education:
2022 — 2026 (expected), PhD Art History and Visual Culture by Practice, University of Exeter
2019 — 2021, MA Textile Practice (Distinction), Manchester School of Art
2008 — 2009, MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2003 — 2008, BA (Hons) American Literature & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
shows:
2024, three familiar waters, Ruth Smith Gallery, Devon
2023, Inter Active Traces, Seventeen Gallery, London
2023, love letters to watery others, Make-up, Berlin (collaboration with Mars Löffler)
2022, Going Places, ACUD Galerie, Berlin
2022, Tender Hooks (Goldrausch 2022), Kommunale Galerie Berlin Wilmersdorf
2022, Ruderal Practices (Project Space Festival), Make-up, Berlin (co-curator with Maria Paula Maldonado)
2021, WARP exhibition, Islington Mill, Salford
2021, Made It! 2021 Graduate Showcase, Rogue Gallery, Manchester
2020, #wip work in progress working progress, online
2019, B-LA Connect Festival, Berlin
2019, Murky Landscapes (48 Stunden Neukölln Festival), Studio Baustelle, Berlin
2019, JOYROBIX music video, Berlin
2018, THE KAPiTAL show, Schau Fenster, Berlin
2018, E1 - A Commentary on Productivity, VEB Berliner Metalhütten und Halbzeugwerke, Berlin
2018, Perception Change (48 Stunden Neukölln Festival), Studio Baustelle, Berlin
2018, Come As You Are, St. Georg, Berlin
2018, Monticule, Studio Baustelle, Berlin (solo show)
2017, i will wear all of it and none of it, Studio Baustelle, Berlin (solo show)
2017, Presence (48 Stunden Neukölln Festival), Studio Baustelle, Berlin
2017, Paratissima Skopje, Youth Cultural Centre, Skopje
2017, Lupercalia, Berlin
2016, Blood Red Cake, Merchants of Reality Gallery, San Francisco
2015, Haxan Festival, Omni Commons, Oakland
residencies & awards:
2024, Ruth Smith Gallery Residency, Devon
2024, AAI24 Fleinvær Residency, Norway
2023, Company of Arts Charitable Trust Scholar Award 2023-24
2023, NOTA residency, Berlin
2022, Neustart Kultur Grant for visual artists, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2022, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin
2021, Digital Artist-in-Residence, Sick Love Zine, online
2021, Digital Artist-in-Residence, Transient, online
2021, WEFT Residency (Short Supply x Islington Mill), Salford
2020, Greater Than 11% Creative Grant
selected papers, talks & readings:
2024, 'Wet glitches and digital kelp: trans ecologies as methodology'
London Conference in Critical Thought, University of Greenwich
2024, 'Resisting the cis gaze through digital embodiment'
Resistance and Resilience: Gender/Sexuality in Digital Culture, University of Exeter
2024, 'Creeping and leaking as trans creative methodology'
Leakage: Inaugural Conference of stsing, TU Dresden
2024, 'Creeping into myself: textile and digital mediums as trans orientation'
CAA 112th Annual Conference, Chicago
2023, 'Encounters in the Hydrocommons'
Trans Ecologies Symposium, Durham University
2023, 'Resistance as a Tension and the Categorisation of Trans Artists Within Textile Studies'
Global New Voices Conference: Resistance, Art & Visual Thinking, Association for Art History UK
2023, 'Creeping into myself: smocking, pleating & folding as trans orientation'
Textile Intersections Conference, Doctoral Consortium, University of Loughborough London
2022, 'Kelp, Non-linear Materiality, and the Non-Binary Body'
“A darkness in the dark water”: En-tangled Approaches to Seaweed Conference, Haunted Shores Research Network
2021, 'Body as Atmosphere: Creating a Non-Binary Body Through Textiles'
Conference on Dissidence in Gender & Sexuality, University of Amsterdam
2021, 'Body as Atmosphere; implications and methods of creating a non-binary body through wearable textile sculptures'
SVR Gender Studies: ‘(Re) Forming Methodologies’ Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin
2017, Queerstories, Another Country, Berlin
2015, 'My Body Is a Prison of Pain' with Amy Berkowitz, Amy Burek & Kristen Leckie,
E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, Oakland
2015, Creating Queermunity panel discussion, GX Talks, GaymerX, San Jose
2015, Reading with Liz Mayorga, V. Vale & John Marr, Rock Paper Scissors, Oakland
curatorial & collaborations:
2023 — ongoing, Queer Studies Research Network, SWW DTP
2022 — ongoing, Make-Up e.V (Atelier & Project Space), Berlin
2021 — ongoing, More Sparkling Than Crystal reading group (co-founder with Leonie Brandner)
2016 — 2019, Studio Baustelle (Studio & Gallery), Berlin
2016 — 2018, Berlin Zine Fest
2011 — 2016, San Francisco Zine Fest
sarah godfrey
skgodfrey(at)gmail.com
education:
2019 — 2021, MA Textile Practice (Distinction), Manchester School of Art
2008 — 2009, MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2003 — 2008, BA (Hons) American Literature & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
solo exhibitions:
2018, Monticule, Studio Baustelle, Berlin
2017, i will wear all of it and none of it, Studio Baustelle, Berlin
shows:
2024, three familiar waters, Ruth Smith Gallery, Devon
2023, Inter Active Traces, Seventeen Gallery, London
2023, love letters to watery others, Make-up, Berlin (collaboration with Mars Löffler)
2022, Going Places, ACUD Galerie, Berlin
2022, Tender Hooks (Goldrausch 2022), Kommunale Galerie Berlin Wilmersdorf
2022, Ruderal Practices (Project Space Festival), Make-up, Berlin (co-curator with Maria Paula Maldonado)
2021, WARP exhibition, Islington Mill, Salford
2021, Made It! 2021 Graduate Showcase, Rogue Gallery, Manchester
2020, #wip work in progress working progress, online
2019, B-LA Connect Festival, Berlin
2019, Murky Landscapes (48 Stunden Neukölln Festival), Studio Baustelle, Berlin
2019, JOYROBIX music video, Berlin
2018, THE KAPiTAL show, Schau Fenster, Berlin
2018, E1 - A Commentary on Productivity, VEB Berliner Metalhütten und Halbzeugwerke, Berlin
2018, Perception Change (48 Stunden Neukölln Festival), Studio Baustelle, Berlin
2018, Come As You Are, St. Georg, Berlin
2018, Monticule, Studio Baustelle, Berlin (solo show)
2017, i will wear all of it and none of it, Studio Baustelle, Berlin (solo show)
2017, Presence (48 Stunden Neukölln Festival), Studio Baustelle, Berlin
2017, Paratissima Skopje, Youth Cultural Centre, Skopje
2017, Lupercalia, Berlin
2016, Blood Red Cake, Merchants of Reality Gallery, San Francisco
2015, Haxan Festival, Omni Commons, Oakland
residencies & awards:
2024, Ruth Smith Gallery Residency, Devon
2024, AAI24 Fleinvær Residency, Norway
2023, Company of Arts Charitable Trust Scholar Award 2023-24
2023, NOTA residency, Berlin
2022, Neustart Kultur Grant for visual artists, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2022, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin
2021, Digital Artist-in-Residence, Sick Love Zine, online
2021, Digital Artist-in-Residence, Transient, online
2021, WEFT Residency (Short Supply x Islington Mill), Salford
2020, Greater Than 11% Creative Grant
selected papers, talks & readings:
2024, 'Wet glitches and digital kelp: trans ecologies as methodology'
London Conference in Critical Thought, University of Greenwich
2024, 'Resisting the cis gaze through digital embodiment'
Resistance and Resilience: Gender/Sexuality in Digital Culture, University of Exeter
2024, 'Creeping and leaking as trans creative methodology'
Leakage: Inaugural Conference of stsing, TU Dresden
2024, 'Creeping into myself: textile and digital mediums as trans orientation'
CAA 112th Annual Conference, Chicago
2023, 'Encounters in the Hydrocommons'
Trans Ecologies Symposium, Durham University
2023, 'Resistance as a Tension and the Categorisation of Trans Artists Within Textile Studies'
Global New Voices Conference: Resistance, Art & Visual Thinking, Association for Art History UK
2023, 'Creeping into myself: smocking, pleating & folding as trans orientation'
Textile Intersections Conference, Doctoral Consortium, University of Loughborough London
2022, 'Kelp, Non-linear Materiality, and the Non-Binary Body'
“A darkness in the dark water”: En-tangled Approaches to Seaweed Conference, Haunted Shores Research Network
2021, 'Body as Atmosphere: Creating a Non-Binary Body Through Textiles'
Conference on Dissidence in Gender & Sexuality, University of Amsterdam
2021, 'Body as Atmosphere; implications and methods of creating a non-binary body through wearable textile sculptures'
SVR Gender Studies: ‘(Re) Forming Methodologies’ Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin
2017, Queerstories, Another Country, Berlin
2015, 'My Body Is a Prison of Pain' with Amy Berkowitz, Amy Burek & Kristen Leckie,
E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, Oakland
2015, Creating Queermunity panel discussion, GX Talks, GaymerX, San Jose
2015, Reading with Liz Mayorga, V. Vale & John Marr, Rock Paper Scissors, Oakland
curatorial & collaborations:
2023 — ongoing, Queer Studies Research Network, SWW DTP
2022 — ongoing, Make-Up e.V (Atelier & Project Space), Berlin
2021 — ongoing, More Sparkling Than Crystal reading group (co-founder with Leonie Brandner)
2016 — 2019, Studio Baustelle (Studio & Gallery), Berlin
2016 — 2018, Berlin Zine Fest
2011 — 2016, San Francisco Zine Fest