Residencies & Awards
Liverpool Architecture Festival’s Painting Award, Liverpool, England, June 2024 — Overall Winner
Artist in Residence at Le CouveNt, Auzits, France, July 2015 – Full Scholarship
The Reader Berlin 2015 Competition, Berlin, Germany, February 2015 – Published Finalist
Artist in Residence at Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust, Portland, England, April 2010
Qualifications
Writing (MA), Liverpool John Moors University, 2015 – 2017 – Distinction
German Language Certificate, Babylonia e.V., 2014 – 2015 – B1
Critical Fine Art Practice (BA), University of Brighton, 2009 – 2011 – First-Class Honors
Foundation in Fine Art, Liverpool Community College, 2008 – 2009 – Distinction
Workshop Facilitation
Creative Pro for Apple, Liverpool, England, September 2017 – Present – Daily events and workshops for community groups, educational institutions and businesses on various creative subjects and technologies including Apple’s accessibility features and Procreate
What’s You Pride Story?, Liverpool, England, May – July 2016 – Ten-week writing and public speaking course
Play it Forward with Sefton CVS, Southport, England, February 2016 – Two-days of poetry workshops
Discography
The Collegiate, S. Ward, EP, Self-released, November 25th, 2022
Gürtelstraße, S. Ward, EP, Self-released, April 24th, 2020
Sleepless, S. Ward, Single, Self-released, September 24th, 2019
Exhibitions & Events
A Window to Your Neighbourhood, ‘Portrait of Dr Sam Naghibi’, Acrylic on Canvas, dot-art, Liverpool, England, June 2024
Drawing the Gallery with The Big Draw, ‘Revisiting Mrs. Martha Dix’, Digital Painting, The World of Glass, St Helens, England, September 2017
CTM Vorspiel at Oh Tannenbaum, Reading & Artwork, Berlin, Germany, January 2014
Contort at Urban Spree, Performance, Berlin, Germany, November 2013
Berlin Atonal Festival at Tresor, Nine-Hour VJ Set, Berlin, Germany, October 2013
The Burt Brill and Cardens Graduate Show 2011, Seven-Days of Events & Workshops, Brighton, England, June 2011
Squanderground at Taj, Performance & Installation, Brighton, England, April 2011
Grand Parade Gallery, Kinetic Sculpture, Brighton, England, April 2010
Occulture Festival at The Courtyard Theatre, Performance, London, England, May 2009
The 50p Show at a disused building facing Brighton Dome, Sculpture, Brighton, England, April 2009
Publications
‘Fearless’, 404 Ink: Issue Two, Fiction, Print, July 2017
‘The Faint Whisper’, Independent Variable Anthology, Poetry, Print, July 2017
Various Articles for Corridor8, Journalism, Online, 2015 – 2017
‘The Organ Recital’, Hark: Issue Four, Fiction, Online, December 2015
‘Gegen Entgegen’, Streets of Berlin: An Anthology, Fiction, Print, September 2015
‘Gegen Entgegen’, SAND: Berlin’s English Literary Journal: Issue 11, Fiction, Print, April 2015
‘The Lights & The Ride’, Yorkshire Art Journal: Afterglow, Poetry, Online, 2015
‘Donation’, Offline Samizdat: Reasons, Fiction, Print, March 2014
‘The Arbitrator’, Offline Samizdat: Discipline, Non-Fiction, Print, April 2013
‘All the World’s a Drunken Fist’, Offline Samizdat: Metaphor, Fiction, Print, August 2012