The rural landscape of East Anglia draws me into its eerie, fragile, alluring world sharply focusing the unresolved and contentious relationship with have with nature. These works question the concept and meaning of ‘rural’ today. Through the practice of walking, observing and listening, I explore places of increasing marginalisation, where the rural and the industrial intersect and elide; a lonely place which reflects my bewildered disbelief at the damage we wreak on the natural world.


Trooper2022 
colour HD video 8’25”
stereo sound 

Breath

2021 
colour HD video 1’24”
stereo sound

Wait-a-minute 

2019 
colour HD video 1’46”
stereo sound 
 
The Caged and the Free2022 
digital album

When the Wind Blows 

2018 
stop-motion animation 2’26”
stereo sound 
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