I am a multidisciplinary environmental artist working across sculpture, installation, film and sound. My practice is concerned with the worlds that exist alongside us, and with what happens when the boundaries between human and more-than-human life become unstable.
I am drawn to things that are easily overlooked: moss spreading across concrete, fungi working unseen beneath the soil, the slow movement of water through a landscape, the traces left by fire, erosion or decay. I work with living and low-impact materials and with ecological processes, allowing growth, transformation and unpredictability to become part of the work itself.
My installations create encounters with other ways of being and other forms of agency. A museum can become a site of colonisation. A sculpture can become a habitat. A technological system can begin to behave more like an ecosystem. Through these shifts, I explore the possibility of seeing the world not as something arranged around us, but as a complex web of relationships in which we are only one part.
Place is central to my practice. I am interested in the particular histories, ecologies and material conditions of a place, and in how spending time with them can alter our understanding of where we live. Increasingly, this research is taking me into the public realm, where I want to make works that are not simply placed within an environment, but enter into a relationship with it.
The sculpture is not always the object. It can be a process, an encounter, a habitat, or a relationship that continues to change.
RECENT/ONGOING/UPCOMING
Oct 2026 Holy Creatures Group show of women artists at Chap.el & Kendal Museum
2026 Guardians of Living Matter Major collaborative duo exhibition of new commissioned work at the LOWRY
2024-ongoing Mossworlds Multidisciplinary moss research project with University of Manchester
2022-ongoing Para-Lab Science/art research collaborations
COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC ART
2024 Offering to the Gods Site-specific Land Art, commissioned by the Kommagene Biennale, Turkiye
2024 Thresholds Site-specific Installation commissioned by The Whitaker Museum, Rossendale
2023 The Museum of the Vibrant Collector Installation and animation commissioned by Groundwork Gallery
2022 The Checklist Resource for low carbon website commissioned by Castlefield Gallery Manchester
2016 Birds of Passage Public Artwork, RSPB Sculpture Trail, Fairhaven Lake
2014 Reach Art Project Lead Artist, Community Engagement, Lytham St Annes
2003 DNA Public Artwork, Nuffield Hospital, Leeds
2000 Wave Public Artwork, Saltash, Cornwall
1998 Sundial Public Artwork, Mile End, London
AWARDS
2023 Meadow Arts Commission Award, Worcester Open Climate Change Edition
2021 Liverpool Biennial x a-n Artists Bursary
2006 Landscape Institute Award Landscape Architecture GDip Exhibition, MMU
RESIDENCIES
2023 Groundwork Gallery: Extraction Residency
Residency & Exhibition commissioned by Groundwork Gallery and The Grange Projects
2021-22 SUSTAIN Digital Artist Exchange
Digital residency commissioned by Castlefield Gallery, UK and Aarhus Billedkunstcenter, Denmark
2018-9 Moors for the Future, Edale Environmental Art Residency
2018 CAMP, Aulus-les-Bains, France Residency with Nils-Udo
2016 I-Park Foundation, Connecticut, USA Environmental Art Residency
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 GUARDIANS OF LIVING MATTER Lowry, Salford
2025 MOSSWORLDS Castlefield Viaduct NT, Manchester
2024 ROGUE WOMEN 3 Manchester Contemporary
2024 THE GROUND BENEATH The Timber Yard, Dorset
2024 SPARK (Artist interventions in a Time of Crisis) Curator, Rogue Project Space, Mcr
2023 THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET Groundwork Gallery, Norfolk
2023 CLIMATE.EMERGENCY.HOPE The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
2023 WORCESTER OPEN CLIMATE EDITION The Art House/Pitt Studio, Worcester
2022 PARALAB REPORT Seesaw Space, Manchester
2019 MA/MFA HOME, Manchester
2017 PROOF Robert Burt Gallery, London
2016 RESIDENCE(residents) I-Park Foundation, Connecticut, USA
EDUCATION
2019 MA Fine Art (Distinction), Manchester School of Art
2006 GDip Landscape Architecture, Manchester Metropolitan University
1992 BA(Hons) 3D Design (wood, metal, ceramics, glass) Manchester Polytechnic