selected RECENT WORK
Full work and exhibition history can be found on the CV page
2025 Listening with darkness
Listening with Darkness Outside the Academy: Darkness as Partner in Ecosomatic Practice.
A presentation given on 10th July at Unveiling Shadows: Exploring Darkness - A Symposium on Darkness. Doctoral School, Nottingham Trent University.
Full text and selected images are in this Substack article (no paywall)
2025 Guest Speaker: Learning from the more-than-human. 27/5/25
Through creative practice, how can we more deeply engage with, learn from and collaborate with the more-than-human world? What happens when we remember that knowledge is held not only by humans, but by animals, plants and land? How can we deeply listen to, learn from and collaborate with our more-than-human kin? What might we learn about how to better design our own organisations, systems and cultures? And what might we learn about ourselves - our own innate wildness, intuition, and embodied intelligence? Click on the image to watch the recording on YouTube.
2025 Winter Research Residency Dalby Forest, UK. March 2025
Two intensive weeks living and working in Dalby Forest on the southern slopes of the North York Moors National Park. A partnership between Crescent Arts, Scarborough, and Forestry England. I used the time for in-vivo study and reflection on my practice in the context of the Culture Declares Emergency Blueprint for Change. A short article about this residency was written at the request of Culture Declares Emergency for the Inspiration section of their website.
2024 Libations: Shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards
Libations was a walking art piece made on 30 consecutive days between 12th July and 10th August 2024. It was one of 13 works shortlisted for the international Marŝarto Awards for Walking Art 2024.
Read my essay about this piece of work on the walk-listen-create website, and click here to view a slow sequence of black and white images which were the main documentation of the work.
The project is grounded in an old ritual, documented in the story of ‘Tiddy Mun’ which was collected from oral tradition in the village where I was living at the time (Redbourne, North Lincolnshire) between 1887 and 1889 by Marie Balfour, and published in Folk-Lore magazine in 1891.
2024 micro-RESIDENCY AND group EXHIBITION with Hull artists research initiative (HARI)
Encountering Space includes photographic work, writing and a movement score documenting my residency of 25 consecutive hours and the 10-mile journey on-foot to get there.
Encountering Space formed part of an exhibition sharing the work of 25 artists who each completed a 25-hour residency at HARI's new home in an abandoned post-war building.
2024 Woad
In Collaboration with Woad: An Artist's Year of Listening with Isatis tinctoria published in Wort Journal - Issue 2
Article on working closely with woad in my eco-somatic art practice over the space of a year; historical, sociocultural and ecological researches and embodied explorations with/in the liminal terrain of the Fens.
PDF of the full article on Substack (no paywall).
A series of woad paintings is ongoing, and includes Illusion of the Separate Self (bodyprint - image 2), and Ancestral Dreaming (detail in image 3).
2023/24 Arts Council England Develop Your creative practice grant
Full DYCP grant awarded for 12-month project Mapping Ways to Integrate Sustainable Creative Practice, Indigenous Knowledge, and Health.
Included
Development and running of public participatory workshops "Stories from the Water Body" exploring relationship with place, the body, and water through emergent creative process. including movement, writing, drawing and painting, photography, ritual and ceremony, and the making of sustainable ceremonial gifts to the sea. Grounded in research into indigenous gathering circle practices and the folklore and archaeological histories of Lincolnshire. In collaboration with Hannah Green of Dance Free CIC.
Regular Zoom meetings with two colleagues in Aotearoa
Movement practice mentoring with Helen Poynor
Health and Wellbeing through Artmaking course with R.M. Sánchez-Camus. UoA London (10 weeks).
2023 moving with Rock
It is June 2023. Carrying everything we need on our backs we spend a hot month on foot. We choose to meet this land slowly. Setting out to be responsive, we seek to interrupt patterns of modernity, habits of moving, living and thinking, the legacy of the enclosures, and ways of inhabiting the post-menopausal female body.
Click on the image to see more of this body of work in the archive of walk-listen-create.