Curriculum Vitae
Born 1965 - lives and works in London
Study:
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1993-95
- Residency programme of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam NL
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1988-91
- BA hons Fine Art (Sculpture) Camberwell School of Art, London UK
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1986-88
- Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Walthamstow College, London UK
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1983-84
- Architectural Studies, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne UK
Residencies and fellowships:
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2019
- Henry Moore Institute Fellowship, Leeds UK
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2015
- Residency: Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London UK
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2013
- Residency: Constructed with Intention. Cornelius Foundation, Lagamas, France
- Hotel El Ganzo hotel, Puerto Los Cabos, Mexico
Solo Exhibitions:
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2019
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2017
- A conversation along the highway of Brotherhood and Unity. Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia
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2015
- ON AIR. Beaconsfield Gallery, London UK
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2012
- The Voyeur. De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea UK
- Gallery Vela, London UK
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2011
- Southard Reid Gallery, London UK
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2008
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2001
- Project Space, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL
- 'Audiopathology', W139 Gallery, Amsterdam NL
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1999
- 'Other Spaces', Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium
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1998
- 'Rorschach'. Exedra, Hilversum NL
- 'Room in Hell', Matt’s Gallery, London UK (for 'Backspace’ programme)
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1997
- 'No Room in Hell'. Matt's Gallery, London UK (review in Frieze magazine)
- Portfolio Kunst AG, Vienna, Austria
Selected Group Exhibitions:
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2025
- Breakdown / Music and Machines. Farsight Gallery, London (watch video here)
- Artists Against The Bomb. Parc des Bastions, Geneve.
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2024
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2023
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2021
- 'Can we ever know the meaning of these objects'. Gallery 46 London, UK
- < Open Window > Spoleto, Italy
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2020
- BLOW-UP I: Experiments in Photography, Laure Genillard gallery, London UK
- Feedback Loops, Gallery 46, London UK
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2019
- Zapp Magazine /Zapp Magazine Club Night, Kunstverein, Amsterdam NL
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2018
- See Your World in Ours IKON Gallery and Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK (Curated by Mark Titchner)
- Art Night, London UK
- STREAM STREET, Institut Aplauz, Belgrade, Serbia
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2017
- LIMINALITY, Gallery 46, London UK
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2016
- AUTONOMY - Gallery 46, Whitechapel London UK
- ResonanceEXTRA (radio shows). Gravity Waves - 26th March 2016 & 28th May 2016
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2015
- The Greatest Show on Earth. Shoreditch, London. 14-17 October 2015, with Kieron Leonard and 1234 records
- Dear Serge - Offsite at Project 78, St Leonards (with De la Warr Pavilion) UK
- POOL - Cafe Gallery Projects, London UK
- Strangelove Media Festival. Central St Martins, London UK
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2014
- Revolver II (with Craig Barnes). Live transmision - Matt's Gallery, London UK
- Monomania Festival. Aid & Abet & Cambridge Junction. Cambridge UK
- '/seconds' - Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
- Bruce McLean (survey exhibition), Firstsite, Colchester UK
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2013
- The World in a Box, A Bittersweet Salon. Margate UK
- Constructed with Intention. Cornelius Foundation, Lagamas, France
- El Ganzo hotel (2 permananent commissions) Puerto Los Cabos, Mexico
- DISCONNECTED (The left hand doesn't know...) - Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne UK
- Body Politic - The Art of Performnce (screening). Arts Pavilion, Bournemouth UK
- Shape Gallery, London UK
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2012
- Hair of the Dog. Block 336, London UK
- One Take Film Festival - Zagreb, Croatia
- Change the World or Go Home - Solent Showcase, Southampton UK
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2011
- Change the World or Go Home - Downstairs Gallery, Great Brampton House, Herefordshire UK
- 'Dimensions in British Contemporary Art’, various venues – India
- Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea UK
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2010
- 'A Snowball Effect’ Mains d’Oeuvres St Ouen, France
- 'Taps: Improvisations with Paul Burwell', Matt's Gallery at Dilston Grove, London UK
- 'Keep me Posted', Posted Projects, London UK
- 'Musik fur Barbaren und Klassiker', Netwerk Centrum, Aalst, Belgium
- 'Riff-Raff', Q - Lower John Street, London UK
- 'PARTY!' - The New Art Gallery Walsall UK
- 'Film / Video / Performance' Wimbledon Space, London UK
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2009
- ‘Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show’ - London UK
- ‘Röck’ Galerie Erich Mircher, Paris, France
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2008
- 'Brown Noise', Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery, London UK
- ‘Party at the Moontower’. Road Agent Gallery, Dallas USA
- 'Noise', George Rodger Gallery, Maidstone UK
- ‘Nothing Moments’ Public Trust Gallery, Dallas USA
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2007
- ‘Post Paolo Futurum’, Museum of Breda, Breda NL
- ‘Nothing Moments’, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles USA
- ‘Nothing Moments’, Silvermann Gallery, San Francisco USA
- ‘Screenshow’, Meeting House Square, Dublin, Eire
- ‘Single-shot’, Various venues in UK & Eire
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2006
- ‘Single-shot’, Tate Britain, London UK
- ‘Public Utilities’, South London Gallery (screening for Chris Burden exhibition)
- ‘Summertime’, David Patton, Los Angeles USA
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2005
- 'Speedorama', Drive in Cinema, Oslo & Touring Norway
- 'Wonderings', The Great Unsigned, 47 Great Eastern Street, London UK
- ‘Les Merveilles du Monde’, Dunkerque Museum of Fine Arts, France
- ‘Ab Ovo’, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
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2004
- ‘A Temporary Monument to David McComb’, STUK, Leueven, Belgium
- ‘Video Hits, Art & Music Video’, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
- ‘Artist’s Films on Music Culture’, National Film Theatre, London UK
- ‘Clerkenwell Film and Video Festival’ (London) - The Story of Dick Donkeys Dawn (Short-listed for Ken Russell short film award)
- ‘Schabbernak’, Netwerk Gallerie, Aalst, Belgium (with Guy Bar-Amotz)
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2003
- ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’, Metropolitan Galleries, Folkestone UK
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2002
- ‘Us and Them’, Great Eastern Hotel, London UK
- ‘Air Guitar’, Milton Keynes Gallery (and touring UK)
- ‘Song Poems’, Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles USA
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2001
- ‘Century City’, Tate Modern, London UK
- ‘Song Poems’, Leslie Cohen & Brown Gallery, New York, USA
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2000
- ‘Become Like Me’, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (& touring)
- ‘Point of View’, Richard Salmon Gallery, London UK
- ‘Video Art from Great Britain’, Sao Paolo, Brasil and touring South America
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1999
- ‘Touch of Evil’, Metronom (Foundation Raphael Tous), Barcelona, Spain
- ‘Pallid House’, W139 Gallery, Amsterdam NL
- Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles USA
- ‘Fourth Wall’, South Bank Centre, London UK
- ‘to be continued >.’, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, UK
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1998
- ‘New Video Art from Great Britain’, Museum of Modern Art, New York USA
- ‘Places to Stay’, Bureau Friedrich, Berlin, Germany
- ‘UK Maximum Diversity’, Gallerie Krinzinger, Vienna & Bregenz, Austria
- ‘Backspace’, Matt’s Gallery, London UK
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1997
- Gallerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
- Montreal International Festival of Cinema and New Media, Canada
- ‘Sean sells subliminals’, Factual Nonsense – Live Stock Market, London UK
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1996
- ‘BMW 325i’, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Eire
- ‘Against’, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London UK
- ‘Rational Behaviour’, The Tannery, London UK (Curator & exhibitor)
- ‘I Beg To Differ’, Milch Gallery, London UK
- ‘Pandemonium’, ICA, London UK
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1995
- ‘Lost Property’, W139 Gallery, Amsterdam NL & The Lost Goods Building, London UK (Co-curator / exhibitor)
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1994
- ‘In Collaboration with’, Lokaal 01, Breda NL
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1992
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1991
- ‘SAFE’, Regent’s Wharfe, London UK
Performances:
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2025
- Death Magazine 52 - Live in Birmingham at Centrala (Minerva Works)
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2022
- Pyrotechnic Book Launch, Turner Contemporary Margate UK and Gallery 46 London UK
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2019
- ’33 1/3 rpm’ (#3) for Zapp Magazine Club Night, Kunstverein, Amsterdam NL
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2018
- Live percussion performance for Carla Fernandez’ Fashion in Motion, V&A Museum, London, UK
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2017
- ’33 1/3 rpm’ (#2), Breturn, Kabinet Múz, Brno, Czech Republic
- The Harrangue, Long Player Day, London
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2016
- Two performances: OMS & ’33 1/3 rpm’ (#1). Linear Obsessional label night at Vinyl Deptford, London
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2014
- Monomania. Aid & Abet / Cambridge Junction. Cambridge, UK.
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2013
- '1513 A Ship's Opera' Thames Festival - London, UK.
- Performance commission at the Cornelius Foundation, Lagamas France
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2012
- 'The Voyeur' (series of 3 performances on St Simeon's drum riser) at de la warr pavilion - Bexhill, UK.
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2011
- Late at Tate. Performance by Bag of Blood at Cabaret Apocalyptica (Presented by Richard Strange)
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2010
- Cabaret Futura. The Paradise Club - London. UK
- Live soundtrack/performance for a film by Charlotte Moth. At Halle Fuer Kunst, Lüneburg. Germany
- 'Donder op Dender (a blizzard of noise). Netwerk Centrum, Aalst. Belgium
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2009
- ‘Röck’ (The Horns of Dilemma) - Galerie Erich Mircher, Paris. France
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2008
- ‘Ghost Drummer’ – Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery, London. UK.
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2007
- ‘20 pieces of silver’ – IKON Gallery Eastside, Birmingham. UK.
- ‘Tribute / Wake’ for Paul Burwell (1949-2007), State 51, London. UK
- ‘3 on the floor’ - The Klinker, London. UK
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2006
- ‘Break it Down’. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. UK (With Richard Wilson)
- ‘Rational Lo-Tech’, Bethnal Green Working Men’s club, London. UK
- ‘Four on the Floor’ – 'How to improve the world', Hayward Gallery, London. UK.
- ‘Drum duet II’ – Barbican Curve Gallery, London. UK (with Richard Wilson)
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2005
- ‘Audio Addiction’, Curator & performer - Delfina Studios, London. UK (With Guy Bar-Amotz, z’ev, Natsuki Uruma, Richard Wilson)
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2004
- ‘Drum Duet’. With R. Wilson. Wapping Pumping Station, London. UK
- The mobile DJ (with G.B.Amotz) - For the exhibition Schabbernak at Netwerk Gallerie, Aalst. Belgium
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2002
- I Want to Dance - Performance for ‘Song Poems’ exhibition, Palace Theatre, Los Angeles USA
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1999
- Live Stock Market, Factual Nonsense, Southbank, London. UK (Drum Tent with R. Wilson)
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1997-99
- ‘Dick Donkeys Dawn’ (touring band with Georgina Starr and Oliver Hangl)
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1996-97
- Interspecies Lovechild, (London based Art band, with Matthew Collins) Touring.
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1994
- Hot Music, performance at The Garage, Rijsakademie Van Beeldenden Kunsten, Amsterdam NL.
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1998-91
- Bow Gamelan Ensemble, touring internationally (with Paul Burwell, Anne Bean, Richard Wilson)
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1988
- Performer: 'Self Winding' with Paul Wong, Edge 88, London UK
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1984
- Performance / recording artist: Curfew Recordings with Metgumnerbone (various sites Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
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1984
- Performance / recording artist: Death Magazine 52 (Live: London Musicians Collective, The Mermaid Birmingham, Richard Strange's Slammer London etc)
Select Bibliography:
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- Sean Dower (Artist Monograph), Dusan Savič (ed), Jo Melvin (essay), Dom Omladine Beograda / Legat Franklin, Belgrade. 2017
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- Jane Won, ‘Sean Dower’ (article on The Voyeur solo exhibition), De La Warr Pavilion Magazine, Summer 2012
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- Things to cover in a drum lesson... Article for Artist's Catalogue: Charlotte Moth / Serralves Foundation, Porto. 2011
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- Time Out - April 2011. Review of solo exhibition at Southard Reid, London
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- Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids 2009 (2 pages) ISBN 9781921361623
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- Nothing Moments Short Story Collection 2007 (2 illustrations) ISBN 0781934500231
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- Frieze - March 2008. Review of 'Noise' at George Rodger Gallery< Maidstone UK
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- Modern Painters - March 2007. Review of Single-shot / Automaton
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- The Times - 08/11/06 Review of Single-shot / Automaton
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- ‘Les Merveilles du Monde’ - Exhibition Catalogue, Musee des beaux Arts (Dunkirque)
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- The Wire, Issue 267, May 2006 – Review of ‘Break it Down’
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- STUK Book Visual Arts 2000-2005. ISBN 90-8108151-9
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- ‘Ab Ovo’, Story Collection (1 story) ISBN-13: 978-0967091341
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- ‘Video Hits, Art and Music Video’ Queensland Art Gallery (Aus). ISBN 1876509856
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- ‘To be continued >’ Artists interventions in the Public Realm. ISBN 0-7134-8794-1
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- ‘We Build New Sentences’ W139 Gallery, Amsterdam. ISBN 90 75387 03 02
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- ‘Art Pop City’ (Bureau Friedrich, Berlin) ISBN 3-934823-02-05
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- Art and Text, Oct-Nov 2001. Review of Song Poems
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- Song Poems, Catalogue 2001. Produced by Steven Hull. ISBN: 0-9670913-1-4
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- No FuN without U: The Art of Factual Nonsense (1 photo) ISBN: 18899858806
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- Frieze, Issue 51, March 2000. Review of ‘to be continued’ (1 reproduction)
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- Scotland on Sunday, 20th Feb 2000. Review of Become like Me
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- Metronom, 1998 - 1999. Catalogue for Fundacio Raphael Tous
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- Evening Standard Magazine, 6th Aug ‘99. Cover article on art Bands - Dick Donkeys Dawn
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- Architect’s Journal, 15th Oct. 1998. Review of ‘SITE’ exhibition
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- Time Out. Nov 26 - Dec 3 1997. Review of ‘No Room in Hell’
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- Time Out Nov. 1996 - 'Review of Rational Behaviour'
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- Art Monthly, June 1996. Review of ‘I Beg To Differ’
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- Time Out, July 1995. Review of ‘Lost Property’
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- ‘ZAPP’ Video Magazine, Nov. 1994 - Amsterdam
Audio releases and air-play:
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2024
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2021
- '1st Generation' - electronic music by Sonofapup 1995-2000. Remastered digital album release
- 'sɜrbərəs' - electronic music by Sonofapup 2001-2004. Remastered digital album release
- 'IOS' - electronic music by Sonofapup 2009-2015. Remastered digital album release
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2016
- ResonanceEXTRA with the Spirit of Gravity (radio). Gravity Waves - 28th May 2016
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2015
- 'Open The Window' - Track 'Taxi Argument' featured on Linear Obsessional Recordings compilation
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2014
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'Minotaur' - electronic noise music by Sonofapup. Digital album release
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2013
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The Curfew Recordings (1984). CD release, March 2013 on Harbinger Sound - HARBINGER110
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2012
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Death Magazine 52 - double vinyl disc, 2012 on Harbinger Sound – HARBINGER078
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2010
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The Ultimate Brown Sound Record - 12 inch brown vinyl record. Produced with Netwerk Aalst, Belgium.
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2004
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Dick Donkeys Dawn (1997-1999) - remixes by Dick. DVD released by Back Fur Records.
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1984
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Curfew Recordings with John Smith and John Mylotte (audio cassette).
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1983
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Death Magazine 52 / SHC (audio cassette)
Selected Lecturing since 1996:
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- Central St Martins College of Art and Design, University of The Arts London, UK
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- Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of The Arts London, UK
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- University of Brighton UK
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- National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
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- Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
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- Sotheby's Institute, London UK
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- Paco das Artes, Sao Paolo, Brazil
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- Academy of Fine Arts Oslo, Norway
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- Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
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