Graduate Mentorship Prize by Redeye Photographic Network.
Full Scholarship/Mentorship from THE FACE x Moncler for the Future Academy class of 2022.
FUEL award by WeDontSettle. (“Echoes of Industry”).
ILIKENETWORKING Group mentorship programme 2022.
BA(Hons, 1st class) Photography, University of Cumbria.
Tutoring/Work Reviews by Mishka Henner, Simon Roberts, Crystal Bennes, Morwenna Kearsley and Helen Warburton.
Exhibitions and Events
Hothouse 2022 Speaker, Redeye Photographic Network event in Newcastle.
Peer to Peer Festival, “Power of Place” digital directory, hosted by Redeye, Open Eye Gallery, and the WMA in Hong Kong. (“Echoes of Industry”).
Stirling Photography Festival 2022, Commemorative Book, Digital Exhibition.
Mismatch Collective Group Show, “Echoes of Industry”, Carlisle Cathedral’s Fratry Hall.
“Show Your Fire” exhibition, LUAN Museo Emociona.
Residencies
TIDAL Development lab by Signal Film and Media, April 2023.
“2045” Group Residency at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, October 2022.
UoC Land Matters Residency, creating location-based work for pop-up exhibition hosted in the Greater Langdales in 2022 & Glenridden in 2023.
Affiliations and Memberships
Current Panel Member at Stills Gallery Edinburgh, and the Eden Valley Artistic Network.
Leader of the Wildlife Society, Founder of the Gallery Society, an initiative to offer exhibition opportunities to students, both current and graduates.
Member of Redeye Photographic Network, the Climate Aware Photographers network, the Association of Photographers, and the Working Class Creatives Database.
Works
Entanglement is exploring virtual surfaces and fabricating fossil records of the living world, investigating the potential fates of humanity and their nonhuman neighbours. Exhibiting as part of Convergence, June 2nd-10th 2023, at the University of Cumbria, Carlisle.
Echoes of Industry chronicles the remnants of Teesside’s Steel Industries, presented alongside the stories of their people, immortalising the experiences of their employees, and their costs to human health in the area. Created in collaboration with a veteran of British Steel, he selected the sites, images, and stories. Exhibited in May 2022, printed in book form, featured in the Power of Place directory as part of the Peer-to-Peer festival 2022, hosted by the VMA in Hong Kong, Openeye Gallery in Liverpool, and Redeye photographic network.
Reburial participates in the process of burying artefacts to preserve their condition, a solemn practice conducted by archaeologists and curators when an object is beyond present limits of technology or care. Created with the support of Tullie House Gallery and Museum, with particular thanks and gratitude to Melanie, Elsa and Martin, for their endless knowledge and generosity throughout.
Post-Normal was created in collaboration with my Mother, Bernie, illuminating the household objects that signified a transformative stage of end of life care, following complications of COVID-19 and long-COVID. Work featured in the Sterling Photography Festival, as part of the digital exhibition and book in 2022.
Remnants pictured flowers against industrial backdrops, parodying a framing device used in internal marketing materials of the Steel and Mining industries, intended to demonstrate the ‘thriving’ coexistence of the industrial and natural worlds in the UK throughout the 80s. Prints were displayed alongside a montage film, with original clips and audio taken from archival material. The assembled film illustrated the ethos and marketing behind the industrial identities at the height of their success.
Guardians was a zine created with volunteers from English Heritage and Tullie House Gallery and Museum, celebrating the contributions of the incredible volunteer workforce of the UK in the History and Arts sectors.