2023
Queer Asian Takeover • Manchester Pride • Manchester
House of Spice guest performer for the Queer Asian Takeover on
the Alan Turing Stage (August 2023).
Manchester LGBTQ ESEAs and their Allies Meet Up • ESEA Contemporary • Manchester
Panellist speaker (August 2023).
Eat Me Presents: An Evening with Dross • Quarry • Liverpool
Guest performer for Dross' solo show (August 2023).
Eat Me Presents: An Evening with Dross • Quarry • Liverpool
Guest performer for Dross' solo show (August 2023).
Performance • GYRO • Liverpool
Hosting and performing for the queer youth group's pride event (July 2023).
Protest banner workshop • GYRO • Liverpool
Placard making workshop for GYRO's non-binary and trans youth group (July 2023).
Unusual Art Sourcing • The Royal Standard • Liverpool
Life modelling for Homotopia's Creative Skills Life Drawing workshop (July 2023).
PNG Dance • Unity Theatre • Liverpool
Host for the summer dance showcase(July 2023).
Eat Me • St Helens Pride • St Helens
Cabaret performance (July 2023).
Eat Me • District • Liverpool
Cabaret performance for their musicals edition (July 2023).
Trans Vegas • Manchester International Festival • Manchester
Performing in the Bitten Peach cabaret showcasing trans Asian talent (July 2023).
Kunst Kabaret • Albert's Schloss • Liverpool
Cabaret performer (June 2023).
Performer • None of the Above (Travis Alabanza) Cabaret • Liverpool
Cabaret as part of Travis Alabanza's book tour for Writing on the Wall Festival (June 2023).
Artist R&D • New Earth Theatre • Liverpool
1 week R&D with New Earth Theatre at Playhouse Theatre (June 2023).
Host • FACT • Liverpool
Hosting FACT & Picturehouse's Eurovision finale party (May 2023).
Dancer at XtraVision • 24 Kitchen Street • Liverpool
Felix Mufti, Ki Griffin & Friends (May 2023).
Quiz with the Queer: Euro-quiz-ion • Arts Bar Baltic • Liverpool
Producer, Host, Performer (May 2023).
Performer • Homovision • Liverpool
Performer with Eat Me for Homotopia's HomoVision for Euro Camp - Eurovision (May 2023).
Performer • Felix Mufti & Friends, Liverpool One • Liverpool
Performer at Black Gold Arts for Euro Camp - Eurovision (May 2023).
Performer • Eat Me Migrant Cabaret, Quarry • Liverpool
Performer at Xpresia Festival (May 2023).
Quiz with the Queers: Valentines • Sotto • Liverpool
Producer, Host, Performer (February 2023).
DJ • Melodic Distraction • Liverpool
DJing at Melodic Distraction's LGBT+ Creatives Social event (February 2023).
Eat Me • Albert's Schloss • Liverpool
Cabaret performer (February 2023).
Joyland (film screening) • FACT Picturehouse • Liverpool
Hosting Q&A with film director, Saim Sadiq (February 2023).
A-POC-ALYPSE • The Brewers • Manchester
Cabaret performance for a horror themed, people of colour show (February 2023).
Tea Ceremony and Panel Talk, Lunar New Year • FACT • Liverpool
Panel discussion on ESEA experience for a Lunar New Year closing ceremony
with Liverpool ESEA Network (February 2023).
Kunst Kabaret • Albert's Schloss • Liverpool
Cabaret performer (February 2023).
Poet/Peformer • First Take • Liverpool
Co-creating poetry, music and a short film performance art piece as part of
First Take's Queer Insight Programme (February 2023).
Drag Dings • Melodic Distraction Radio • Liverpool
Co-host and co-host of Drag Dings, a 4 episode radio show/podcast for
LGBTQIA+ History Month (February 2023).
Tranuary • Soup • Manchester
Cabaret performer in an all trans show (January 2023).
Spew • Quarry • Liverpool
Co-producer, co-host and performer at the queer scratch night (January 2023).
2022
Dancer • Megalopolis, Invisible Wind Factory • Liverpool
Dancing with Eat Me for NYE event (December 2022).
Cabaret Performer • Fatty Acid, Islington Mill • Manchester
Performance in the queer cabaret show (December 2022).
Drag Cabaret Roastmas Fundraiser • Fashion Hub • Liverpool
Co-producer and co-host of a fundraiser comedy show for HIV charity, Sahir House (December 2022).
Digital Workshop • Community Workshop • Liverpool
Drag workshop facilitator for neurodivergent adults (December 2022).
Palaver Party, Fatt Projects, Homotopia Festival • Bluecoat • Liverpool
Co-host and performer for a children's event (November 2022).
Palaver Party, Fatt Projects, Homotopia Festival • Heart of Glass • St Helens
Co-host and performer for a children's event (November 2022).
Sharon le Grand and Friends, Homotopia Festival • Unity Theatre • Liverpool
Performing in the cabaret line up (November 2022).
The Bitten Peach, Homotopia Festival • Tate Liverpool • Liverpool
Performing with queer pan-Asian cabaret at the launch party of Homotopia Festival (November 2022).
Homobloc • Warehouse Project • Manchester
Dancing with Eat Me for their residency and for other DJs on the main stage (November 2022).
Turner Prize 2022 • Tate Liverpool • Liverpool
Host and facilitator for "In Conversation with Sin Wai Kin" event (October 2022).
Quiz with the Queers: Halloween • Chapters of Us • Liverpool
Co-producer, co-host and performer (October 2022).
Host • GYRO X Comics Youth • Liverpool
Hosting the 2 LGBTQIA+ youth group's Halloween event (October 2022).
Haus of Chan • Vogue Ball, Invisible Wind Factory • Liverpool
Haus debut at the House of Suarez Vogue Ball (October 2022).
Reading Room: Liverpool ESEA Network • Exhibition Research Lab (LJMU) • Liverpool
Curator of a range of texts and items to decolonise gallery spaces (September-October 2022).
BLIP (art installation and cabaret) • Unity Theatre • Liverpool
Producer, host, performer and artist/set designer (September 2022)
Eat Me, The World Transformed Festival • District • Liverpool
Performing in the cabaret as part of the politcal festival (September 2022).
Filla Crack's Pride Cabaret • Everyman Theatre • Liverpool
Headliner (July 2022)
Queer the City • Museum of Liverpool • Liverpool
Drag performer (July 2022)
Quiz with the Queers: Pride • Chapters of Us • Liverpool
Co-host, co-producer and performer (June 2022).
QUACK • The Turnpike • Leigh
Drag and performance workshop facilitator for queer, neurodivergent youth (June 2022).
Bowie Ball • St George's Hall • Liverpool
Dancer at the David Bowie World Convention (June 2022).
26 May • Liverpool East and South East Asian Network • Bluecoat, Liverpool
Lip sync and spoken word as part of a collective protest performance (May 2022).
The Secret Circus • Fashion Hub • Liverpool
Performance slot in a cabaret show (April 2022).
Blip! • Convenience Gallery • Birkenhead
Solo exhibition as part of the gallery's In Cahoots programme (April 2022).
Queer Creatives: Art and Activism • Museum of Liverpool • Liverpool
Panel conversation with artists Ben Youdan and Lo Tierney for LGBTQ+ History Month (February 2022)
Fleetmac Wood • Invisible Wind Factory • Liverpool
Dancer (February 2022).
The Queen of Heartbreak and Friends • Factory Kitchen • Liverpool
Performance slot in a cabaret show (January 2022).
2021
The Secret Circus Christmas Special • Unity Theatre • Liverpool
Performance slot in a 2 night cabaret show as part of Unity Theatre's Christmas Festival (December 2021).
QueerCore Showcase • Playhouse Theatre • Liverpool
Work in progress showcase in the Studio Theatre space, work developed during Homotopia's QueerCore development programme (November 2021).
QueerCore • Homotopia • Liverpool
12 month artist development programme and funding (April 2021 - April 2022).
First Outing • Grundy Art Gallery • Blackpool
Commission and residency for the show First Outing, produced by Queerly Made at the Grundy Art Gallery and Abingdon Studios (September - October 2021).
Performance • The Secret Circus • Liverpool
Performance slot in a pride queer cabaret with The Secret Circus at the Unitarian Church in Liverpool (August 2021).
Reg Flags 2 • The Margate School • Margate Pride
'Gateway to a New Realm' [textile print] shown in a group installation for Margate Pride (August 2022).
Spewtopia • Eat Me • Liverpool
Drag performance for a scratch night (April 2021).
'LGBT+ Community Stories’ Exhibition Commission • Museum of Liverpool • Liverpool
Digital artwork commissioned for LGBTQ+ History Month (February 2021).
‘Digital Art and Illustration Print-It’ Exhibition • Aire Place Studios • Leeds
‘Mother’ (2020) from ‘Celestial Bodies’ (2020) featured in a group exhibition (February 2021).
2020
Digital Art Commission • Comics Youth • Liverpool
Digital artwork commissioned for their '12 Days of Christmas Advent’.
‘This Is Our Home’ Exhibition Commissions • The Atkinson • Southport
3 textile community artworks for the Festival of Hope.
‘Secret Postcard Show' Exhibition • Cupola Gallery • Sheffield
2 illustrations for a group exhibition.
‘Red Flags’ Exhibition • The Margate School • Margate, Kent
Textile artwork for a group installation curated by Alex Noble for Margate Pride.
Digital Residency • Orbit
A digital residency on the platform’s Instagram (@orrbbitt).
2018
'Unfeeling’ • New Designers • London
Graduate Collection showcased at the Business Design Centre.
'Unfeeling' • University for the Creative Arts • Rochester, Kent
Graduate collection exhibited at the graduate show.
'Unfeeling' • Graduate Fashion Week • London
Graduate collection showcased on the catwalk at the Truman Brewery.
2017
Artists’ Assistant • University for the Creative Arts • Rochester, Kent
Assisting artists Rutter and Bennett for their live performance of ‘Light Dial 2’ with Collectress at the ‘Digital Materials’ Conference.
Studio Intern • Giles Deacon • London
I worked in the embroidery team under the direction of the Head of Embroidery and the Creative Director to develop fabrics, archive collections, fabric sourcing and research.
2016
PVTTRN Magazine Launch • The Crypt Gallery • London
A digital piece of work exhibited for the magazines launch.
ARTICLES AND PRESS
2021
Article Feature • Liverpool Echo• Liverpool
'Dan uses art to target harmful stereotypes' (9/10/21).
Website Article • GUAP • London
'The Reality of a British Chinese Person in the Queer Dating Scene'
Artist Talk • dot-art Gallery • Liverpool
Talk about my practice at one of the gallery's online artist forums.
Website Article • ROOT-ed Zine • Liverpool
'Identity Limbo: The Mixed-Race Experience In The LGBTQIA+ Community'
'dot-art TikTok Challenge' • dot-art Gallery
A 4 piece video series for the gallery's social media platforms talking about my practice, work in progress and Liverpool's art community.
2020
'Pride in Lockdown 2020' Zine • Liverpool Queer Collective
'Awakening 1' featured in the collective's zine for Pride 2020.
'#AnotherNightIn' • Convenience Gallery
Artist feature for Liverpool's Light Night.
WORKSHOPS
2021
'Horizons' Workshop • Convenience Gallery • Birkenhead, The Wirral
Experimental drawing workshop for teenagers with Convenience Gallery and The Open Door Charity.
'Start With Art' Workshop • The Turnpike • Leigh, Greater Manchester
Building a character through drawing and performance aimed at 11-16 year olds.
AWARDS
2018
TexSelect • Nominee • London
Innovative mixed media textiles.
David Band Textiles Award • Nominee • London
Innovative use of printed textiles at Graduate Fashion Week.
EDUCATION
2018
BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Print • University for the Creative Arts • Rochester, Kent
First Class Honours.