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Photo & Video History
Artist Residencies
Trongate 103 Arts Centre (Glasgow, Scotland, September-November 2009)
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow, Scotland, June-September, 2009)
Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Canada, September-October 2003)
Canada-Mexico Exchange Project (Merida, Mexico, June-July 2002)Artist Talks/Workshops
-"Gender Diversity Arts Workshop" (Scottish Transgender Alliance, Dumfries, February 2012)
-"Poetry with Music and Video: Beyond Random Multimedia", Toronto New School of Writing (Toronto, October 2011)
-"Poetry with Music and Video: Beyond Random Multimedia", Inky Fingers (Edinburgh, March 2011)
-Everyone In LGBT BME Project (Glasgow, October 2010)
Equality Network LGBT Forum on Race, Religion and Belief (Perth, February 2010)
-"Zinemaking For Young Adults" (City School, Marc Garneau High School, City Adult Learning Centre), 2005-07, Toronto
-"DIY Zinesters: Self Publishing and Publishing Made Easy" This Ain’t the Rosedale Library, Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace/Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 2005-07, TorontoArtist Groups
Sh(out) Program (GoMA) – outreach to LGBTI Disabled and Deaf community, 2009, Glasgow
b)other Deaf & Disabled artist collective – group founder and leader, 2009-present, Glasgow/EdinburghShort Films (direction, cinematography, editing)
"El Villano/The Villain" (August 2011, 10min30s)
"Trigger" (May 2011, 3min5s)
"A Sad Day" (June 2010, 50s)
"Hope Lives on the Other Side of Town" (October 2010, 2min19s)
"Here: LGBT Migrants to Edinburgh" (November 2009, 27min)
"Fingers", Alison Smith BSL Performance (November 2009, 1min50s)
"Tone" (February 2007, 2min56s)
"Slippery" (January 2007, 1min55s)Screenings (Selected)
"Slippery", November 2011, San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, San Francisco
"Slippery", November 2011, Victoria Square, SHOUT Festival, Birmingham
"Trigger", November 2011, Midlands Art Centre, SHOUT Festival, Birmingham
"Here", November 3-27 2011, The Hub, Midlands Art Centre, SHOUT Festival, Birmingham
"Fingers", November 2-27 2011, The Hub, Midlands Art Centre, SHOUT Festival, Birmingham
"El Villano/The Villain", August 2011, Wotever/RVT Hot August Fringe, London
"Slippery", July 2011, Entzaubert Queer Film Festival, Berlin
"Fingers", December 2010, Winter Warmer with a Difference, Kairos In Soho, London
"Here", October 2010, Everyone In LGBT BME Project, Glasgow
"Here", July 2010, Entzaubert Queer Film Festival, Berlin
"Slippery", June 2010, Bar Wotever, London
"Slippery", Spring 2010, featured on Matrix Magazine's New Feminisms
"Here", November 2009-February 2010, GoMA, Glasgow
"Fingers", November 2009-February 2010, GoMA, Glasgow
"Slippery", November 2009, GFest, London
Photography Shows
"A Spot of b)other", Birmingham SHOUT, Midlands Arts Centre, Nov. 3-27, 2011, Birmingham
"A Spot of b)other", Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, November 2009-February 2010, Glasgow
"Play", Pteros Gallery/Contact Photography Festival, May 2002, Toronto
"Human/Nature", insomnia, October 2000, Toronto
"Banyan", Café Bernate, June 2000, TorontoGroup Photography Shows
"Deck the Walls!", Gallery X, December 2006, Toronto
"Paint the Town Read", The Scream Festival, July 2006, Toronto
"The Nepotism Show", This Ain't The Rosedale Library, January 2006, Toronto
"Woman on Woman Sex!", Gallery X, August 2003, Toronto
"Boundaries", with Spirit Synott, Gallery 1313/Contact Photography Festival, May 2002, Toronto
"Member’s Salon", Gallery 44, September 2001, TorontoPublished Photos (Selected)
"Turn the Gaze Around" (online, with Gaye Chan, June 2006)
“Your Ontario Tax Dollars at Work” (Misunderstandings Magazine, Toronto, February 2006)
I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel cover photo (ECW Press, Toronto, April 2005)
Proof of a Tongue cover photo (McGilligan Books, Toronto, October 2004)
Testifyin’: Contemporary African Canadian Drama V II (Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto, autumn 2003)
“After Jerusalem 3” (eye Weekly, Toronto, October 2000)
“Espíritu 7” (eye Weekly, Toronto, Summer 2000)Text-Photography Collaborations
Eric Jervaise - The Other Gallery (Banff Centre, Banff)Features About My Work
The Skinny (Glasgow/Edinburgh, November 2009)
Xtra! (Toronto, Spring 2002)
Green Banana (Toronto, Spring 2001)
City TV, Sex TV (Toronto, October 2000)Awards
Exhibition Assistance grant (Lesbian & Gay Community Appeal, April 2002)
Exhibition Assistance grant (Ontario Arts Council/WARC, January 2002)
Education
Toronto School of Art (1999-2001)