Dr Gemma Marmalade: CV
At a glance
Born in Essex, United Kingdom, 1979.
Lives and works across the UK and Las Vegas, USA
PhD from Cambridge School of Art, UK
Artist, Researcher, and seasoned Academic of the Arts
Senior Academic and Management Leader at the University of Derby
Visiting Professor for the Arts at Nevada State University
Study
Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University 2015-2022
PhD - Research title: In A Manner of Speaking: The Subversive Voice in Performative Art
LCC, University of the Arts London 2010-2012
MA Photography with Distinction
University of Derby 2008-2009
Post Graduate Teaching Certificate with Distinction
University of Derby 2005-2008
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography 1st Class Honours
Selected Awards and Recognitions
Lecturer of the Year for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education, University of Derby 2017-2018; 2020-2021
BOM Fellow 2016
Photographers' Gallery, (prize winner) Fresh Faced + Wild Eyed 2012
Future MAP 2012
Spring Exhibition, Copenhagen (jury prize nominee) 2012
Photofusion AMPS (runner up) 2012
Photofusion Award 2011
Sproxton Award (Special Recognition) 2011
University of Derby - Best Graduate Dissertation, 2008
Selected Academic Teaching, Conferences and Artists Talks
External Examiner for OCA, University of Creative Arts 2019-2022
External Examiner for BA Hons Photography Coventry University 2021-2024
External Examiner for MA Photography Practices Westminster University 2021-2025
External Examiner for BA Photography, London South Bank University 2023-2027
University of Arts, London
Goldsmiths, London
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas
University of Derby
University of Bedfordshire
The Photographers' Gallery, London
New College Stamford
St Ivo School, Cambridgeshire
Portfolio reviewer, Punktum, 2013
Lessons in Geography, mac, Birmingham 2013
Judge for the Sproxton Award, MA Photography, LCC with Val Williams 2013
MK Gallery 2014
Laughing my art off, symposium, London College of Communication 2014
Awkward Bastards, DASH, mac, Birmingham 2015
Firecrackers: Women and Wit in Photography symposium, London College of Communication 2015
Royal Photographic Society, Female Photographers, Burton & South Derbyshire College 2015
London South Bank University 2016
Pacitti Company Think Tank 2016
Selected Exhibitions
FORMAT International Photography Festival, 2023
FORMAT International Photography Festival, 2021
all the small things, Artcore, UK, September 2021
Arcus Pride, London, July - October 2021
Albion's Got Serious Issues, EXPOSURE Festival, Calgary, Canada, February 2020
Diversity, Clifford Chance, curated by Michael Petry, London, July 2019
FORMAT19 International Photography Festival, Derby, March 2019
The Laughable Enigma of Everyday Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Azores, Portugal, September 2017
Double Act - The Bluecoat, Liverpool, April 2016
PSEUDIO - Basement Project Space, Anglia Ruskin University, April 2016
Lotusland, Changing Spaces, Cambridge, July 2015
Green Fingered - Solo show - BOM (Birmingham Open Media) May 2015
Bad Behaviour, London, November 2014
Now&After, International Video Festival, State Museum of Gulag,Moscow, May 2014
'Lemon Song' from series 'Green Fingered' - Time is Love, The Passage, London, January 2014
Strange Birds - Group Show, CRASH 13, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, December 2013
Fish Wives - Summer Fete 2013 - Ceri Hand Gallery, London, August 2013
Strange Birds - Group Show - FUTURE MAP 2012, Central Saint Martin's, Lethaby Gallery, London, Jan 2013
Strange Birds - Group Show - Photofusion Annual Salon Show, Brixton, London, Dec 2012. Hotshoe Photofusion Award runner up.
Strange Birds - Group Show 'Fresh Faced + Wild Eyed 2012' The Photographers' Gallery, London. September 2012
Strange Birds - Group Show 'Ghost Station' for ArtHertz. Bombe Hut, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes. September 2012
Strange Birds - Solo Show - Apulia Film Commission, Bari, Italy. July 2012
'PECK' from the 'Homos Archive', Butch Queen First Time In Drag, Site Festival 2012, Stroud, Gloucestershire. May, 2012
Strange Birds - Group Show - The Spring Exhibition 2012, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Jury Prize nominee
LCC MAP- MA Degree Show - Group Show - Main Gallery, LCC, Elephant & Castle, London, Nov 2011
Animal- Group Show- Hello Darling Gallery, Derby 2008
FreeRange- Group Show- Truman Gallery, Brick Lane, London 2008
Love & Rabbit Stew- Group Show- University of Derby 2008
Groundswell 2- Group Show- Derby Green Lane Gallery 2006
Groundswell- Group Show- Derby Green Lane Gallery 2003
Selected Publications: Featured and Written
Harris, P., Marmalade, G. FOREVER//NOW (2020)
Marmalade, G., Gay Gardens: Visual Anachronisms and the Subversive Politics of Queer Representation (2019)
Durden, M., Campbell, D. (2016) Double Act: Art & Comedy. Independent publication.
Houghton, M., Rogers, F. (2017) Firecrackers: Contemporary Female Photographers. Thames & Hudson, London.
Source Photographic Review, issue 82, Spring 2015 – works and essay by Professor Mark Durden
Nyx, a noctournal, issue 9, Vermin edition, 2015
Culture Colony Quarterly, Summer edition 2015
Source Photographic Review, issue 72 – review of Strange Birds, Anne Braybon, Oct 2012
The Double Negative – review of Fish Wives, Sarah Creed, September 2013
Creative Review, Surreal Babies, December 2011