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2022 Clwstwr research grants working with Rhiannon Lowe
Using Unreal Engine to make an Aomame.Space called Doing Time featuring Godfried Donkor; Sluice; QUAD; Chapter; Yetu Gallery, Nástio Mosquito; Mark Blazel; D-Unit; The Aprognostic Temple; Marko Mäettamm; Sissy Boy Tears; Mastertronic; The Lovely Phoenix; Drunken Miss Orderly; Paper Gallery; SHIFT; Elisabetta Antonucci; Andre de Jong and Stuart Bowditch.
2022 collaboration with Elisabeth Efua Sutherland and Paa Joe published in African Artists 1882-Now, Phaidon Press, 2021
2021 Supercharger — blown collective & Nástio Mosquito, Batotastas, Influence movie, Spielart Munich
2020 Arts Council Wales support for the project Easy Asylum Booth ‘Bundu Edition’;
2020 Freelance art consultant for Axisweb and University of Wales Trinity St David
2019, Rituals of Becoming, project collaboration, publication and exhibition, crazinisT artisT (Va-Bene Elikem K. Fiatsi) in collaboration with Ric Bower, Front/Back, Accra, Ghana
2019, The Reverse-Panopticon, a brief introduction to AEI (Aesthetically Enhanced Interrogation); Ric Bower, Nástio Mosquito & Kelly Schacht, with special guests: Tom Clulee, Rhiannon Lowe & Steve Chivalry; ArcadeCampfa, Cardiff
2018, Rituals of Becoming, project collaboration, publication and exhibition, crazinisT artisT (Va-Bene Elikem K. Fiatsi) in collaboration with Ric Bower, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana
2018, 8+1, as part of Foto-Szene Festival, group exhibition, Paul Avis and Ric Bower, Cologne, Germany, A Troll’s Breakfast
2018, In Vodka Veritas, conversation and publication, including James Beckett, Marco Montiel-Soto, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Taus Makhacheva, Teemu Korpela, Petri Saarikko and Sasha Huber, curated by Katerina Gregos, RIBOCA1, Riga Biennial 2018, CCQ Magazine
2018, Akɛ yaaa heko || One does not take it anywhere, project collaboration and publication, Elisabeth Efua Sutherland and Ric Bower, CCQ Magazine and Gallery 1957, Accra Ghana
2018, Catherine my Captain, project collaboration and publication, Megan Broadmeadow, Emily Watkins, Ric Bower; and CCQ magazine, CCQ Magazine
2017, The Shype of Foles (of the Worlde)® project collaboration, performance and publication, Kelly Schacht and Ric Bower, in conjunction with The Raft - Art is (not) Lonely, curated by Jan Fabre and Joanna De Vos at Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium
2017, Summer of Love, conversation and publication, including Johan Grimonprez, Katerina Gregos, Mikhail Karikis, Marge Monko, Uriel Orlow and Marko Mäetamm, Schwarz Foundation, Samos, CCQ Magazine
2017, All Trolled Out, project collaboration and publication, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Ric Bower, Paul Avis and CCQ; CCQ magazine
2017, Sleeping Pill Action II, Venice, project collaboration and publication, Jan Fabre and Ric Bower, CCQ Magazine
2016, Another Leader / Transitory Suppository: Act #I Security Research, project collaboration and publication, Nástio Mosquito and Ric Bower with CCQ Magazine and Another Africa, commissioned by Emdash Foundation
2016, Bowers & Bower Audio Visual Systems, project collaboration and exhibition, Richard Bowers and Ric Bower, Arcade Space, Cardiff
2016, Opening Up, conversation and publication, including Katerina Gregos, Artists Club Coffre Fort, Nathalie Hartje, James Becket, Maryam Jafri, Olive Martin & Patrick Bernier, Art Brussels Projects, CCQ Magazine
2013-2018, Co-Editor and co-founder of CCQ Magazine
2011, Portraits of Presiding Officers Rosemary Butler and Lord Dafydd Ellis Thomas, The Senedd, commissioned by Welsh Assembly Government
2010, group exhibition, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, As I Walked Out
2009, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, group exhibition, Blingers
2008-2013, Founder and Editor of Blown magazine
2008, Arts Council of Wales publishing grant
2008-2012, Commissioning panel for National Photographic Portrait Commission with Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales and National Portrait Gallery, London
2007, Arts Council of Wales research grant
2007, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, group exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, Portrait of Sarah Waters
2006, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, group show, Prayer
2005, Schweppes Photographic Portrait Award, finalist, group exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, Prayer
2005, Winner of AXA Photographic Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, London and Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales
2005, Canon Fashion Portrait Award, shortlisted
2000, Art West, award, group exhibition,Self-Portrait, (oil on board)
Education
2017. Post-Graduate Certificate in Research Studies, Cardiff Metropolitan University
2005, 1st Class Honours degree in Photography, West Wales School of the Arts
1991, Degree in Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University