I am an artist and writer based in Plymouth, UK working in photography and moving image. With regard to the concerns of the current moment, I’m increasingly interested in the contemporary and historical representation of land and our place within it.
More information on new bodies of work will follow shortly. Please click on the images in the ‘Work’ section to see the full projects described below.
Wo/anders – Elsewhere (2017)
Colour analogue photography and digital video
The work explores bordering areas between Czechia, Germany and Poland, all sites being chosen due to their proximity to areas sketched by the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. This is an exploration of the role of the peripatetic artist in our current age. The resulting representations both echo and deflect notions of the Romantic wanderer; potentially creating their own elsewhere.
Havina (2022)
Analogue black and white darkroom prints
All images were taken during days of midnight sun, along the Artic borders of Norway, Finland and Russia; an area also known as Sápmi to the Sámi people. The Finnish word Havina describes the sound of the wind in aspen leaves; an acoustic effect similar to that of coloured noise, whose frequencies diffuse and envelop more abrupt sounds.
Nick (2020)
Excerpt from 2 screen video display, analogue photography. Archival images by Nicholas Ruddock
What began as a documentation of the demolition of Alison and Peter Smithson’s Robinhood Gardens in Poplar, East London soon became a meditation on memory, belonging and contemporary precarity, through collaboration with Nicholas Ruddock, a former long term resident of the estate.
Rae Magi (2021)
Large format black and white hand prints, digital video
A collaborative visual study with the illustrator Olga Terekhov, on the abandoned archaeological site Rae Magi, a burial mound located in Vaskjala, Estonia.