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 27th 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)
2016-18
I went through an unpleasant and life-changing experience, with the result that there were many friends who I didn't speak to for a period of many months, because being sociable was difficult. We stayed in touch but only through texts, emails, social media, which often meant we had no idea how the other person was really feeling. When I considered this much later on, it inspired thought about the way we use online communication platforms.
I started meeting up with all of the friends i had neglected, and whenever i did i took a camera. We'd hang out and, in an unstructured way, talk about the big things that had happened in our lives during that period which are just never appropriate for social media. At some point I'd take a photo whilst the friend was on their phone. The daylight-balanced glow would create an eerie effect in the low light, suggesting two realms in which the subject exists - the physical one we were both in, and the one in which we had communicated for months. I liked the stark white, which highlights but is also unsettling and changes the nature of everything it touches, like the experience I had. I used film which had been manufactured the last time I'd seen those friends, but which is no longer made.
exhibited: gallery 48, brixton (london, england) - december 2016; Creekside Open curated by Sacha Craddock - APT Gallery (London, UK) - June-July 2019; Creekside Open curated by Brian Griffiths - APT Gallery (London, UK) - May-June 2019; Baltic Open, BALTIC (Gateshead, UK) - 2021