My Journal

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I’m interested in how walking and photographing can become a kind of thinking. A way of slowing down perception until it starts to reveal structure. In Berlin, that structure feels layered rather than linear. Histories sit close to surfaces without being explained. You don’t need to know everything to feel...

A visit to The Antwerp Six exhibition offered a chance to revisit the work of six designers whose influence continues to shape contemporary fashion.Emerging from the fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene...

Loom-ingEarlier this year, I completed a handwoven piece using salvaged silk, linen and wool. It was one that seemed to hold together exactly as I had hoped; the colours, textures and irregularities finding their own balance.Rather than moving on from the piece, I found myself returning to it. Looking at...

Two of my textile pieces have been selected for the AA2A 30th Anniversary Exhibition at the CASC Gallery, University of Chester, running from 16 July – 13 August 2026.The pieces were developed during my AA2A artist residency at Bradford School of Arts. AA2A creates opportunities for professional artists to work...

Bauhaus Women: Through the LensWhile wandering through Berlin, I spent an afternoon looking at the female photographers of the Bauhaus. Photography has always occupied an interesting space between observation and invention, and the women working within and around the Bauhaus explored that space with confidence. Through portraiture, architecture, documentary images...

In Berlin I began noticing photo booths.Not in a deliberate way, but as repeated interruptions in the city stations, shopping arcades, side streets. Once noticed, they became something I actively looked for.I photographed them over the course of my stay.The photo booth is a fixed system of image-making: a defined...

Visual research in Berlin. Berlin arrives in fragments rather than a single image. It’s a city that doesn’t really offer itself as a postcard; it resists that kind of neat capture. Instead, it shows up in edges, in gaps between buildings, in the way light hits concrete at a particular...

Exploring the evolving influence and status of women in textiles over the past 150 years.William Morris Gallery presents Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles. Conceived in partnership with Liberty Fabrics on the occasion of the design house’s 150th anniversary, this major exhibition highlights the pivotal role and contributions...