My work is an attempt to draw links between our everyday experiences, and the social, political and cultural forces that shape our lives. I believe that each is essential to the understanding of the other. I am interested in who makes work, how, why, for whom, and why that matters. I explore collective processes, and their value for individual and collective growth and change. I am interested in what happens when we make work together; ways of achieving things that none of us could alone. Art making is a form of collective dreaming, if we let it.
Full list of shows, talks, teaching, awards etc: here.
Curatorial work: here.
Film work produced by satellite.
Editions via artists’ imprint bored.of.works.
Consultancy work: here.
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2026 WinterSessions Residency at V2 (Rotterdam, NL)
2025 Awards for Artists - Paul Hamlyn Foundation (UK)
Artist Award recipient - Henry Moore Foundation (UK)
Never Sleep - Four Corners/Chisenhale Gallery (London, UK)
2024Rabbits Road Press/UCL Residency (London, UK)
2023 Never Sleep - Chisenhale Gallery Project Space (London, UK)
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.