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Projects and Exhibitions as Artist / Curator
2026
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​Factory International/Aviva Studios: UTOPIA by Trackie McLeod (curator)
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Cheshire Archives + Local Studies: Archives Artist, 'A Story Shared: 20,000 Women Zine Project' (artist)
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Northern Music Photography Spotlight: 2026 Judges Panel (judge)
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2024/25
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Factory international/Aviva Studios: Young Curators programme
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2022/23
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Bad Taste Project: Exploring Industrial Food Systems: Greenpeace UK
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Tetley Leeds x Jerwood Commissions: Past (Retrospect), Present (Reality), Future (Reform) (curator)
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Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool 'Are You Messin?': CityScape Dreams (artist)
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Iniva x Short Supply x Manchester Art Gallery: CO LAB: Embodied Healing with schools (curator/artist)
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Women of the World Festival: Care, Resilience and Democracy Activity Pack for Schools (artist)
2021:
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Liverpool Biennial, FACT Liverpool: Soft Boys (curator)
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Rule of Threes and Venus Charity: Debt Abolishment (artist and curator)
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Short Chronicles: Our Experiences of BPD (online curation)
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OUTPUT Gallery: Hilan Gully, Voices (curator)
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Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds: QTIPoC Exhibition Party (curator)
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Convenience Gallery: Aesthetics (artist and curator)
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2020:
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OUTPUT Open 4 (artist, video piece)
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2019:
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OUTPUT Gallery Liverpool: ROOT-ed Zine (curator)
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Tate Liverpool: ROOT-ed Zine: Hair, Black History and Movement (curator)
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2018:
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Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University: Catalyst: Fine Art Degree Show (artist/curator)
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Liverpool Independents Biennial, St John’s Market: ROOT-ed Zine: Black Womxn (artist/curator)
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FACT Liverpool: ROOT-ed Zine Showcase of the FACT Artist Residency (artist/curator)
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The Annual Labour Party Conference/British Museum, Liverpool: Black Flowers (photographer)
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2017: Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University: Itch (artist)
2016: Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University: Art Salad (artist/manager)
2015: Royal Liver Building, Liverpool: BTEC Final Year Showcase (artist)
2014: Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Welcome to My World (artist)
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Education​
2015-2018: Liverpool Hope University, BAHons Fine and Applied Art
Final grade: First Class with Honours
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2013-2015: Liverpool Community College, Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma, Art and Design
Final grade: Distinction* Distinction* Distinction
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Articles:
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Black Ballad: How Black Women In Liverpool Are Reclaiming Colonial Spaces
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ROOT-ed Zine: BPD Monologue
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FACT Liverpool: Artist Blog for 'You Feel Me?' Exhibition
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This Way Up Convention: Day 2 Review ​
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Workshops as an Artist (Oldest first, to Most recent)​
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Discovering Black and Asian History Through Art, Walker Art Gallery + Lady Lever Gallery, practical workshop
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Light Night, Make a Zine with ROOT-ed workshop, FACT Liverpool
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Light Night, Debate Art with ROOT-ed workshop, Tate Liverpool
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Countdown to Brexit, Press Room, Human Libraries , Bootle Library
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Moon in Venus, Venus Charity + Rule of Threes, practical and research workshop
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Glossary Review of Jade Montserrat's Insituting Care, practical workshop Humber Street Art Gallery , Hull
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Art Crits Workshops, practical and theoretical workshop, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
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How to Make a Zine? - Business Perspectives + Advice, young people's workshop, Blaze Arts
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Glossary Review of Jade Montserrat, Insituting Care, practical workshop, Bluecoat Gallery
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How to draw Architectural Landscapes: Turnpike Foundation
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Blue Monday- Kinetic drawings: Rule of Threes
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Make a zine workshop: Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
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Community and Resilience School Activity Packs: Women of the World Festival, Comics Youth - 2024
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Make a Zine Workshop - Exploring Intersectional Feminism: Chorlton Readers Festival - 2025
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Make a Zine workshop - Creating activist archival systems/Anti Racism: Warwick University - 2025
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Exploring Industrial Food Systems: Bad Taste Project, Greenpeace UK - 2025
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Talks / Lectures / Panel events
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Panels​
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Lubaina Himid UCLAN Symposium, with Dr Ingrid Pollard, Christine Eyene, Evan Ifekoya, Jade Montserrat
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Should the North Take the Knee? With Nazir Afzal, Erinma Bell, Gulwali Passarlay, Amber Akaunu for People's Powerhouse
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Act 1: Ira Alridge– Curiosity and Creative Language with Jade Montserrat, Manchester Art Gallery, INIVA Arts
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In Conversation with Michelle Williams Gamaker, Walker Art Gallery
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UP-RISE By Baff Akoto: Panel with Bolanle Taujudeen, Dr Adam Elliot Cooper, Fauziya Johnson and Leeroy Cooper
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The Watermelon Woman Panel event, Scalarama Fest, Cinema Nation, Liverpool
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Precarity within the Arts, FACT Liverpool, A-N (Artist Network)
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This Garden of Ours - Links between Botany and Power, Manchester Museum, Journeys Festival
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Iniva x Short Supply: Roundtable discussion of Can Publications be Porous?
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Lectures
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ROOT-ed Zine - How It Started, John Moores University
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Racism and Colonisation in Architecture, Edge Hill University
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Reflection on FACT Artist Residency, Liverpool Hope University
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Being a Person of Colour in the Arts and Media, Kingston University
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General talks
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ROOT-ed Zine Navigating Through Arts and Media, HYPERTEXT Fair, People's Powerhouse Convention
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How to Make a Zine? - Business Perspective, BLAZE Arts
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Black Flowers - Importence of Re-Claiming Architectural Colonised Spaces, Blackburn House
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Black Flowers - Impact of colonised architectural spaces, International Slavery Museum
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How to Diversify Work Environments and Make Radical change, Informa Markets Aviation
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Press ​
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UTOPIA by Trackie McLeod, The Guardian
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Art in Liverpool Issue 1, Guest Publication: ROOT-ed Zine
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Bido Lito September Issue 92, ROOT-ed’s Raison d'être
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BBC Radio Merseyside’s Upfront Interview of ROOT-ed Zine
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Catalyst Fine Art students in conversation with: ROOT-ed Zine, Thomas Dukes (Open Eye Gallery) and Jay Wheeler (Artist). MAKE, Liverpool
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Tate Liverpool: LightNight 2018: ROOT-ed Debate
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Liverpool Hope University: New Magazine Published by Fine Art Students
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The Guardian: Lubaina Himid – ROOT-ed Zine (BLM Print)
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Liverpool Echo: ROOT-ed Zine in collaboration with Homotopia Zine to collaborate with UK's leading LGBTQIA+ festival
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More freelance work:
Judge for Northern Music Photography Spotlight, 2026
​Selector for Creative Debut's Black Artist Grant
Funding Panel for Art in Liverpool Independents Biennial x Metal Liverpool Artist Residencies
Trustee for Broken Grey Wires (2025-now)​
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