South London
Education:
First Class Honours 2021 in BA Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of Arts (UAL), A+ for Dissertation on ‘Limehouse Cut, Limehouse Reach: Slip and Crack - Falling as Alternative Resistance’
City and Guilds of London Art School, UAL Awarding Body, Level 4 Diploma in Art and Design: Distinction
Awards:
London Performance Studios, Seeding Space, July 2024 (week long residency, mentoring and bursary)
Vanguard Court Studio Residency Prize, October 2023-2024 - a free, private, enclosed studio space for one year, access to Camberwell workshops and a solo show at Camberwell Space in January 2025
City and Guilds of London Art School Outstanding 2D Fine Art Student, 2018
Training and workshops (selected):
Words Collect in My Mouth - Early Career Producer Course with Yewande 103, 2023
I was selected for this course from an open call. Yewande 103 is a Black, disabled, survivor-led organisation. This course was led by Nancy Roberts of Yewande 103 this series has emphasised dance production across creative industry contexts with an attention to the ethics of production and access-led practice. We focussed on 4 main areas: The Exchange of Trust and Material Care; Movement, Intimacy and Dance on Screen; Staying with the Unknown; and Practice Based Repair and Belonging.
Next Choreography with Siobhan Davies Dance, 2022
I was selected through an open call to join the 2022 cohort of Next Choreography at Siobhan Davies Studios. Next Choreography is a 3 month training program for people with and without dance experience to experiment with choreography and dance. This course investigates choreography from many perspectives: from performance, visual and sound design to hybrid practices that bring dance into dialogue with activism, technology, architecture and more.
Puppetry Foundation at the Little Angel Theatre, 2022
I attended a 10 week Puppetry Foundation course at the infamous Little Angel Theatre. I learnt the fundamentals of making and handling puppets as well as many performance techniques.
Embodied storytelling, Balinese masks and Lecoq with arthouse.berlin, July 2022
London Clown School with Jon Davison
I regularly attend workshops and classes with the expert clown Jon Davison.
Butoh workshops with Butoh Expert Marie Gabrielle-Rotie
6 x 2 hour reading group sessions with artist Andrew Hart, discussing and performing the texts of Fred Moten focussing on improvisation, language structure and sound making
Community Organising training workshop with Citizens UK on ‘how to organise communities to act together for power, social justice and the common good’, January 2020
Selected exhibitions and performances, projects and curations:
Upcoming:
The House, live performance, September 2024 (curator and performer) - a dilapidated Victorian house where eeach room contains a live activation
(title tbc), Camberwell Space, January-March 2025 - my first institutional solo show
Past:
What can you say? It's Family, outhouse gallery, May 2024
A solo exhibition of 13 of my paintings and drawings
The Shoe Museum, outhouse gallery, July 2024
An exhibition of over 100 artefacts from 70 contributors all things shoe
MONSTRA, The Horse Hospital, April 2024
duo performance written and performed by me and Theodora Laird (feeo) exploring FEAR
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Don't Get Sonk, Avalon Cafe, October 2023
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experimental music performance between two scientist characters
SEVEN STAR
The family behind Seven Star dry cleaners are moving on to new ventures. We have made a film archiving the interior, processes and choreography of the dry cleaners.
Ashley’s Fit Up
In this collaborative project I make puppetry that is then collectively scored to music. I write, make puppets, direct and perform in these works. To date we have written 3 full length works with another commission in the making for 15th July
Ashley’s Fit Up: FINGER
Performed at a night I curated at the Horse Hospital, 28th June 2022
Ashley’s Fit Up: HEIST
Performed at St John’s Church, Waterloo, 24th September 2022
Ashley’s Fit Up: MOTH
Performed at SET Woolwich, 29th April 2023
Ashley’s Fit Up: RUN
A commission from Waterloo Festival on 15th July 2023
Fireworks II with Jack Dove at Ormside Projects
This was a very large scale fireworks display where we made musical instruments that were activated by the light from the fireworks. With lines of fuse tape in rows like sheet music I added firework pieces with sellotape onto the fuse like musical notation - we then used light sensitive oscillators so when each firework goes off the instrument vibrates causing a sound.
Life drawing with live music
I teach and devise life drawing with live music sessions as commissions from Eade Studios, N4. The most recent session took the 4 characters from the myth of Persephone as we move from winter to spring. The model was costumed in 4 different ways and the exercises reflected the themes within the story.
Drawing and Movement workshop with BA Drawing
I was invited by Renee Odjidja to devise and deliver a drawing with movement session with 3 others for First Year drawing students.
MA Crits
I was partnered with MA students for the MA Third Year crits in advance of their degree show
Bargehouse Crits
I was invited to take part in the crits at Bargehouse for Painting students across years.
Student-Led Crits
As part of my GSA role we suggested we organised student-led crits.
Bullfight in the Bathroom, Rose Lipman Building
A performance with poet Annie Hayter in the Rose Lipman Building toilets using the flush and taps as sound effects
Come Hell or High Water, Limehouse, November 2020 (collaborative performance work with Anne Bean)
Foldable Sounds 3, online, July 2020
Brasted Close Garages Community Project, 28th-31st March 2020 - rescheduled due to Covid
A group of us worked with the local residents of these disused garages in Sydenham to create an event.
Free Yard, Notting Hill Gate, September 1st 2019
A group show with Joe Tebbutt and Robin Pickering creating and curating site specific works for a 7 room domestic space each. This included an 8 week informal residency in the space prior to the show.
10 x performances of WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE
I was the environment creator (set, sound, props, costume, lighting)
Performer as ‘art handler’ for Sarah Kate Wilson and Rose Davey’s ‘Show Off’, 2020 https://www.leandakatelouise.com/filter/showoff
Stage assistant at London Choral Music Festival, Musarc + Sam Belinfante’s event, Ambika P3, 7 December 2019
https://lcmf.co.uk/7-December-Musarc-The-Orrery
Set and costume design for Eat Your Heart Out, 2018, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Awarded 4*)