I have an interdisciplinary practice that includes painting, object making, writing, experimental moving image and performance. Work is concerned with how different disciplines describe and represent the living world, with a particular interest in the visual, symbolic and written language systems they produce. I am interested in forms of storytelling – speculative, hybrid – as a means to explore complex relations between the human and more-than-human.
I am a frequent collaborator and have worked with artists and specialists from the earth and physical sciences. I am member of Glap Collective, an experimental art writing collective, and was a member of Five Years, an artists’ project where programming maintains a direct relationship to practice, from 2015 – 2020.
Practice is both studio-based and situated in the field. Recent projects have included working with Oceanographers to consider how scientific research relating to climate change can be explored in relation to human scale and personal narratives.
Places I have exhibited include: Jerwood Visual Arts, Whitechapel Gallery, Lethaby Gallery, A.P.T., Standpoint, Fieldgate Gallery, London Print Studio and Purdy Hicks, London and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. Some solo shows and projects include: NADA Miami, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair New York, and Toomer Labzda gallery, New York. I have been involved in a number of collaborative projects, from playing the fife at Metaphonica, Central Saint Martins, to staging a trip to the moon at Camden Arts Centre, London. Residencies and workshops include with Signal Fire Arts, Oregon USA, 2017; Stoneleaf Retreat, New York USA, 2017; Sydney College of Arts, Australia, 2011; and on the RRS Discovery OSNAP research cruise, joining oceanographers on an expedition to the sub polar North Atlantic, 2016.