Making
Artworks of different mediums that seek to cherish and hold dear the culture that I encounter, thinking about fandom and devotion and proximity and imagined closeness!
I scanned in my whole sketchbook that I made whilst thinking about cherishing, about what it means to celebrate and to collage with more love and less fear-it was an exercise in returning to a visual language of mine with a different attitude and a relaxing back into it!
This was commissioned by Watershed/Cinema Rediscovered in 2023 as part of their video critic programme and ended up as a basis for my book published by Worms in 2025, under the same name. The film uses clips from the movies screened as part of the festival in 2023, exploring how to recreate the emotional experience of domestic entrapment. Clips included are from Drylongso, Jeanne Dielman, Midnight Cowboy, Millennium Mambo and The Virgin Suicides. The score is an original piece by myself, using some sections from the films as an emotional collage.
The full research list used to inspire my debut poetry collection is included on the ‘wondering’ page of my website but this is a short film I made for the promo of the book referencing a few of the works on the list.
This is a recording of one of the poems in the book using clips from the aforementioned list. Shout out to The Bear, I will love you forever.
It is a research film made in 2020 exploring the ideas of collective power and action against patriachal and colonial forces. It is made up of many clips that I use and return to for inspiration within my own practice and life.
This film was commissioned by Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool in 2020. It was made as a response to the lack of access to dancefloors due to lockdown and is made up of clips digitially collected by myself of old and new friends made in this time. It was streamed during an online launch for the film and had a discord that ran alongside the screening, like some kind of digital smoking area to have a gossip and convene however we could.
Wave Collecting is a film of joy, of documenting the last year of my twenties and the people who have helped me to understand what it means to love and to be loved.