This body of work examines how analogue photographic processes shape self-image and self-representation for transracial adoptees (TRAs) .TRAs are a group whose bodies disrupt the idea of family through the difference in skin, bone and hair that exists in the photo...

Work made on a residency at the British School at Athens, January & February 2024

I grew up in the semi rural West Midlands. There were a lot of farms, mainly small ones when I was young. I was aware of the changes in the seasons and I looked forward to the different waves of fruit that we would pick, mainly through the summer holidays. I've had an...

Secrets in Silk and Cyanotype (2023) Medium: silk wedding dress, cyanotype chemistry, wax forms, shoju paper, lights This piece was made specifically for the second year PhD student show at the Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art. The work came out of my thinking...

This is an ongoing and personal project about presence and the insistence of being seen. I find it very hard to get my head around the fact that even sitting down, blood is moving through my body at about 6kmph. It's almost impossible to imagine this constant state of...

The 19th C botanist Anna Atkins used the cyanotype process to capture the plants she studied and in so doing produced the first published work that was accompanied by photographs. The process is simple and also reminiscent of magic through the mixing of two liquids...

I spent the first lockdown about 10 seconds away from my studio which is in a set of buildings that had been a Victorian dairy. The farmers used to bring their cows up from the marshes to be milked, it must have been quite a sight, a herd coming up the hill and then...

I am interested in the kinds of paintings that straddle the religious and secular worlds in western art, particularly when opulence was intended because opulence and ‘tastelessness’ are frequent bedfellows. I find it interesting that elements from cultures that are...

Background This work was made in response to Cal Garbat, one of the the disused fabric factories that dominate the village of Vilassar De Dalt near Barcelona. I was invited as part of an artists exchange for the Revela-T Festival. Cal Garbat was built in the 19thC ....

My mother had a stroke when she was 84 and still very independent. One Saturday morning, completely out of the blue, a blood vessel in her brain ruptured and her old way of life ended.I visited her quite a lot, most of my time spent running errands and spoiling her...

I was given a box negatives that were found at a car boot sale along with other items related to photography. It seems the negatives were developed by an amateur photographer who wasn’t particularly skilled so it was difficult to gage what the actual images were. I...