residencies.
title. Agency of Imagination
date. March - April 2023
description. I spent a month on Engeløya, an island off the coast of northern Norway. A great deal of my time was spent exploring this incredible, sublime and surreal place on foot (as well as on bike, cross country skiing, and kayak), recording my experiences through text and photographs and collected found objects. I continued to document particular walks through painting, as I'd done at Joya. These images act as visual shorthand for experiences I treasure, and collectively reflect the unique geography of this precious place. I also experimented with recording a singular walk through cyanotypes of plants I found on the way. I Lastly, I learned new skills, such as spoon carving and felt making.
title. Joya AiR
date. February 2023
description. I spent two weeks in southern Spain at a wonderful and long-standing artist residency, Joya AiR. In this unique landscape, I took my experimentations with pinhole photography further through the use of eco-friendly developers. I reconnected with the act of drawing, wove found materials, recorded sounds, and fashioned clay direct from the ground. I began experimenting with way to merge my creative practice with my practice of exploring and understanding places through walking - to document place and to capture something of its unique essence.
title. Mud and Wool
date. January - February 2023
description. I started the year as Mud and Wool's inaugural artist in residence. I responded to the beautiful Welsh surroundings in textiles and clay, merging found and fabricated materials as a means to play close attention and as acts of reverence and care. I began experimenting with pinhole photography and took my exploration of cyanotypes onto fabric and clay. I watched the sunrise every morning and ran every day, getting to know the place through its daily fluctuations and patterns.
title. Eco-Syntax (DARP)
date. January - May 2021
description. I spent the first few months of 2021 in rural Derbyshire, in an abandoned school at the commencement of an ongoing artist-led community focusing on ecology and our relationship to the natural world. In this inspiring setting, I explored numerous mediums - including macro photography, cyanotypes, oils, fabric dyeing with natural materials, kokedama, sound - and spent significant time walking the land and connecting with nature.
