My practice is social, interconnected, and collaborative. Recent work is concerned with the deep and specific knowledge and the communities that spring up out of fandom. My desire to connect with and learn from the people that I am interested in often leads me to co-author work - breaking the barriers of artist and subject. My recently completed practice-led PhD explored contemporary myth-making and community archives, and my broader practice also investigates popular culture and its associated idiosyncratic subcultures. The historical narratives that I explore often relate to notions of the performer, macho and the absurd. I employ strategies of ‘failure’, changes of scale, and an embracing of historical inaccuracy to disrupt expectations and hegemonies in a playful way. The narrative determines the outcome of the work: photographs, text, events and actions, performances to camera, sound works and props subvert personal, sited and fictive histories. My work also addresses the veracity of the archive, particularly the role of lens-based media and documentation in live artworks.

Current projects include:
‘Multi-Species Meet Ups’: an opportunity to meet other friendly beings in some of Devon and Cornwall's green and blue spaces, and to engage in informal peer-learning around multi-species thinking and being.
‘Democratising Archives’, a commission by socially-engaged arts organisation Take A Part, celebrating local histories of three communities in Plymouth.

I have had solo presentations of work at galleries including Jerwood Arts Space London, Exeter Phoenix, and The Northern Charter Newcastle, and been in group shows nationally and internationally including Castlefield Gallery Manchester, Eden Project Cornwall, CCA Glasgow, Biquini Wax Mexico City, Videofag Toronto, and many more. I have received commissions from organisations such as the Museum of Cornish Life and MIRROR Plymouth, awards from The Box Plymouth and a-n amongst others, and grants from Arts Council England, Visual Arts South West, and other organisations. I have participated in national and international residencies including the Standpoint Futures residency at Chisenhale Arts Place and SOMA Summer Mexico City. For more information about past experience and awards, please see my CV.