Based on the coast of North West England, I am an interdisciplinary artist, curator, publisher and activist. Through my practice I endeavour to reveal patterns embodied within our symbiosis with places, environments and natural systems. My work is often associated with the Art Not Oil activist coalition and, more broadly, the Climate Justice movement.
My imagination is captured by the poetics of nature, and the stories and deep time aesthetics of landscape. By way of creatively exploring this fascination, in recent years my artworks have often incorporated digital video, field recordings, text and organic matter. I am drawn to the edges of things – temporal spaces that offer rich possibilities for creativity. What drives my activity as a curator, is a desire to connect people, ideas and actions in order to create complex and resonant relationships in our world that might otherwise remain unrealised. My curation is always rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration and experimentation.
In 2014, I founded Gaia Project, a not-for-profit, independent publishing and curatorial initiative with a collaborative, ethical ethos. Its purpose is to make forms of critical and creative writing, artists’ monographs and exhibition catalogues in the field of arts/ecology widely accessible. Alongside other integrated curatorial activity (social events, exhibitions, etc.) Gaia Project publishes mostly in limited edition series. I'm a strong believer in publishing as a creative practice.
Over the past two decades I have worked closely with project partners including Liverpool Biennial, Cape Farewell, Green Party, Environment Agency, University of Manchester, 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Commonweal, and National Oceanography Centre.
I'm an Associate of the CIWEM Arts & Environment Network, a member of the international EcoArtNetwork, and an artist affiliate of Cape Farewell. In 2020 I became an Artist Alumni Advisor for the Future's Venture Foundation.
My imagination is captured by the poetics of nature, and the stories and deep time aesthetics of landscape. By way of creatively exploring this fascination, in recent years my artworks have often incorporated digital video, field recordings, text and organic matter. I am drawn to the edges of things – temporal spaces that offer rich possibilities for creativity. What drives my activity as a curator, is a desire to connect people, ideas and actions in order to create complex and resonant relationships in our world that might otherwise remain unrealised. My curation is always rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration and experimentation.
In 2014, I founded Gaia Project, a not-for-profit, independent publishing and curatorial initiative with a collaborative, ethical ethos. Its purpose is to make forms of critical and creative writing, artists’ monographs and exhibition catalogues in the field of arts/ecology widely accessible. Alongside other integrated curatorial activity (social events, exhibitions, etc.) Gaia Project publishes mostly in limited edition series. I'm a strong believer in publishing as a creative practice.
Over the past two decades I have worked closely with project partners including Liverpool Biennial, Cape Farewell, Green Party, Environment Agency, University of Manchester, 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Commonweal, and National Oceanography Centre.
I'm an Associate of the CIWEM Arts & Environment Network, a member of the international EcoArtNetwork, and an artist affiliate of Cape Farewell. In 2020 I became an Artist Alumni Advisor for the Future's Venture Foundation.
