She has exhibited her practice widely, including Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; The Photographers' Gallery, London; The Apulia Film Commission, Bari; and the State Museum of Gulag, Moscow. Her work has most recently been displayed and published as part of Double Act: Art and Comedy at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, curated and written by Professors Mark Durden and David Campbell in 2016. Gemma is also Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Derby. With an active research practice, regularly published and participating in international symposiums and conferences on contemporary art debate, she is currently undertaking doctoral research titled: [Con]Artist: A Study of Art as an Agent of Sophistry and the Artist as Contemporary Demagogue (a magnum opus) at the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University.