I'm an experimental illustrator, educator researcher from East Anglia. I have taught in other community and university education contexts before joining the Illustration Animation Team at Kingston. My own practice is interdisciplinary and collaborative, blurring with my background as a therapist and musician. I use objects, cameraless photography, moving image, collage and sound to explore traces of human endeavour from history, from heritage locations, traditional trades or in museum collections. Often undertaking projects or collaborations with small museums - in the past Bluetown Museum (Isle of Sheppey), Lowestoft Maritime Museum and The Museum of English Rural Life.
I design and facilitate collaborative fieldwork expeditions, workshops and experiences - most recently aboard a boat with Sail Britain for 'the life of islands'. My research interests include: expanded illustration methods / historic sites and their stories / the use of para-fiction / site specific and 'time' specific ways of working / creativity and wellbeing. I continue to explore alternative methods of pedagogy and mutual learning.
I worked with House of Illustration as illustrator in residence in 2021. My collaborator (Philip Crewe) and I created a para-fictional museum of artefacts related to working class Londoners linked to the New River, who's names and occupations we discovered in the archive. We also exhibited and curated prints made by the New River itself with the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration during London Design Festival 2022 and Open House London Festival.
Lecturer in Illustration Animation