EXHIBITIONS/WORKSHOPS/RESIDENCIES
2019
- Leeds Creative Labs: Bragg Edition, University of Leeds Cultural Institute, Leeds
- Society of Explorers and Folk Forest Workshops, Site Gallery, Sheffield
- Drop-in Kids Contact Mic’s, SADACCA Studios, Sheffield
2018
- Bespoke Contact Mic and Optical Gate Workshop, Common Ground, Berlin
2017
- The Glassroom London (as an Ingenius), Charing Cross Road, London
2016
- UNIT(e) Residency, g39, Cardiff
2015
- Gasworks Fellowship Residency, BRITTO Arts Trust, Bangladesh
- Contact Mic Surgery, Rammel Club Presents ‘Cables’, Reactor Halls, Primary, Nottingham
2014
- Contact Mic Workshop, ‘Moving On’ Workshop Series, NTU Undergraduate Fine Art
- FOAM 12" Dubplate Commission, The Attic, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
- Transducer Workshop, Tramlines ‘OptoPhonic’ Event, Montgomery Theatre, Sheffield
- Rainforest IV Workshop, NTU Bonnington, Nottingham
- Memory Project, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
- Tactile Sound Workshop, Kavre Deaf School, Banepa, Nepal
2013
- Contact Mic/Field Recording Workshop, M-LISADA, Kampala, Uganda
2012
- Carey Gough — In Our Nature (sound collage), Ffotogalley, Penarth
2011
- Kid’s Noise Workshop, Nowhere But Here, Ffotogallery, Penarth
2007
- Schneider TM und Lustfaust, Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany
2006
- Beck’s Futures, ICA, London
- Lustfaust: A Folk Anthology 1976-1981, Freight & Volume Gallery, New York, USA
PERFORMANCES
2019
- Jehova’s Fitness w/ Scree Fucking Junk, MusicMakerSpace, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Jehova’s Fitness w/ Scree Fucking Junk, Maskinen, Svendborg, Denmark
- Jehova’s Fitness w/ Scree Fucking Junk, Amok, Aarhus, Denmark
- Jehova’s Fitness w/ Scree Fucking Junk and Thomas Buckner, 5e, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Scree Fucking Junk w/ AUL and Brandt, die Schute, Hamburg, Germany
- Jehova’s Fitness w/ Scree Fucking Junk, Geyger, Berlin, Germany
- The Sons of David Ginola w/ Pinnel, Bredbeddle and Karl D’Silva, Tramlines, Hatch, Sheffield
- Murray Royston-Ward w/ Joey Molinaro and Yo Dynamo, Hatch, Sheffield
- Kamran Ali & Murray Royston-Ward w/ Robert Ridley Shackleton, The Rutland Arms, Sheffield
- Murray Royston-Ward w/ Bredbeddle and Rebecca Lennon, Jabbarwocky, Sheffield
- Murray Royston-Ward w/ Leaf Kickers, Howie Reeve, and R.Loomes, Hatch, Sheffield
2018
- Palm Squirrel w/ Scree Fucking Junk and Zhenja Oks, Loophole, Berlin, Germany
- Whitehill x f:rar x Royston-Ward w/ Kalashnikov x Lanzo x Tavillah and NEXUS / OKUDA, Loophole, Berlin, Germany
2016
- Yol & Murray Royston-Ward w/ Kevin Sanders, Electric Knife, London
- Murray Royston-Ward w/ Rhodri Davies, Yol, Kevin Sanders, From Constants, Clive Henry, Marlo Eggplant, Deej Dhariwal, Seth Cook & Dominic Lash and Howlround, Extraction Music, Chapter, Cardiff
2015
- Murray Royston-Ward w/ Daniel Voigt, Flamingo Creatures, The Chameleon, Nottingham
- Murray Royston-Ward w/ Axel Dörner/Roger Turner/Dominic Lash, Stephen Chase, Jon Marshall, Photography Studio, Portland Works, Sheffield
- Tepeu y Q’uq’umatz w/ Posset, Yol, Omoplate Sarangi, Papal Bull, Furniture Makers, Portland Works, Sheffield
- Murray Royston-Ward w/ Yol, Star Turbine, Cell 14, Nottingham
- Murray Royston-Ward, From Now On, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
- Tepeu y Q’uq’umatz w/ David Birchall/Javier Saso, Rammel Club, The Chameleon, Nottingham
2014
- Rainforest IV, NTU Bonnington, Nottingham
- Tepeu y Q’uq’umatz, Church of Sound, Lee Rosy’s, Nottingham
- Tepeu y Q’uq’umatz w/ Papal Bull, Posset, Lee Rosy’s, Nottingham
2013
- Tepeu y Q’uq’umatz w/ Suspicion Breeds Confidence, Waggon, Offenbach, Germany
- Tepeu y Q’uq’umatz w/ Pascal Nichols, Dirar Kalash, Treize, Paris, France
- Tepeu y Q’uq’umatz w/ Piotr Kurek, Lutto Lento, Lee Rosy’s, Nottingham
- Thurston’s Excommunicated Mole Duo w/ Chuck Johnson, JT Soars, Nottingham
- Tepeu y Q’uq’umatz w/ Trans/Human, The Audacious Art Experiment, Sheffield
2012
- The Failed NASA Experiment w/ Truckers of Husk, Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
- The Failed NASA Experiment w/ Cementimental, MXLX, Mothers Ruin, Bristol
2011
- The Failed NASA Experiment, Swn Festival, Cardiff
- yajé w/ Foot Village, Undertone, Cardiff
- The Failed NASA Experiment w/ Alexander Tucker, 10 Feet Tall, Cardiff
- Hiker Meat (Rough Cut), Teatro Eliseo, Rome, Italy
2010
- The Failed NASA Experiment w/ Islet, Shape Records, Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
- Lustfaust perform Hiker Meat, Grand Union, Birmingham
- Lustfaust perform Hiker Meat, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton
- The Failed NASA Experiment w/ H Hawkline, Cardiff Arts Institute, Cardiff
- Lustfaust perform Hiker Meat, Tatton Park Biennial 2010, Knutsford
- yajé w/ Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides, CAI, Cardiff
2009
- Lustfaust, Museo Madre, Naples, Italy
- Evils, The Failed NASA Experiment, and Fredrick Stanley Star, Swn Festival, Cardiff
- Fredrick Stanley Star, Latitude Festival, Suffolk
- Fredrick Stanley Star, Truck Festival, Oxford
2008
- Lustfaust, The Big Chill Festival, Ledbury
- Lustfaust, Artissima, Turin, Italy
2007
- The (plexus) Collective and Damo Suzuki w/ Black Carrot, Quad Studios, Leicester
- Schneider TM und Lustfaust, Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany
- Concerto for Voice & Machinery II, ICA, London
EDUCATION
- 2013–2014, Nottingham Trent University, MA Fine Art
- 2000–2004, Loughborough University School of Art & Design, BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting
REVIEWS/WRITING
2018
- TQ #15 (September 2018) — An (Opinionated) Critical Guide to DIY Digital Publishing
- We need no swords - Murray Royston-Ward: Dissolution Matrix in Afterthought of Skies
- IDWAL FISHER — Murray Royston-Ward
- TQ #8 (February 2018) — Murray Royston-Ward: Dissolution Matrix in Afterthought of Skies
2017
- TQ #2 (August 2017) — The Sons of David Ginola: Blood Too Thick Symptoms
- Radio Free Midwich — the dada that punk should have become: rfm on chow mwng, robert ridley-shackleton, sons of david ginola, d. coelacanth
2016
- Radio Free Midwich — tin apples: joe murray on kiko c. esseiva, sisto rossi, dale cornish, phil julian, murray royston-ward
- Left Lion — Art Works: Murray Royston-Ward
2015
- Gasworks — Fellowship: Murray Royston-Ward
- Radio Free Midwich — cables: untangled by marlo eggplant and benjamin hallat
2014