Working as an Artist, Photogtapher and Facilitator I am concerned with the role art has across a broad range of communities and contexts and I have an invested interest in local creative and community based development.
Working as an Artist, Photogtapher and Facilitator I am concerned with the role art has across a broad range of communities and contexts and I have an invested interest in local creative and community based development.
My work explores the feeling and energy behind experiences. Using photography to consider our relationship with memory, through the small fragmented moments that make up our lives. Creating carefully captured and staged moments showing the essence of something, suggesting a feeling or a notion that once was. Taking pieces from the catalogue of thought that is our memory, and illustrating these feelings within the imagery.
Often using medium format analogue photography, there is considered pace to the way in which my work is made. Using the naturally slower nature of this medium, focusing on quiet moments and natural light. Some of my recent work has included portraits and images largely of my family and our surroundings; this work has been created considering the changing meaning of our relationships.
Education
BA (Hons) Photography, University of the West of England, (FIRST) June 2012
Exhibitions
On Site (Haltwhistle, Northumberland) October 2015
What I Might Have Said (White Cloth Gallery, Leeds) October 2015
50 Crusaders (Epinay, France and South Shields UK) July 2015
REFOCUS Photography Prize (Stockton-On-Tees) October 2014
Family Figures (Newcastle Upon Tyne) November 2013
Spontaneous Combustion (Hackney Wick, London) June 2013
Exhibition! (Fringe Bar, Bristol) October 2012
FreeRange (Old Truman Brewery, London) July 2012
Pitch, UWE Degree Show (Bower Ashton, Bristol) June 2012
Searching Otto (Tobacco Factory, Bristol) May 2012
Residencies and Awards
Artist in Residence, Whistle Art Stop (Haltwhistle) May 2015
REFOCUS Photography Prize (Stockton-on-Tees) October 2014
Highly Commended, FreeRange (British Journal of Photography) July 2012
Experience
Videographer (Choreographer Alys North, Newcastle) 2015
Photographer (‘To Suit’ Dance production, Newcastle) 2015
Community Workshop Assistant (Whistle Art Stop, Haltwhistle) 2015
Lead Artist, Community Portrait Project (South Tyneside Council) 2015
Lead Artist and Workshop Facilitator (The Story of a Library, South Shields) 2015
Schools Workshop Assistant (Art Mix, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art) 2015
Artist, REFOCUS Anniversary Commission (Stockton-on-Tees Council) 2014
Workshop Facilitator (Ouseburn Farm, Newcastle) 2014
Photographer (Fine Press Book Fair, Oxford) 2014
Exhibition Coordinator 'Family Figures' (Northern Creative Solutions) 2013
Photographer (Opera North Schools Project) 2013
Photography Fellow and Student Support (UWE, Bristol) 2012
Project Assistant (Temple Quarter Public Arts Project, Bristol) 2012
Stills Photographer (Searching Otto, Dir. Angie Bolea) 2012
Artist Assistant (Joanna Paterson) 2012
Artist Assistant (Leonie Hampton) 2011
