Myth-making and unexpected craft processes spill from adventurous wide-ranging projects.Together with experts and local communities I explore themes of place and identity, contemporary and historical perspectives.

  • Poster Boy & Quilt Cowboy (2015 - 2023)

    A series of performances in a costume made from cowboy movie posters, from everywhere except America. Click here for more information.

  • Lusthus (2023)

    A clash of Swedish architectures with nature. A meeting and reflection point for the many groups that inhabit Wik, near Uppsala. Click here for more information.

  • Vänersborg Rödfärg (2022)

    Cultural conversations and public events involving the cooking of traditional sludge-paint made from Swedish soil. Click here for more information.

  • Skotska Idiomer (2021)

    A thousand handmade woodcut prints displayed on the 28 billboards of Göteborg, comparing Swedish and Scots idioms. Marking the 400 year anniversary of the city. Click here for more information.

  • Antarctic Thought Experiment (2020)

    Dialogues with academics who have never visited their object of study, Antarctica, inform 'translations' from Antarctic metaphors into art objects and performance on video. Click here for more information.

  • Still Waters Run Deep (2019)

    An evolving installation in the Hardwick gallery, Cheltenham, following interactions with local interest groups, pigeon fanciers, archivists and re-enacters; around the town's origin myth.

  • Sentient Sat Nav (2018)

    An hour-long video piece to accompany a journey from Bristol to the Topographies conference in rural Somerset, exploring the declination of the magnetic pole.

  • Optics + Aberrations (2017 - 2018)

    Research into digital sensors and imaging software, creating costumes and choreography designed to thwart their operation. For instance illustrating the phenomena of Purple Fringing on DSLR lenses, in the style of a Buster Berkley dance sequence. Click here for more information.

  • All at Sea (2017)

    Depicting the artists attempts to relate to a lighthouse, a historical object/building, on a human level. The work indirectly explores genealogy, as well as anatomy, cartography, and being hopelessly lost- separated from historical events and individuals. Click here for more information.

  • The Mechanical and Chemical Processes of 16mm (2016)

    A dance film on and about 16mm film. Click here for more information.

  • Hanover Lines (2016)

    Physical performance exploring Hanover Line aberration on PAL testcards, shot on SVHS video. Click here for more information.

  • Off-Press/Print Restraint, (2015)

    Life-sized hand-made woodcut prints in vivid colours made using rudimentary tools, and based on reappropriated older works.

  • Mountain (2014)

    A 3m high dome of highly patterned fluorescent tent fabric reflecting outdoor culture, and ordinance survey maps. The cavernous interior is lined with white ribbon in patterns inspired by phosphenes and cave art. Click here for more information.

  • Chimera (2014)

    A walking tour across the Bristol Suspension Bridge led by an enthusiastic Don Quixote like guide. The tour took the group on a journey through meanings of the terms 'wildness' and 'remoteness', to describe what a contemporary chimera might look like. Whilst the tour progressed, performers in the distant landscape became visible through the telescopes provided. Click here for more information.

  • Chimera Scotia (2014)

    Wicker, outdoor fabrics, and a passing hiker.

  • NH02020 77000 (2013)

    A journey to the remotest part of Britain, costume-making with Ullapool weavers, and performance photography. Click here for more information.

  • Tale-Twisting (2013)

    A lively talk about the Brayford Isle in Lincoln, in the guise of a re-enactor, exploring the construction and amalgamation of myths over time. The performance drew from stories about the island: some well known, others less so, and used the recorded voices of local people to present often contradictory information. Click here for more information.

  • In Search of the Wildman (2013)

    A short film in which the artist goes on a transformational journey- utilising the textures of the landscape, and craft processes. Click here for more information.

  • The Eigg Lectures Versions 1-7 (2010- 2013)

    A cross-platform artwork bringing together; aural storytelling, music, theatre, physical performance, and academic analysis. The series explores the convolutions and metamorphosis of a set of seemingly prosaic stories about an artist on the Isle of Eigg.

  • Vstříc Divočině (2013)

    A short film in which a character bedecked in outdoor clothing strives to reach an impossible union with nature.

  • Review, Review, Review (2012)

    Audiences were asked to create drawings based on obscure art reviews from the 1990's in exchange for a drink at the bar. These images were amalgamated to create a single visionary image in chalk for each review, on large monolithic blackboards. Click here for more information.

  • Project Eigg (2008 - 2009)

    Created with the Isle of Eigg in the Scottish Small Isles, Project Eigg was a long running exploration of how a community can relate to a contemporary and historical island which they inherit or move to. Click here for more information.

  • Gaps in Archaeology (2008)

    Taking artefacts from Leicester's museums, re-making them as art objects, and interviewing representatives from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds as they interpreted the new artefacts.

  • Mystery Photo (2007)

    An experiment in subjectivity, collaborating with 90 Nottinghamshire County libraries. Library users were asked to submit their own photographs that they deemed mysterious, indistinct or baffling. 100 images were then categorised using Dewey decimal and formed a photography book and catalogue.