I am an artist, educator, independent curator and producer with over 18 years of experience in the creative sector.
I have significant experience in fundraising and have managed and delivered projects in education, health and community settings across the UK and overseas.
As an interdisciplinary artist I work across a wide variety of media.
My socially engaged practise frequently explores digital technologies in a visual arts context, seeking to merge analogue arts and craft activity with creative digital technologies.
My own practise often reconfigures the familiar as a source of surprise or humour, in an attempt to interrupt the mundanity of the everyday, mark the passage of time or question the marks and traces we leave as evidence of our existence.
There is often a sense of the absurd or humour in my work, together with an economy of language, that seeks to prompt the viewer to double-take or renegotiate their perception of the world.
Stop.
Look.
Listen.
Look Again.
“‘We do not talk, we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.’ That was actually written in 1945 by Henry Miller and I think it’s timely. I think what it says is that the world has been on its present course for a long time. People all over the world spend countless hours of their lives every week being fed entertainment in the form of movies, TV shows, newspapers, YouTube videos and the internet. And it’s ludicrous to believe that this stuff doesn’t alter our brains.
It’s also equally ludicrous to believe that – at the very least – this mass distraction and manipulation is not convenient for the people who are in charge. People are starving. They may not know it because they’re being fed mass produced garbage. The packaging is colourful and loud, but it’s produced in the same factories that make Pop Tarts and iPads, by people sitting around thinking, ‘What can we do to get people to buy more of these?’”
Bafta Screenwriters Lecture, Charlie Kaufmann
I have significant experience in fundraising and have managed and delivered projects in education, health and community settings across the UK and overseas.
As an interdisciplinary artist I work across a wide variety of media.
My socially engaged practise frequently explores digital technologies in a visual arts context, seeking to merge analogue arts and craft activity with creative digital technologies.
My own practise often reconfigures the familiar as a source of surprise or humour, in an attempt to interrupt the mundanity of the everyday, mark the passage of time or question the marks and traces we leave as evidence of our existence.
There is often a sense of the absurd or humour in my work, together with an economy of language, that seeks to prompt the viewer to double-take or renegotiate their perception of the world.
Stop.
Look.
Listen.
Look Again.
“‘We do not talk, we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.’ That was actually written in 1945 by Henry Miller and I think it’s timely. I think what it says is that the world has been on its present course for a long time. People all over the world spend countless hours of their lives every week being fed entertainment in the form of movies, TV shows, newspapers, YouTube videos and the internet. And it’s ludicrous to believe that this stuff doesn’t alter our brains.
It’s also equally ludicrous to believe that – at the very least – this mass distraction and manipulation is not convenient for the people who are in charge. People are starving. They may not know it because they’re being fed mass produced garbage. The packaging is colourful and loud, but it’s produced in the same factories that make Pop Tarts and iPads, by people sitting around thinking, ‘What can we do to get people to buy more of these?’”
Bafta Screenwriters Lecture, Charlie Kaufmann