My practice spans a range of media and approaches, including; socially engaged projects, video essays, textile banners, and publications. Across my projects I’ve addressed an array of interconnected social, political, economic and environmental concerns, including; public space, mythology, soft power, tax avoidance, Britain's colonial history, and climate justice, amongst others.

Since 2021, I’ve been working in collaboration with Emily Simpson on a project regarding grief, the lack of language for expressing it, and the creation of public spaces for it to be shared. We host a range of dinners, workshops, and events; and have produced publications, posters, and textile installations.

Exhibitions & commissions include; Grief Must be Love With Nowhere to Go, Bloc Projects (2024, with Emily Simpson); Tied to Everything Else, Paradise Works, Salford (2023) The slabs whistle; a song under my wheels, KARST & Take A Part (2022); Throughout the Fragment of Infinity That We Have Come to Know, The NewBridge Project, Gateshead (2020); Link & Shift, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2019); Survey, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Bluecoat, Liverpool; g39, Cardiff; & Jerwood Space, London (2018-19); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery; & Liverpool Biennial (2018-19); Adam Speaks, The National Trust, Croome, Worcestershire (2017); and Outdancing Formations, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg (2015). 

My writing and interviews have been published by Corridor8 and Young Artists in Conversation.
Photo by Dom Moore

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