- Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media
About me
My work as an artist focuses on landscape in relation to movement, politics and history. Individual works have explored landscapes throughout Europe as borderlands, ecological disaster zones, designed landscapes, and sites of protest to think about how landscape retains cultural memory and embodies change. My practice originates in film and photography and my more recent work has explored archaic forms of moving-image and drawing machines and expanded into the drawn and printed image.
I am currently a researcher within the Centre for Research in Education, Arts and Media (CREAM), Research Lead for the Creative Technology and Design subject area and Senior Lecturer on the Illustration BA, having previously taught across the School of Arts and School of Media and Communication and supported the postgraduate program.
Outside of the University of Westminster, I have recently collaborated with arts organisations such as Four Corners Gallery, Lux, Tyneside Cinema, and May Day Rooms and my research practice has been recently supported by the Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery and Amiel & Melburn Trust. I have also recently initiated student partnership with the Heath Robinson Museum.
Teaching
I teach across the arts and am currently a core member the Illustration teaching team at Westminster. My teaching focuses on visual storytelling, documentary illustration and drawing, critical theory and professional development within an arts sector context. My wider teaching experience covers Fine Art Mixed Media, Contemporary Media Art, Film, and Photography.
Having completed my practice-based PhD at CREAM I am interested in contemporary art and Illustration as practice-based research, dialogic teaching methods as part of studio practice and action-based learning. I have supported the post-graduate program at the Westminster School of Arts and have worked as a visiting tutor at Anglia Ruskin University. Externally I have also acted as external examiner for the University of Creative Arts Illustration course and peer reviewer for Taylor & Francis. I have also been invited to present talks at exhibitions and screenings including the ICA, London, Modern Art Oxford and Istanbul Biennial.
Research
Research has been central to my creative practice since completing a MA at the Slade School of Art in 2006. Since then my work as an artist has consistently originated in media, archival or historical artefacts and integrates research, from fields such as journalism, ecology, architecture and cultural history, within visual narratives.
My current REF oriented research project originates in the re-discovery of an archive of material relating to the British Workers Film and Photo League. This project has involved partners including the BFI and Four Corners Gallery in producing a series of community filmmaking workshops, exhibition and screenings with a subsequently pending publication.
My practice has been supported by programs and organisations such as Arts Council England (2024), Tyneside Cinema Filmmaker in Residence (2018) Arts Foundation Fellowship (2017), Lux Associate Artist Program (2009), London Artist Film and Video Award (2008).
My work has also been exhibited and screened internationally by organisations including the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017), The Joinery, Dublin (2017) CentroCentro, Madrid (2016), CCCB, Barcelona (2011), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan (2010), Serpentine Gallery, London, (2010), MAO, Oxford, (2009), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong (2008), Istanbul Biennial, 2007.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.