VESSEL, The Bottle Factory, London. September-October 2024. Curated by OHSH Projects. Photography by Benjamin Deakin @bjdeakin_photography
Three vessels, their forms translating anccient ceremonies through the contemporary landscape: punctured with thirsty openings, calling to the wetlands. Clay, that primal material of earth and fire, making and exchange, invites reflection on how we come together to consume, and how the landscape consumes us.









Art in Romney Marsh, St Clement’s Church, Old Romney. September-October 2023. Curated by Susan Churchill.
A Siren’s Call

Ceramic pieces commissioned for Art in Romney Marsh, a yearly festival which places contemporary artworks in Romney Marsh’s medieval churches. Made with wild clay local to Romney Marsh, these Listening Vessels call to one another through the belly of St Clement’s Church, Old Romney, quietly making space for connection to other worlds.


Limbo Project Space, Margate
5th-14th May 2023
In and Beyond Things 

A takeover of Limbo’s project space with a collection of vessels and drawings which animate the voices in and beyond things.







Mui Folk Gallery
Margate, 2023
Dwelling
A painted transformation of a small corridor tucked away in Margate, inviting mythological realms to collide with the dwelling space of the everyday.








Practice-led PhD research, presented at venues including Hastings Contemporary (2020), 155a Gallery with Warbling Collective (2020), Daphne Oram Gallery (2022), Drawing Room (2023)
The House Was Like Her

Some artistic research produced as part of fully funded practice-led PhD at Canterbury Christ Church University.






Public screenings include Venice Research Fellowship Symposium, Arts University Bournemouth (2021); Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury, UK (2022); The Primer Issue 01:Inflections (2022)
Window’s Edge

Window’s Edge explores the window as a digital-architectural threshold, using a dialogue between captured footage and animation to reflect on the role of the virtual mediator in our lives. The window becomes significant in this project not only as a framing device which contains and offers a portal to visual information intangible in person, but also as a virtual iteration of an architectural feature which frames the world beyond our walls. Drawings from Street View-facilitated journeys between Venetian frescoes are interspersed with images created looking through the windows whose rooms I inhabit. Animation forges imagined paths between each glimpse, while layered window-scapes offer up constellations of tensions in spaces between interior and external worlds. In creating moving images within these spaces, the deadened, mediated, unreachable world can be reanimated, and the edges of the ways in which we might be trapped are offered up for exploration.



Wall drawing with ceramic, Daphne Oram gallery, Canterbury, 2022
Palm to Palm, the backs of hands, the backs of fingers, the thumbs, the tips


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