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COMMISSIONS & FEATURED WORKS
“Contemporary Art Space Project” / June 2021*
Commissioned by Iniva
“Vinora” / December 2020
Bursary awarded by ReFramed
“Great-ish: The gaslighting of a nation” / October 2020
Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella
“Break Bread With Me” / 30th October - 6th November 2020
Commissioned by Vivid Live TV
PUBLICATIONS
40 years on and the need to rally: De’Anne Crooks in conversation with Keith Piper / January 2021
A-n The artists information company (Black Hole Club as guest editors)
“Mayday reader” / May 2020
Black Hole Club
Representation in art education: The absence of Black art / 2018
Published by Yellow zine
LECTURES & SEMINARS
“Art house lecture series guest lecture” / 8th March 2021
University of Worcester x Meadow arts, Worcester, UK
“Anti-racism, allyship and best practice” / 15th September 2020
Birmingham women’s and children’s NHS foundation trust, Birmingham, UK
“Creative Media Entrepeneurship” / 6th January 2020
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
“More than medicine” / 22nd October 2019
Birmingham women’s and children’s NHS foundation trust, Birmingham, UK
WORKSHOPS
“Contemporary Art Space Project” / March 2021*
Iniva x RSA academies (working with Holyhead school, Handsworth), UK
“Two Truths and a Lie” / 3rd August- 6th August 2019
Centrala Space, Birmingham, UK
GROUP SHOWS
“Give birth to me tomorrow” Artists’ Moving Image Festival / 21st- 24th January 2021
LUX Scotland, UK
“PACK West Midlands art exhibition ”/ 1st May 2020
Wolverhampton, UK
“Herstory”/ 25th April 2020
BOM, Birmingham, UK
“Annual art, craft and design exhibition”/ 2017- 2020
(Curator) Mander Portman Woodward, Birmingham, UK
“Uncertaintity and the Unknown” / 5th June- 11th October 2019
Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, UK
“When we were twelve” Graphic Design Degree show/ May 2012
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
SOLO SHOWS
“Two Truths and Lie” / 23rd July- 6th August 2019
Centrala Space, Birmingham, UK
TEACHING
Art & Design lecturer/ January 2021- Present
Loughborough College, Loughborough, UK
Art & Design teacher/ September 2017- December 2020
Mander Portman Woodward, Birmingham, UK
Trainee Art teacher/ November 2016- April 2017
Halesowen College, Birmingham, UK
Art technician & teaching assistant/ April - August 2017
SEK International school, La Garriga, Spain
Art & Photography practitioner/ June 2016, June 2017
National Citizen Service, Birmingham, UK
EDUCATION
Masters in Arts and Education Practices/ September 2019- Present
Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham
PGCE PCET Art & Design/ September 2016- August 2017
Birmingham City University, Birmingham
BA (Hons) Graphic Design/ October 2009- July 2012
De Montfort University, Leicester
Foundation Degree in Art and Design/ September 2008- June 2009
Birmingham Metropolitan College, Birmingham
*pandemic related delays have affected these dates and developments