CV: Experience

ARTIST RESIDENCY
Genesis Project, Los Angeles, California USA, August 2008
A month-long residency exploring body-based practice with 5 other artists, continuing Liz's work with skin, sculpture and private acts of transformation. As part of this residency, Liz participated in workshops with Simone Forti, Hana van der Kolk, Joel Kayak and d. Sabela Grimes.

AWARDS
Winner, British Women Artists 2010, for her work Spun/Shed

The London Paper Self Portrait Award with The Affordable Art Fair
March 2008

EXHIBITIONS
Group Show, Havelock Walk Open Studios, South London
July 2010

Group Show, Havelock Walk Open Studios, South London
May 2010

Solo Exhibition, Blackheath Halls, South London
May - June 2010

Group Show, Siobhan Davies Studios and Independent Dance
April 2009
Liz participated in 'What NOW', a weekend of installation, performance work and exhibitions located around the RIBA award winning building for a new generation of dance artists working with movement and the body.

Solo Exhibition, Camden People’s Theatre
October 2008

Solo Exhibition, APT Gallery, Creekside, London
May and June 2008

Group Show, The Gallery, Stoke Newington, London
‘X’ – an exhibition of 7 Contemporary Female Artists
May 2008

Group Show, Albany Theatre, Deptford, South London
October 2007
'Night to Remember'at the Albany Theatre, an evening of work by other performance artists based in Deptford.

COLLABORATIONS
Athina Valha, Dance Artist in Residence at Science Museum
Liz contributed to the creative development of a new work by Athina Vahla in response to The Listening Post at the Science Museum in Sept 2008.

Cameron McNee, photographer
An intimate photographic collaboration documenting skin and scars. April - September 2007

LECTURING
LABAN, London
Personal supervisor for final year Masters level student working with skin and photography,
MA Body in Performance Final Project: Feb – Oct 2008

Chester University
Visiting Lecturer for 3rd Year BA Undergraduates in Dance, Photography and Fine Art
Module: Dance in Discourse, October 2008

LABAN, London
Visiting Lecturer for Masters Level students in Performance Studies, Choreography, Dance Science, The Body in Performance. Module: Practice as Research, Sept and November 2008

Birkbeck, University of London
Guest Artist for Diploma in Performance Studies: Dance, a one-year intensive dance programme
Module: Choreography - Sourcing artists working with Self-Portraiture

EDUCATION
2005 to 2007
LABAN, London
Masters (Distinction) in European Dance Theatre Practice
-Dancer, ‘She’s Unfaithful’ 2006 choreographed by Alison D’Amato
-Dancer, choreographer for ‘Portals’ 2007, a collaboration with composition students from Trinity College
of Music, London
-Choreographer, Dancer, designer for ‘Post-script’ 2007, a collaboration with Kelly Bond, Bonnie Bird
Theatre, LABAN
-Workshops with Simon Vincenzi, Kira O’Reilly, Theo Cowley
-Photography installation in three spaces at Laban, London, Oct 2007
-Final year 13,000 word dissertation Skin: Transformation Through Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour.

2002 - 2004 Birkbeck College, University of London
Diploma in Performance Studies: Dance (2004)
Foundation in Performance Studies: Dance (2003)
‘Body, Space, Time and Intent,’ Short Course: 2002
‘Choreology for Dancers and Teachers,’ Short Course: 2003
‘Connecting Choreography and Choreology,’ Short Course: 2004

1995 - 1998 Royal Holloway, University of London
BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre Studies, 2.1
-Specialist modules in Body as a Medium of Expression, Theatre of the Absurd, Noh Theatre and
Contemporary British Drama