Alex Billingham CV (selected)
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Residencies / etc-
- Disturbance 5th residency – Ugly Duck – London – 2024
- SMBQ artist in residence for 2023 / 2024 – University of Birmingham.
- Stryx Bus stop residency – 2024
- UCA / Brewery tap project space – Folkestone -2023
- Level center – Derbyshire -2023
- Live Art Ireland – Ireland -2023
- BOM – Immersive arts Bootcamp – Birmingham -2023
- New Art Gallery Walsall – Belonging Disbelonging residency – Walsall -2022 / 2023
- Outside In – Residency / The Herbert Coventry -2022
- Multistory – Blast bursary recipient -2022
- WAIWAV artist – For Tate St Ives selected by DASH – St Ives -2022
- Jerwood 1 to 1 fund recipient with Rosanna Cook (dancer) -2022
- Queer Change artist – for Homotopia – Curious Arts & Milk Presents – 2022
- Seeding space recipient – London Performance Studios – 2021
- Milk Summer Summit – Weekend residency at The Hop Barn – Milk Presents theatre company – 2021
Exhibitions –
2024
- Dispensary open / Group exhibition – Transuranic elements (sculptural) – Dispensary gallery – Wrexham
- Are the stones standing still – Group exhibition / film screening – Saffordshirest – London
- Refraction – Under the roof / Group exhibition – Candid Arts gallery – London
- Submerged – Installation for performance including film and video game – Disturbance 5 – Ugly Duck – London
- Equal + Able – Museum collection interaction – New art gallery Walsall
- Encoded Realities – Group exhibition of SMQB artist residencies with University of Birmingham – Centrala
- Digital Phantoms – Stryx Bus stop residency – Artwork displayed in bus stops around Jewelry Quarter- Birmingham
- Interrupt – Group show – The undercroft gallery – Norfolk
- The Queer beach – Group show – Brighton
- …as we gathered on the shards of a fallen mirror ball – Major duo exhibition – The New Art Gallery Walsall – Co-curated with Aziz Sohail, new works by Sophia-Layla Afsar – Karachi, Pakistan and Alex Billingham – West Midlands, UK – 26 January — 30 June 2024
- Metamorphic traces (film) – Exhibition – Level center – Derby
2023
- Cosmic Modeling – Group show – Vivid Projects – Birmingham
- Word soup – Film screening and talk – Explorers Project – BALTIC center for contemporary art – Newcastle
- Sub Strata – Film screening – Convergence – Live Art Ireland – Tipperary
- Fluid Bodies – solo show – UCA Brewery tap project space – Folkestone
- Welcome to the land of ice – Styrx studio – group exhibition – Birmingham
- Transuranic Elements residency results – 12 month display – New Art Gallery Walsall – Walsall
- Stryx JQ opening show – Group show – Birmingham
- As we play beneath the warmth of an alien sun – duo show – Indus Valley institute of arts – Karachi Pakistan
2022
- Word Soup – solo show of residency results – outside in / The Herbert Coventry
- Magic cinema – Screening of Metamorphic {traces} film – Artefact / Stirchley
- Here & Queer – Group show using the collections at The New Art Gallery Walsall – https://thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/exhibition/herequeer/
- WMO – Group show – The New Art Gallery Walsall – Walsall
- Super Critical Fluids – Solo Show – Dispensary Gallery – Wrexham University
- Twenty Twenty – Good Riddance (digital collage) – The New Art Gallery Walsall – Part of their permanent collection.
2021
- The world of light – ICEWORM (extract) -(Moving image exhibition) – The Auckland University of Technology – New Zealand
- You can tell by the way I walk – (STRYX studio group show) – STRYX
- It’s in the blood – (film for Peter Cushing’s Pound shop Pestilence) – Vivid Projects
- Transient – (online residency)
- Hear the Sirens call – (performance and installation over 2 days) – Birmingham Weekender / Birmingham Hippodrome.
- EOP Summer camp (online exhibition of ICEWORM) – Eastside Projects.
- Work in progress – (online platform) – Interim arts.
- Q.A.S.B. – Permanent physical installation – Vivid Projects
- ICEWORM – 93 min film released online March 2021.
2020
- Whorling.net – online exhibition
- Dispensary Digital Interview (online interview about my practice.)
- Queer Death Society – a mixed media and genre zine
- Haus a rest (Zine and online exhibition)
- Skin Yer Teth – Group show @ Failbetter / Ladywood
2019
- Temporary Exclusionary Zone – (Residency with exhibition) @ Asylum Gallery / Wolverhampton
- Summer Camp – (2-week residency) @ Eastside Projects / Digbeth
- Orbit – (1-week online residency) @ Internet / Liverpool
- Die Glamour Bergs – (2-week solo show with performance) @ Airspace Gallery / In the Window / Stoke on Trent
- Interstellar – 10m x 10m installation for SUPERNOVA exhibition of live art about David Bowie @ Vivid Projects for April DFF / Digbeth
- Glamberg – Sculpture 10cm x 10cm for Eat Your Tony Hart Out! Exhibition@ FAILBETTER / Ladywood.
2018
- Ashes to Ashes – (2-week solo show including sculpture / film / performance / installation and performance) @ STRYX / Digbeth
- Bandage – (Digital print) @ VANDAL / Touring vending machine
Performance –
2024
- Submerged – Midlands Arts Centre – Birmingham
- Holding – Equal and able – New Art Gallery Walsall
- Submerged – Disturbance 5 – Ugly Duck – London
2023
- Salting the wound – Emergency 23 – Contact theatre – Manchester
- Salting the wound – Itch Gathering – Mosley Rd Baths / Birmingham
2022
- Fishwives Revenge – WAIWAV – Tate St Ives – Dash / Disability arts online
- Fluid Bodies (work in progress) – Live art club – London
- Milk & Honey – Curious Arts Festival – Northern Stage / Newcastle
- Milk & Honey – Qwe’re London scratch night – Deptford London
2021
- Queer Atomic Survival Bunker – 1 to 1 Performance – Eastside Projects.
- Milk And Honey – Scratch performance for SHOUT Festival with Vivid Projects.
- Hear the Sirens call – (performance and installation over 2 days) – Birmingham Weekender / Birmingham Hippodrome.
2020
- GLISTENING SCUM (18 min performance made for film) Micro Commission for SHOUT Festival 2020 – West Midlands
- Nuclear Tides – (1-hour Performance) for Loud + Queer Arts Festival @ Swan Theatre / Worcester
2019
- Nuclear Tides – (1-hour theatrical show) @Midlands Arts Centre / Birmingham
- Graphite – (40 min performance) @Asylum Gallery / Wolverhampton
- Radioisotope – (30 min performance) @Eastside Projects / Digbeth
- The Medusa Phase – (1-hour performance) @Asylum Gallery / Wolverhampton
- All that Glitters is a Mare’s Nest – (4-hour performance as part of a solo show) @Airspace Gallery / Stoke on Trent
- Glam Mothers tears – (4 hour performance) @Quantum Exhibition Centre / Fierce / Artists Behind Bars.
2018
- Scar Tissue – (Performance) @ Vivid Projects / Black Hole Club / Birmingham
- RAWHIDE – (Performance) @ ]performancespace[ / Future Rituals / Folkestone
- Glorious Technicolour – (Installation & Performance) @ Vivid Projects / Another Dimension / Birmingham
- Be a Wulf Act I – (5-hour Performance) @ Little Wolf Parade / SLAP / Nottingham
- RAWHIDE – (3:30 hour Performance) @ Itch Collective / Skinned Live / Camden Peoples Theatre
- O Sweet Delia! – (Performance) @ Radiophonic / Edited Arts / London
- We Don’t Talk Anymore 2 – (Performance) @ STRYX / Digbeth
- Arctic Siren – (Performance) Black Hole Club Launch @ Vivid Projects / Digbeth