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Current

First Contact, artistic research and responses to Harvard Plate Stacks centering on spectroscopy (the atomic imprint of matter in light) and the work of the women ‘computers’. Supported by Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice Award. 2024–

Gallagher Artist in Residence for 2026, The Royal College of Surgeons of England Library & Archives Developing my proposal Calcareous Earth, exploring dental cranial collections, deep time perspectives and perceived boundaries between the organic and the inorganic, life and non-life, with focus on calcium. 2026-

Water & Night
, embroidery and expanded photographic works contemplating bodies of water as natural telescopes and ways of coming to know the cosmos. 2023–

Origins of Life, SETI inspired works contemplating bio-geo-chemical interactions and wider concepts related to water, life and non-life and sentience in the universe via asteroids, Saturn’s moon Enceladus (connecting back to 2018 body of work on Titan) and ‘Hycean’ exoplanets. 2018–

Recent

Exophotography: Otherworldly image-making, a creative text for Sustainable Darkroom’s  Bury After Reading. Oct 2026

Chasms
feature by Josh Lustig in the Financial Times Weekend magazine. May 26

Peckham 24: The Eras Edition, Copeland Gallery. May 26

Darkness: A photography Conference + Exhibition, SODA, Manchester School of Art, convened by Duncan Woolridge, David Penny & Sian MacFarlane. Apr 26

Photographic Objecthood: Construction, Presence & The Sculptural Encounter, convened by Fiona Crisp, Henry Moore Institute. Jan 26

Against Outer Space, The Beall Center for Art & Technology, California, USA. Curated by Zachary Korol Gold & Valerie Olson. Nov 25 – Feb 26

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