Biography
I am an artist, photographer, educator and producer.
As an educator, I favour a non-hierarchical, collaborative form of learning. My approach encourages curiosity and exploration, aiming for a dialogue that benefits both facilitator and student. By rejecting the traditional ‘banking’ system of knowledge transference, and instead aspiring to activate the production of new knowledge in social contexts, my teaching practice questions both the usefulness of - and uses for - that knowledge. In this way, I aim to use education as a socially transformative tool.
My research interests as an artist reflect this, in unpicking the way that we derive knowledge from our cultural institutions. Working primarily between museum spaces and field studies, I look to create dialogues between objects, artefacts and the landscape, offering alternative narratives that challenge our established historical accounts.
CV
Education
2018 // MA Graphic Arts, University of The West of England (distinction)
2013 // Certificate of Education, Bath Spa University
2009 // Professional Photography, Plymouth University (1st)
Work & Commissions
2024 - // The Prison Mobile Library, a creative collaboration with IC Visual Lab & The Prison Education Service
2022 - 2024 // HE Curriculum Coordinator, Art & Design, UCW / Bath Spa University
2022 - 2024 // Course Leader, BA (Hons) Art & Design, UCW / Bath Spa University
2021 // Founder of foto/walks in partnership with Bridging the Gap Together & NHS Social Prescribing
2016 – 2022 // Lecturer of Photography, UCW / Bath Spa University
2011 – 2016 // Lecturer of Photography, Weston College
2010 – 2011 // Associate Lecturer, City of Bristol College / Plymouth University
2009 – 2010 // Founder/Curator, Photo Gallery, Bristol
Exhibitions & Publications
2023 // ‘The Performing Photobook’, Format Festival, Derby
2022 // ‘Dragons & Snakestones’ Exhibition, Weston Museum
2021 // ‘Dragons & Snakestones’ Photobook
2018 // ‘Conform’, Arnolfini, Bristol
2018 // ‘Dragons & Snakestones’, Lyme Regis Museum
2018 // ‘The Graphic Arts of Photography, Centrespace
2014 // ‘Photography’, Loves
2012 // Essay in Jan Tove’s photobook ‘Silent Landscape’ (published by Nya Vyer)
2011 // ‘Second Look’, Centrespace
2010 // ‘In Absence’, The Lloyd Gill Gallery
2010 // ‘Three’, Bristol Festival of Photography