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About

I am a UK-based visual artist making photographic art that engages with historical narratives, geological time and future ecologies. I am interested in how time and meaning are embedded in the land, from its formation over millennia to more recent human histories and into the future. 

Moving between the material and virtual, I combine photography with other techniques including montage/3D and digital reality. My projects develop through immersion in the landscape combined with a research-based approach, engaging with archival material, literature and museum collections. 

The disruption of the picture plane, first explored during my Photography degree at the University of Westminster, continues to be part of my ongoing enquiry into photography’s relationship with time, truth and reality.

Designing print, pattern and products for interiors is a relatively new venture. In Oct 2021 I was listed as one of the ‘Faces of the Future’ in Livingetc magazine after working with Habitat to design a floor lamp which launched November 2021. 

Committed to reducing environmental impact, I carefully consider materials, suppliers and waste in all projects.  My printed artworks are created on demand in small limited editions. 

I am one of the founding members of Fractured Land Collective, who delivered the award-winning exhibition ‘This Fractured Land’ at Discover Bucks Museum in 2024. The collective’s second exhibition and events programme, ‘Truth or Folly‘, supported by Arts Council England, is currently on at Wycombe Museum, Buckinghamshire until February 2027.

Please contact me if you would like to purchase/commission art work or to discuss collaborating on a project.

Exhibitions/Awards

2026 Mar- 2027 Feb 

Truth or Folly, Wycombe Museum

2024 Mar-Jul 

This Fractured Land, Discover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury

2024 May-Jun

Photofusion Salon 2024, Brixton, London

2023 Jul

Open Art Exhibition, Discover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury

2023  Feb

AIS Open Festival – Shortlisted

2023  Jan

Small Files Festival – Shortlisted, Photographers Gallery, London

2022 Dec  

Photofusion Salon 2022, Brixton, London

2021 Jul-Aug

Photofusion Salon 2021, Brixton, London

2021 Aug-Sep

Wells Art Contemporary 2021, Wells Cathedral

Education

2014

Arts Award ‘Discover and Explore’ Training, Trinity College, London

2005-11

BA (Hons) Photography (1st),  University of Westminster, Harrow

2004-05

Diploma Foundation Art and Design, Bucks Chiltern University College, Buckinghamshire  

1990-94

BSc (Hons) Computer Science and German (2:1), Staffordshire University, Stafford

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