Education

  • PhD, (photography, practice-led), London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 2007
  • MFA, State University of New York at Buffalo, N.Y., USA, 1980
  • MA, University of Central England at Birmingham, 1977
  • BA (Hons), 1st class awarded, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, 1976

Solo Exhibitions

  • In/visible Genders, LBGT Centre and Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2009
  • transfiguration, FUTURE*QUEER, University College Dublin, 2006
  • view point, Research Gallery, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 2005
  • nu-gender, APT Gallery, London, 2003
  • Orlando's Butterflies, MOMA Oxford, Lower Gallery, 2000

Two Person Exhibitions

  • Every Noble Work Is At First Impossible, Collaboration with Stephen Whittle. Somatechnics, Sydney, 2007

Group Exhibitions

  • finds 1, The Well Gallery, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 2011
  • ReImag(in)ing SomaSex, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney, 2009 Censored, SHOUT Festival, Birmingham 2009
  • Wotever 5, First Out, London, 2008
  • Ten, Deutsche Bank, London, 2007
  • Getting Wed. Collaboration with Stephen Whittle, ‘Transfabulous’, 1st International Festival of Transgender Arts, London, 2006.
  • Somatechnics, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney, 2005
  • Passport to Camberwell, Vanguard Court, London, 2004
  • Mardi Gras, Lauderdale House, London 2002
  • Sexin' Change, Oakham House, Toronto, Canada, 2001
  • Basel Art Fair, Schweizer Mustermesse, Basel, Switzerland, 2000
  • Paris Photo, The Louvre Carousel, Paris, France, 2000

Curated Exhibitions

  • finds 1. Curated for the Photography and the Archive Research Centre. Exhibition at The Well Gallery, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 2011
  • Trans Lives: Presenting the (Extra) Ordinary. Co-curated with Simon Croft. Exhibition at ‘Transfabulous’ International Festival of Transgender Arts, London, 2008. This exhibition was subsequently presented as a show-reel, Trans Lives: Presenting the (Extra) Ordinary, at The Trans Community Conference: Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our Environments, London, 2008

Awards

  • Wellcome Trust Small Grant 2011
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, 2007 – 2010
  • Associate Project Award, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts London, 2010
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant 2009
  • British Council Overseas Conference Award 2009
  • Promising Researcher Fellowship, Wimbledon School of Art, 2006
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral award, 2003 – 2005
  • University of the Arts London Doctoral studentship, 2002 – 2003
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council Small Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts, 2001 – 2002
  • Development Fellowship, Association of Commonwealth Universities, 1996 Visual Arts Bursary, Southern Arts 1981
  • Fulbright Hays Award, Fulbright Hays Commission, 1978 – 1980

Publications

  • Monograph: Crossing the Line, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1–899235–39-6
  • Beyond Borders: Lived Experiences of Atypically Gendered Transsexual People, chapter in ‘Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity’, Hines S., Sanger T. (eds). Routledge: London 2010. ISBN 13: 978-0-415-99930-4
  • ReImag(in)ing SomaSex, exhibition catalogue, Macquarie University: Sydney 2009, ISBN 978-1-74238-340-9
  • RAW: Promising Researchers. Interview by William Furlong. Wimbledon College of Art, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9556646-3-2
  • ‘Border Trouble: Photography, Strategies, and Transsexual Identities’, SCAN: Journal of Media, Arts, Culture, 3 (3), 2006. ISSN 1449-1818
  • ‘trans agenda: transsexual portraits’, Source, issue 39, 2004. ISSN 1369–2224

Public Talks

  • Trans Lives: Presenting the (Extra) Ordinary. Curator’s talk with Simon Croft, ‘Transfabulous’ International Transgender Arts Festival, 2008
  • view point, ‘In Conversation’ with Professor Janice Hart, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 2005
  • nu-gender, APT Gallery, London, 2003
  • Orlando's Butterflies, Fotonet – South, Portfolio Day MOMA Oxford, 2000
  • Orlando's Butterflies, MOMA Oxford, 2000

Reviews of Exhibitions and Publications

  • Picture Perfect by Rachel Armstrong, GCN, July 2006
  • Dragging it Out by Andrew Price, The Big Issue, February 24 – March 2, 2003
  • A Gender Apart, The Gay Times, February, 2003
  • Interview with Rob Flint, Resonance 94.9fm radio, January 12, 2003
  • Crossing the Line by Addie Vassie, Freeye, 2003
  • When a Man Lives a Woman by Hannah Betts, The Times, April 25, 2000
  • Madam Butterflies by Tom Evans, Professional Photographer, May, 2000

Symposiums Organised

  • Researching Effectively: Medical Histories; The International Impact of the Medical Diagnosis of Transsexuality on Local Gender Variant Identities, held at Manchester Metropolitan University, funded by the Wellcome Trust, June 13 – 15 2011
  • Photographic Portraiture - Transgressive and Transformative Potentials, a one-day Photography forum held at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London. Co-organised with Dr Wiebke Leister, Senior Lecturer, MA Photography, London College of Communication. Funded by an Associate Project Award, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts London 2010

Panel Member

  • Metamorphosis: The Body As Social Creation, 9th Royal Anthropological Institute Festival of Ethnographic Film Workshop, Linacre College, Oxford University, 2005

Conference Papers on Photography

  • Are You Looking At Me? ‘Collaborations’ Symposium, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 2011
  • Queer Conceptions: Procreation Beyond Gender, 'Queer Again? Power, Politics and Ethics' conference, Department of English and American Studies and Gender as a Category of Knowledge Research Training Group, Humboldt University, Berlin 2010
  • Private Selves and Public Appearances: Lived Experiences of Atypically Gendered Transsexual People. Symposium: Researching Sexuality, Gender Identity and Appearance: Exploring the Visual Identities and Appearance Concerns of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer People, Appearance Matters 4 conference, The Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England Bristol 2010
  • Transcendent Genders: Private and Public Transsexual Experiences, (Re)Figuring Sex: Somatechnical (Re)Visions, The Fifth International Somatechnics Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2009
  • In/visible Genders, Transgenders: New Identities and Visibilities conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris-3, 2009
  • Trans Visions: The Experience of Photography and the Self-Visualisation of Transsexual People, Transsomatechnics: Theories and Practices of Transgender Embodiment conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 2008
  • Transpositions, Somatechnics conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2007
  • Gender Echoes, Sound and Anthropology: Body, Environment and Human Sound Making conference, University of St Andrews, 2006
  • transfiguration, FUTURE*QUEER conference, University College Dublin, 2006
  • Seeing Beyond the Binary Divide, Body Modification Mark II conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2005
  • The Reflected Image: A Photographic Collaboration with Transmen, InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads conference, CLAGS, CUNY, N.Y., USA, 2004

Photography Seminars

  • I have given seminars on my Photography at Goldsmiths College, Oxford University, Leeds University, Wimbledon College of Art and London College of Communication, University of the Arts London 2005 – 2011.