Arts based research methods can be very effective at capturing nuances of imagery and experience, particularly with children and other lesser-heard groups. I really enjoy working in interdisciplinary teams, and I have chosen three examples of interdisciplinary research projects: RESPECT 2021 – ongoing, VIP-CLEAR 2021 – ongoing, and Hidden Rivers and Waterways 2016-17.

As Donna Haraway writes, we have got ourselves and the natural world into ‘Lots of trouble’. Here are three of my responses to the mess we are in. Tidal Village was a temporary site specific installation on the Severn Estuary; the site specific drawings are from The Stinging Nettle Atlas, which explores themes of girlhood, Read More…

Narrative or deep mapping is a participatory process that tries to understand a place or situation through different people’s relationships with it. Iain Biggs describes deep mapping as an ‘essaying of place’, in which each person’s voice ‘retains its own distinct inflection within the harmonies and dissonances of the song as a whole’. The two Read More…

My latest work is a series called an alphabet of unremarkable onjects. We can easily overlook the things that we use every day, and so in these paintings I have placed them centre stage.