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BIO I am a British-Australian artist based in Charnwood, East Midlands, UK. My practice navigates the desire lines between technology, ecology, and music, drawing from autobiography, heritage and natural history. I create environments that integrate multidimensional narratives, visuals, and sounds to explore the knotty relationships between language and land. From video games set in underground forests to visual albums crafted from samples and stock footage, each project functions as a living archive that reimagines a more generous British folk tradition.

EXHIBITIONS / ONLINE
    2026 
    Earth-Stepper → Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire, UK / INTL (UPCOMING)
    Earth-Stepper → Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth, UK (CURRENT)
    2025 
    Hybrid Realities Lab 2 → New Art City, INTL
    Paint By Style Sheet → Phoenix, Leicester, UK
    Worship The WIP → Grpahic Deisgn, Glasgow, UK
    Computala → LCB Depot, Leicester, UK
    2024 
    Dead Wood Burning → Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire, UK / INTL
    2023 
    Our Common Mercies with Ursula Rose Rae → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK
    Xylophobia with Ama Dogbe → Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire, UK / INTL
    2022 
    Screwed Black Gospel Notes → Kiln House, Charnwood, UK & YouTube, INTL
    2021
    White Castle → YouTube, INTL
    2019
    A Mountain Is A Mountain → Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough, UK
    2019
    Sleeper, Giant → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK
    2016
      Get Fit → Turf Projects, Croydon, UK
      2015
        Dekay & Ruyne → Nottingham Castle Museum and Gallery, UK
        Gustatory Delights with Colette Griffin → Lace Market Gallery, Nottingham, UK
        2014
        • Records Ruin The Landscape → BACKLIT, Nottingham, UK
        2013
        • EM13 → Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
        • Free Range → The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK

        CURATION
        • 2024
        • Signal Symbol Sign → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK. Exhibition series with Mateus Domingos, Ama Dogbe, Papa Essel & Tayler Fisher

        2023
        • Collective Matter → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK. Exhibition series with Nisha Duggal, Lulu Senft, George Chinnery, Rebecca Wymant, Tom Sewell, Olivia Bax, Eva Masterman & Leomi Sadler

        2022
        • Archive Fever → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK. Exhibition series with Joanne Masding, Jagjit Kaur, Dan Cowlam & Katie Schwab

        2019
        • This Must Be The Place → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK. Exhibition series.
        • Slosh & Tosh → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK

        2017
        • Katrina Cowling: Pale Lithics → Malt Cross Trust, Nottingham, UK

        2016
        • Mass Production (Pt.1 + Pt.2) → Malt Cross Trust, Nottingham, UK
        • Chloe Ashley: Hold Still → Malt Cross Trust, Nottingham, UK

        2014
        • Records Ruin The Landscape → BACKLIT, Nottingham, UK

        RESIDENCIES2026
          AA2A → Nottingham Trent University, UK
          2025
            Hybrid Realities Lab 2 → Six Minutes Past Nine, INTL
            CSS Drawing Bootcamp → New Media Art Club, Leicester, UK

            2019
              The Studio → Loughborough University Enterprise Network, UK

              2013
                Graduate Residency → Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK

              PUBLICATIONS2022
                A Million Objects → The Leicestershire Collection, UK

                2020
                  Gold Resin Onyx → Self-published, Charnwood, UK

                  2019
                    Axe Man Shadow Land → Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough, UK

                    2018
                      Sleeper, Giant → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK

                    PRESS2024
                      Interview with Tayler Fisher → YAC | Young Artists in Conversation
                    2023
                      Interview with Ama Dogbe → YAC | Young Artists in Conversation
                      Fermynwoods Focus → Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Podcast
                    2022
                      Interview with Jagjit Kaur → YAC | Young Artists in Conversation
                    2021
                      Earthling by Modern Painters, New Decorators → ArtReview

                    2020
                      Interview with David McLeavy → YAC | Young Artists in Conversation
                    2019
                      Curating the East Midlands → Contemporary Visual Art Network

                    TALKS2024
                      Dead Wood Burning → Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Podcast,  INTL

                    2020
                    • Collaboration In An Age Of Individuality → Creative Leicestershire, UK
                    • 2019
                    • It Takes A Region To Raise An Artist → Leicester University, UK

                    AWARDS / GRANTS
                      2025 
                      Hybrid Realities Bursary → Near Now, Nottingham, UK
                      2024 
                      Folk Threads: Project Grant → Arts Council England, UK
                      2023 
                    Designing A Dynamic Arts Community: Project Grant → Arts Council England, UK
                      2022 
                      Signal Symbol Sign: Project Grant → Arts Council England, UK
                      2021
                      Archive Fever: Project Grant → Arts Council England, UK