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A word, is a world, is a violin

A voice is a song, is a soul.

CHERI

Traces d'une vie

Education

2021–2023 The Margate School / ESADHaR — Diplôme national de master 'Art, Nature, Society'

2016–2018 SOAS, University of London — MMus Music Performance

2008–2011 Goldsmiths College, University of London — First Class Honours BA, Art History & Fine Art

2007–2008 Central Saint Martins — Foundation Studies in Art & Design

❋ MUSIC & POETRY
Superliminal — 101 Social, Margate (with duo Hark!) (2026)
Is It Dirty? — Roland Ross, Margate (2026)
Deep Listen — Canterbury (with duo Hark!) (2025)
Margate Song Book — Margate (Solo) (2024)
Folk Week — Broadstairs (with duo Thistle Whistle) (2024)
Various readings — galleries, nights and spaces (2024–2026)
Poems Underwater (2013)
❋ FILM & EXHIBITIONS
Something About Dreams — 101 Social, Margate (2024)
Desire Lines — The Margate School, Margate (2023)
Enchanted Things — The Margate School, Margate (2023)
❋ CURATORIAL & PERFORMANCE
100 Violets — Latin America House, London (2017)
She Who Emerges Anew — IKWRO, Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, London (2014)
Paradise Lost — Customs and Immigrations Building, Cardiff Bay (2014)
Di-Egy Digital Arts Festival — Cairo (2013)
Benjamin Valenza: Circa Circa — South London Gallery, London (2013)
Michael Dean's Acts of Grass — Serpentine Gallery, London (2011)
❋ RESIDENCIES & TRAINING
Skyline Residency Space — Venice Skyline Creative Residency for Artists and Writers, Venice (2025)
Somatic Dance Training — Shin Somatics (2021–2025, with a gap)
The Right to Play Oneself — no.w.here, London (2014)
For We Need Space & Time — HIAP Studios, Helsinki (2011)
Art & Crafts Workshop Leader — Momkin Co-operative, Tangier, Morocco (2020–2021)

  • And then, like after a flood, there floated a wardrobe, a person, a loose window, three suitcases. And that seemed like Hell to me, that destruction of layers and layers of human archaeology.”

    ― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.