Born 1981, UK,
Studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Chris works across art, writing, curating and activism.  He frequently works collaboratively or as part of a collective and is a founder member of Ernest and frequent contributor to the UfSO.  He is interested in infiltrating non-art specific spaces in order to construct potential unexpected relationships between work, participants and location.  He works conceptually through installation, live intervention, sound and language and is interested in ideas of collectivity, relational space, 'post-audience' performativity and the liminal.

Selected exhibitions/projects [* solo]:

2011:

Cacophony - Gestalt Listening, The Apiary, London /
Towards an (under)common(s) statement for collective study, Tent City University(with UfSO)/
Performing Gravity (talk and drift) Eb & Flow Gallery, London /
(g)host City, Edinburgh Fringe Festival /
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Manchester International Festival Fringe (with DériveLab) /
Skin Ego, Bucharest (with DériveLab) /
The Art School in the Art School, Hunter College Gallery, New York (with UfSO)/
If Not, Then What?, Chelsea Gallery, London (with UfSO)/
It's Your Write, V&A Museum of Childhood, London (performance) (with UfSO)/
Precarity: A Participatory People's Tribunal (with The Precarious Workers Brigade, performance/event) ICA, London /
Collective Futures, (intervention/event) Goldsmiths, London /
AMASS: Towards an Economy of the Commons, (intervention/event) Chisenhale Gallery, London. (with UfSO)

2010:
Winterstory at Jeune Creation, Centquatre, Paris /
KODRA 10 arts festival, Thessaloniki /
OT301 Arts Centre, Amsterdam /
L'Usine de Belleville, Paris /
DériveLab: Project 2, Centre for Creative Collaboration, London /
Heterotopia Provocation (inc. DériveLab:Project 1), Stamford Works, London /
Lecture Hall, Free School, Bethnal Green Library, London (with Sandra Erbacher).

2009:
Wetsounds, touring sound installation, swimming pools across the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland /
MECA, Malvern /
Static3, Hereford Photography Festival /
Catalyst, Museum of Modern Art Wales /
FilmHouse, National Screen and Sound Archives of Wales /

2008:
FRED, site-specific installation in rural Cumbria/
Tros Gynnal, Swansea Museum & Art Gallery /
H.Art, Hereford Museum & Art Gallery /
The Courtyard Arts Centre, Hereford /
* Solihull Arts Complex.

2007:
* Legendary Landmarks, Arts Council of Wales funded project involving the installation of a network of ten site specific environmental installations across Wales.

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Other:
He has worked in collaboration with various locations and organisations to produce site specific works, including: Forestry Commission, Welsh Water, Countryside Council for Wales, Arts Council, Herefordshire Council, Pentir Pumlumon, Collective Futures Symposium (Goldsmiths College), Nozstock Festival, Kindle Centre, Carmarthenshire Council, Elan Valley Trust, Hafod Estate Trust, Meirion Mill, New Cross Library, Bethnal Green Library and others.  He was shortlisted for the Sir Leslie Joseph Young Artist of the Year Award in 2009.

Written for: Mute, Dude, Rubric, Art Lies, Art Cornwall, AN, Goldsmiths Gallery, Free School, Worcester Museum & Art Gallery, Nutopia, Culture Colony, Popshot, From Here to There (Princeton Architectural Press).

He administered the production & launch of the South London Art Map, in conjunction with Bearspace, Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Peckham Space + around 100 galleries & studios in S. London.  Co-curated DériveLab ongoing exhibition project, co-curated The Assistant exhibition (with Kate Pickering), Bearspace London.  He has also worked with Peer Sessions, the London Art Fair, Admiration Theatre, The Gallery - Goldsmiths, Waterside Project Space, Paradise Green at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.