February 2024 News
Thanks to the British Journal of Photography, JCDelaux and the judges of Portrait of Britain for showing 'Portrait Of A Mother Of A Thirty Five Month Old And A Fifteen Month Old (10th May 2023)' on JCDelaux screens around the UK (train stations, bus stops, Heathrow airport etc).
It's now finished, but it was lovely to receive photos of my work in England, Scotland and Wales.
Shown above: Birmingham, Cambridgeshire (thanks Luana Martignon), Cardiff (thanks Cara Heath) and Glasgow.
A book with all 200 photos is also available to buy here.

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January 2024 News
Delighted that 'Portrait Of A Mother Of A Thirty Five Month Old And A Fifteen Month Old (10th May 2023)' from my series 'Oh Me, Oh Mãe II' has been selected as one of the 100 winners of Portrait of Britain.
You can the 100 photos on JCDelaux screens around the UK (train stations, bus stops, Heathrow airport etc.) until 4th February.
A book with all 200 photos is also available to buy here.

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November 2023 News
Really happy that 'Portrait Of A Mother Of A Thirty Five Month Old And A Fifteen Month Old (10th May 2023)' from my series 'Oh Me, Oh Mãe II' has been shortlisted for the British Journal of Photography's Portrait of Britain. 

It will be published in Portrait of Britain Volume 6 by Bluecoat Press alongside 199 photographs. It is now available to pre-order
Check out all the photographs here.

Also pleased to see that it was shown in an online article on The Times' website.

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I'm delighted to be part of The Wrong Biennale for the third time. A big thanks to Andres Manniste and his co-curators Laurent Bouchard and Joyce Yahouda for the invitation to show work online within their I rave/je délire pavilion.
You can check out the pavilion here.

My work is within the 'chaos' section and there you can see photos from my Oh Me, Oh Mãe II series, along with a poem which I wrote especially for the biennale. I'm currently taking a poetry course and I'm enjoying experimenting with my writing rather than restricting myself to hashtags.
You can see those here.

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July 2023 News
Happy to have an image on the front cover and have work from my Puke Portraits series inside Volume 2 of Milk.
'Milk is a limited series art journal of written and visual artworks by artist-mothers about motherhood. Volume 2 is themed “Body & Belonging”, and looks at how physical (and not) mothering can be, as well as how it can inspire a deep sense of belonging or alienation.
Volume 2 features works by 19 artists from 10 countries. It includes artworks by Mequitta Ahuja, Imogen Alabaster, Alejandra Alarcón, Clara Aldén, Jocelyn Allen, Julia Bollinger, Miriam Fabijan, Paola de Grenet, Ashley January, Kasey Jones, Takako Kido, Hilke Kurzke, Fani Parali; poetry by Christa Fairbrother, Faith Paulsen, Marin Smith, and J. Hope Stein; and interviews with Chelsea Conaboy and Cassie Arnold. The cover features a photograph by Jocelyn Allen.'
You can order the e-book for €5 here.
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March 2023 News
I'm looking forward to talking with Naomi Wood at the Museum of Gloucester on Sunday 21st May 2023 at 2pm.
Pay what you think. More info here.

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My Reality of Youth Going Backwards in Vain book was included in the reading section of the The Performing Photobook Exhibition at Format Festival's Photobook Market.

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February 2023 News
An image from my 'Oh Me, Oh Mãe' series is currently on display in the yard at Modern Art Oxford in collaboration with the Procreate Project until 2nd April.
'Artists on display at Modern Art Oxford from The Procreate Project Archive are: Jocelyn Allen, Helen Barff, Sophie Bladgen, Catherine Chinatree, Minami Ivory, Tracey Kershaw, Jennifer Nieuwland, Lizzie Philps, Helen Sargeant.'
More info here.

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(Re)Production: Parenthood and the Art World, a digital exhibition, which was curated by Andrea Allan and shown at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool last year will feature in AIR Gallery's Artist/Parent exhibition. It includes a photo from my Oh Me, Oh Mãe project.

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I was longlisted for the Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood book. Over 27,000 images were submitted.

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January 2023 News
I was happy to have an image shortlisted for the Small File Photo Festival, which was organised by The Photographers' Gallery.
You can view the online exhibition (which features my five submissions) here

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The Royal Photographic Society's IPE 163 has now travelled to the Museum of Gloucester. The show is open until 4th June, and you can find more information about it here.

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November 2022 News
After doing one-off visiting lecturer sessions at different universities and colleges, it's been lovely working at Birmingham City University for a term and seeing the students in my tutor group develop. I'm looking forward to going back next year for another term.

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July 2022 News
Happy to have my photo 'Apparently My Children Like To Be Breech At 37 Weeks (37 Weeks / 12th January 2022' (from the series Waiting For Things In A Time When You Wait For Things) shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibition 164.
Full list here.

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June 2022 News
Pleased to have an image in '(Re)Production: Parenthood and the Art World' on the Digital Window Gallery at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, UK.

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April 2022 News
Two of my images are on show at the Royal Photographic Society's IPE 163 from 16th April to 21st August, in Bristol, UK.

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Pleased to have two images in Your Body Belongs To You, which is showing at Festival Pil’Ours in Saint Gilles Croix de Vie in France for 6 months and is organised by Shutter Hub.

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February 2022 News
Four images from Oh Me, Oh Mãe project have been chosen for F-Stop Magazine's online exhibition on the theme of parenting.

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December 2021 News
Excited to announce that I'm one of the fifty-seven photographers who has been selected for the Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibition (IPE 163).
'8,000 images were entered by 3,944 photographers from 114 countries. A total of 105 works by 57 photographers will be on display in the International Photography Exhibition 163 at RPS Gallery, Bristol from 16 April to 3 July 2022.'
Two images from Oh Me, Oh Mãe project will be on show.

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November 2021 News
Thanks to Andres Manniste for including me in Art Was Only A Substitute For The Internet, which is part of the fifth edition of The Wrong Biennale. 
Check it out all the artists here.
I'm showing my Oh Me, Oh Mãe project - see it here.
The pavilion is open until 1st March 2022.


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September 2021 News
Excited to be showing work with Vasli Souza (who I had a solo show with in 2020) at Oslo Negativ.
Oslo Negativ is a photo festival that will be held at Det Gamle Biblioteket and will run from 1st to 24th October. 
On show will be a couple of images from Your Mind & Body Is All That You've Got, Pain Business and Smile Love.

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It's great to be involved with Shutter Hub's Yearbook again.

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August 2021 News
Thanks to Jess at Scenario for interviewing me (twice) for the new episode of Scenario.
In The Wait we talk photography projects (Waiting..., OMOM, Puke Portraits), hypnobirthing, birthing, mothering, hashtags, dancing and more in ~30 minutes.
 'Scenario is a photography podcast bringing you hidden stories from behind the camera. Told as a narrative, Scenario follows photographers as they make their work and their projects come to life. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts!

Scenario's brand new episode THE WAIT follows Jocelyn Allen, who has been making self-portraits for over 10 years, as she documents her pregnancy and becoming a mother for the first time during a global pandemic.'

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July 2021 News
I'm delighted to have had four of my images from Oh Me, Oh Mãe shortlisted for RPS' IPE 163

My chances of making the final cut (from the work of 278 other photographers) is slim, but it's nice to receive a nod for work that has been made over the last 13+ months.

Thanks to my family for their support even if they might not be aware of it - B partially features in two images and inspired the other two.

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May 2021 News
From the 10th to 15th of May I took over @postphotocollective's account on Instagram.
POST is 'a support network committed to making Motherhood visible in the photographic industry'.
View POST for takeovers by other members, and see my posts.

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April 2021 News
Thanks to Mocksim for inviting me to contribute to ABCOA.

'ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative invited interested and interesting friends, and even frenemies, to contribute to this superb project. Each participant supplied a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) but with the CoA itself being the artefact. In other words, each document referenced itself.'

I made a hashtag CoA.

More info/buy here.

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A couple of images from my Oh Me, Oh Mãe project are included in F-stop's latest issue, Self-Portrait.

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March 2021 News
Thanks to Helen Sear for mentioning my work in Photo London's International Women's Day Issue. Also nice to be mentioned alongside Celine Marchbank. 

You can view the whole issue here.

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A few of my photographs from Oh Me, Oh Mãe are in 87 Gallery's online publication Times
The theme of the issue is Heightened Selfie and photographs by nine other artists are also featured. 
It can be viewed Times I: Heightened Selfie — 87 GALLERY​​​​​​​.

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February 2021 News​​​​​​​
In December I wrote an article for Artquest's Art Worlds, Babyfied in Birmingham, about continuing to make my work after having a baby.
You can read it here.

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December 2020 News​​​​​​​
My article for AIMS (Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services) Journal is now on their website.
The theme of Journal Vol. 32, No. 4 is The Use of Social Media in Pregnancy and Early Parenthood.

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I'm looking forward to doing a short talk/presentation as part of LCC's MA Photography event on Wednesday 16th December.
More details/book here.

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November 2020 News​​​​​​​
On Sunday 29th November between 1.30 and 2.30pm (UK time), I'm running an online workshop called Digital Diary: Hashtag Your Heart Out.
In this workshop, participants will write hashtags about how they are feeling during these weird pandemic times, and take an accompanying photograph (phone images are fine) to create an Instagram-ready diary entry.
The workshop is part of the online programme of HYPERTEXT - a virtual art book fair presented by Bound Art Book Fair in collaboration with Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.
You can sign up for the workshop here.

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In November, I gave an online talk to the photography students at the University of Hertfordshire about my work. 
I also did group tutorial sessions.

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Thanks to Maternal Art for inviting me to write a blog post for their 'How are artist/mothers continuing to create through the COVID-19 crisis?' series.

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October 2020 News​​​​​​​
Thanks to Silvia Rosi for choosing my Waiting For Things... project as part of her Surviving Through Images trail on Photo Fringe's online festival.
Visit my online exhibition here / see the other exhibitions here.

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September 2020 News​​​​​​​
Thanks to Meg Wellington-Barratt for writing about my Oh Me, Oh Mãe project on Foto Femme United.

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August 2020 News​​​​​​​
A couple of photos from my Waiting For Things... series are in F-Stop Magazine's Staying Home Together online exhibition.

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July 2020 News
My photo 'The Baby Just Seems So Protected And Safe In My Belly (36 and a half weeks)' from the series Waiting For Things In A Time When You Rarely Wait For Things was selected as PhotoVogue's Pic of the day on 22nd July.

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One of my photos from Bare Images, and my series Pain Business were shown in Vasli Souza's Summer Exhibition in Bastad, Sweden.

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Thanks to Shutter Hub for including two of my images in their YEARBOOK 2020 online exhibition
There are 292 photographs by over 200 photographers in total.
It is up until 9th September.

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June 2020 News
Images from my Waiting For Things In A Time When You Rarely Wait For Things, Puke Portraits and Ulterior Monologue projects appear in Issue #2 of Fluido by PICS. It's the online magazine of the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico.
My work can be seen here.
You can see my work being talked about in a digtal presentation on YouTube here.

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Thanks to The British Journal of Photography for selecting my photo, It Seems Like Everyone Is Pregnant Except Me, from my series Ulterior Monologue for OpenWalls Arles.
It will be shown along with the other selected work at Galerie Huit Arles in France from 26th June to 5th September.

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All Change, a project for which I made my series Going Round The Houses, All Around The Houses, now has a website.
13 photographers (including me) photographed the last stops of the London Underground.
I was assigned Watford.
Thanks to It's Nice That and the British Journal of Photography for writing articles about the 13 photographers involved in All Change.
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Last summer I was involved in Shutter Hub's Time To Think exhibition at Festival Pil’ours, Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France. Due to Covid, the exhibition has been reinstalled and will be shown until 30th November.

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May 2020 News
Convenience Gallery invited me to participate in their #AnotherNightIn project as part of this year's Light Night one night arts festival in Liverpool. The festival was initially cancelled due to Covid-19, but it was then moved online.
I took a photo of myself in my 'home studio' - a wall of the living room/dining room/kitchen that I have used since moving to Liverpool in late 2018. There are also a few photos from my pregnancy project.

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I appeared in the background of Tiago Bettencourt's interview on RTP2's Jornal 2 programme, and during the credits. 

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April 2020 News
I danced to Tiago Bettencourt's song Dança for his new music video.
We had been planning to make the video in Liverpool, but due to lockdown it was made in our living rooms.
He is one of my favourite singers, so it was really exciting to be approached by him to dance to his song.
You can watch the video here.

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Just a few days before lockdown in the UK, I photographed JC Leisure for the May 2020 issue of The Wire to accompany words by Antonio Poscic.
Thanks to Amy Gwatkin and Ben Weaver for the opportunity!
A crop of the photo appears online here.

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Thanks to Convenience Gallery for inviting me to partake in Horizons #3, where for 2 weeks (from 14th April) I have set some tasks/challenges for people to do for a bit of a fun.
The first instagram post with details is here.

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March 2020 News

I Worry That People Will Think I Am Drunk Or Hungover If I Am Sick In The Street (8 weeks)

I have uploaded some photos from my work-in-progress series Waiting For Things In A Time When You Rarely Wait For Things.
The project is a diary of my pregnancy and I am currently posting the images in order to my instagram, before adding some of them to the page.
The images are accompanied by up to 30 hashtags in the form of a diary, but only the first three have them displayed on my website. The others can be seen on instagram.

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I've uploaded 10 photos from my series Puke Portraits to the self-portraiture section of my website.
The project is 56 portraits of me after I've been sick during my pregnancy.

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February 2020 News
I'm excited to announce my very first solo show, and my first time exhibiting in Norway!
Always Awkward at Vasli Souza in Oslo, Norway will showcase a selection of self-portraits and video/gif work from 2012-2019.
The opening is on Saturday 8th February (1-4pm) and the last day will be Sunday 8th March.

Some installation shots are below and there are more here on Vasli Souza's website.
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Thanks to Objektiv for asking me to write about an image on my mind.
I chose Vibeke Tandberg's 2003 series Old Man Going Up and Down a Staircase, and talk about the changes to my body and my Grandmother's.
You can read it here.

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 November 2019 News
On 20th November, I hosted a workshop called Performative Fun Times at Bloom Building in Birkenhead, UK.
I was invited by Convenience Gallery (thanks to them for organsing and for taking this picture).
It consisted of a lot of improv games and performative exercises.

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If you're in Paris between 7th and 10th November, go to Offprint Paris and you'll find a r c h i p e l a g o presenting their first publication I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
'The book results from the exhibition held in Palermo, Italy, in 2018. "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" explored the notion of ‘affects’ in the digital era and their place in contemporary communication.'
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My Opening Tinder video was shown at the exhibition.

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