Poor Form

Poor Form

Nicola Bealing
Daisy Collingridge
Emma Cousin
Oona Grimes
Annie Whiles
Tom Woolner

Opening Reception: Thursday 29th January, 6-8pm

Sid Motion Gallery is delighted to present Poor Form, a group exhibition that brings together six artists who explore the body and the uncanny through painting, sculpture, works on paper and performance.

Artist Biographies  

Nicola Bealing (b.1963) lives and works in Cornwall. She graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Miserable Sinners’, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, 2026; ‘Dead-man’s Fingers (II)’ and ‘Sea’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, 2024; ‘Dead-man’s Fingers’, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2023; ‘The Borough’, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2023; ‘Three Acts and Seven Scenes (Blood Wedding, Federico García Lorca)’, Salisbury Arts Centre, 2020; ‘A New Song (ToAnOld Tune)’, The Foundling Museum, London, 2019;  ‘Mono’, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, 2019; ‘Capital Crime’, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2018; ‘Bad Gardening’, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall, 2017; ‘Death and Circuses’, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, 2016 and ‘Manifolding’, Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen, 2014. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Happy!’ Hatton Gallery Newcastle, 2026; ‘Sinners’, Cross Lane Projects / Vestry St, London, 2026; ‘Undersea’, Hastings Contemporary, Hasting, 2025; ‘Exeter Contemporary Open’, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, 2024; ‘Group Portrait’, Phillida Reid, London, 2023; ‘Bridge the Tamar’, MIRROR, Plymouth, 2023; ‘Dowch i Brestatyn Heulog / Come to Sunny Prestatyn’, Arcade/Campfa, Cardiff, 2022 with a book launch at Oriel Mostyn, 2022; ‘Llandudno; Insects, Books and the Artistic Imagination’, Salisbury Museum, 2022; ‘Bodies in Space’, Mirror, Plymouth, 2021; ‘John Moores Painting Prize’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2021; ‘Mariner’, The Edge/Andrew Brownsword Gallery, Bath, 2020; ‘Chicken Nuggets’, Pool School Gallery, Cornwall, 2020; ‘Bugs - Beauty and Danger’, Groundwork Gallery, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, 2020; ‘Hospital Rooms Auction’, Hauser and Wirth, London, 2020; ‘Box of Delights’, The Bower, London, 2019; ‘Levinsky Gallery’, The Arts Institute, Plymouth Mariner, 2019; ‘Body and Soul’, RWA, Bristol, 2019; ‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’, London, 2019; ‘The Art of Rivalry’, OSR Projects, Somerset, 2018; ‘Show Women’, Jerwood & Ingram Collections, Gibberd Gallery, Essex, 2018; ‘Where it is, there it is’, Auction House Project Space, Redruth, Cornwall, 2018; ‘Perspective’, Petronilla Silver, London, 2018; ‘Lost for Words’, The Project Space, Falmouth, 2016; ‘University, Cornwall; Strange Worlds: The Visions of Angela Carter’, RWA, Bristol, 2016 and ‘The Columbia Threadneedle Prize’, London & Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2016. Her work is part of permanent collections at The British Museum, London Foundling Museum, London Jerwood Contemporary Collection, Hastings The Jerwood Foundation, London London College of Paediatrics and Child Health Prudential, London Unilever, London. 

Daisy Collingridge lives and works in Leicestershire. She graduated from Central St Martins with a BA in Fashion Design. Selected exhibitions and performances include: ‘Walking with Gray’, Public Commissioning life performance programme, theColab, London, 2025; ‘Walking with Clive’, Morecambe Bay Coastal Commissioning Programme; Public performance, UK, 2025; ‘From Josephine Bowes’, Trendsetters and Trailblazers, The Bowes Museum, County Durham, 2025 and ‘After Leonora’, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, 2025; ‘Shape’, Textile Museum, Tilberg, Netherlands, 2025; ‘Something Quickening’, Panrucker Gallery, London, 2024; ‘Kinetic Flesh’, Not There Gallery, LA, USA, 2024; ‘Thread Count’, The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK, 2024; ‘V&A Lates, Feminist Futures’,V&A, London, 2024; ‘Splanchnic’, Solo Exhibition, TJ Boulting, London, 2023; ‘Boundless Textiles’, Hive Curates, London, 2023; ‘Sunset Ripple’, Good Mother Gallery presented by Subtitles Labs, LA, USA, 2023; ‘EYEBODY’, TJ Boulting, London, 2023; ‘Within+Without’, Unit Gallery, London, 2023; ‘Hysteria’, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, 2023; ‘Bod’, short film presentation and screening, Sarabande Foundation, London, 2023; ‘Fragments’, Omer Tiroche Gallery presented by SubtitleLabs, London, 2022; ‘The Demons Show’, Group Show, Sarabande Foundation, London, 2022; ‘Grossly Affectionate’, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, USA, 2022; ‘BAFF’, Performance at Museum der Kulturen Basel, Switzerland, 2021; ‘Best seat in the house’, Water Aid UK, Oxo Gallery, London, 2021; UNIT Gallery London, Platform Exhibition, Online, 2021; ‘Fumes and Perfumes’, contemporary photography, Stuttgart, Germany, 2021; ‘Served’, Group Exhibition at the Sarabande Foundation, London, 2021; ‘British Textile Biennial, Connected cloth with 62 Group’, Whitaker Museum, UK, 2021; ‘The House of the Unmade bed’, Alexandra Palace, RDS Dublin and HCC Harrogate, Harrogate, 2019; ‘Ctrl/Shift’,  Touring Exhibition 62 Group, MAC, Birmingham, National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, Visual Arts Centre, UK, 2018-2020. Selected press includes: Timeout 'Daisy Collingridge: Splanchnic’, 2023; Show studio, Splanchnic explores the invisible nature of the body, 2023; Metal Magazine, A homage to the human body, 2023; Yatzer, Daisy Collingridge's Grotesquely Endearing Bodysuits Celebrate the Intricate Beauty of the Human Body, 2022.

Emma Cousin (b.1986) lives and works in London. She received her BA from Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Fine Art. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Landmark’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2024; ‘Tunnel Vision’, Niru Ratnam, London, 2024; ‘Game Face’, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, 2021; ‘Introductions’, White Cube, London (Online), 2021; ‘Drawing Biennial’, Drawing Room, 2021; ‘New Dirt’, Goldsmiths CCA Gallery, London, 2020; ‘Sigma Sigma Sigma’, Milton Keynes Art Centre, 2019; ‘Mardy’, Edel Assanti, London, 2018 and ‘Leg Up’, Lewisham Arthouse, London, 2018. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Strange Gaze’, Cross Lane Projects, Cumbria, 2024; ‘Women on the Verge’, Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, 2023; ‘High Humanity’, Jack Siebert Projects, Paris, 2022; ‘I’m Stepping High, I'm Drifting and there I go Leaping’, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China, 2022; ‘Girl Meets Girl’, Kunstlaboratorium Vestoffen, Norway, 2022; ‘Superbloom’,  Brooke Benington Gallery, Milan, 2021; ‘She Came to Stay’,  Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, 2021; ‘Ridiculous’,  Elephant west, London, 2020; ‘Outlines’, Austin Desmond Gallery, London, 2020; ‘Soft bodies’, Castlefield gallery, Manchester, 2020; ‘Survey, Jerwood Arts’, touring to G39 Cardiff, Bluecoats Gallery Liverpool & Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2019; ‘Flumblelovelifekisturbingandflexy’, ASC London, 2019; ‘Ultra’, J Hammond Projects, London, 2019; ‘Creekside selected by Brian Griffiths’, APT Gallery London, 2019; ‘The Ruth Borchard Collection Self-Portrait Prize’, Piano Nobile, London, 2019; ‘Between Bodies’, Assembly House Leeds, 2019; ‘Survey’, Jerwood Gallery, London, touring Nationally, 2018; ‘Wasp’. Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2018; ‘Making Painting: A survey’, touring show, Germany and London, 2018 and ‘Painting Vol 1. Group exhibition’, CGK Gallery, Copenhagen, 2017. Cousin has received the Hogchester Arts residency, 2024, Survey Award, 2019, and Skowhegan School of Painting residency, 2018. Her work is included in public collections, including Arts Council Collection, London; Xiao Museum, China; Zuzeum Museum, Riga, Latvia; Aishti Foundation, Lebanon; W Art Foundation, Hong Kong.

Oona Grimes lives & works in London. She graduated from Norwich School of Art BA & The Slade School of Art MA. Selected exhibitions include: 'The Engineering of Rubble', Thapar Contemporary, Delhi, 2026; 'Weed Killer', Danielle Arnaud, London, 2026; 'Material Actors', Binder of Women, Hypha Studios, London, 2025; 'Blink and you’ll miss it', Safehouse, London, 2025; 'The Stone Club', The Soane's Museum, London, 2025; 'The Errant Collaborators', Mirror Gallery, Plymouth, 2025; 'Expo Sicio de Dibuix', Art Gresol, Catalonia, 2025; 'The Pattern Cutters', The Ragged School Museum, 2025; 'Drawing the Unspeakable', Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, 2024-25; 'In Search of the Miraculous', Walsingham, Norfolk, 2023; 'Magic Lantern screening', Palazzo dell Esposizione, Rome, 2023; 'Womens Art Print portfolio', MOCA, London, 2023; 'Is The Image Even Human?', Cervantes Institute, New Delhi, 2023; 'Antidoti (Ragged Arts goes to Milan)', Assab 1, Milan, 2022. In 2023 she was elected as a Royal Academician. She is the recipient of the Bridget Riley Fellowship British School at Rome 2018 & the Bryan Robertson Award in 2022. Her work is included in public collections New York Public Library, USA; British Library London UK; Tate Britain; V & A Museum, London UK; Special Collections & Archives at Chelsea College of Art & Design UAL; National Poetry Library Royal Festival Hall London; Lineker College Oxford University UK; Manchester Metropolitan UK; UCL: Strang Collection UK.

Annie Whiles (b.1967) lives and works in London. She graduated from MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Doorway Guardians’, KARST, Plymouth, 2026; ‘Doorway Guardians’, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2025; ‘The Listening Thing’, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2020; ‘Moondog’, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, 2018; ‘Beggars Belief’, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, 2011; ‘Sideshow’, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 2007; Liberty, Regent Street, London, 2007 and ‘Lightbox’, Guy Street, London, 2003. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Donkey Work’, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 2025; ‘250th Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy, London, 2018; ‘Thirteen Blackbirds Look at a Man’, Chapter, Cardiff, 2015; ‘Union of Voices, Horatio, Junior, London, 2015; ‘Lustige Frauen Kunst’, Ernst Fine Art, London, 2012; ‘Annie Whiles and Alison Jones’, York College Gallery, York, 2012; ‘Pile’, Chapter, Cardiff, 2011; ‘The Damned and the Saved’, Standpoint Gallery, London, 2009; ‘United We Fall’, Annie Whiles and Mark Pearson, Standpoint Gallery, Coronet Street, 2008; ‘Fabric of Myth’, Compton Verney, 2008 and ‘The Golden Record’,Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2008. 

Tom Woolner (b.1979) lives and works in London. He graduated with an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2003. Selected exhibitions include: ‘Softly Radiant, Half Buried’, curated by Martyn Cross, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 2025; ‘Fortune Teller’, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, 2025; ‘New Geographies’, The Tagli at 67 Great Titchfield St, London, 2025; ‘Cycloptics’, Space 52, Athens, 2024; ‘Buried’, OHSH Projects at Thames-Side-Studios, London, 2024; ‘Somatechnics’, The Tagli at 67 Great Titchfield St, London, 2024; ‘John Moores Painting Prize’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2023; ‘A Tally of Distempered Parts’, duo exhibition with Seb Thomas, ASC Gallery, London, 2023; ‘Exeter Contemporary’, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, 2023, ‘…freshly, as if my eye was still growing’, APTGallery, London, 2023; ‘Internal Weather’, Sid Motion Gallery, London, 2022 and ‘The Thalty Thpectacle’, duo exhibition with Edwin Burdis, Various Venues, Plymouth, 2017.  Selected performances include: ‘A Sofa Speaks’, with Mary Hampton, West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, 2019; Performance with Jenny Moore, Saturday Live at The Serpentine, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2015 and ‘After/Hours/Drop/Box**Live**’, Spike Island, Bristol, Modern Art Oxford and ANDOR, London, 2013/14. His work has been featured in Frieze, Art Monthly, Modern Painters and The Guardian. He is a Senior Tutor at The Ruskin School of Art.