About
Woolford graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice) and Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture) and is currently a LAHP funded PhD candidate across Slade and the Royal College of Art with a project exploring anticapitalist and anticolonial resistance and performance. In 2026 Joshua received an Arts Council R&D grant to further develop their practice. In 2024 Joshua was the recipient of an Arts Council DYCP grant, and the a-n Artists Bursary. They were the 2023-24 Interpretation Artist in Residence at Tate and a New Contemporaries 2023 Artist.
Notable exhibitions include live performances at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, as and exhibitions and performances at various institutions across London, such as HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives, the V&A, Gucci flagship store, Camden Art Centre, Tate Britain and Whitechapel Gallery.
In addition to their artistic practice, Joshua lectures at the Royal College of Art (School of Architecture), UAL (London College of Communication & Central Saint Martins) and UCL (Slade School of Fine Art) and takes on design commissions.
contact@joshwoolford.co.uk
Exhibitions / Performances / Commissions
- Short Wave festival, Iklectik, London / Live Performance
Radical Ecology: Disobedient Science, Slade Woburn, London / Live Performance
- Diasporas Now Takeover, ICA London / Video Piece
[ 2025 ]
MYTO, Roses of Elagabalus, London / Live durational performance
- PRIM Erotic Reading, Barbican, London / Live Performance
- Alice Yard at FUZE Caribbean Art Fair, Bahamas / Video piece
[ 2026 ]
Arts Council R&D grant
LAHP Public Engagement Award
LAHP Public Engagement Award
- [ 2025 ]
AHRC LAHP PhD Studentship
- CIRCA Art Prize finalist
LCC Design School Deans Award
Alice Yard Artist Residency, Trinidad
[ 2024 ]
a-n 2025 Artist Bursary
Arts Council England DYCP grant
2023/24 Research & Interpretation Artist in Residence at Tate Britain
[ 2019 - 2023 ]
New Contemporaries Artist, 2023
RCA Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, 2022
Burberry Design Scholarship, Royal College of Art, 2019 - 2022
Radio
[ 2026 ]
- Permanence/Impermanence Conference, University of Westminister / Speaker
- The Art of Song, Royal College of Art / Presentation
- LAHP Annual Research Day / Speaker
- Anti-Racist Student-led Forum, Slade School of Fine Art / Live performance
- Blood & Spirit, Auto Italia, London / Reading group & Workshop facilitator
- [ 2025 ]
- Sound in Museums Conference, National Museum of Music. Mafra, Portugal / Speaker
- Central Media Studies at Royal College of Art, School of Architecture / Associate Lecturer
- Barbican, London / Workshop facilitator collaboration with Sippin’ T
Design for Art Direction and Diploma for Professional Studies at UAL London College of Communication / Associate Lecturer
Fashion Communication Summer School at UAL Central Saint Martins / Visiting Lecturer
- [ 2024 ]
- Creative Storytellers Club, PRIM x Tate Britain workshop series / Producer & Facilitator
Conch, South London Gallery curated by Hannah Geddes / Artist presentation
Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art / Artist presentation
[ 2023 ]
Design for Art Direction & Diploma for Professional Studies at UAL London College of Communication / Associate Lecturer (ongoing)
[ 2021 ]
Letter to my Little Queer Self / Writing comission
[ 2020 ]
Phantasy Saturday School by EAST x 198 Contemporary / Lecturer
Apple Store, Covent Garden, London / Workshop facilitator