Born in London (UK), I am a British/ Canadian artist currently based in Lək̓ʷəŋən/ Victoria* (Canada), working with experimental photography, sculpture and the moving image.
With a practice rooted in experimentation and process, my work celebrates the materiality and alchemy of analogue image-making. At the heart of my work is an interest in the intersection of art and science and in the general science of photography, in which I often explore the physical and cultural influences of Earth’s lunar satellite. Always willing to embrace the accidental, I use my camera as a tool to reveal both the visible and invisible. I am a devotee of lo-fi, DIY and alternative processes, adopting a slow photographic approach that delves into themes of trace, scale, and human and non-human connectedness, amongst others. Underpinning my artistic activity is an affection for the inherent haptic qualities of the analogue medium, and the ways in which photographic objecthood can be represented within the expanded photographic field.
I have exhibited my work throughout the UK, and internationally in countries across four continents, and in 2021 was awarded the inaugural Glover Rayner Prize for sustainable photography (UK) and a Greenlight film production grant from MediaNet (Canada). My work has appeared in magazines including the FOOD issue of PhotoEd, spring/summer 2023 (Canada) and maybe. magazine #2, Kalamari Klub, 2022 (Germany). Since producing my debut experimental short film in 2023, it has been screened in numerous international film festivals, including amongst others Antimatter (media art) in Canada and Canberra Short Film Festival in Australia.
My more comprehensive CV can be found here
I am also a founding member of the RAW STOCK film collective, formed in 2023 with fellow Canadian filmmakers Peter Sandmark, Trace Nelson and Dave Johnson. The group celebrates experimental and handmade film and moving image and shares a common obsession and fierce devotion to the analogue medium, embracing all its expanded possibilities. Info on the group’s activities can be found on Instagram here and examples of work by the members found here on Vimeo.
*I am grateful to be able to live, work and play in Lək̓ʷəŋən/Victoria (BC), and acknowledge that I am on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations and also the WSANEC peoples of the Pauquachin, Tsartlip, Tseycum and Tsawout First Nations.
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