About

I am a multimedia artist, using photography, film, 3D and sustainable textiles/tech to explore relational movement - both between young women and their environment - and how to parse movement, using a feminist praxis. My research interrogates immersive environments and how they affect the viewer, using sensors on the body, re-mapping embodied responses to VR encounters. I have used heartbeat sensors and Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) sensors - mapping electric currents on the palm - to record embodied responses to both real and virtual environments.

I initially trained in Drama and Media at the University of Bristol; having worked as a performer in a theatre co-op based in London, I had 2 children and re-trained in Textiles at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. My artistic research and practice is now a synthesis of movement, sustainable textiles and the mediated body.

I worked as an experimental textile artist and a film maker for 15 years, before gaining a distinction in MA Media Art and Philosophy at Birmingham School of Art, BCU. I am now a part time PhD researcher at the School of Art, funded by M3C/AHRC.

In April 2024, I began a year long artistic residency at the Hive, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. I am setting up a sustainable plant based studio, using plants grown onsite - in collaboration with the Ruskin Mill Trust - and using these to develop bio materials for future textiles, dyeing fibres and making sustainable recipes for the darkroom. I will be running workshops with the local community and young vulnerable adults in how to use waste as a resource, using food and coffee waste from the Vegetarian Hive cafe and bakery.

In 2020 I collaborated with Tate Liverpool and Mikhail Kirakhis on a project looking at climate change. Working with Birmingham Wildlife Trust at Deer’s Leap Park, Smethwick, I filmed the young female volunteers (re)wilding the nature reserve. Due to the coronavirus pandemic the interactive installation was postponed, I produced a digital archive the turning world 2, click here to view.

Vitruvian Woman, (2011) was premiered at the Eindhoven Film Festival, and I was then commissioned by Arts Council England to make a multi projection installation at The Patrick Centre, Birmingham (2012) with dancers from BRB and the Sonia Sabri Company. I was commissioned to make an interactive installation for the Birmingham Hippodrome (2010) and to make 10 short films by Birmingham Rep Theatre (2013).

Lightening strike (2013) was exhibited at the Midlands Arts Centre and I had a solo show at Argentea Gallery, Birmingham (2017).

My work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2009), Armory and Poole Art Fair, New York (2010) and at UTS Sydney (2017) and The Institute for X, Aarhus (2018), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2021).