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)
2017
I was Digital Artist in Residence at the Museum of Oxford June-November 2017, culminating in an exhibition forming part of the Journeys to Oxford project.
Using methods developed in previous work, I spent the first few months making contact with recent migrants to Oxford who had not been part of an arts project before, as well as people who were engaged with asylum or community services in Oxford. I conducted long-form, unstructured interviews with participants, discussing their experiences of arriving in the UK. Maintaining contact with home, finding work and shelter in the UK, being monitored by governments and much else was a critical part of participants' experiences.
I then wrote a short narrative, comprised of experiences described by participants, built around a fictional central character. We filmed in London (an almost universal stopping point for participants on their journey), and I also filmed in other European cities that participants had passed through on their journeys.
For the duration of the residency I updated my work on the Digital Artist Residency site.
The finished work was exhibited in the Museum of Oxford for six weeks. The film and edited, anonymised audio recordings from interviews are now in the Museum's permanent collection.
You can watch an extract from the film, and listen to a selection of the anonymised audio recordings below.
Commissioned by: Museum of Oxford, Digital Artist Residency (DAR)