CV
COMMISSIONS & FEATURED WORKS
“Birmingham Parks” / April 2022
Bursary awarded by GRAIN projects
“Eulogies are meant to be sad” / December 2021
Commissioned by Public House
“Our words, Our world” December 2021
Commissioned by Iniva CAS project for Holyhead School
“Mother May I?” / 13th August 2021
Testing & Trying out hosted by Black Hole Club
“Most of all” / July 2021
Commissioned by Cheap Cheap Gallery
“Degas, De’Anne & Miss La La: A live desktop performance” / 5th May 2021
Commissioned by Barber Institute of Fine Art
“Vinora” / December 2020
Bursary awarded by ReFramed
“Break Bread With Me” / 30th October - 6th November 2020
Commissioned by Vivid Live TV
“Great-ish: The gaslighting of a nation” / October 2020
Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella
WORKSHOPS
“Navigating the arts ... an informal conversation session led by De’Anne Crooks” / 16th July 2022 Ort Gallery, Birmingham, UK
“Write me up: a workshop evidencing queerness through photography & poetry” / 10th July 2022
Queer Youth Art Collective, Birmingham, UK
“Amplify” / 25th June 2022
Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
“Call & Respond: artist development workshop” / 21st October 2021
Sainsbury Art Centre, Norwich, UK
“4UBU: Saturday Art Club ”/ 21st August - 9th October 2021
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
“Art students engage with A special place: IKON in the 1990’s”/ 22nd July 2021
IKON x Kind Edward VI Five Ways, Birmingham, UK
“IYP X BHC” / 18th March 2021
Black Hole Club x Ikon Youth Project collaboration, Birmingham, UK
“Contemporary Art Space Project: year 2” / 9th- 23rd June 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
LECTURES, TALKS & SEMINARS
“The role of the artist in public life” / 30th March 2022
IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
“Artist Talk” / 29th January 2022
QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK
“Artist Talk” / 8th October 2021
Birmingham City University School of Art, Birmingham, UK
“A talk for film & video students” / 16th March 2021
Birmingham City University School of Art, Birmingham, UK
“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 Entrepreneurship” / 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
RESIDENCIES
“How to do nothing”/ 23rd May - 28th May 2022
B.O.O.K, Coventry Biennial, Birmingham, UK
“A Tale or Two” / 4th October 2021 - 9th January 2022
New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
GROUP SHOWS
“Collective Processes” HOME / 13th - 22nd December 2021
In Partnership with Gucci London, UK
“Welcome to a New Earth” Black Hole Club / 3rd -11th December 2021
Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK
“The Soft Prison” Museum of the Home / 30th September - 28th November 2021
In partnership with Art angel Collection, London, UK
“In reality, these things need to be said” Backlit / 6th - 29th August 2021
Backlit, Nottingham, UK
“DOOM: Turn away from the sun” Black Hole Club / 21st - 26th June 2021
Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK
“The Travelling World Is Not Arriving” Format Festival / March 2021
Accessible online
“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
“Uncertainty 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
“Seeking” 29th January - 27th February 2022
QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK
“Two Truths and Lie” / 23rd July- 6th August 2019
Centrala Space, Birmingham, UK
TEACHING
Freelance Artist career advisor/ June 2022
Artquest One to One, London, UK
Arts & Education Practices Visiting Lecturer/ March - Present
Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
Ikon Youth Program Workshop facilitator/ July 2021- Present
IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Fine Art lecturer/ January 2021 - November 2021
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
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
EDUCATION
Masters in Arts and Education Practices/ September 2019- September 2021
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