I am a socially engaged artist with a history of working in public spaces, creating events and objects that encourage collective experiences. My work engages with the politics of UK land ownership following the Conservative Party-led Public Order Acts of the 1980s and 1990s, within a longer political history that stretches back to the Enclosure Acts. Much of my earlier work focused on how to create communality and decentralised organising in public spaces.
This included creating large, permanent dinner tables that could seat over 20 people in ‘public’ spaces, as well as being part of the collective who created The Treehouse Gallery in Regent’s Park. As part of this project we built treehouses which housed a temporary school and public library focused on land and environmental issues.
I am a frequent collaborator! Since 2016 I have been part of Equal Voices in the Room? with artist Cicilia Östholm. Together we run workshops, rehearsing and imagining student-led collective practices from within the neoliberal university. Since 2020 I have been part of Studio Yea with Youngsook Choi and Eva Freeman.
My previous collaborations include co-managing RARA, a co-operative workshop and workspace in Clapton between 2011 and 2016, and participating in the Collaborative Research Group, an 18-month collaboration between seven artists based at CRATE in Margate. From 2014-2016 I worked as the Community Arts Officer at Welling School, where I co-edited and produced æ, a newspaper about art and education.
I have an academic background in Social Anthropology and Media (BA Goldsmiths University), as well as a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Practice: Public Sphere (MA Royal College of Art).
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Thanks to Indexhibit for providing a platform for me to make this website