Jade (B. Birmingham, UK) is a performance artist. Her work explores conversations between inner/outer, bodily/material worlds, and how historical, cultural and personal memory/movements inform them. She looks at Black ancestral traditions, myths and materialities that articulate and interrogate ongoing colonial systems and manifest and develop within Black diasporic contexts. She seeks to highlight how the body, material and space have shared capabilities of transferring and embodying collective memory, which bears importance in our understanding of selves and each other. Themes of race, feminism, rootlessness/rootedness, class and loss are present in her work. Jade earned her BA in Fine Art Practice and Psychology from the University of Worcester and her MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Performance from the Royal College of Art. Her work has been shown internationally, including in SPILL Festival of Performance, Ipswich, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland, the National Museum of Modern Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, and Uppsala Kunstmuseum, Sweden.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS
2023 - New Ancients (showing of films ‘Untitled (ETNA)’ and ‘Balm (Steps to Unforgetting’), Guts Gallery, London, UK
2022 - Fierce festival, Birmingham, UK
2022 - Stowage and Whatnot (film screening of Balm (Steps to Unforgetting)) for B.O.O.K (Building Our Own Knowledge), Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK
2022- Alchemy Film and Moving image Festival, (film screening of Steps to Unforgetting), Hawick, Scotland, UK
2022- Protest! Derek Jarman Live Art Takeover, Submerge Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2022 - Unregulated Black Intimacy (film screening), Papaya, online
2021 - Celebrating Joy (billboard exhibition, shown in Birmingham), HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, UK
2021 - SPILL Festival of Performance, Ipswich, UK
2021 - Ex-Live (film screening of Black River), EX-IS Experimental Film and Video Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2021 - Gathering in a Time of Plague, VSSL Studio, London, UK
2021 - BUZZCUT festival, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2021 - Gestures (film screening of Balm: Steps to Unforgetting), Arcadia Gallery, Coventry, UK
2021 - Impossible Performances, online
2020 - 5 Hours (film screening of Cummndazz), Sook, London, UK
2020 - Come Hell or High Water (online, performed in Sicily, Italy)
2019 - Disorder Live Art Vol.2, Studio 9294, London, UK
2019 - PLOP Performance show, The Koppel Project Hive, London, UK
2019 - 33 Bridges, 6 Cork Street, London, UK
2019 - Disorder Vol.3, Ugly Duck, London, UK
2018 - F.A.R.M, East Sussex, UK
2018- Live Art for Children and Families, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2018- Revolve Performance Art Days, Orbyhus Orangiet, Sweden
2018- Flowing Through Selves, Safehouse 1, London, UK
2018- Synthetic Hapticality, Enclave Lab, London, UK
2017- I Come In The End, The Best Is Over, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2017 - Standing Block, Lincoln Projects, London, UK
2017 - Breathing in, Breathing Out, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2017- Tiffany&co X Outset Studiomakers Prize Ceremony, Vinyl Factory, London, UK
2017 - Royal College of Art Degree Show 2017, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2017 – Revolve Performance Art Days, Uppsala Konstmuesum, Uppsala, Sweden
2017 – Five Minutes of Your Time, Doodle Bar, London, UK
2016 – Liberte D’Action, L’amour, Paris, France
2016 - Performance Art Meeting, Old Town, Lublin, Poland
2016 – Live Import/ Live Export, Toxteth Reservoir, Liverpool, UK
2016 – Revolve Festival, Uppsala Train Station, Uppsala, Sweden
2016 – Work in Progress Show, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2015 – New Art West Midlands, film screening and live performance, Herbert Gallery, Coventry, UK
ARTIST TALKS
2022 - TAKE5, University of Worcester, UK
2021 - MATA Fine Art Lecture, University of Gloucester, UK
2021 - B.O.O.K podcast, conversation with Ryan Christopher, facilitated by melissandre varin and Hannah Adereti at Yard Art House, Birmingham, UK
RESIDENCIES
2022 - Between Bodies and Place, collaboration between SITE Performance Art and PAErsche Aktionslabor, Essen, Germany
2022 - Artsadmin LAB residency, Toynbee Studios, London, UK
2019 - Assembly 2 Workshop Residency, Provence, France
EDUCATION
2015 – 2017: Royal College of Art, MA Contemporary Art Practice (Performance)
2011 – 2014: University of Worcester, BA Fine Art Practice with Psychology, First Class with Honours
AWARDS
2015 – RCA Leverhulme scholarship award