ABOUT
I am a transdisciplinary artist and writer. I describe my work as psychonautical. I think about materiality; memory and magic; transmissions from and between materials, sites and worlds; the emotions of site-specificity; the sensory affects and afterlives of institutional architectures; distance and time. The work manifests as drawing, sculpture, sound, language, performance, and more. I ask myself, what does the work need? I approach my research and practice with speculative, sci-fi sensibilities. Drawing on diverse histories such as those of Constructivism and Suprematism, visual practices of Theosophy, astronomy, Sci-Fi film and TV, and my personal histories of institutionalisation and disability. I position abstraction as a kind of science fiction — to quote Malevich, as ‘untethered from the earth’. My writing is widely published, and I am the first translator of the 1920’s avant-garde film director Louis Delluc’s screenplays into English. With Rachel Smith I co-edit the interdisciplinary imprint intergraphia. I am an Associate Lecturer for the postgraduate Fine Art Programme at SHU and a tutor for The Poetry School’s international prohramme. See my News page for upcoming projects and events
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Recent and Selected Exhibitions, Residencies, and Performances.
Designs for Spaceships #1 (solo showcase), Bloc Projects, 2026.
It must work like a recording (fixed in the floor and the walls) (residency and exhibition with Rachel Smith and Tyler Mellins), Wath Hall, 2026.
Glitch Semaphore, a sculpture-as-performance for Situation Leeds: Contemporary Artists and the Public Realm, 2026.
The Public Dream (solo project), Art House UK, Wakefield, 2025.
Another Way of Seeing (group exhibition), curated by Gill Crawshaw and hosted by Leeds City Art Gallery, 2025
Testing Ground (residency), Yorkshire Art Space, 2025.
The Expanded Librarian (group exhibition and performance), CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 2023.
Radio Silence (sound collaboration with Nastassja Simensky, Laroche, and Gesa Helms), broadcast as part of Radiophrenia’s The Light at the End of the Dial, 2023.
ImPerfekt, Mewo Kunsthalle, Memmingem, Germany. Other exhibiting artists included Daniele Buetti, Adi Hösle, Nikola Irmer, Annegret Soltau, and Marc Quinn, 2021.
#interrupteur Knowledge Exchange artist-writer in residence for the University of Sheffield’s School of Arts and Humanities, 2019.
Sh! ffLight! an art-writing/sound poem score for two voices written and performed in collaboration with Helen Clarke, part of Writing Photographs at Tate Modern, 2018.
INT/EXT (solo exhibition), Wild Pansy Project Space, University of Leeds, 2016.
Micromegas Vagabond Flux, Gallerie Université de Lille 3, Lille, France. Micromegas Vagabond Flux was conceived, commissioned and curated by Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Jannsen. Other artists included Laure Prouvost, Jonn Herschend, Stefanos Pavlakis & Tobias Kauer, Mick Peter, and Bik Van der Pol, 2015.
The Is of the Thing (performance and film screening), part of Shady Dealings with Language curated by Roy Claire Potter and David Berridge, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2014.
Wildwood (group exhibition) with Laura Ford, Racheal Goodyear, Diane Howse, Kelly McCallum, Sophie Lascelles, Heather and Ivan Morison, and Rebecca Birch), PSL, 2007.
Rose and Heather (solo exhibition) at Leeds City Art Gallery, 2006.
Multiples und Editionen, Con/temporary gallery, Berlin Residencies, 2006.
Lightboat, Culture Company public art commission for Holbeck and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
Situation News (a collaborative intervention with John Wakeman for Situation Leeds, a festival of art in the public realm), 2005. Situation News is cited and pictured in Gabriel N. Gee, Art in the North of England 1979–2009, London: Routledge, 2017.
Sylvia Sylvia (where are you buried?), (solo show) ESA, 2004.
The Grammar of Display Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2002.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, (solo exhibition), Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 1988.