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)
2014
A collaborative, multi-disciplinary project with Isaac Sakima and Craghead Colliery Band, a traditional brass band from an ex-mining village in the North of England. The work centres around the seemingly alien cultures of electronic and brass music, and bridging this divide through the project was used to discuss ideas around community and belonging.
I spent a period of months facilitating a musican collaboration between Sakima and the Craghead Colliery Band. As they developed a piece of music together that explored the relationship between their different traditions, we filmed in locations around County Durham (where the band are based) and London (where Sakima is based). Sakima mixed the final piece and we then created an immersive 360 degree audio-visual work that played in the Music School of Durham Cathedral for the duration of Durham International Festival (BRASS).
The film plays as an immersive screen sound and film installation, a structural metaphor for the story it tells through music.
A blog post written during the project can be found here.
Commissioned by: Durham International Festival (BRASS), 2014
Exhibited: Durham International Festival (Durham, 2014); London Short Film Festival (London, 2015)