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EDUCATION
2011 - 2013 MA Communication in Art and Design, Royal College of Art (RCA), London, UK
2008 - 2011 BA (Hons) Illustration - University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK
2008 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design - Kensington and Chelsea College, London, UK
2003 - 2006 Diploma in Dental Technology - Medical College, Wroclaw, Poland
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dreamscapes, Hypha Studios Gallery, London, UK
2024 Homage to the Departed, McGregor Museum, Kimberley, SA
2024 Homage to the Departed, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, US
2024 The Nobodies, University of Antwerp, Belgium
2024 Embodied, The Corridor Gallery John Radcliffe Hospital, UK
2024 Embodied, The Richard Doll Atrium, Old Road Campus, UK
2023 Perfect Imperfections, The Stables, London, UK
2023 Embodied - Behavioural and Cultural Insights Exhibition, the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health collaboration with the World Health Organisation, UK
2023 UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Forum, University of Exeter, UK
2023 Positive Lights Projects, Sidwell St, Exeter, UK
2023 Psychological Landscapes: Journey Within, Somers Gallery, London, UK /solo show/
Performing Guests artists: Improvised Performance by James Oldham and Martin Tomlinson at Somers Gallery
2023 Proposition Gallery Camden, London, UK
2023 Betwixt and Between ‘Culture’ and ‘Nature’, Barclays Headquarters, London, UK
2023 Spring Show, AKA contemporary, Cambridge, UK
2022 Beyond the Body: a portrait of autopsy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2022 Oxford Global Health and Bioethics, International Conference, Keble College, University of Oxford, UK
2022 London Lighthouse Gallery - 2022 Spring Exhibition, London, UK
2022 Pathology Learning Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa /solo show/
2022 Duggan-Cronin Gallery, McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa /solo show/
2022 Diagnosing loss, CAS Gallery, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2022 Drawing Open, No format Gallery, London, UK
2022 ‘Mind - be here, present / be here now’ Kingshill House, Dursley, UK
2021/2022 'Chopin. The Power of a Sign ' Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw, Poland
2021 The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London, UK
2020 TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, online exhibition
2020-2021 Beyond the Body: a portrait of autopsy, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium /solo show/
2019 Beyond the Body: a portrait of autopsy, Wellcome Center for Ethics and Humanities,
Oxford University, Oxford, UK /solo show/
2016 Portrait of Fryderyk Chopin, Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw, Poland
2016 Gold Museum, ‘Looking for LOHAS Talents’, New Taipei, Taiwan
2015 ‘The moon is beautiful’, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan /solo show/
2014 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2014 Kunstnarhuset Messen (Arthouse Messen), Ålvik, Norway
2013 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2013 'Folklore of the teeth', Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, UK
2013 ‘HUNTER GATHERER’, Hockney Gallery, RCA London, UK
2013 John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Competition, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2013 Work in progress, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2012 Re - Solutions, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
2012 'I DO', The Honk Kong Polytechnic University, HK
2012 ‘Illustration. Literature. Design’, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2012 John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Competition, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2012 ‘Visual Editor - Interruption’, Hockney Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2011’ Images 34 & 35 ‘UK tour: The Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2011-2012 (AOI), UK
2011 OVO - Camberwell Illustration Show, Red Gallery, London, UK
2010 Illustration Show, The Russian Club Studios, London, UK
2009 Book art bookshop, London, UK
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS
2025 BEYOND PHYSICAL FORM - Art, Ethics, and Human Remains in Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford - Co-organiser of the symposium, speaker : Death from the Mind’s Eye
2025 Between Magic And Realism: Human Remains In The Museum Collection, Workshop Leader, University of KwaZulu-Natal and the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2025 Death from the Mind’s Eye , speaker, University of KwaZulu-Natal and the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2023 ‘Ethics of displaying human remains in museums’, I led a participatory art based public engagement programme with five young artists from Kimberley, South Africa in a collaboration with University of Oxford, Sol Plaatje University, and the McGregor Museum in Kimberley.
2022 ‘Bodies in movement’ – I led an arts-based workshop with a group of 30 young people in collaboration with the Mayibuye Dance Academy in Kimberley, South Africa and the University of Oxford. The creative output of this workshop, a large-scale collage ‘Kimberley Mandala’ is on display at the McGregor Museum in Kimberley.
RESIDENCIES
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Gold Museum, ‘Looking for LOHAS Talents’, New Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Soulangh Artist Village, Tainan, Taiwan
2014 Artist-in-Residence Kunstnarhuset Messen (Arthouse Messen), Norway
2012 I DO 2012 - Ageing in the City, School of Design, Hong Kong
(The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, London)
AWARDS
2023 Behavioural and Cultural Insights Exhibition Award, the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (WCCEH)’/ the World Health Organisation (WHO)
2023 Oxford University Reward in recognition of art exhibitions and associated public engagement events
2014 ART BOOKS WANTED, International Award 2014 / Shortlisted/, France
2013 Sheila Robinson Memorial Prize for the most outstanding use of drawing, RCA, London, UK
2013 John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Award, First Prize, RCA, London, UK
2014 & 2013 & 2012 TATE Christmas cards competition, London, UK
2012 John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Award, highly recommended, RCA, London, UK
2011 & 2012’ Images 34 & 35 ‘UK tour: The Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2011-2012 (AOI), UK
2011 & 2012 Broncel Trust, Scholarship, London, UK
COMMISSIONS
2024 Illustration for the book cover of ‘The Politics of Unpaid Labour’, Oxford University Press
Illustrations for the academic publications:
2023 ‘"The Nobodies": unidentified dead bodies-a global health crisis requiring urgent attention, Lancet Global Health
2023 'Navigating uncertainties of death: Minimally Invasive Autopsy Technology in global health’, Global Public Health
2022 'The invisible body work of ‘last responders’ – ethical and social issues faced by the pathologists in the Global South, Global Public Health
2021 'Unmuting Conversations on Fakes in African Spaces', Journal of African Cultural Studies2021 'Ethical and sociocultural challenges in managing dead bodies during epidemics and natural disasters', BMJ Global Health
2014 & 2013 & 2012 TATE Christmas cards, London, UK
2011 - 2013 MA Communication in Art and Design, Royal College of Art (RCA), London, UK
2008 - 2011 BA (Hons) Illustration - University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK
2008 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design - Kensington and Chelsea College, London, UK
2003 - 2006 Diploma in Dental Technology - Medical College, Wroclaw, Poland
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Art · Ethics · Mortality, Hiroshima University, Japan
2026 The Anatomy Between. Art Medicine Ethics,
Nagasaki University Library, Japan
2025 Art Science and the Deceased Body: Towards a Duty of Care, KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2025 CHIMERAS. Visions of Contemporary Surrealism, XYZ Gallery, London, UK2024 Dreamscapes, Hypha Studios Gallery, London, UK
2024 Homage to the Departed, McGregor Museum, Kimberley, SA
2024 Homage to the Departed, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, US
2024 The Nobodies, University of Antwerp, Belgium
2024 Embodied, The Corridor Gallery John Radcliffe Hospital, UK
2024 Embodied, The Richard Doll Atrium, Old Road Campus, UK
2023 Perfect Imperfections, The Stables, London, UK
2023 Embodied - Behavioural and Cultural Insights Exhibition, the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health collaboration with the World Health Organisation, UK
2023 UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Forum, University of Exeter, UK
2023 Positive Lights Projects, Sidwell St, Exeter, UK
2023 Psychological Landscapes: Journey Within, Somers Gallery, London, UK /solo show/
Performing Guests artists: Improvised Performance by James Oldham and Martin Tomlinson at Somers Gallery
2023 Proposition Gallery Camden, London, UK
2023 Betwixt and Between ‘Culture’ and ‘Nature’, Barclays Headquarters, London, UK
2023 Spring Show, AKA contemporary, Cambridge, UK
2022 Beyond the Body: a portrait of autopsy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2022 Oxford Global Health and Bioethics, International Conference, Keble College, University of Oxford, UK
2022 London Lighthouse Gallery - 2022 Spring Exhibition, London, UK
2022 Pathology Learning Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa /solo show/
2022 Duggan-Cronin Gallery, McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa /solo show/
2022 Diagnosing loss, CAS Gallery, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2022 Drawing Open, No format Gallery, London, UK
2022 ‘Mind - be here, present / be here now’ Kingshill House, Dursley, UK
2021/2022 'Chopin. The Power of a Sign ' Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw, Poland
2021 The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London, UK
2020 TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, online exhibition
2020-2021 Beyond the Body: a portrait of autopsy, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium /solo show/
2019 Beyond the Body: a portrait of autopsy, Wellcome Center for Ethics and Humanities,
Oxford University, Oxford, UK /solo show/
2016 Portrait of Fryderyk Chopin, Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw, Poland
2016 Gold Museum, ‘Looking for LOHAS Talents’, New Taipei, Taiwan
2015 ‘The moon is beautiful’, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan /solo show/
2014 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2014 Kunstnarhuset Messen (Arthouse Messen), Ålvik, Norway
2013 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2013 'Folklore of the teeth', Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, UK
2013 ‘HUNTER GATHERER’, Hockney Gallery, RCA London, UK
2013 John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Competition, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2013 Work in progress, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2012 Re - Solutions, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
2012 'I DO', The Honk Kong Polytechnic University, HK
2012 ‘Illustration. Literature. Design’, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2012 John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Competition, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2012 ‘Visual Editor - Interruption’, Hockney Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2011’ Images 34 & 35 ‘UK tour: The Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2011-2012 (AOI), UK
2011 OVO - Camberwell Illustration Show, Red Gallery, London, UK
2010 Illustration Show, The Russian Club Studios, London, UK
2009 Book art bookshop, London, UK
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS
2025 BEYOND PHYSICAL FORM - Art, Ethics, and Human Remains in Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford - Co-organiser of the symposium, speaker : Death from the Mind’s Eye
2025 Between Magic And Realism: Human Remains In The Museum Collection, Workshop Leader, University of KwaZulu-Natal and the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2025 Death from the Mind’s Eye , speaker, University of KwaZulu-Natal and the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2023 ‘Ethics of displaying human remains in museums’, I led a participatory art based public engagement programme with five young artists from Kimberley, South Africa in a collaboration with University of Oxford, Sol Plaatje University, and the McGregor Museum in Kimberley.
2022 ‘Bodies in movement’ – I led an arts-based workshop with a group of 30 young people in collaboration with the Mayibuye Dance Academy in Kimberley, South Africa and the University of Oxford. The creative output of this workshop, a large-scale collage ‘Kimberley Mandala’ is on display at the McGregor Museum in Kimberley.
RESIDENCIES
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Gold Museum, ‘Looking for LOHAS Talents’, New Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Soulangh Artist Village, Tainan, Taiwan
2014 Artist-in-Residence Kunstnarhuset Messen (Arthouse Messen), Norway
2012 I DO 2012 - Ageing in the City, School of Design, Hong Kong
(The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, London)
AWARDS
2023 Behavioural and Cultural Insights Exhibition Award, the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (WCCEH)’/ the World Health Organisation (WHO)
2023 Oxford University Reward in recognition of art exhibitions and associated public engagement events
2014 ART BOOKS WANTED, International Award 2014 / Shortlisted/, France
2013 Sheila Robinson Memorial Prize for the most outstanding use of drawing, RCA, London, UK
2013 John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Award, First Prize, RCA, London, UK
2014 & 2013 & 2012 TATE Christmas cards competition, London, UK
2012 John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Award, highly recommended, RCA, London, UK
2011 & 2012’ Images 34 & 35 ‘UK tour: The Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2011-2012 (AOI), UK
2011 & 2012 Broncel Trust, Scholarship, London, UK
COMMISSIONS
2024 Illustration for the book cover of ‘The Politics of Unpaid Labour’, Oxford University Press
Illustrations for the academic publications:
2023 ‘"The Nobodies": unidentified dead bodies-a global health crisis requiring urgent attention, Lancet Global Health
2023 'Navigating uncertainties of death: Minimally Invasive Autopsy Technology in global health’, Global Public Health
2022 'The invisible body work of ‘last responders’ – ethical and social issues faced by the pathologists in the Global South, Global Public Health
2021 'Unmuting Conversations on Fakes in African Spaces', Journal of African Cultural Studies2021 'Ethical and sociocultural challenges in managing dead bodies during epidemics and natural disasters', BMJ Global Health
2014 & 2013 & 2012 TATE Christmas cards, London, UK