multi-media artist:
sound and image
MA (Dist.) Sound and Image 2015
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting 1991
multi-media artist:
sound and image
MA (Dist.) Sound and Image 2015
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting 1991
recent projects
multi-media artist:
sound and image
MA (Dist.) Sound and Image 2015
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting 1991
I work with photography and sound to explore the role of the body, memory and place in shaping personal and collective identity. Through the layering and merging of photographs and sound environments, fragments of the human form are combined with urban and natural imagery to create semi-abstract works that resist a single, fixed reading. Colour is used as a structural and emotive element, shaping atmosphere and guiding perception rather than describing reality.
The images are constructed intuitively rather than illustratively. They do not aim to describe specific narratives, but to evoke states of remembering — moments where past and present, inner and outer worlds, begin to overlap. The human figure and voice are often partially obscured or dissolved into their surroundings, suggesting identity as something fluid and continually shaped by environment, experience, and time.
The built environment, landscape, and bodily form are treated as equal elements. Surfaces, textures, and shadows function as carriers of memory, hinting at traces left behind rather than complete histories. The work operates in the space between recognition and ambiguity, where meaning is sensed rather than explained.
By withholding clear narrative resolution, the work invites viewers to bring their own histories and interpretations. Identity, in this sense, is not presented as fixed or singular, but as something assembled through perception and recollection. The works become sites of encounter, where personal memory and collective experience quietly intersect.
At its core, the practice is concerned with how we locate ourselves — within landscapes, within bodies, and within memories — and how photography and sound can hold multiple, shifting truths at once.
exhibitions
Distillation Nov 17 - 29th 2021
collection is being exhibited in Gallery 2 at The Horsebridge, Whitstable
What is that noise? 12 - 27 May 2018
A new commission from the Horsebridge Arts Centre with an Arts Council England, this is a sound installation for the Why do you never speak? project the Horsebridge, Whitstable.
The piece is inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land and my time spent in the Journeys with The Waste Land research group at the Turner Contemporary, Margate.
Further shows
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2017
Earthbound Women and Friends at Horsebridge 11-18 October
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2016
Hazelwood at Horsebridge 2 - 8 March
SEOS June
Small Hythe Gallery 20 August - 10 September
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2015
symptoms of the world, involuntarymemory.agency 2 - 24 August
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2014
100 Years of War, Töne Festival, Chatham. Kent 9 - 15 June
Ashford Visual Artists, Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable 24-28 September
DIY11 Atmospheric Pressure, Folkestone Fringe 11-14 September
Selected for Artist Residency, Stour Valley Arts, Forest Studio
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2013
MA Fine and Applied Art (graduate & certificate) exhibition at the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury.
A Different Viewpoint The Front Room at The Beaney in Canterbury.
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2012
March 16 - April 5 The Thinking Line (panel selected) Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
June 4 - 9 AVA , Ashford, Kent
June 1 - 17 SEOS, Little Chart, Kent
June 16th - 17th Kent Affordable Art Show, Bethersden
April 14 - May 31 Frickleton Fine Art
July 1st with Naked Eye Gallery at the Brunswick Town Art Fair
August Ashford Art Market, Kent
1-16 September Whitstable biennial Satellite
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2011
October 2011 - January 2012 at Kings Hill, Maidstone with Frickleton Fine Art
2nd - 4th December AVA Christmas Art Fair,11am - 4pm at Godinton House
14th - 16th October Landmark Art Fair, The Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington
22nd - 29th August with Pure Form at the Secret Gardens, Sandwich
4th - 9th July with Pure Form at the Bay Art Gallery, Herne Bay
3rd June- 26th June: Ashford Visual Artists at the West End House Gallery in Smarden
4th - 19th June 2011 South East Open Studios
5th May - 25th May, SEOS exhibition at The Artroom, 16 North St, Ashford
21st April - 12th May SEOS exhibition at Cranbrook Library Gallery
January 2011 The Landmark Show, The Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington
December 2010 - April 2011 The Stark Gallery, London
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2010
December Christmas Art Market, Caxton Contemporary, Whitstable
November 18th - 28th Kent Art Space with Canterbury Art Fair at Creek Creative, Faversham.
October 16th - 17th Autumn Art Fair, The Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, London
July - August The Secret Gardens, Sandwich
August Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
May - June Georges House Gallery, Folkestone
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2009
Moore on Form, The Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Canterbury Art Fair, Canterbury, Kent
Midsummer Art Fair, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington
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2008
Pure Form, Georges House Gallery, Folkestone, Kent
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2006
Eye>Eye, The Gallery on Cork Street, London
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2004
Le Perroquet, Aix en Provence, France
education
I trained in fine art painting, which has a tradition of d.i.y. practice that has carried on throughout my career.
My experience of attending a Quaker secondary school led me to work with sound, image and silence.
I am cautious of nostalgia, including nostalgia for analogue technologies, and I have embraced the digital.
I have sought out training and worked to acquire the skills to record, photograph, digitally manipulate, edit, master and produce my sound, film and internet works myself.
A lifelong photographer, I have developed my own fine-art photographic language that layers images into semi-abstract narratives, and as with my sound work, I am concerned with leaving space for the audience to work through and interpret for themselves.
publications
The Thinking Line (2012) Canterbury Christchurch University.
ISBN 978-1-899253-92-0
I have also produced a small line of handmade artist books.
internet projects
darkarchive was in development. It was conceived as a sound and image internet piece, to be both a website and podcast that act as a factional platform for the dissemination of digital sound and image artwork through these pre-existing broadcast platforms.
photisms was a changing single-screen webpage sound and image work. The short durational pieces confounded expectation in small ways and explore some of the cliches in the languages of Film and the Gallery.
involuntary memory was the webspace that hosted the durational and temporary segments of my final MA sound and image work. The space has gone the way of so much internet content and has disappeared.
These websites are no longer available and now exist as memories.