Statement of Intent

Are you trapped in a web where the vampire spiders suck out your soul and spit it into a data centre only to be regurgitated by their AI monster and fed back to you in a horror-loop? This webspace attempts to excavate the sweeter intentions we had for the web at it's conception while playfully future-building. I hope while you navigate through my small sick world, you discover a bit more about me and my work and that it will resonate with you.

Based in Leeds, UK, my experiences of being a disabled queer neurodivergent and working-class parent shapes my creative practice. When released from periods of being bed/house-bound, I can usually be found sitting on my stoop or developing a medicinal garden in my front yard, often surrounded by several curious neighbourhood kids.

Tracing wiggly lines from ancient to contemporary storytelling methods is the main thread of interest that runs through all of my experiments. Speculative narratives grow from the absurd, spiritual or everyday, allowing the work to expand on lived experiences of medical mysticism, sick deities and rural counterculture, inspired by my rural upbringing in Derbyshire.

Using whatever materials I can get my hands on, scrap, natural or digital, I enjoy making from what is readily available with a conscious consideration for the environmental need for degrowth, as well as limiting material costs and toxins for personal access reasons.

Health precarity and changing access needs have given me the opportunity to shift my practice from performance to video to collective work to accessibility to sound to sculpture and it continues to evolve. Whatever the medium, I always stay deeply rooted in Disability Justice, mutual aid and interdependent collaborative care. I experiment with methods of integrating accessibility into my work through process and presentation.

Part of my work is to provide accessibility and EDI training, workshops, talks, auditing and access information documents in various formats for arts organisations and festivals. I am currently doing ongoing access and EDI work with Counterflows Sound Art Festival in Glasgow, Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, and local to me, East Leeds Project, where I am a trustee.

This website is made possible via Neocities and has been created with web designer, Oli Pyle.