Artist statement
My interdisciplinary practice explores how materials, people, and ideas encounter and transform one another. Working across digital and lens-based media, collage, drawing, and sculpture, I treat making as a relational process, where materials are fragmented, translated, and reconfigured through new encounters. These material approaches are in conversation with my socially engaged and collaborative work, which is guided by principles of access, care, and co-production. I’m drawn to points where established meaning falters or shifts, where language or authorship lose stability, and where alternative ways of seeing and being with the world can be imagined.

2026
Exhibition restaging of project: Won’t Sit Still. Manchester Art Gallery, March 2026 – March 2027.
Residency: JOYA Arte and Ecología. Vélez Blanco, Almería, Andalusia, Spain. March.
Residency and exhibition, with Watermarks Collective. Big Ideas By The Sea Festival, Scarborough, May.
In Conversation: with Benedict Phillips. Part of The Bunker Talks series, hosted by Manchester School of Art and Design, May.
Publication: Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup, with the YSI 2025 Network. Online and print, upcoming.

2025
Group exhibition: Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup, with the YSI 2025 Network. Henry Moore Institute Library, Leeds, December.
Group exhibition: Assembly House Annual. Assembly House, Leeds, October.
Review: The Sausage Atlas publication, part of Many Hands group exhibition. By George Storm Fletcher, Sunny Bank Mills, September.
Residency: Drawing Out Hilbre Archipelago, with Watermarks Collective. The British Art & Design Association and Liverpool Independents Biennial, Hilbre Island, Wirral, August.
Selected artist: Sculpture Network 2025. Yorkshire Sculpture International (YSI), supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, Hepworth Wakefield, Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, July – December.
Selected Artist: StudioBook. Mark Devereux Projects. April – July.
Residency: JOYA Arte and Ecología. Vélez Blanco, Almería, Andalusia, Spain. April-May.
Workshop: Two Stories. Working w¬¬ith people with lived experience of homeless for The Lazarus Project and St. George’s Crypt, Leeds, January.

2024
Project: Won’t Sit Still. Supporting young artists to produce their first commissions and a gallery takeover, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, Jan – April.
Group exhibition: Stashed. The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery, Rossendale, curated by Short Supply, November 2024 – Feb 2025.
Workshop: Preparing Exhibitions. Part of a development course for neurodiverse artists. Pyramid, Leeds, November.
Project: Alfie Fox Development Team. Supporting a learning disabled artist. Pyramid, Leeds, July 2024 – Sept 2025.
Artist Talk: Making It Work. With Rosie Vohra and Amelia Frances Wood, chaired by Anna Turzynski. Assembly House, Leeds, July.

2023
Solo exhibition: Drawn Through. Assembly House, Leeds, September.
Group exhibition: Collective Unconscious. Seagulls, Aire Place Mills, Leeds, July.
Selected artist: Watermarks. Drawing Correspondence, Drawing Projects UK, April – May.
Residency: Proximity Collective. Bloc Projects, Sheffield, April.
Review: 632700. By Michael Orr, Corridor8, March.
Group exhibition: Visitant Queens. Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, March.
Group exhibition: IWD. Left Bank, Leeds, March.
Group exhibition: Leeds Artists Show. Leeds Art Gallery, February – April.

2022
Group exhibition: Blunderbuss. Two Queens, Leicester, November.
In conversation with Jo Offer, Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Arts Practice at the University of Brighton. Brighton CCA Dorset Place, October.
Solo exhibition: 632700. Brighton CCA Dorset Place, October.
Grant: Developing Your Creative Practice. Arts Council England, September.
Commission: Open Digital. Brighton Photo Fringe, with additional support from ArtFund. Engaged 81 learning disabled people and their supporters through workshops and an open call in a collective exploration of utopia. Selection panel included curators from Serpentine, Studio Voltaire, and The Photographers Gallery. Awarded August.
Group exhibition: Put Your Feet Up. Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, June.
Residency and group exhibition, with Proximity Collective. Rogue Studios, Manchester, April.

2021
Group exhibition, with Proximity Collective. Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, with funding from a-n, August.
Project: Artist mentor. Supporting a learning disabled artist to deliver an online reading of their illustrated book. Supported by Venture Art and the Portico Library, Manchester, April.
Artist talk. Blackpool School of Arts, Blackpool and The Fylde College, April.
Digital residency, with Proximity Collective. Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Centre (PAHC), Manchester Metropolitan University, April.
Group exhibition, curator: Online Open Studios. Sharing work by four learning disabled artists. Online with support of Venture Arts, Manchester, March.

Selection of achievements, 2010-2020
Group exhibition: All Good Things. Manchester School of Art, March 2020.
Residency and group exhibition, with Proximity: An enquiry into the spatial and social elements of practice as research. Paradise Works, Salford, December 2019.
Solo exhibition: The Sausage Atlas, in collaboration with Andrew Towse. Kirkgate Market, Leeds, supported by BEYOND, Pyramid of Arts, and Leeds 2023, July 2018.
Mentoring Artist: Supporting two learning disabled artists. BEYOND and Pyramid of Arts, Feb – June 2018.
Grant: £15,000. Leeds2023. Awarded July 2017.
Project: A Purrr-fect Date. Commissioned by East Street Arts, The Bridge, Health for All, funded by Leeds City Council. Working with a group of learning disabled adults to write, film, and produce a short stop-motion film. Screened at Leeds City Museum. January – June 2017.
Project, performance, and exhibition: What didn’t you do to bury me? But you forgot that I was a seed. In collaboration with Akeim Toussaint-Buck. Commissioned by East Street Arts, with additional funding from Leeds Inspired. Working with local primary schools, youth groups, and elders’ services to research local stories; delivered two guided performance-walks to a live audience of 40; 250 visitors to the exhibition over two weeks. March – June 2016.
Project: Andrew Towse Development Team. Supporting a learning disabled artist. Pyramid of Arts, Leeds, May 2015 – December 2018.
Residency and participatory project: Sherburn-In-Elmet: A Moment in Time & Reflections on Rydale. Commissioned by North Yorkshire Council Library Service, with funding from Arts Council England Creative Residencies programme. August-September. Working across two library sites with groups of local elders to produce photographic documentary stories and photobooks.
Project: Part and Parcel. In collaboration with Clare McCormack. Facilitating members of the public to send artworks to prisoners of conscious all over the world. Funded by Yorkshire and Humber Visual Arts Network and East Street Arts, with support in kind from Amnesty International and Footprint Workers Coop. Delivered at Live Art Bistro, Leeds; the University of Leeds; The Tetley, Leeds; Chapeltown Arts Festival, Leeds; and the Civic Hall, Leeds, May 2014 – May 2015.
Commission and participatory exhibition: ReMake Castlegate. Working with the local community area to interrogate the redevelopment of the historic market. Commissioned by Yorkshire ArtSpace, Sheffield, in partnership with the University of Sheffield and the Festival of the Mind, Sheffield, August – September 2014.
Commission: Public engagement artist. Regularly producing one-day workshops for families and school groups, plus longer creative projects and courses for specific target groups and the public. The Tetley, Leeds, November 2013 – September 2015.
Project: Photography Matters. Long term socially engaged art project supporting learning disabled people to tell stories with photography, worked with over 60 participants across multiple venues for up to 24 weeks. Funded by Leeds City Council and supported by People Matters, SLATE; Leep1, Hamara, St James Hospital, and Health for All, September 2013 – August 2015.
Group exhibition: An Eye for an Ear. China House, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, March – April 2013.
Solo exhibition: The Rugged Places. White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, March 2013.
Solo exhibition: The Rugged Places. Killhope Museum, Upper Weardale, Co. Durham, September 2012.
Group exhibition: An Eye for an Ear. Galerie Huit, Arles, France, July – September 2012.
Group exhibition, curator, producer, and exhibitor: Your Retail Soulmate. Arts@Trinity, Trinity Church, Leeds, May 2012.
Group exhibition: Portraiture Now. Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2011.
Winner: Fujifilm Photographer of the Year. Fujifilm and Penguin Books, 80 The Strand, London, June 2010.

EDUCATION
PhD: Learning with learning disabled artists: a practice research enquiry into artist identity. Manchester Metropolitan University, Vice Chancellor Scholarship, awarded September 2025.
MFA Collaborative Practices. Distinction. Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018.
PGCert Inclusive Arts Practice. Distinction. The University of Brighton, 2016.
Level 3 Education and Training: Teaching with a Social Purpose. Northern College, City and Guilds, 2014.
BA (Hons) Photography. First Class. Leeds Arts University, 2011.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Lecturer: Fine Art, Art Theory and Practice, Unit X and Future X. Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, March 2022 – ongoing.
Associate Lecturer: Interactive Arts, Fine Art, and Unit X. Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, September 2018 – March 2022.
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Interactive Arts. Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, Sept 2017 – June 2020.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Trustee: Lead for Creative Programme. Pyramid of Arts, Leeds, December 2018 – December 2025.