I’m a British artist living in Lisbon. I work with earth, plant pigments and perceptions of landscape to make semi-figurative drawings. The drawings are gestural and encourage the expressive qualities of the materials. I’m interested in how the processes and vocabulary of drawing work in other fields, so the drawings often stray into painting or sculpture. 

My work explores collaboration and in-betweenness, making room for chance, play and what happens as a dialogue between a person and a place, an artist and their materials. I think about light and memory, the changeable vitality of matter, and how time takes various shapes.

I studied philosophy (MA Edinburgh; MPhil Cambridge) and then sculpture (BA Wimbledon); both influence my writing. My art research has been published as book chapters (in Northern Light 2018; Proximity and Distance 2020; Disturbed Ecologies 2023) and in online journals (NANO 2014; Mediapolis 2023).

Solo exhibitions include:
blind alley projects, USA (2022)
One-to-Ten Gallery, UK (2022)
An Lanntair, UK (2011).

Group exhibitions include:
Pictorem Gallery, UK (2025)
Cole Art Center, USA (2024) 
ras de terra, Spain (2024)
Galerie Plato, Portugal (2023)
Bruton Museum, UK (2021)
La Ruine, Switzerland (2020)
Yorkshire Artspace, UK (2018)
Standpoint Gallery, UK (2016)
Leach Pottery, UK (2015)
Airspace Gallery, UK (2014)
Customs House Gallery, UK (2013)
Karussell, Switzerland (2013)
The Photographers' Gallery, UK (2009) 

Residencies include:
ras de terra, Spain
blind alley projects, USA
Joya AiR, Spain

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