About
I am interested in how objectification and exclusion from mainstream society can give license to chart other ways of being and strategies of resistance: how a classification as Other allows a freedom to develop a language of difference and form unlikely alliances.
Collaborative and collective working, participation, and giving voice are fundamental to my practice. I use a range of tools and media including still and moving image, voice, sound and the written word. I am interested in the physicality of our encounter with sound; in the non-linear nature of time, and in place as an amalgam of metaphor and context, with its pull on what we can know and who we can be.
I have exhibited nationally and internationally. My work is regularly included in group shows, screened, broadcast or published. I was lead artist for the 2018-19 Artquest Lifeboat group residency, and was part of Castlefield Gallery’s 2020 bOlder talent development programme, regularly continuing to show work together as Ten Obstructions. I was a member of Lux Critical Forum 2022-3, continuing to meet and screen work as Deluxe Critical Forum. I am an active working group member of the Feminist Duration Reading Group, one of many collective endeavours that have influenced my practice.
Recent group shows, broadcasts and screenings include:
-The Power of Fragility (HD video 5’35, 2023) in On Disturbances, by Something Other (somethingother.blog) and screened at Goldsmiths CCA in collaboration with Feminist Duration Reading Group, November 2023; in Stance, Sweet ‘Art’s ‘Art Bypass Gallery, Dalston, London June 2024; in Earthwork, Deluxe screening at Spanners, Brixton, November 2024; in Orleans House Gallery Winter Show, November 2024-January 2025.
-Nothing Worthwhile is Done Alone: On Friendship and Feminist Organising (Sound recording 30’ 24” 2020)
In Hope is a Discipline, part of the Belgrade October Salon, October and November 2024
(Made with Helena Reckitt and commissioned by Annette Hans of Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof for a collaborative project with Anne Meerpohl / HFBK Hamburg (the Hamburg art school) around feminism, care and friendship January 2021.)
-The Garden (HD video 1 minute 2023) in A Cabinet of Curiosities, Dez Rez Project Space, Deansgate Manchester, October and November 2023.
-The Power of Fragility (various media, 2023) in Gladly Beyond, Rogue Studios Project Space, June and July 2023.
-The Big Ship Sails (Don’t Let Your Dreams Leak Away) (HD video 8 minutes, 2022). In In the Making, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, December 2022-April 2023.
-I set fire to my memories (installation including 3x stereo sound recordings, each 20’, 2023 ) in Hair of the Dog, Four Corners, Bethnal Green February-March 2023
-Jam Today (HD video 9’45” 2022) in Through the Looking Glass, World of Glass, St Helens, March-May 2022.
-Flotsam and Jetsam. (stereo sound recording 9’04” 2022) in Wild Energies: Live Materials, a three day online event focusing on and around the work of artist composer Annea Lockwood. London College of Communication Centre for Sound Art Research and Practice. April 2022 (also shown at Engine Room, Morley Gallery in June 2022 and in the Winter Show, Orleans House Stables Gallery, December-January 2023).
-Those Who Were There (sound walk: 6 posters with QR codes and instructions, 6 site specific stereo sound recordings each 4 minutes 2021). Made in collaboration with Maya Chowdhry as part of the exhibition From the Ground Up in Castlefield Gallery New Art Space Wigan, September - October 2021.
--Inside (HD video 2’ 46” 2020) part of Ecofeminist Film Festival at Genesis Cinema, October 2021, originally made for Ten Obstructions, bOlder Instagram exhibition https://www.instagram.com/tenobstructions/, August-September 2020.
-Coloured Glass and Mirrors, (stereo sound recording 6’ 42” 2021), part of a listening event for Something Other’s call on Visions, hosted by Ignota Books, July 2021.
-As Water (HD Video 6’04” 2020),
In Obstructions, Castlefield Gallery Manchester, December 2020- May 2021
-Disorderly Paradise (HD Video 5’42” 2020)
In Retrespect at Sweet’Art’s Art Bypass Gallery May 2022
in Filmed Up screening (online) Home Manchester. November 2020.
-Aflame (Stereo sound recording 5’, 2020)
The Art Hunt, Sweet ‘Art, 14th September-31st October 2020.
-This Time, (HD video 5’ 06” 2020)
Unprecedented, OVADA Oxford, May 2021
Come Hell or High Water, Limehouse Reach, June 2020
-The motion of waves, (stereo sound recording 7’ 45” 2020)
Something Other (virtual) performance night, LADA website. May 2020.
-Love, dinners, flowers, dances (money, work, deadlines, power) (collaborative sound recording 30’06” + booklet +poster 2020)
The Great Leveller?, curated by Sweet ‘Art on artsteps.com, May-June 2020
Unseen Labour, Old Newington Library, 155 Walworth Rd, Walworth, London SE17 1RS, March 2020
-From There until Here, (stereo sound recording 11’10” 2019).
In Tait Today, Morley College, November 2019 to January 2020
-Listen: an exploration of collective and collaborative working, (stereo sound recording 18’40” 2019)
Broadcast on Art Licks Weekend Radio, October 2019
-Mermaids singing, (HD Video 4’46” 2019)
Writing Photographs II , Old Newington Library, 155 Walworth Rd, Walworth, London SE17 1RS, September 2019
-To meet the sea (HD video 9"‘44” 2019),
Invisible Material: process, performance and screenings. London College of Communication, March 2019
Writing Photographs II , Art Academy, 155 Walworth Rd, Walworth, London SE17 1RS, September 2019
-Grethel, (HD Video 6’24” 2019)
Table Exhibition screening night. Swiss Church, London WC2H 9DY, March 2019
Solo shows:
-Teatre del Passat (Theatre of the Past), Sala Monserrat Roig, Pati Llimona, Barcelona, 2011
-Kings, People’s History Museum, Manchester, 2010
-Se Quien Quieres Ser (Just Who You Want to Be), Sala Ruines, Pati Llimona, Barcelona, 2007