About
I am a British artist, born 1973, in St Albans, UK, currently based in London.
I have lived and worked also for many years in Italy, where I gained my first training in photography. I graduated with MA photography from London College of Communication in 2009, after studying Pg Cert Photography at Central St Martins School of Art & Design.
My work is an ongoing investigation into representations of the feminine and culturally constructed gendered identities, from childhood to adolescence, motherhood, and beyond, disrupting the idealized romantic portrayals of femininity as found in Media and more traditional forms of representation. I am interested in the performative and participatory qualities of photography.
My most recent work The Venus Effect is a series of portraits which examines the negative relationships children and young women have to their bodies, in response to the researches of Dr Emma Rich et al at the Universities of Bath and Loughborough. Body Culture curated by Kerrie O'Connell was exhibited in September 2011 at Bath Royal Science & Literary Institute. Then selected by Dr Lucy Aphramor co-founder of Health at Every Size to be shown as part of The Body Project at Herbert Museum and Glasshouse Gallery Coventry in October 2011.
Exhibitions have included solo shows at The Curzon Cinema Soho, and The Royal Commonwealth Society London, and group exhibitions, such as Home Truths at the Brighton Photo Fringe 2010, and Woman as Photographer: Picturing Life as a Woman at Mpls Photo Center Minneapolis USA in 2011.
In 2010 I was selected with 5 other artists to participate in Resonate a 2 year pioneering arts programme led by Westminster Arts and funded by the NHS to be trained to help improve the lives of people with mental health problems including dementia.
Awards have included a prize in the MaMSIE Digital Media Competition at the University of Birbeck Maternal Studies Department to be presented in a forthcoming scholarly e-journal and at the Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour conference in May 2011.
More recently I have been shortlisted for the Creative Enterprise Awards at ECCA University of the Arts for Best Social Enterprise or Ethical Business for the launch of Ladybird 8 Productions, a film and photography company which nurtures creativity and empowers children and young people with SEN and other mental health needs.
I have lived and worked also for many years in Italy, where I gained my first training in photography. I graduated with MA photography from London College of Communication in 2009, after studying Pg Cert Photography at Central St Martins School of Art & Design.
My work is an ongoing investigation into representations of the feminine and culturally constructed gendered identities, from childhood to adolescence, motherhood, and beyond, disrupting the idealized romantic portrayals of femininity as found in Media and more traditional forms of representation. I am interested in the performative and participatory qualities of photography.
My most recent work The Venus Effect is a series of portraits which examines the negative relationships children and young women have to their bodies, in response to the researches of Dr Emma Rich et al at the Universities of Bath and Loughborough. Body Culture curated by Kerrie O'Connell was exhibited in September 2011 at Bath Royal Science & Literary Institute. Then selected by Dr Lucy Aphramor co-founder of Health at Every Size to be shown as part of The Body Project at Herbert Museum and Glasshouse Gallery Coventry in October 2011.
Exhibitions have included solo shows at The Curzon Cinema Soho, and The Royal Commonwealth Society London, and group exhibitions, such as Home Truths at the Brighton Photo Fringe 2010, and Woman as Photographer: Picturing Life as a Woman at Mpls Photo Center Minneapolis USA in 2011.
In 2010 I was selected with 5 other artists to participate in Resonate a 2 year pioneering arts programme led by Westminster Arts and funded by the NHS to be trained to help improve the lives of people with mental health problems including dementia.
Awards have included a prize in the MaMSIE Digital Media Competition at the University of Birbeck Maternal Studies Department to be presented in a forthcoming scholarly e-journal and at the Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour conference in May 2011.
More recently I have been shortlisted for the Creative Enterprise Awards at ECCA University of the Arts for Best Social Enterprise or Ethical Business for the launch of Ladybird 8 Productions, a film and photography company which nurtures creativity and empowers children and young people with SEN and other mental health needs.