Summary
Throughout my career I have pursued opportunities that align with my passion for Documentary Arts, Experimental Filmmaking and Sensory Ethnography. I began my practice within analogue Documentary Photography & Film. Creating work instinctively generated from lived experience, seeking the raw over the ‘real’. I balance working in education while exhibiting Photographs and Film installations across the UK. My experimental Documentary practice investigates Identity, Post-industrial communities, energy, tangible & visceral life forces, Medical and Environmental Humanities. Most recently I was selected as part of Sheffield Documentary Film Festival AR Talents 2024.
Currently in post-production I have an eco-feminist embodied documentary ‘North Sea Sisterhood’ exploring grief and ‘synostopia’ through Sensory Ethnography (an idea I developed on residency with Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology).
My current immersive project has been supported through workshops with Live Cinema UK, CULTVR Cardiff, Mediale and Alexander Whitley Dance Studio.
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I also have experience within the TV & Film industry within Production Coordination, Stills Photography and Art department.
Experience
Exhibitions & Experience
- Director, for eco-feminist embodied documentary 'North Sea Sisters' following female surfers processing grief and synostopia; grief of the landscape (currently in post production).
- Film Director, VRN (visual research network- Granada Centre for Anthropology) Covid film. Currently at festivals.
-Film Artist Residency: Arts, Letters, Numbers, Humanities, New York State Sept 2022 (postponed to 2024)
- Film Artist: Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Artist Residency September 2018 (Manchester Uni, Salford Uni & Manchester Met AHRC North west) Further info
- Photography Exhibition: The Bowery Gallery, Then & Now Exhibition and Publication June-Sept 2018
- Film installation: 'Dialect of the Deep' Free Space project, London. March - June 2018
- Photography Exhibition: The Bowery Gallery, Leeds Film Installation July - October 2017
- Whitecloth Photography & Film Gallery, Leeds 'Twinned' exhibition April- June 2017
- Goole Art Gallery, Arts Council Funded 'Place Greater than home' solo exhibition and community art workshops, 2017
- V Art Centre, Elephant in the room Photo Collective, Shanghai, 2015
- Brick Lane photo auction, London 2014
-The Junction Arts Centre grand opening, solo exhibition, Goole 2010 (Artist workshops)
- East London Photography Festival, Vyner Street Gallery London 2010
- Impressions Gallery, Bradford. Lost in Transit Group show 2009
- Redeye Photography Network & Impressions Gallery. One Year artist development and exhibition programme 2008
-Film & Video Umbrella, 3 month Arts film commissioning Traineeship, London 2008
Education
MA Photography, London College of Communication (UAL) 2014
BA Honours Graphic Art & Design, Leeds Met University 2007
Foundation Art Diploma, Leeds College of Art 2002