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)
2023-present
For the past two and a half years I have been collaborating with groups of young people in Tower Hamlets, London, to make a new, ambitious work that speaks to the experience of growing up in the UK today. I have been specifically working with young people who have been excluded from the UK’s mainstream education system and bring their own unique perspectives on life. To be born in 2010 is to be born at the height of the global financial crisis; the birth of the smartphone; and in the UK context, to have grown up entirely under a political project known as austerity. This experience, engineered by adults in positions of power and reshaping every aspect of growing up, constitutes a large-scale social experiment being done to young people.
We have been collaborating to make work that speaks to the group’s experiences and identities, exploring issues of power, perception, art, mental health and education. Alongside making work we have been documenting our process using film and photography. Years one and two of the project took place in an Alternative Provision setting and a youth club; year three takes the form of a collaborative studio practice involving myself and five young/emerging collaborators. The work is still in development, and will culminate in a public form in 2027.
Supported by: Chisenhale Gallery, London East Alternative Provision
Funded by: Arts Council England, Freelands Foundation, Ford Foundation, Action for Bow
Install photography showing first Never Sleep exhibition in Chisenhale Project Space, 2023
Preview documentation of first Never Sleep exhibition in Chisenhale Project Space, 2023
Install photography showing the second Never Sleep exhibition at Four Corners, Bethnal Green, 2025