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)
2010-present
In 2010 I was part of a pan-European conference for micro- and not-for-profit cinemas held at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). I was part of a group representing the Star and Shadow Cinema, where I was part of the non-heirarchical collective running the cinema between 2008-2011. At the conference we founded Kino Climates, a pan-European network which meets annually in a different European country for a week-long conference. Each conference has three elements:
- A series of co-programmed masterclasses, where different cinemas run sessions on areas of expertise (for example programming, projecting, film making techniques) for representatives from other cinemas
- Plenary sessions, where actions that will further the work of the network over the coming year are decided (for example touring programmes, work on the website, collaborative projects)
- A public programme of moving image work from all of the participating cinemas
I attended Kino Climates as a member of the Star and Shadow for the first few years, and as a representative of Deptford Cinema from 2014 onwards.