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 27th 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)
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)