I am a photographic artist based in Brighton UK. I received a BA in Photographic Arts from Polytechnic of Central London (now theUniversity of Westminster) in the 80’s. Having to then work full-time and loneparent, making time to produce work when I could, I am now able to devoteall of my time to mypractice.
My work has explored family, sexuality, trauma and beingcommitted to art activism focusing on climate crises with a working-class queerfeminist perspective. I have adapted my practice from traditional toxicproduction of lens based images, to experiment with less harmful processes- such as cyanotype,anthotype, lumen, projection, using bioplastic, found items, deconstructing andreworking my archive, photo-weaving, always critiquing how I make work and minimisingthe need for fossil-fuel based art materials.
My most recent work “The Men” made January 24 whilst in Residencyin Phoenix Artspace Brighton, used a variety of alternative processes to makework, naming each after the CEO’s of corporations responsible for the climatecrises, past and present and which will remain an ongoing project.
I have exhibited and been published in the UK, Europe and Canada.
Exhibitions
2024 Ethereality The Photobook Café London
2024 "The Men" Pistil Collective The Crypt Gallery London
2023 “Yes its Personal, Yes its Political” Exposure Festival Canada with Tend Collective
2023 Format Festival- https://www.gaslightingart.com/ “I Hold My Hand” curated online by Miranda Gavin
2022 “Yes its Personal, Yes its Political” Hundred Heroines Silent Protest exhibition Gloucester
2022 Member of Tend Collective evolving from Hundred Heroines
2021 “I Hold My Hand”, “Gaslighting” exhibition with SEAS
2020 “Brighton Wasted” Lacuna Festival Canary Islands
2019 “Curating Whispers” with Form Collective at Derby Photo Fringe
2019 Shutterhub “Everything I Ever Learned” Cambridge University
2019 Selected work from three projects shown at the Hundred Heroines exhibition“(Un)Framing Ourselves: Representation on the Line” in Chelsea, London: “I Hold My Hand”, “Salt” and “Bound”
“Curating Whispers” also shown as part of Form Collective at this show. Also shown in Blackpool
2019 “Curating Whispers” SEAS (Socially Engaged Artists Salon) Brighton, “Riot”
2019 Instagram takeover- Form Collective
2018 Work-Show-Grow with Natasha Caruana and Juno Calypso for Brighton Photo Fringe ”Totem”
2018 Shutterhub in London and Amsterdam - “Salt”
2016 Instagram takeovers- Open Doors Project ; Women In Photo.
2016 Brighton Photo Fringe with Tri-Pod Collective “Salt”
2016 Featured on Fleur and Arbor website
2015 “Beach Topography” London Analogue Festival
2014 Brighton Photo Fringe Collectives Hub with Merge Collective “Brighton Wasted”
2013 Urban Photo Fest at Tate Britain
Publications & Online Media
Shroud/Σάβανο” An Altered Landscape online journal for contemporary landscape photography
2023 “Shroud/Σάβανο” for Voices Above Water pub TheStarving Artist
2022 Photography and Queer Social Practices “SEASZine” anthology of Queer Photography: A Non-definitive Survey
2022 “I Hold My Hand” published in Gaslighting magazine
2019 “Curating Whispers” andinterview featured in Loupe magazine
2015 "Salt" featured in Fotografia Magazine
2015 “Brighton Wasted” in The Point magazine
Residencies
2024 Wick Residency Somerset UK
2024 Phoenix Artspace Winter Residency Brighton UK
2023 Cycladic Arts Residency Greece
2022 Ano Asites AIR Greece
