INFO:
- b.1991
- artist/designer described as understanding the pathetic aesthetic®
- e.searson@rca.ac.uk
EDUCATION:
- lecturer at Royal College of Art and London College of Communication UAL
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy™ 2022 + PgCERT 2025
- MA RCA 2019
- BA (Hons) Camberwell College of Arts 2014
- Foundation Diploma Blackpool & The Fylde College 2010
10 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
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- Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- Salvaged acrylic plastic, red and white stickers, fluorescent tube lighting, tinfoil, mayonnaise
- THE WINDOW, F.A.T. Studio
- Newsagents billboard lock frame, risographed scanner bed panels, kettles, curly wires, LED tube lighting
- TATE Britain
- Utilising the last ever roll of plastic window vinyl to be stocked at the Royal College of Art, Clore Studio windows
- w/ TEXTUAL [Alessandra Vargas, Elissa Lenoir Ajaka, Jan Xu, Yulei Wang, Shifeng Zhang, Rose Antony, Izzy Argent, Mati Baran, An, Enoch, Samantha Sun, Ruoting Liu, Anna-Katharina Krisch, Yue Hu, Shaked Ginott, Zoe Yu Cui, Anastasiia Shilova, Dian Wang], Daniel Fitzsimmons & the TATE Public Records Archive
- Cypher Billboard
- Found words, billboard, print, car vinyl stickers, sugar syrup
- w/ Jakob Rava
- TIB, Berlin
- Corregated plastic, UV print, cable ties
- w/ Oscar Veyrunes, Anton Bo Matzke, Solveig Schmid, Marja Marlene Lechner, Jakob Rava, Klara Bergsteiger & Joram Schön
- Best in show at the Hockney Gallery, Kensington, 2019
- Salvaged plastic, LED tube lights, stickers, chives, toothpaste, buddleia, electricity, wire, chewing gum, screws, etc
- [Aerial view in studio]
- 7 metre photocopy on fluorescent yellow roll, after ‘SOMEDAY ALL THE ADULTS WILL DIE!’ Vanguard fanzine, 1977
- Floor installation, destroyed as part of performance at Tendencies Socialist Bulletin launch, Amp Gallery
- Marketing Suites, Staffordshire Street Gallery
- Wall vinyl
- w/ Critical Cartographies & work-form
- Guilty Pleasures exhibition, Tender Books
- 28pp + insert for leap years, 2 colour A2 risographed book, red and black staples, laser printed post-it note
- Garden House, White City
- Print on fluorescent green roll, after Charles Eames’ letter, 1941
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- NORTHERN COUNTDOWN (Here I Come), Together, Open Editions
- Class matters in class matters: Education and emancipation in working-class culture, Journal of Illustration, Intellect Books
- The amateur can afford to lose, Left Cultures
- Bigfoot News: Anthology of Homeless News Bulletins, w/ Stuart Perkins and Harry Stayt, for ASP fair
- Walking Cities: London, 1st ed. Camberwell Press, 2nd ed. Routledge, w/ Samuel Jones & Design Print Bind
- The Pluralist, RCA Newspaper [creative direction 2018—2021]
- Various publications, HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! Books
etc
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