Amateur Design
This research examines the relative merits and limitations of professional design practices as opposed to amateur design practices, and discusses the likely future for both positions.
Black Shoals; Dark Matter
"Black Shoals; Dark Matter” is an art-based enquiry into the aesthetics of financial data and how it manifests a relationship with power.
Sculpture Park Hill and Park Hill Plinths
Park Hill Plinths is an ambitious new permanent site-specific public sculpture for the interior landscape of the iconic Brutalist Grade 2* Park Hill estate in Sheffield, the largest listed structure in Europe
TacMap
This project concerns the development of an iconic tactile language for use in the production of tactile maps. Though Braille is assumed to be the main way blind people read and write, in Britain (for example) out of the reported 2 million cohort of visually impaired individuals, it is estimated that only 15-20,000 people use Braille and its use has declined since the increase of blind children into mainstream schools.
Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld
Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld is an art installation, video documentary and evolving online archive which examines the divisive issue of uranium mining in Greenland.
The Tactical Life Model
As a way of introducing the various media and methods employed in my art practice and research, this selection of foundational works are assembled to provide a context for my current art practice and research.
Rituals of Self Design
In the quest for an optimised body that incarnates beauty, wealth, health, and success, a growing number of individuals across social sectors are engaging in practices of body modification. With the advances in medical research and the popularisation of surgery, the body becomes a luxury item, a malleable design matter, which can be sculpted, sucked, lifted and invested into.
Life-saving lullabies
In conjunction with the University of Huddersfield and St John Zambia, this research investigates the potential of using lullaby as a zero-cost intervention to communicate essential knowledge and skills to support the transitioning of adolescents into motherhood
Trigger Point
This work developed and tested systems that can inform and add to the growing debates within the social, artistic and cultural sectors regarding the need to develop new cultural, social and political geographies for the city as proposed from Henri Lefebvre, to Kevin Lynch and Georgs Simmel.
Weather Prediction by Numerical Process - a Forecast for Europe
Weather Prediction by Numerical Process - a Forecast for Europe is a performance and exhibition where the weather is forecast through human labour, thus turning the act of computation into a social, performative and collaborative action.