Selected Portfolio
Publications
Reminiscências Industriais do Grande Porto (Industrial Reminiscences of Greater Porto) Photobook produced as part of a collaborative project and exhibition. Available from Galeria QuadraSoltas, Porto (July 2024)
The Repair Shop of Memory Peer-reviewed philosophical journal article on evocative objects and autobiographical memory. Memory, Mind and Media (Cam. Univ. Press, 2023) doi:10.1017/mem.2023.1
I Want To Speak Please Poem in the collection ‘Our Own Coordinates’ (Sidhe Press, 2023) 979-8377894452
Metamorphogram: Pattern as Memory of Experience Chapter in the academic design book ‘Pattern and Chaos’ (Intellect Books, 2023) eds. Drs. Victoria Mitchell and Sarah Horton
No Maps For These Territories – Exploring Philosophy of Memory Through Photography Peer-reviewed philosophical journal article on when a photograph becomes a memory. (Estudios de Filosofia, julho de 2021. DOI: 10.17533/udea.ef.n64a03
Exhibitions & Commissions
Objetos de Memória, Solo exhibition, Casa das Artes (Fundação Bissaya Barreto), Coimbra. (May – August 2024)
Reminiscências Industriais Group show, Galeria QuadraSoltas, Porto (June – July 2024)
Explorar Expressoes Group Exhibition, CC Bombarda, Porto (May - June 2024)
Mnemosyne Group exhibition (images), Galeria AL859, Porto (September – October 2023)
Sea Wall Commissioned spray-painted mural 3m x 2m, Matosinhos (September 2023)
I Want To Speak Please Banner, quilted for York Minds and Voices dementia support group. Currently used at various national events. (2022)
False Memory Group exhibition, Rugby public Art Gallery and Museum (August – November 2020)
Photographic Memory Solo exhbition, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (November 2019 - January 2020)
Let Us Satisfy Our Eyes One of a series of works on cultural memory, based on archival content, commissioned by York Explore Library & Archives; permanent public display (2020)
Archive Activists Series of large-scale fabric hangings for York Libraries. Created with extensive public participation. (Installed 2019).
1000 Thanks To Plankton Large-scale, outdoor, glow-in-the-dark collaborative installation with Gemma Nemer for WE Wonder Noir Festival (Nov 2019)
Yorkshire Philosophical Society Commission including public workshops in cameraless photography, a public lecture, and two works for public display (Nov – Dec 2019)
SCAF Emerging Artist Award Group exhibition for shortlisted artists, Boroughbridge (Sept – Dec 2019), Thirsk (from March 2020)
Six Degrees of Separation Sculptural hanging installation for the international LOOK Photobiennial, OpenEye Gallery at Bloom Building, Liverpool (Oct – Dec 2019)
This Must Be… The Place, Group exhbition, Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester (January 2019)
Projects
Porto Drawing Club, open access, non-profit life-drawing club (Instagram), founding member (from April 2024, ongoing)
Memory at the Crossroads of Art and Philosophy, leading the content and production of an international workshop in collaboration with Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Universite Grenoble Alps (ongoing to 2025)
Five Hectares, socially engaged project linking archives with history, mapping, and the cultural and biological diversity of the Yorkshire Dales. (March 2021 – Nov 2022)
Icosahedron of Theseus, art-based philosophical exploration of attitudes to maintenance of identity over time, including online participatory research project. (2021- ongoing)
Crossing Sectors, professional development group focused on socially-engaged practice, run by Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. 6 month course, and digital exhibition at Open Eye Gallery (2021/22)
Rugby League World Cup Club, online project using photography to help adults with autism document their experiences at the upcoming RLWC (Jan – Sep 2021)
Unfolding Origins Community-based project and residency supporting public engagement with sculpture & architecture. Based at Selby Abbey (July – Nov 2020)
AstroArt Creation of work and various public exhibitions for Southampton Astrodome. Using old star maps to explore a sense of place and human identity (2019 – 2021)
Artist-in-Residence Wentworth Woodhouse stately home, creating multiple large-scale outdoor sculptural installations (Feb – Aug 2019)
Artist-in-Residence York Library and Archives, creating works and workshops exploring cultural and social memory, using archival sources (2017 - 2020)