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.
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.
WinterSessions Residency at V2, Rotterdam - exhibition Fri 26th Feb
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)
2016-17
i was the digital artist in residence for ben uri gallery, london's home for art, identity and migration, for their centenary year. over a few months i worked with the gallery, its visitors, partner organisations across london, formal and informal groups, making a work that aimed to tell a tiny part of london's migrant experience.
i spent a period of months interviewing recent migrants to london in informal environments about their personal experiences of arriving in a new city. I was particularly interested in the ways digital technologies affected daily life, for better or worse. I also programmed a series of feature films dealing with migrant experiences to the UK across several venues in the city. I used those screenings to start conversations with the audience about their own experiences and views on migration.
The finished work is a short, narrative artists' film, a fictionalised account of three days in the life of a recent arrival to London and those he meets. The narrative is drawn from the real-world experiences of people I talked to along the way.
The finished work was screened at Somerset House on the 10th December to an invited audience of gallery supporters and participants. It is now part of the Ben Uri collection and will tour as part of the centenary exhibition Out of Chaos.
Commissioned by: Ben Uri
Funded by: Heritage Lottery Fund
Exhibited: Ben Uri 100: Art, Migration and Identity - Somerset House, Ben Uri Gallery, Christie's (London, UK), Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle, UK)
Production stills from filming Break