Alex Billingham CV (selected)

Residencies / etc-

  • SMBQ artist in residence for 2023 / 2024 – University of Birmingham.
  • Stryx Bus stop residency – 2024
  • UCA / Brewery tap project space – Folkestone
  • Level center – Derbyshire
  • Live Art Ireland – Ireland
  • BOM – Immersive arts Bootcamp – Birmingham
  • New Art Gallery Walsall – Belonging Disbelonging residency – Walsall
  • Outside In  – Residency / The Herbert Coventry
  • Multistory – Blast bursary recipient
  • WAIWAV artist – For Tate St Ives selected by DASH – St Ives
  • Jerwood 1 to 1 fund recipient with Rosanna Cook (dancer)
  • Queer Change artist for 2022 for Homotopia – Curious Arts & Milk Presents.
  • Seeding space recipient – London Performance Studios.
  • Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre – Self directed residency.
  • Milk Summer Summit – Weekend residency at The Hop Barn – Milk Presents theatre company.
  • Grasslands – Weekend residency at Grasslands

Exhibitions –

2024

  • 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 –

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