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)
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.