CV

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

  • 2019–ongoing, University of Leeds, School of Music, PhD
  • 2013–2014, Nottingham Trent University, MA Fine Art
  • 2000–2004, Loughborough University School of Art & Design, BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting

REVIEWS/WRITING

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014