Through photography I am exploring my world: Trying to figure out my place in it, investigating myself, seeking connections, finding objects and people to collect and categorize. I often use my own flesh to make real the stories and image explosions conjured by my mind. I also reach out from myself, groping around in the near distance for things that I can make sense of through image-making. I am sometimes excited by the darkness and chaos of my imagination, at other times comforted by the patterns and order of reality. The results of my explorations are staged images, self-portraits and collections of the similar.
Solo Exhibitions:
ʻSelf-Portraitsʼ Matsu Photographers Gallery, London 2010
‘Portfolio Exhibition’ Project Space 1, Milton Keynes 2010
‘Music:Me’ Newbury Corn Exchange 2010
‘Dying to Drink. Born to Recover’ The Baltic, Newcastle 2008
‘Adult Thumbsuckers’ Brighton Photo Fringe, Hove Town Hall, Hove 2006
Group Exhibitions:
ʻMilieuʼ Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes 2010
‘Serenity’ Milton Keynes Hospital 2010
‘Assignment’ The Three Hares Gallery, Olney 2010
FringeMK, Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes 2009
‘The Diffusion of Useful Knowledge’, Westbury Farm Studios, Milton Keynes 2009
‘Drop-in Portraits’, Viewfinder Photography Gallery, London 2009
Catch Light Collective, Waterside Festival, Milton Keynes 2009
'I am...' Total Image Nation Exhibition, Tonic Art Space, Leeds 2009
Brighton Photo Fringe, Blue Dog Gallery, Brighton 2008
Amersham & Wycombe College Graduate Show, Amersham 2008
Free Range Graduate Show, The Old Trumen Brewery, London 2008
AOP Student Awards, London 2008
Northbrook College Graduate Show, Worthing 2007
Publications:
London Independent Photography Magazine, Summer 2009
4Talent Magazine, November 2008
4Talent Magazine, May 2008
Book ‘Dying to Drink. Born to Recover’ 2008
Presentations:
'The Photographic Space as Performance Space', Portsmouth University 2009
‘Rising to the Challenge’ Bromley Camera Club 2008
Awards:
AOP Student Awards, Finalist 2008
Picture This (Channel 4), Winner 2008
Education:
HND Photography and Digital Imaging, Amersham & Wycombe College 2008
ABC Southern Diploma in Photography, Northbrook College 2007
BA Hons Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Plymouth 1999
Other:
Founder of Milton Keynes based photographic art group Catch Light Collective
