About me
I am a filmmaker with over twenty years of experience directing, producing and animating award-winning commercial and independent work, from music videos to short films. My practice spans commissioned projects and self-initiated work, often exploring the expressive possibilities of animation and the moving image.
I divide my time between practice, research and teaching. I am a Senior Lecturer in Animation at the University of Westminster and have presented nationally and internationally, as well as chairing panel discussions, most notably at the British Animation Awards in 2014 and 2016 and for the British Council. My publications include The Animated Time Image (Routledge, 2020), and I am currently in the final year of a practice-led PhD at the Royal College of Art.
Teaching
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate courses in animation and related moving-image disciplines. I have taught in a range of institutions in the UK and overseas, working with students from diverse educational and professional backgrounds.
My teaching is practice-led and research-informed: I encourage students to experiment, to situate their work critically, and to develop a distinctive personal voice. I supervise practice-based projects as well as written work, and I support students in building sustainable creative careers through portfolio development, critical reflection and professional practice.
Alongside my core teaching, I act as an external examiner and have advised on course validation and curriculum development.
Research
My research is practice-led and rooted in animation, cinematic time and wordless storytelling. I am interested in how animated images communicate beyond dialogue, and how time, rhythm and framing shape our experience of moving-image narratives.
My practice-led PhD uses creative methods and technical processes from short experimental narrative animation, read through philosophies of time, to develop an approach to wordless picturebook making. This approach replaces purely chronological storytelling with durational, multi-threaded visual structures, exploring how temporal complexity and simultaneity can be translated to the page.
My publications include the chapter “The Animated Time Image” in the edited collection Reimagining Communication (Routledge, 2020) which examines philosophical and theoretical approaches to animation and temporality. I regularly present my work at conferences, festivals and industry events, and welcome opportunities for collaboration with filmmakers, artists, curators and researchers interested in animation, experimental storytelling and practice-based research.