My practice is concerned predominantly with landscape - performances and interventions within it and objects and encounters taken from it. Working in film, video, performance and sculpture/assemblage. I am interested in using landscape to examine and reflect on the qualities of the media I use, and investigating our cultural definition of landscape i.e. what it means to be in, travel (usually on foot) through, look at, 'make pictures' from, etc. There is also a strong interest in my research and practice in materiality - how we 'collaborate' with materials to form a work of art, and how agency is distributed between art and artist. This takes the form of work incorporating indeterminacy/chance and attempting to create an index of natural/unseen forces.

I began my art practice making films in 2015, about small aspects of my life and the environment around me, which has since grown (with the help of a Filmmaking degree programme at Manchester School of Art) into animation, painting, sculpture/assemblage and performance. Growing up in the wild places of the Peak District and the New Forest, I have always had an interest in nature, movement (walking, running, cycling) and artists who work in/from the land such as Richard Long, Ana Mendieta, Andrew Kötting and Giuseppe Penone. As such my experimentation initially began with capturing and documenting nature, into which eventually crept the question of why we look at landscape (especially in Britain) the way we do. This led me in the direction (I always seem to notice a parallel between working and walking) of many interlinked subjects: the history and philosophy of walking, of land use and abuse, geology, materiality in art, remapping our ideas of animate and inanimate, to name just a few. . . during my time in Manchester from 2016-2019, I learned the craft of film and was encouraged to explore where its boundaries lie in relation to other media – this led to an exploration of painting, photography, use of objects and my own body in my work, mostly investigating issues relating to landscape and our perception of things and objects in landscapes.

When I graduated, I moved on to Liverpool School of Art and Design where I further pursued painting and performance practices as well as exploring some collaborative projects. I have since been working on various projects to acquaint myself with a new city and a new surrounding landscape, significantly, through slow movement such as crawling - a kind of 'non-performance' or treading the boundary between stillness and action. I am currently investigating through my practice notions of animism and inanimacy and how I can let the quality of certain materials and forces outside my control influence my work.