About

I am a multi-disciplinary artist drawing on my problem-finding and -solving preoccupations, assisted by a background in design and education.

Through my practice, I am seeking transformation: asking questions and experimenting with answers through propositional works that are activated by others.

My work currently studies labour, particularly precarious labour, unpicking to see its grasps and connections to all other areas of life. Aiming to bring about affect through expanded knowledge and community, I use a variety of techniques and mediums to understand more fully, feel more connected, and do differently.

I have an MA from University College London (2022) and a BA from Manchester School of Art (2009).

In 2024, I set up Artist Futures Labour Lab, a Community Interest Company experimenting with new ways to approach labour and rest for and with artists.

I am also a member of artist collective, MELD and co-founded Studio Tej: an artist-architect duo with Kathryn Timmins, exploring small-scale urban interventions to promote interaction with public space (2010-present).

Selected exhibitions

Fluxus Video Prize - Fluxus Museum, Paros (2024)
Strelnikov's Glasses and Other Stories - Hong Kong Arts Centre (2023)
Something Other Live: On Circularity - Live Art Development Agency, London (2020)
Warrington Contemporary - Warrington (2020)
Time after [( )] after Time - The Briggait, Glasgow (2019)
Strelnikov's Glasses and Other Stories - HOME, Manchester (2017)
Microprovocations (Studio Tej) - Central YMCA, London (2016)
Put Your Feet on the Ground - Disposed, Salzburg (2016)
PRESENT003 - Protein Gallery, London (2016)
Mit de Data: Source Materials Visualised - New York Center for Book Arts, New York (2015)
An Overview of Small Occurrences - Women's Studio Workshop, New York (2014)
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here - New York Center for Book Arts, New York; John Rylands Library, Manchester; The Cambridge Arts Council, Massachusetts (2013)
European Artist Book Awards (ABOT) - Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague (2012); International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2012); Museum for Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna (2011)

funding / residencies / awards

a-n Artist Bursary (2022-23)
Arts Council England - Emergency Relief Funding (2020)
Marpha Foundation Artist in Residence, Nepal (2019)
a-n Artist Bursary to attend Marina Abramović’s Cleaning the House workshop (2019)
Arts Council England - DYCP Funding (2018)
StudioBook - Mark Devereux Projects, Manchester (2017)
Ahvaland Artist in Residence - Åland Islands, Finland (2016)
Arts Council England - Artist's International Development Fund Award (2016)
Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Artist in Residence - Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2016)
Women’s Studio Workshop Art-in-Education Artist book residency, New York, USA (2014)
National Endowment for the Arts grant (2014)
Publication of the year - Think Tank awards (2012)
Honourable Mention - European Artist Book Awards (2011)
Hot Bed Press Artist in Residence (Parlour Press), Manchester, UK (2011)
Warrington Arts Grant (2011)
The Phil Thomas Foundation Grant (2010)
An Inventory of Northern Extremes - Droog Lab, Amsterdam (2010)

collections