request
2020-22 – MA Writing, Royal College of Art, Pass without Corrections
2017–20 – BA Design, Goldsmiths University of London, 1st Class Hons
2016–17 – Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Banbury College
2014–16 – Chenderit Sixth Form, A levels: English Lit. (A*), Fine Art (A), History (B)
Professional Experience
2022- present – Abigail Nocon, Access Support
Support Worker for creative studio founder and writer with development and running the studio. Responsibilities include: copywriting & transcribing; concepting; support with task management; research and support with grants; support with emails & communication.
2019- present – Sticky Fingers Publishing, Co-Founder & Editor
Sticky Fingers Publishing is an intra-dependant feminist press based in London, which I run alongside Kaiya Waerea. We are a feminist, queer, disabled led publishers producing work at the intersection of design, academia, art, visual culture and performance. We share all tasks including: writing; editing; designing; production; admin.
stickyfingerspublishing.cargo.site
2023 – Goldsmiths UoL, BA Design, Associate Lecturer
2022 – Literally-no-pleasure, Matthew Richardson at Lucky, München, graphic designer
2022 – Access Consultant, Europa, RCA2022 Visual Identity
2021–22 – Bookseller, Waterstones
2021 – ARC Magazine: Proxyerotics, Art Direction
2021 – Wiped, Export Radio, 2019 – Graphic Designer Hey, Look, Something Is Happening, Goldsmiths BA Design Degree Show, Editorial & Events Commitee
2019 – Oxford Green Print, Studio Assistant
2019 – Something and Son, Studio Assistant
2019 – Warner Records UK, Art Direction Assistant
2019 – Print Club London, Exhibitions Intern
2019 – Tomorrow’s Great Pageant, Post Workers Theatre, Co-Author
2018–19 – DIY Space for London Print Collective, Facilitator
Residencies & Awards
2022 – Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Award, shortlisted (as Sticky Fingers Publishing)
2022 – Peripheral Alliances Residency at the Ammersee with Kunstverein München
2022 – Royal College of Art Writing Prize: Notes Towards a Definition for Iridescence
2021 – Another Gaze Critics Workshop, Open City Documentary Film Festival
2021 – How To Begin, Louise Olwin (online)
Talks & Workshops
2022 – It Will All End in Tears: Writing Rage with Sticky Fingers Publishing, Figs in Wigs Calm Down Dear: Camden People’s Theatre
2022 – Camberwell UAL, MA Graphic Visual Communication, visiting practitioner talk with Sticky Fingers Publishing
2021 – Work is a Verb: Zine making workshop with Sticky Fingers Publishing, ‘Bodies of Work,’ We Are Superfluous
2020 – Postmodern Rom-Com, Re-writing workshops, online
2019 – The Anti-Tour, developed with The Natural History Museum
Selected Writing
2023 – Jumbo’s Last Stand, Sticky Fingers Publishing, forthcoming
2023 – Inventory of Infinitums, in ‘Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) (c.1985) by Paul Thek’, Pilot Press
2023 – The Realest Thing There Is, PlusX, forthcoming
2022 – No Place For Our Quick Stuff, Passe Avant
2022 – Symbio.Scenes: Michelle O’Higgins and Alex Scobie at Cafe Babette, Deptford Culture Review
2022 – Food Diary, Fortified Gazette
2022 – My Mother Mitochondrion, Wild Stone: a journal with RCA Sculpture Students and Poor House Reading Rooms. Held in private and public collections including Poor House Reading Rooms, Van Gough House London, and Tate Archive
2021 – BODYMOVIEMACHINE, ARC Magazine: Proxyerotics
2021 – BOMB Retrospective: Cookie Mueller Revisited by Sticky Fingers Publishing, BOMB Magazine
2021 – Night Slugs, The Pluralist
2020 – Treatise on Mould, ‘Ending, Stopping, Closing,’ Scrawl Society
2020 – Script for a Postmodern Rom-Com, FDBNHLLLTTFGROUNDLESSNESS
Exhibitions
2022 – Peripheral Alliances, group show at Lucky, München
2022 – Moments of Clarity, solo show at Lucky, München
2022 – I’M BORED OF READING I WANT REVENGE, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Lunchtime Gallery (Glasgow)
2019 – Great Unrecorded History | Art Show, University of Birmingham Gender and Sexuality Liberation Associations, MAC Birmingham
Selected Sound
2022 – present – Sticky Fingers In Your Ears, periodical slot with Repeater Radio
2021 – Just Speak Nearby, featured partnership with Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford
2020 – Scrawl Sound, ‘Ending, Stopping Closing’ Extract from Treatise on Mould, Export Radio
Selected Publishing with Sticky Fingers
2023 – A Masturbatory Reader, foreword by Emily Pope
2022 – Pagemasters Print Fair
2022 – Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair
2022 – Memoirs of a Child Plot Hole: How to Escape Yourself Without Even Trying, by Evelyn Wh-ell
2022 – Notes on Intra-Dependant Publishing
2022 – Montez Press x Babeworld, Interjection Calendar 7 launch & performance night
2020- present – Sticky Fingers In Your Letterbox, Monthy Mail-out
2020- present – Dead Lovers, (Various authors)
2019- present – Artist Self Publishing (ASP) Fair 5-7
2019- present – FDBNHLLLTTFPublications (Various authors)
Research
feminist new materialism, poststructural feminism, pedagogy, pop culture, philosophy, embodiment, materiality, texture, eroticisms, trashiness, access, publishing histories, queer phenomenology, slits & wounds, futurity
Creative Interests
creative non-fiction, short story, cultural criticism, review, zine making, self publishing, image making, distro, radio, live voice, performance
Skills
publication design & layout, risograph printing, graphic design, copywriting, editing, reviewing, workshop facilitation, consultancy, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Zoom
References available on request