I am a London-based artist, writer and academic. In addition to tutoring in Creative Arts for the OCA, I am also an associate lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2020). For a long time I have been interested in the points of connection and dissonance between religious and artistic culture. Currently, I’m researching sacred sites and performative rituals and how these connect to ecologies, identity and the body.
I write through both experimental and scholarly forms. My experimental writing often takes the form of site responsive performance, for which I make drawings, props and costumes. I completed an AHRC scholarship PhD at Goldsmiths in 2023 examining how the immersive story-world of North America’s largest megachurch acts as a ‘total work of art’ in a broader context of white nationalism, climate crisis, End Times obsession and climate change denialism. Alongside my thesis I produced an experimental memoir ‘There is a Miracle in Your Mouth’ which has been shortlisted for the Prototype Prize.
Recent work includes the curation of Ritual/Bodies, a live performance event at St Pancras Church, exploring bodily representations within Christian tradition (London, 2024); a site- based performance lecture that drew on the Catholic history of the Jan van Eyck Academy and its local ecologies (Maastricht, 2023); and a writing commission for Kate McMillan’s solo exhibition Never at Sea focussing on climate change and migration at St Mary Le Strand Church (London, 2023). My writing has been published by Copy Press, Veer Books and EROS Journal amongst others. I co-run Peer Sessions, a crit group for artists, and am a trustee for mental health charity Arts Network London.
