I am a socially-engaged visual artist. I work principally with moving image, making standalone artists' film and installations. My work often plays with mainstream and accessible forms – documentary, music video, magazine – so as to move beyond a traditional gallery audience.
I am interested in who makes work, how, why, for whom, and why that matters. I often produce work within a discrete community or interest group, making work with a personal connection to my collaborators and broader social relevance. I want to celebrate and make visible the joy of the making process itself and explore its value for individual and collective growth and change. I develop processes to enable diverse groups of people to make work together. This focus is mirrored in the subject matter of my work, which deals with themes around our social environment and relationships with one another.
Details of shows, talks, teaching, awards etc lives here.
Curatorial work lives here.
My film work is produced by satellite, an artist-led production company.
In 2020 I set up artists’ imprint bored.of.works.
I occasionally assist other artists and friends in a technical capacity - as Director of Photography, experimental film consultant, photographer, that kind of thing. Details of that work lives here.
2025
Awards for Artists - Paul Hamlyn Foundation (UK)
Artist Award recipient - Henry Moore Foundation (UK)
Never Sleep - Four Corners/Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK)
2024
Rabbits Road Press/UCL Residency (London, UK)
Never Sleep - Chisenhale Gallery Project Space (London, UK)
2023
An Intermission acquired by Arts Council England for the National Art Collection (UK)
2022
Selected - Lodestars - Film London (London, UK)
Prophecy - Mead Gallery (Coventry, UK)
2021
Jury Member - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) (Amsterdam, NL)
Aesthetica Art Prize - longlist (UK)
Baltic Open (Gateshead, UK)
2020
Bloomberg New Contemporaries (UK)
Trellis Commission - UCL Culture (London, UK)
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA): Best Children’s Documentary Award - Jury Special Mention (Amsterdam, NL)
Gasworks Residency (London, UK)
2019
British Film Institute (BFI)/DocSociety Made Of Truth Award (UK)
Guardian/Joseph Rowntree Foundation Award - Doc/Fest (Sheffield, UK)
Constellations - UP Projects/Flat Time House (London, UK)
2020-23
I conceived and set up AiR Drop during the COVID pandemic. The idea was to materially support moving image artists who didn’t have access to high end facilities, to make new work at a difficult time. The name refers to an Artist in Residence opportunity, but one that comes to you. Every month we shipped two enormous crates of film equipment to an emerging artist, who would have the equipment for a fortnight to make work or experiment as they saw fit.
The idea came from my own early career experience of not being able to access equipment because of cost, and having no access to institutional facilities. I designed a package, based largely on my own equipment, that would provide everything necesssary to make work and which was customisable by each artist before it was shipped to them. I raised the funding to cover insurance, shipping and any other unforeseen cost, so that it was completely free.
The project supported ten artists who made new work that they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to make. The absolute best part of the project was getting to know the selected artists and their work. Everyone picked up the project and ran with it - some made work that was selected for high-profile festivals, others made proof-of-concept films that they successfully used to win big Arts Council grants (this happened twice!) and others just experimented, at a time that was extremely challenging for any artist.
I co-curated AiR Drop with wonderful collaborator Dhelia Snoussi.