In 2012-2015 I worked on power stations, on my breaks I would go take photographs. These Photos and that lived experience are the foundations of my project 'Voices of Coal', an immersive documentary in development.
The project tackles concepts of deep time, energy humanities, the tangible and visceral, grief both human and ecological, intergenerational storytelling, an interwoven narrative of human finitude and coal finitude. All while paying homage to mining past, communities built around coal and power with envisaged workshops for healing and imagined futures.
With this project I have received generous development support through workshops with Live Cinema UK, CULTVR, Mediale and Alexander Whitley Dance studio. This project also opened the door to be selected as a Sheffield Documentary Festival AR Talent 2024. I have also most recently been chosen by XR Stories as an Artist in Residence to continue work in motion capture of the ex-miners in the XR lab and exploration of experimental place based sound recording.
I want to thank the Time Network, at the University of Leeds for their generous funding to support the experimental sounds made in the Geosciences lab, extracting voices from coal. More can be read about this here
Due to exhibit at The National Coal Mining Museum December 2025- March 2026.
