Bio
Adam Moore is an artist, dancer, designer, writer and teacher born in east London. His work spans contexts and media examining the ephemeral and precarious substance of the world at large. He presents work in museums, commercial and public galleries, itinerant project spaces, and sites of interest notionally and internationally. Since 2025 he’s been making, curating, and performing collaborations at his home site, a culturally led housing project in southeast London, between the river Thames and Abbey Wood ruins. In galleries and museums he creates exhibitions and performance installations curated with dance, art, and design, and uses site-sensitive situated practices to create public art and live events with collaborative socially engaged forms, nature, technology, and craft. Creole diaspora with British, Caribbean and Central American heritage he locates himself within a global community reflected in his transdisciplinary creative practice. An award-winning artist working with prominent archives and collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum and V&A East Storehouse collections, he has participated in national and international residencies, fellowships, and artist development programmes. He teaches undergraduate Fine Art programmes in the UK and facilitates artist development and gallery education programmes in the UK and internationally.
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The inaugural V&A East Storehouse micro-residency artist, he presented a selection of his recent art, design, and sculpture, with objects selected from the Storehouse collections that inspired these, curated together in Gallery 3 at the V&A East Storehouse for the first ‘Look What I Found’ (2025) show and tell. The inaugural V&A East X Bow Arts Artist Fellow (2023-24) working with the Victoria & Albert Museum archives and collections exploring local ecologies, materials, and manufacturing histories in Newham, he presented his performance installation and spatial intervention Live in room in residence at Royal Albert Wharf at the London Docklands in 2024. His installation and performance series Bright Dynasty was presented by Kunstram, London in 2021 supported by Jerwood Arts, and developed with support from Hypha Studios, London, and Jerwood UNITe at g39, Cardiff, before his first institutional solo exhibition of Bright Dynasty at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, in 2022. His public artworks include Glow Home (2024), a permanent public artwork commissioned by Culture Within Newham and Art School Plus, and Still life (2023-24) commissioned by Devonshire Collective and Eastbourne ALIVE celebrating the 2023 Turner Prize.
The only artist to co-design and -facilitate the Transformative Futures Youth Collective programme at Camden Art Centre for two years running, his facilitation work and legacy positively shaping art and culture with young people reaches across galleries, museums, and higher education teaching on BA Fine Art programmes in London.
Residencies and artist development programmes include the V&A East Storehouse micro-residency (2025), Bow Arts 125 Shaftesbury Avenue artist studio residency (2025), UNIDEE residency programs – Foundazione Pistolleto (IT) (2024), Art School Plus (2023), Jerwood UNITe, g39, Cardiff (2022), Hypha Studios, London (2022), Siobhan Davies Studios Percolate residency with Dance Art Journal, (2021), Ingestre Orangery’s Pleasure Ground (2021), CONSTELLATIONS with UP Projects and Flat Time House (2020-21), and the Haarlem Artspace Collectivism Residency (2019).
His awards include Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice and Jerwood Arts Jerwood New Work Fund (both 2023), among others.
He has facilitated artist’s development and education programmes for Destination Unknown 2023 (NL), Camden Art Centre’s Transformative Futures Youth Collective (2021-2022), Theatrum-Mundi, and Independent Dance, among others.
He received his BA in Dance, Theatre, and Professional Practice from Coventry University, and his MFA in Dance Creative Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, graduating a Leverhulme Performing Arts Scholar (Gill Clarke Bursary). He has taught and convened undergraduate programmes in conservatoires and universities in the UK since 2022.
His writing has been commissioned in print and online, including in A Love Affair published by TM & ATLAS Projectos. Developing technical printmaking, woodwork, ceramic, and 3D design fabrication skills alongside his work and research with archives and collections, he formed AM(b)MC Workshops in 2025 creating limited edition artworks and designs inspired by and for the world at large.
Artwork
After Lands (the song) and Dispersal IV-V-VII
Las Palabras, Somers Gallery, London
Curated by Natalia Valencia Arango
Group show, Performance, Drawing, Site, Printmaking
AVALANCHE The home site
Collaboration, Site, Installation, Performance, Sound, Social Choreography, Institutional Critique
Look What I Found
V&A East Storehouse
Art, Design, Archives and Collections
Samples and Extended Plays: Recomposing the Archive
Bow Arts 125 Shaftesbury Avenue 2025
Curation, Performance, Site
Glow Home
Beckton Globe Library, London
Culture Within Newham 2024
Public artwork, Design, Sculpture, Social practice
AVALANCHE with Maria Danilova
BATTENBERG II
WAY OUT EAST 2024
Institutional critique, Performance, Sound, Social Choreography;
Installation with Collage, Readymade, and Wall Drawing
Live in room
London Docklands Royal Albert Wharf
V&A East X Bow Arts
2023-2024
Critical spatial practice: Photography, Writing, Archives and Collections, Design, Print, Performance
Farther. Like a dream unfinished into ever.
UNIDEE – FONDAZIONE PISTOLETTO, IT 2024
WAY OUT EAST, London 2023
Performance installation: photography, video, choreography, sound, critical spatial practice, print
Destination Unknown
Phillips Factory, Roermond, NL 2023
Facilitation
Curation, social and situated practice, artist development
Transformative Futures Youth Collective
Camden Art Centre, London 2023
Facilitation
Curation, social practice, artist development
Still life
Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne pier, UK 2023
Public artwork
Site, photography, choreography, social practice
Readings & Rituals
Various, London 2022
Commission, collaboration
Situated practice, writing, choreography, performance, social practice
(Loki’s Castle Underwater) Supercritical
House of Annetta, London 2023
Commission
Text, choreography, performance, social practice
AVALANCHE (2022-)
qap.digital, London 2022
Group show
Painting, performance, sound, choreography, social practice
A Spark (Bright Dynasty)
Hypha Presents, London 2022
Group show
Performance, installation, choreography, sculpture, video, sound
HYPHA STUDIOS PRESENTS
56 Conduit Street, London 2022
Group show
Ceramics, video
56 CONDUIT STREET, London
TM-Cohort 2022 Displacement
Docklands, London 2022
Facilitation
Critical spatial practice: site, social practice, choreography, photography
Bright Dynasty (2021-)
Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, UK 2022
Solo exhibition
Curation, Performance Installation, Design, Video, Dance, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Sound, Writing
Jerwood UNITe Open Studios
g39 Cardiff, UK 2022
Group show
Performance, installation, sculpture, choreography, design, video, painting
Iris: Earth Day Readings
Large Glass Gallery London 2022
Commission
Text, performance
Bright Dynasty (2021-)
Hypha Studios, London 2022
Two person show
Performance, installation, choreography, sculpture, ceramics, painting, sound, design, curation
DisSolution
Rotten.TV – Daniel Lie & Jupiter Artland, 2021
Commission
Text, video, sound, digital
The Water Garden
The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, 2021
Commission
Text, video, digital
Supercritical, A Psalm
Theatrum-Mundi, London 2021
Commission
Critical spatial practice: text, video, sound
Umbra, Penumbra, Antumbra
Flat Time House, London 2021
Collaboration, curation
Social practice, text, video, choreography, performance
Diaphanous
Ingestre Orangery, UK 2021
Commission
Critical spatial practice: video, text, photography, sound
Bright Dynasty (2021-)
Kunstraum London, Jerwood Arts 2021
Solo exhibition
Performance, Installation, Design, Choreography, Painting
Long Play Liberation Transmission
The Place, London 2021
Commission, collaboration
Curation, choreography, performance, social practice, digital
Long Play Liberation
Newham London 2020
Commission
Performance, installation, choreography, video
Maybe there will be stars
Haarlem Artspace, 2019
Collaboration
Site, social practice, choreography, video
Healing Forwards
Laban Centre, London 2017
Collaboration
Performance, installation, choreography, video, sound
Unearthed
London Topophobia, 2015
Collaboration
Critical spatial practice: performance, installation, sculpture, choreography, sound
Learning
Adam Moore, Test (2023). Charcoal, gouache, pastel on paper, tape. 594 x 841mm.
2025
Look What I Found
V&A East Storehouse
Conversations with Ourselves
Pushkin House, London
BA Fine Art
University of East London
2023
Blue Space
Devonshire Youth Collective
Transformative Futures 2022-23 Youth Collective
Camden Art Centre
BA Experimental Arts and Performance
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Guest Writers Programme
Dance Art Journal
Choreographing the City Masterclass
Theatrum Mundi
Guest Advisor 1:1s
Art Quest
2022
Inaugural Sensing Place and Placemaking Research Programme
NN Contemporary Art
Inaugural Theatrum Mundi Cohort, Displacement
Embodying Otherness
Theatrum Mundi
Youth Collective Summer Residency Artist Mentor
Camden Art Centre
Bright Dynasty Multidimensional Making
Phoenix Art Space
Professional Morning Classs
Independent Dance
Transformative Futures 2021-22 Youth Collective
Camden Art Centre
Jerwood Arts g39 UNITe Open Studio
Bright Dynasty Queer POC Listening Space
Hypha Studios
Notes on Learning
I love learning. I create stimulating and nurturing environments and imaginative resources for transformative learning experiences. Learning (play, trial and error, research and practice) is how we live and grow. Learning transforms the future.
Learning with others I convene, facilitate, mentor, and teach across a broad range of contexts, subjects, and communities. I design learning opportunities with and for children, families, young people, graduates, independent artists and people of all ages and abilities across art gallery and museum education programmes; for undergraduate and postgraduate university and conservatoire curriculums; for specialist institutions, creative organisations and collectives, and Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations.
I facilitate learning across experimental, transdisciplinary, and collaborative practices; performance making; somatic embodied improvisational dance techniques, choreography, and contact improvisation; spatial, environmental and socially engaged post-studio critical spatial practices; writing; and activism. I work with architecture, ceramics, dance, design, drawing, film, painting, reading, sculpture, sound, and writing, and use these in various unpredictable and imaginative combinations for learning with others.
Listening using different modes of attention I learn through my process-oriented transdisciplinary practice; commissions, exhibitions and performances; and independent, multi-modal research with archives and collections, and technology. I attend workshops, courses, intensives, talks and panel discussions; I listen to podcasts; I participate in artist residencies and open studios; and I collaborate with institutions to produce public programmes aligned with the values and interests and the heart of my practice: unity, resilience, and transcendence: interdependent liberty: luxury and freedom..
I am committed to intersectional, collaborative, and transdisciplinary anti-racist, decolonial, feminist, queer, anti-capitalist, ecologically and socially sensitive learning. I use publicly accessible resources, and non-hierarchical decentring practices to support learning with the goal of positively transforming independent thinking and creative development at the institutional, professional, and individual level.
Writing
Adam Moore, Supercritical, A Psalm in A Love Affair
Commissioned by Theatrum-Mundi and Diaspore Projects
Published by ATLAS Projectos
Adam Moore, All that glitters is not gold in Encounters
My hot take on city- making and dance-making
Commissioned by Thearum-Mundi
Published byT-M Editions
Adam Moore, The Magician and Spell of Abundance
Commissioned digital collage and poem inspired by Salvador Dali’s tarot deck for TAKEAWAY 022 on the plate – ABUNDANCE, Cardiff, UK
Adam Moore, Bright Dynasty Exhibition text
Edited by Lucy Day, Director, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton UK
Adam Moore, Affirmation in Bright Dynasty
g39 UNITe, Cardiff; Phoenix Art Space, Brighton; Hypha Studios, London.
Adam Moore, Rust
Commissioned and performed at Large Glass Gallery London for Iris, Earth Day Readings
Adam Moore, Diaphanous
Commissioned text developed during Pleasure Ground Residency, Ingestre Orangery
Adam Moore, Smithson, Interrupted, Dance Art Journal
Long form critical discourse on art and ecology refracted through Robert Smithson’s Hypothetical Islands at Marion Goodman Gallery London
Adam Moore, DisSolution, ROTTEN.TV
Commissioned by Danial Lei, Ama Josephine B Johnstone, and Jupiter Artland in response to Ama Josephine B Johnstone’s video commission DeComposure for ROTTEN.TV
Adam Moore, Immineral Species
Durational sculptural intervention curated as an accumulating series of stratigraphic, textual motifs, redressing fables of ‘Man’, perhaps rendering these obsolete.
SυΠℜISε τð SυΠSετ
Curating, writing, and performance, Lichfield Road, London
Adam Moore, Unanthemic
Commissioned poem by Sonic Gaze for Newham Word Festival
Adam Moore, The Archer
The body as. archive with Siobhan Davies at Siobhan Davies Studios, London.
Artist statement
Inventing with people, places, materials, and processes over long periods of time I explore the ephemeral and precarious substance of the world at large. In galleries and museums I create performance installations curated with discrete, experimental art and design to house my dancing, rituals, and choreography. With an attitude of discovery I use site-sensitive situated practices giving primacy to the experiential, relational, spatial, and material creating public art and interventions with collaborative socially engaged forms, archives and collections, nature, technology, and craft.
Expanding from my training in somatic and embodied contemporary dance techniques, choreography, and cross-disciplinary performance my studio practice evolves across film, sculpture, drawing and painting, photography and print, sound, and text.
My Caribbean and Central American heritage, and background in human rights, non-profit, education, government public services, social housing, and as a carer informs my ethics making, facilitating, curating, teaching, and my work with archives and collections, design, craft, and technology.
My work chimeras sprawling with life’s pluriformities to reimagine with concision the structures and systems in the world around me and the patterns and symmetry from which they project, synthesising and healing open the closures between fragmented dimensions, stewarding life to thrive, revealing new and different ways for me to think, do, and be.
CV
Education
BA Dance Theatre
Coventry University
2007-2010
MFA Dance Creative Practice
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance
Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios, London
2015-2017
CONSTELLATIONS 2020-21
UP Projects & Flat Time House
Awards
2024 V&A East X Bow Arts Artist Fellowship Local ecologies and materials in Newham
2023 Developing Your Creative Practice Arts Council England
2023 Jerwood New Work Fund Jerwood Arts
2022 TIME SPACE MONEY bursary a-n The Artists Information Company
2020 Jerwood Bursary Jerwood Arts
2015-2017 Leverhulme Performing Arts Scholarship (Gill Clarke Bursary) Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios, London and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Fellowships & Residencies
2025 125 Shaftesbury Avenue Artist Studio Residency, Bow Arts
2024 Tom Pope Studio Hastings, DYCP Arts Council England
2024 UNIDEE residency programs CITTADELLARTE – FONDAZIONE PISTOLETTO
2023-24 V&A X Bow Arts Artist Fellowship: Local ecologies and materials in Newham
2023 Art School Plus
2022 Hypha Studios Residency & London Borough of Waltham Forest
2022 UNITe Jerwood Arts and g39 Artist Studio Residency, Cardiff
2021 Pleasure Ground Ingestre Orangery, Arts Council England
2021 Percolate Residency Dance Art Journal, Siobhan Davies Studios
2019 Collectivism Residency Haarlem Artspace
Public Art Commissions
2024 Glow Home Culture Within Newham, Art School Plus
2023 Still life Devonshire Collective and Eastbourne ALIVE celebrating the Turner Prize
Solo
2024 Live In Room V&A East X Bow Arts Fellowship
2022 Bright Dynasty Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
2021 Bright Dynasty Kunstraum, London
2020 Long Play Liberation Newham & Old Stratford Town Hall, London
Two person / group shows
2025 Soho Connections Artist Takeover, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, Bow Arts
2025 24HR RUNAROUND Curated by Alexis Harding, WAY OUT EAST
2024 BATTENBERG II The Art of Performance, WAY OUT EAST
2023 BATTENBERG The Art of Performance, WAY OUT EAST
2023 Not Only… But Also, WAY OUT EAST
2023 Pretty Doomed Queer Art Projects and Ugly Duck
2022 Hypha Presents 56 Conduit Street London Frieze Week
2022 g39 UNITe Open Studio, Cardiff
2022 Bright Dynasty Hypha Studios
Curation
2025 Samples and Extended Plays: Recomposing the archive 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, Bow Arts
2024 Live in Room V&A East X Bow Arts, Royal Albert Wharf
2023 Loose ends V&A East X Bow Arts, UEL AVA
2023 Destination Unknown, Roermond, NL
2023 Transformative Futures Youth Collective Takeover Camden Art Centre
2022 Bright Dynasty Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
2022 Readings & Rituals Royal Docks Floating Garden and Good Hotel London, Newham Word Festival
2022 Bright Dynasty Hypha Studios and London Borough of Waltham Forest
2022 Transformative Futures Youth Collective Takeover Camden Art Centre
2021 CONSTELLATIONS: Umbra, Penumbra, Antumbra Flat Time House
2021 SυΠℜISε τð SυΠSετ, Spring/Summer ‘21 ~ Rested ~
2021 Bright Dynasty, Kunstraum, London
2020 Long Play Liberation Newham and Stratford Old Town Hall
Performances
2025 Farther. Like a dream unfinished into ever Samples and Extended Plays: Recomposing the Archive, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue
2024 AVALANCHE with Maria Danilova WAY OUT EAST
2024 Farther. Like a dream unfinished into ever UNIDEE residency programs CITTADELLARTE – FONDAZIONE PISTOLETTO
2024 Live In Room V&A East X Bow Arts Fellowship
2023 Farther. Like a dream unfinished into ever WAY OUT EAST
2023 AVALANCHE Pretty Doomed, Queer Art Projects and Ugly Duck
2023 Loki’s Castle Underwater (Supercritical, A Psalm) A Love Affair book launch, House of Annetta
2022 Readings & Rituals Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios
2022 AVALANCHE qap.digital launch, Reference Point 180
2022 A window widening open UP Projects
2022 Readings & Rituals Royal Docks Floating Garden & Good Hotel London, Newham Word Festival
2022 Iris, Earth Day Readings Large Glass Gallery, London
2022 A Spark (Bright Dynasty) Hypha Presents 56 Conduit Street
2022 Bright Dynasty g39 UNITe Open Studio, Cardiff 2021
2021 Water Umbra, Penumbra, Antumbra, Constellations at Flat Time House
2021 Long Play Liberation Transmission The Place, London
2020 Long Play Liberation Newham and Stratford Old Town Hall
2019 Leave your vessels Guest Projects and The Yard, Hackney Wick
Digital Commissions
2022 The Water Garden The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions
2021 DisSolution Rotten TV – Daniel Lie and Jupiter Artland
2021 Supercritical, A Psalm Theatrum Mundi
2021 Diaphanous Ingestre Orangery
2021 Long Play Liberation Transmission The Place, London
Screenings
2024 Live In Room V&A East X Bow Arts Fellowship
2023 Liquid Architecture Open City London Open House Festival Firestation E6
2023 Liquid Architecture London Festival of Architecture
2022 Rockslide Readings & Rituals at Good Hotel London for Newham Word Festival
2022 Bright Dynasty Quartet: Course, Rockslide, Drift, Blaze g39 UNITe Open Studios, Cardiff
2021 DisSolution Rotten TV – Daniel Lie and Jupiter Artland
Writing
2023 Supercritical, A Psalm published in A Love Affair Diaspore and ATLAS Projectos
2022 The Magician, Spell of Abundance published in TAKEAWAY
2022 Bright Dynasty Extended exhibition text edited by Lucy Day
2021 GROUNDMARKS PROJECT Dance Art Journal
2021 Smithson, Interrupted Dance Art Journal
2020 Hot Mess Dance Art Journal
2019 Screensaver Series Dance Art Journal
Talks
2024 Detour Ahead University of East London
2022 Dancing Through Crises University of Roehampton, University College London, University of Salzburg, Austria
2021 Gender and Performance Kings College London
2021 Transmission: Parliament Sheffield Hallam University Fine Art
2021 a-n Assembly Wirksworth: Rural Haarlem Artspace and a-n The Artist’s Information Company
2020 After language, before gesture Performance @ King’s, King’s College London
2020 Choreographing New Futures The Place Theatre, London
Teaching and Facilitation
2024 BA Fine Art , University of East London
2023 Transformative Futures 2022-23 Youth Collective, Camden Art Centre
2023 BA Experimental Arts and Performance, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
2023 Guest Writers Programme, Dance Art Journal
2023 Choreographing the City Masterclass Theatrum Mundi
2023 Guest Advisor 1:1s Art Quest
2022 Sensing Place, NN Contemporary Art
2022 Embodying Otherness, Inaugural Theatrum Mundi Cohort, Displacement,
2022 Professional Morning Classs, Independent Dance
2022 Transformative Futures 2021-22 Youth Collective, Camden Art Centre
2022 Jerwood Arts g39 UNITe Open Studio
2022 Bright Dynasty Queer POC Listening Space, Hypha Studios
2021 a-n rural assembly, Haarlem Artspace
2021 Long Play Liberation Transmission, What does the future look like? Festival, The Place Theatre, London
Press
Meet the artist: Adam Moore V&A EAST X Bow Arts Fellowship
Culture Within Newham Backstage with Adam Moore: A Conversation on Art, Culture and Community
Neither on Land nor at Sea
Todas las aguas son del agua / All Waters Belong to Water
UNIDEE residency programme
Artist Fellowships
VARI / V&A East in collaboration with Bow Arts Trust
Devonshire Collective presents Adam Moore Still life
Eastbourne Pier
Loose Ends Curated by Adam Moore
Royal Docks London
V&A X Bow Arts Fellowships: artists to engage the community in exploring materials & local ecologies in Newham
Public art for Newham! Meet the Artists!
Art School Plus+ and Culture Within Newham
19 new artists’ projects selected as part of Jerwood New Work Fund 2023
Constellations artist development programme: “A platform for new perspectives”
