Stav B - Art CV.
London-based Visual and Conceptual Artist
Education.
PhD Visual Arts. CREAM. University of Westminster. London 2021 -
MA Photography. London College of Communication. London 2001 - 2003
Intermediate Course in Photography. Morley College. London 2000 - 2001
BA (Hons) Fine Art/ Ceramics. Camberwell College of Arts. London 1993 - 1996
Foundation in Art & Design. London Guildhall University. London 1991 - 1992
Portfolio Preparation Course in Painting & Drawing. Mary Ward Centre. London 1990 – 1991
Pre–foundation Course in Drawing and Painting. Maria Ioannidou Institute of Art. Athens 1986 - 1987
Exhibitions.
Dykes just do it. Performance by Sweatmother for INFERNO. ICA. London December 2022
Greek Queer Cabaret. Performance. Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. London October 2022
Queer Art (ists). Now. Film. Group Exhibition. Space Station 65. London October 2022
Red Flags. A new flag. Margate Pride. Margate August 2022
Greek Queer Cabaret. Performance. The Glory. London March 2022
Obsessive Natures. Fresh turf, film, flipbook. Cloud Sediments exhibition (Curator and Artist). Ambika P3. University of Westminster. March 2022
NHS, AIDS and Women. A paper. ACT UP London. LGBT Centre. London
Fringe Film Festival. Film and Q&A. London 9-14 November 2021
The Matter of Circulation. Creative Folkestone. Folkestone Triennial October 2021. Research Project Conference and Q&A. Triple Exposure. Performance. October 2021 Folkestone, Kent
Margate Pride. Group Exhibition. Red Flag and Sound Piece. August 2021 Margate, Kent.
Clifford Chance London Pride Exhibition. Love in the Time of Cholera. Text and Photograph. London June 2021
*Graduate School Festival. University of Westminster. Two films/performances and a Q&A. London 17-21 May 2021
*GLORY TV. The Glory. Video Performance. London May 2021
*Sonic Spectral Summoning. A queer extension module. Words and sounds. 8-26 March 2021
*BOIBOX TV. BoiBox. Video Performance. London February 2021
*GLORY TV. The Glory. Video Performance. London February 2021
*No. I don’t think so. Film and Performance. London February 2021
*Queer Zine. International Queer Dictionary. Text and Photograph. London January 2021
*On Transversality. A TECHNE Conference. Film and Performance. London Nov-Dec 2020
*Jenny Lewis. Holding Hands. Stik Sculpture Project. Photographs. Text. September 2020 London
*Orlando Myxx. We are here. Book for Trans Lives Matter. Prose. September 2020 London.
*Cathal O’ Brien. Hiya Love. Book of Photographs. August 2020 London.
*Margate Pride. Group Exhibition. Red Flag and Sound piece. August 2020 Margate, Kent.
*Alex Grace. 2 Meters Apart. Photographs. August 2020 London.
*Galop. Pride 2020. Film. July 2020 London.
*Adonis. Issue One. Publication. Photographs. July 2020 London.
*The Inverted Isolation. Performance and Sound piece (in progress). London.
*GLORY TV. The Glory. Video Performance. April 2020 London.
*Club Joy. Video Performance. March 2020 London.
Disorder Live Art. Disorders Vol.3. Performance. Sound. Ugly Duck. London November 2019
Double Sided Sticky Tape#1. Performance, Photographs. Turner Contemporary. Margate. Kent August 2019
Cityisland. A three-woman multi-disciplinary show. Photographs, Performance, Sound. The Silver Building. London June 2019
Achtung Baby! Jeni Snell Exhibition. Music Performance. Guernsey March 2019
Greece Lighting. Cabaret Special. Performance. The Glory. London March 2019
Fringe Film Festival. Performance. Old Cardinal Pole School. London 2015
Bar Wotever. Performance, DJ. Royal Vauxhall Tavern. London 2012 - 2015
Me and you and no one else. Video and Live Performance. At home with the Ludskis. Rio Cinema. London 2012
Completing. Video Performance. Whitstable. Kent 2011
Clifford Chance London Pride Exhibition. Photographs. London 2012
I’m with you. Performance. Various sites. London 2010
Queer Beograd. Performance, DJ. Belgrade/ Linz/ Berlin/ Athens 2008 - 2010
St. Barnabas Private Club. Performance. London 2009
The Bird Club. Performance. Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. London 2008 – 2009
Clifford Chance London Pride Exhibition. Photographs. London 2008
Public View. A series of outdoor performances. London 2008
The George. Performance. London 2008
Pride in our Legacy. Performance. Congress House. London 2008
Poopsy Club. Performance. Berlin 2008
Behind Bars. Performance, DJ. Various sites. London 2006 - 2008
Red Dawns Festival. Performance. Ljubljana October 2007
Queen Bees. Performance, Sound. London 2006 - 2007
Subterfuge. Performance. Manchester September 2006
Undercover Surrealism. Performance. Hayward Gallery. London 2006
Park Road Pilot. Performance. London 2006
The Invited Cinema. Film. London 2005
Two See. Performance. London 2006
Russell Square Social Centre. Performance. London 2006
Art House Party. Performance. London 2006
ACTART 03 04 05. Performance. Various sites. London 2005 – 2007
Kaos. Salon des Artistes. Film, Performance. Stunners. London 2004 - 2006
The Crypt. Performance. London 2005
The Gowlett. Photographs, Performance. London 2005
Pierre Garroudi Gallery. Photographs. London 2005
Medium Magazine. Photographs (Book). London 2005
Rampant. Brady Social Centre. Performance. London 2005
Red Gate Gallery. Photographs, Installation, Performance. London 2004
291 Gallery. Photographs. London 2004
The Brady Centre. Photo Month. Photographs. London 2004
Four Corners. Photo Month. Photographs. London 2004
Inside Space. Photographs. London 2004
The Duke of York. Photographs. London 2003
Mirror. The Museum of Installation. London 1997
Untitled. Slides and Text. London Guildhall University. London 1992
*Online (Complete) Projects during COVID-19 and Lockdown. March 2020 – May 2021
Performances/ Texts. *
You and Me and No one else. August 2023
My (own) Lesbian Exile: Displacement, autobiography and language in London’s places and spaces 1990-2022. CREAM Symposium January 2023
Lesbian lives, stories, places. November 2022
No, means, No! October 2022
Let’s be not… May 2022
Obsessive Natures. Cloud Sediments exhibition. March 2022
Tap Dancing in the Void of Dead Ideals. March 2022
Triple Exposure. September 2021
Biting Cheek. Reworking and Archiving. July 2021
A letter. CREAM Research Methodologies. March 2021
No. I don’t think so. February 2021
How long is Ariadne’s thread? November 2020
Red Flags. July 2020
The Inverted Isolation. March 2020 (In Progress)
No. I don’t think so. March 2019
#WOMEN. REMAPPING THE TERRITORY. OUR WAY (poems). March 2019
Me and you and no one else. May 2012
Completing. January 2011
Push it; raise it: harder, higher. October 2010
Take it further. July 2011
The devil is in the detail. November 2009
Soldier. September 2009 **
Pink Ribbon. October 2008
Walking under ladders. March 2008
Give me something. February 2008
Sugar Mary. July 2007
Let’s be… not. June 2007
Time and grace. February 2007
I let love in. February 2007
Realising the marvellous in the mundane. June 2006
Shut the fuck up you stupid fucking cunt. April 2006
Biting cheek. January 2006
Once upon a time there was… June 2005
Dance. April 2004
* all performances written and created by stav B
** Soldier written by Jet Moon, re written/ edited by stav B
Sound Pieces. ***
Sonic Spectral Summoning. A queer extension module. 8-26 March 2021
Red Flags. Margate Pride. July 2020
Ugly Duck. London November 2019
Turner Contemporary. Margate, Kent August 2019
The Silver Building. London June 2019
***all pieces performed and recorded by stav B
designed and mixed by Fred Defaye
Public Discussions/ Conferences/ Chair.
Queering the Academia Intersectionally Conference (Pride 2023). 29 June 2023
NHS, AIDS and Women. A paper. LGBT Centre. London for ACT UP London 13 Mar 2022
The ongoing Crisis and Loss of Queer Spaces. London 12 January 2017
LGBTQIA Organisations and part of Queer Spaces Network in association with the Mayor of London:
The Crisis of Queer Spaces. London 20 January 2016
Soho Spirit: Whatever happened to Queer Women’s Spaces? London 20 February 2016
Whatever happened to queer women’s spaces? London. 10 January 2016
RAZE Collective – Queer Social – Stav B Art Work. London 23 February 2016
Queer Experiments: Fashion. London 23 September 2015
Press/ Media.
The UK’s Queer Scene and the Media’s Blind Eye. Gopika Shaji. Media Diversity Institute. London 2021
The Year that Was (‘nt). Six creative reflect on 2020. Emma Kroeger. Dalston Superstore. London 2020
ADONIS Magazine. London July 2020
The Many Voices of Pride. Sponsored by UBER. London 2019
FGUK Magazine. Social Virus. London 2019
JARRY magazine. Issue 6. Queer Food Journal. Les Aperos Legers. Photos. London 2018
Express. London 2017
Stylelikeu. What’s Underneath? New York. USA/ London. UK 2016
Queer History of East London Project. London 2015
The Most Cake. London 2009 - 2015
Bar Magazine. London 2014
Girls Like Us Magazine. Bruxelles. 2012
Dalston Superstore. London 2012
London on the Inside. London 2011
Time Out. London 2011
QX and BOYZ Magazines. London 2003 – 2007
Sunday Times Magazine. London 2007
South London Press. 2006
I.D Magazine. London 2006
Diva Magazine. London 2000
Total Theatre Magazine. London 1997
Art/Club Nights/Pop-up Bar Founder.
Stav B’s Salon. A DADA, avant-garde night with dinner, drinks, music, performance and dance. November 2021 -
The Women Only Club. A night for female-identified women. London 2015 -
The T club. A night for transgender and genderqueer people. London 2012 - 2015
Film Club. A weekly film night, featuring series, and seasons, with tailor-made cocktails. 2013 - 2015
DAD. A night of queer rockabilly, garage, punk music. London 2011 - 2013
Stav B’s liquor bar. A pop-up, speakeasy, site specific and with tailor-made libations. 2010 -
The Platform. A night of DADA-inspired art and performance with a small cocktail bar and tailor-made music and sounds. London 2009 -
Queen Bees. A night for women. London 2006 - 2010
Xposures. A short film event. London 2002 - 2003
Work and Collaborations.
International Relations Seminar Series Co-Ordinator: Voices from the Global South. University of Westminster. April 2023-
Research Internship Project Co-Ordinator for Quintin Hogg Trust. University of Westminster. March 2023 – July 2023
Female Trouble Club Night. London 2020
Galop. London 2020
GLORY TV. Performance (work in isolation). London 2020
CLUB JOY. Music Video (work in isolation). London 2020
UBER Queer Campaign. London 2019
FGUK Magazine. Photo shoot by Adriana Roslin. London 2019
Queer Ball Club Night. London 2019
Queer Fashion Show. London 2018
Future Fusion. London 2018
My Father’s Veil. A photographic project by Eleni Parousi. London 2018
Kings of Clubs Club Night. In collaboration with drag king Karen Fisch. London 2017-
Up Yer Weimar Republic Club Night. In collaboration with artist Emily Howard. London 2017 -2019
A sister dipped in blood. Gareth Pugh/ Nick Knight. 10 Magazine. AW 2017.
Gareth Pugh/ Nick Night. Fashion Show/ Shoot. September 2017
Bones (band/ video). London 2016
Dove Campaign. London 2015
Stylelikeu. London 2015
Sarah Jane Moon. Portrait Painting. London 2014
Dalston Screentests. London 2014
Cancer Research. Film. Kent 2013
Sadie Lee. Portrait Painting. London 2011
Goodbooks (Band). Video. Elstree 2007
Dee Ramadan (photos), Andy Newman (illustrations). Curator. London 2006 - 2007
I.D and Sunday Times Magazine. London 2006
Fashion Photoshoot. Toni and Guy. London 2005
Marco Mancassola (portrait for his book) Last Love Parade. London 2005
Wedding. London 2003
Big Arts Week (photography and film). Woolwich Primary School. London 2001
Chalk Farm Gallery. Etchings. London 1997 - 2000
The History of the World. Michael Petry. Film. Austin, Texas. USA 1997
Curator (photography and illustration/ group show). Camberwell College of Arts. London 1996
Awards.
GER Scholarship. July 2023
Learning and Teaching workshop. University of Westminster. January-March 2023
G Petts Scholarship. April 2021
GER Scholarship. July 2021
Arts Council Grant. May 2020