Drawing is central to my practice. I use it to explore how memories, cultural meanings and belonging are formed, sustained and reimagined. I investigate how vernacular photography and other technical images mediate personal memory, collective narratives and official histories. Photography has long been understood as a medium that produces evidence and validates authority. Yet photographs are far more complex than this. I understand the photograph not as a discrete object, but as a porous entity: a conduit for relationships between people and places across time. 

Through processes of drawing, isolating fragments and reworking motifs, I challenge conventional understandings of the photograph as a fixed object and vehicle of truth. Drawing traces the relationships embedded within photographs, making visible connections between bodies, environments and histories across temporal and geographic distances. In doing so, it opens space for overlooked stories, the forgotten, emotional residues and ambiguity, revealing how photographs continue to connect people and places beyond the moment when they were made.

Recent Work

Current and Forthcoming Projects

A forthcoming book chapter, Dreaming the Between, examines how experiences of migration shape memory and imagination. This work contributes to the edited collection Art and Migration edited by L. Guo and G. Karaköse, Transnational Press, January 2027. 

In collaboration with Dr Jackie Haynes, I have written a forthcoming chapter exploring SPARK, a growing network of around 100 artists across North West England. Drawing on our experiences within the network, the chapter reflects on collective artistic practice as a means of responding to climate breakdown, fostering connection, and imagining more sustainable futures. The work will be published in Cultures of Climate, University of Huddersfield Press, 2026.

A forthcoming exhibition, Where the Eyes Linger, uses drawing to engage with a family archive of photographs, exploring how notions of belonging are shaped and how artistic practice can open up alternative ways of seeing and understanding. The exhibition will be presented at Bosses Trädgårds Galleri, Starrkärr, Sweden, August 2027.