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Current

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

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–

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

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

Bridging the Gap
, Hypha Studios, Curated by Hermoine Allsop, Paul Carey-Kent & Poppy Whatmore. Opening 25 Jun 26. Continues: 26 Jun 26. More info.
Upcoming

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

Artist Venturing Lab #1: Entanglements,
Photoworks, EASE + Picturing Climate, Oct 2026

Artist roundtable at Greymatters: Ecocritical Potentials of Lithomateriality, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Oct 26

Panelist in SETI Though an Interdisciplinary Approach, EuroPlanet Conference, The Hague. Sep 26


 

 

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