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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