Artist-Ethnographer. Educator.
Situated at the intersection of art and ethnography, my practice centres on creative, critical investigations into the experiences and atmospheres of enduring places in contemporary culture. My research interests include sound, surface, light and dark, with particular focuses on the place experience and atmospheres of seaside amusements, local barber shops, British art schools and, most recently, ancient and modern standing stones.
I utilise auto-ethnographic methods, considering and communicating visual, material, spatial and audio findings gathered via returned visits, walking, lens-based media, sound recording, clay pressing as expanded drawing, litter picking, fieldnotes and site-writing. In my teaching at Manchester School of Art, I draw on my research methodology, adopting a process approach to art education.
Image: Seaside amusement arcade shoe pics. Risograph print.