EXHIBITIONS
2025
Art on a Postcard, curated by Lauren Estelle Jones, London.
2024
Sex Magic: Ithell Colquhoun’s Diagrams of Love, group show, Arusha Gallery and Tate Publishing.
Selected by Artsted as one of 99 Future Blue-Chip Artists of 2024.
2023
Darkness Visible, Communitism, led by Ron Athey, Athens, Greece.
2022
The Horror Show, curated by Iain and Jane Pollard & Claire Catterall, Somerset House, London.
Selected as a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
Kunst and Friends, group show, Gallery 46, Whitechapel, London.
Contemporary Istanbul, group presentation by Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul.
2021
The Game of Life, solo show curated by James Putman, The Sinistry, Canal Place, London.
UCL MAL Multimedia Encounters, conference and online show of Mapping the Invisible: Sensoring Sound (work in progress).
Shamanism, group show curated by James Putman, Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Milan.
2020
What Does She Bring With Her?, group show curated by Tania Yesibahar Azaryard, Omer Tiroche Gallery, Israel.
2019
Sensoring: Sky Portals, Limassol, Cyprus.
Cross-cultural residency in the Amazon jungle working with Shipibo, supported by the Peruvian Embassy and Arts Council.
DYCP Arts Council Grant.
2018
Did You Eat Yoko Ono?, studio show, Seven Sisters, London.
Bert Gilbert, Izzet Ers, Sarah Derat, Rachel McRae.
2017
LCN Showcase, Space Studios, Hackney, London.
The Center Cannot Hold, Istanbul, Turkey. Group show curated by Suzanne Ergeran. Featuring artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Crowner, Jason Martin, Gunes Terkol, Bert Gilbert & Izzet Ers, Hayv Kahraman, Ali Emir Tapan, and Roni Horn.
2016
Directional Forces, Bedburg-Hau, Germany, sponsored by UEL and Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust.
Directional Forces, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, sponsored by UEL and Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust.
Symposium @ UEL, London.
Dot to Dot, London.
2015
Post-sexual, Fringe Festival, Mill Co. Project, London.
Mad Agency, La Sira, Asnières-sur-Seine, Paris.
2014
10 x 10, Article 25, The Shard, London.
BT Artbox, Covent Garden, London.
2012
Faces and Traces, 286 Gallery, Earl’s Court, London.
Installation in the Air, Spitalfields, London.
Glitterbug, Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc, Hackney, London. Group show featuring Gavin Turk, Rachel Whiteread, and Sir Peter Blake.
2010
Beasts Royale, House of Fairy Tales, Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc, Hackney, London. Group show featuring Gavin Turk, Rachel Whiteread, and Sir Peter Blake.
God Spank the Queen, solo show, Brick Lane, London.
2009
The Horn of Plenty, House of Fairy Tales, Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc, Hackney, London. Group show featuring Gavin Turk, Rachel Whiteread, and Sir Peter Blake.
Exquisite Trove, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, and Millennium Gallery, St Ives.
Art Against Knives, Shoreditch Town Hall, London.
Tales from the Seaside, group show, London.
2008
The Full English, Jealous Gallery, Crouch End, London. Group show featuring Banksy, Hirst, D*Face, Gary Hume, James Flames, and Nick Walker.
Outside In, group show, London.
2006
The Evil Children, solo show, Bigger Picture Gallery, Soho, London.
Window Installations, Tardis Studios, London. Sponsored by the David Bowie Foundation.
2004
The Fundamental Truth, The Foundry, Old Street, London.
Twisted Thoughts, Canvas, King’s Cross, London.
Afar, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dead or a Laugh at Best, solo show, Clerkenwell, London.
2003
Rock and Roll Suicides, Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton, London.
Perverted Science: The Future Starts Here, London. Featuring Kim Jones, Andrew Rae, and The Peepshow Collective.
Future Systems, The Lethaby Gallery, Southampton Row, London.
Bert Industries, solo show, Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, London.
Launch of Bert Industries, solo show, Studio 5a Gallery, London.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2025
The Undoing, residency at Saavla, Latvia.
Constructing Phenomena by Future Ritual with Ron Athey and Michelle Occelli.
2023
Immersive Performance Workshop, Darkness Visible, led by Ron Athey, Athens, Greece.
2022
Selected to become a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
2021
Cross-cultural residency by La Wayaka working with the Indigenous community Likan Antai, Atacama Desert, Chile.
2020
Arts Council Covid Grant.
Freelands Foundation Project Grant.
Haringey Discretionary Grant.
2019
Cross-cultural residency in the Amazon jungle working with Shipibo, supported by the Peruvian Embassy and Arts Council.
DYCP Arts Council Grant.
2018
Shortlisted for Solo Award.
Shortlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize.
Shortlisted for Charlie Anthology.
2017
Shortlisted for Charlie Anthology.
Shortlisted for Ashurst Emerging Art Prize.
Art residency, London Creative Network Programme @ Space Studios, Hackney.
2016
Art residency, Directional Forces at Trinity Buoy Wharf, sponsored by UEL & Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust.
Art residency, Directional Forces at Artoll Bedburg-Hau, Germany, sponsored by UEL.
2015
Art residency, Mad Agency, La Sira, Asnières-sur-Seine, Paris.
2013
Best Innovation @ Erotic Awards for the Bottom Blushers.
PERFORMANCE AND LIVE ART
202
Costumes of Sound, Iklectiv, London
2023
The Maiden, Darkness Visible, Athens, Greece.
2018
Furka: Black Rite, Space Studios, Hackney.
Furka: Rite I, Gallery 46, Whitechapel.
2015
Moon the Moon: The Scapegoat Ritual, Alisa Craig, Scotland.
Guerilla Spankatron, Oxford Circus, London.
2014
Baptism by Fire Vol. II: The Scapegoat, Paris.
Baptism by Fire Vol. I: The Scapegoat, Epping Forest, London.
2010–2013
God Spank the Queen, Happening 02, Art Car Boot, Brick Lane, London.
God Spank the Queen, Happening 03, Soho, London.
EDUCATION
1998 – June 2003
BA (Hons) Fine Art, First Class
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
1997 – Sept 1998
BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies, Distinction
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design