I am an artist and researcher, working with sculpture and moving image to refigure our relationship to resources, supply chains and extracted landscapes. Conducting field work with sensory and collective methods, my work images infrastructures and temporalities that have been built by capitalist and colonial logic. I have worked at the interdisciplinary intersections across meteorology, hydrology and mining sectors.
Considering image making as a possible site of intimacy, I work with affects of lull, dread and anticipation, and look to forms of rhythm and measurement to understand what technologies have enabled our detachment from resources and changed the metabolisms of our ecosystem. Through different cameras in filmmaking and scrap metals or textile in sculpture, I explore what kinds of gathering and gaze might offer alternative forms of relation and value.
My recent project on aluminium and bauxite enquires into metal supply chains, the extraction of metals, changes in soil and military histories. It asks why we are drawn to shiny materials, and the evolution of ‘lustre’, the light of minerals in geology, as emerging from whiteness, and a draw to weightlessness, domination and control.
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I work with sculpture, poetry and moving image to feel out our disconnection from resource supply chains, sites of infrastructure and each other. I draw on the elemental and rhythmic to attune differently to our experiences of agency, proximity and metabolism under late capitalism.
My research instigates fieldwork to sites of environmetental violence, sensing apparatus and infrastructure, such as water engineering sites, weather towers, mines and factories. I collect scrap materials and visit archives, asking how these methodologies can offer slanted knowledges and forms of material intimacy.
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The Dragon Walk, 2022, 4k digital video. 12 min. 49 sec.
The Dragon Walk explores the former RAF site Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The film is informed by the droughts experienced in the summer of 2022, the histories of anti-nuclear activism, and the depletion of the commons.
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