CV

2022 – ongoing | Associate Lecturer, Creative Media, University of Plymouth. Contributing to modules: Situated Practice, Experiment, Critical Dialogues, Independent Practice, Dissertation

Theatre Royal Plymouth – Space Race. February to September 2025 – successful applicant for long term access to rehearsal space at TR2, to develop new work for the Autumn Lab Season

Weathered Women Walking Tarot Pack included in the collection of the Wellcome Trust and The Warburg Institute (April 2025), as well as being included in The State We’re IN – CAMP Writers’ KIN Artist’s Book Project, a limited edition of 24 boxed sets of artists’ books, the outcome of a collaborative project between eleven members of CAMP Writers’ KIN. A boxed set is now within the collections of University of the West of England (UWE), University of PLymouth, Arts University PLymouth, UAL, Falmouth University and both KARST and Terre Verte galleries. Readings from Weathered Women Walking given at The End, a book arts fair at The Exchange, Penzance (Cornwall), May 2025. The project was reviewed in The BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER No. 166 April-June 2025

NEST (Narratives for Ecological and Sustainable Transition(s): Bergamo, May 2025. Presented Tarot of the Weather (Weathered Women Walking) at this conference, hosting a workshop with women from Bergamo to use the deck and readings to explore personal stories of climate change and climate resilience. LINK

British Academy Small Research Grant recipient 2023-2025. This arts research project
has led to the creation of a Tarot of the Weather (Weathered Women Walking) exploring
kinship, weather and trauma, and culminated in April 2025 with an international conference
Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather on South Uist and online

Cremyll Commuters – collaboration with Ines Rae. This 8 minute sound piece tells the stories of the 8 minute crossing between Cremyll (Cornwall) and Plymouth (Devon). Many people use this ferry to commute to and from work, and these are their stories. Produced for
ActivateChat and included in Connecting Commutes as part of Braga25
Portuguese Capital of Culture programme March- November 2025. The
project is based on the concepts of mobility, territory, heritage, landscape, public space and community, opening up avenues of creation in the field of sound and also in the thinking associated with this theme. Between March and November 2025, sound works will be
presented on the buses of this network and will also be made available online. Associated with the sound content, there will also be a publication of written essays on the theme of the project and the sound content itself.

A Sometimes Project: (Founding Director). LINK

Exeter Art Week – June 2025. Underground/Passage: curated exhibition at the
Underground Passages, Exeter, from open call, with artists responding to the themes
Underground: subterrestrial, experimental, radical, ecological. Passage: movement,
transition, clause, extract, ecological.

Organised and hosted an Artists Residency February 2025, which brought an Astronomer, a Marine Archaeologist and an Estuaries Specialist onsite to inspire 6 resident artists.

Curated and produced Moving Waters – 4 simultaneous exhibitions of international moving image works, (Plymouth Arts Cinema, Terre Verte Gallery, Devonport Market Hall and
Plymouth Art Weekender (Leadworks). October 2024. LINK

River Radio – sound works included in a community radio takeover streaming 60 hours of river-themed programming from the Wharfinger’s Office at Exeter Custom House, 13th-15th September 2024.

May 2024 Moving Image work ‘Oxidental Bodies’, screened at Alternate Sensory
Realities, Plymouth.

March 2024 – Live Tarot Reading of the Weather at SOAK Live Art, Plymouth.

January 2024 – completed Braille Bestiary for Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, for work focused upon medieval York, UK.

2023-25 | British Academy Small Research Grant: Principal Investigator – Wet Ontologies. A 2-year exploration of living with wetness as a lens through which to understand kinship.

April 2023 | ‘Oxidental Bodies’.  Short film screened at SoundFjord // Nomadic Sonic Art Gallery & Research Unit at Café OTO, London, as part of Aural Diversities/Encounters.

Aug-Nov 2022 | short film Forest included in Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Video Exhibition, South Korea

Aug 2022 | Ductus – a work in progress, Sprite Arts, Plymouth

Jul-Dec 2022 | Future Communities/Sprite Arts – collaborative take-over of city centre shop, Plymouth (July -December) Funded by Plymouth Culture and Plymouth City Council

July 22 | Immersion (Plymouth University/Marine Institute). Collaboration with geographer Dr. Eva Magrath to develop a pilot project to consider the relationship between sea swimming and sense of self in/on Plymouth’s coastal strand. Our project aimed to make visible the invisible narratives within and around Firestone Bay. Final work was exhibited at Sprite Arts Plymouth

Jun 2022 – May 23 | Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity – University of York. I was one of 4 artists commissioned for this 12-month residency, working with Chantal Berry whose PhD focuses upon acoustic ecology, or the sounds and rhythms of human-nature relationships between c.1500-c.1800. Outcomes include a sound piece and a Braille Bestiary

Jun 2022 | Palimpsest – Movement & Correspondences of wetness with Dr. D. Sateesh (Srishti Manipal Institute, Bangalore) and I continue to develop an experimental exploration of the body as a location in wet worlds. We presented our work in progress at Sentient Performativities at Schumacher College in June 2022

Jun 2022 | Wolf Flow Dr. Helen Billinghurst and I shared initial insights into the sensory, folkloric, geographic, historic and ecological weavings of these intersecting trails at Cappadocia University, Turkey (May 22) and Sentient Performativities at Schumacher College, June 2022

Apr 2022 | Brigstow Institute (Bristol University) Recipient of seed funding for Seeing the invisible, hearing the inaudible: revealing estuarine mysteries through art and science. This pilot research project is an art/science collaboration with South Devon AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), and the School of Biological Sciences, Bristol University. Our first event involved engaging residents within the catchment in a twilight event to understand what barriers people perceive in engaging with the site after dark

Feb 2022 | Presentation of creative practice as part of city-wide engagement with British Art Show 9 with CAMP

Jan-Dec 2022 | Cultural Investment Fund/Plymouth Culture Commissioned Researcher: Cine Sisters SW were funded for 12 months to investigate ways to improve the access that refugees and asylum seekers in Plymouth have to the cultural sector

Nov 2021 | Performance lecture with Dr. D. Sateesh: ‘Temporal Wanderings – Tactics for an Embodied Methodology’ presented at ‘Phenomenal Time – Perceiving Ecological Temporalities’ as part of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network seminar series (November 2021).

Nov 2021 | Work selected for Photoworks publication Photography+. November issue

Nov 2021 | All day screening of Phyx at Exeter Phoenix. Durational film exploring overlapping themes of environmental and social justice through moving painting

Sept 2021 | Work included in Video Art and Experimental Film Event, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands

Sept 2021 | Co-leading CAMP Artists Walk with Mark Leahy and Kate Paxman, in partnership with skylark.fm

Sept 2021 | In collaboration with Dr. Deepta Sateesh – presented collaborative creative practice at ‘Multiple Ecologies, Diverse Ontologies: More Just, More Sustainable Futures, University of Plymouth 

Sept 2021 | Commission for Beastly Landscapes ‘We are all Beasts’ Moving Image piece for Newcastle University’s Centre for Research Excellence in Landscape

Aug 2021 | Erme Trace Overnight Residency: self-initiated artists gathering. Outcome: soundwork broadcast on SoundArt Radio

Summer 2021 | Peer-reviewed illustrated poem in SFRA (Science Fiction Research Association Journal): ‘The Underside of Time’

Mar 2021 | Film screened as part of Temporal Belongings: The Material Life of Time (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Underside of Time’

Mar 2021 | Joint presentation with Dr. Suzi Richer – Art + Anthropocene Virtual Seminar Series (University of York): ‘Sounds of Sampling’

Jan 2021 | Film screened as part of Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics (Cappadocia University, Turkey): ‘The Underside of Time’

July 2020 | Commission for The Arts Institute, Plymouth University –  ‘The Underside of Time’ moving image work responding to the theme ‘ Everything has changed. Nothing has changed. Change is coming’.

2020-23 | During lockdown I set up a support group for women filmmakers in the South West –Cine Sisters SW (CSSW), in response to my experience of working in the sector when producing Manual for Nomads (2020). CSSW launched at Plymouth Art Weekender with curated screenings, Q&As and online networking, all events sold out, September 2020. We now have over 250 members. CSSW registered the organisation as a Community Interest Company (CIC) in December 2020, and had 3 Directors. I resigned in January 2023 to pursue my own practice. CSSW secured our first major funding award (Arts Council England £15k) and over £20k in support-in-kind from cultural partnerships

Mar 2020 | Alumni show, Bath School of Art & Design

Sep 2019 | Go Rewild Yourself – participatory project for Plymouth Art Weekender

May-Jun 2019 | Rhyne & Huish exhibition of prints – ArtdotEarth, Dartington

Dec 2018 | Rangoli Arts Centre, Bangalore – performance

Sep 2018 | Hydrosapien Local Participation Commission – Plymouth Art Weekender

May 2018 | Canteen – Art Week Exeter

May 2017 | Primordial – group show curated by me, Fringe Arts Bath

Apr 2018 | BEAF – Bournemouth Emerging Arts Festival

Feb 2017 | Liquid II – group show curated by me, Arts Quarter Budapest

Nov 2016 | The Underheard, sound installation – Sanctum, Bristol

Oct 2016 | Art Language Location – Cambridge

Oct 2016 | Sonic works broadcast on Radio Revolten International Radio Art Festival – Halle, Germany

Sep 2016 | Cremyll Ferry Sound Piece & Aquatic Traffic production, Plymouth Art Weekender

Sep 2016 | Multi-screening for Place, Ecology & the Digital, DRHA, University of Brighton

Aug 2016 | Hot Water screened as part of The Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Korea

Jun 2016 | Liquid – group show curated by me, Fringe Arts Bath

May 2016 | Submersive Testimony – Media Wall, Bath Spa University

Aug 2015 | Raw Catalyst – Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Publications

Chapter in ‘Rethinking Creativity in the Era of Ecocide. Embodiment, Performance and Practice’. Bloomsbury 2023

Peer-reviewed chapter in Special Issue of Geohumanities (Official Journal of the Association of American Geographers) Ecotone as methodology. June 2021. DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1923404

Chapter in EnCOUnTErs (ecoacoustics and the more-than-human). ACE funded publication 2021

Chapter in Special Issue of Geohumanities (Official Journal of the Association of American Geographers) 2021

Chapter in ‘Rethinking Creativity in the Era of Ecocide. Embodiment, Performance and Practice’ Emerald Publishing 2021

Creative practice featured in ‘Culture, Community, Climate’ art.earth 2020

Chapter in Monsoon Waters – University of Westminster 2019

Book Review ‘Routledge handbook of gender and environment’ Green Letters, Taylor & Francis 2019

Chapter in ‘Imagining Islands: Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago’ co-authored with Prof. Owain Jones, Routledge 2018

Creative practice featured in Yatoo GNAP publications (Korea) Water 2016; Wind 2018

Creative practice featured in ‘Ephemeral River’ art.earth GNAP 2018

Book Review: ‘Tree’ in Green Letters, Taylor & Francis 2018

Conference papers delivered

Sep 2019 | Flows of Entanglement, ASLE, University of Plymouth,

Jun 2019 | Nordic Geographers Conference, Trondheim

Jun 2019 | Art in the age of the Anthropocene and Ecocide, Bath Spa University

May 2019 | EUGEO Annual Conference, Galway

Apr 2019 | Environmental Arts Practice Research conference, University of Plymouth

Apr 2019 | AAG Washington DC

Jan 2019 | Guest Lecture, Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol, January

Oct 2017 | The role of the arts and creative practice in addressing critical global challenges, UWE

Aug 2018 | RGS-IBG Annual International Conference

Jun 2018 | Liquidscapes, Dartington

Jun 2018 | Marine Transgressions, Bristol

Apr 2018 | RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference, Royal Holloway University London

Apr 2018 | Monsoon Waters, University of Westminster

Mar 2018 | Seeing Sound: Practice-Led Research Symposium, Bath Spa University

Nov 2017 | Beyond Nature/Artifice, III INSULA International Colloquium, Universidade da Madeira

Aug 2017 | University of Utrecht with Rosi Braidotti: Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene

Aug 2017 | Association of Commonwealth Universities Summer School – Bath Spa University

Jul 2017 | Sound + Environment 2017 Art | Science | Listening | Collaboration University of Hull

Jul 2017 | Mediating Climate Change international, multidisciplinary conference, Leeds University

Jun 2017 | In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language, Schumacher College

Apr 2017 | Feminist Approaches to a Changing Climate AAG, AGM, Boston

Apr 2017 | Future Imperfect – sound, cinema and the moving image. Plymouth University

Apr 2017 | Contributor: LIVING TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH University of Udine, Italy

Apr 2017 | Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene – Bath Spa University

Memberships

A-N (Artists Information Company) 2016~

RGS IBS (Royal Geographical Society) 2018~

CAMP (Contemporary Arts Membership Plymouth) 2019~

AAG (Association of American Geographers) 2019-2020

ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) 2019-2020

Awards

COVID 19 Emergency Funding from Arts Council England, to develop digital and technical expertise to support the creation of short experimental moving image works. June 2020

Tagore International Film Festival | Outstanding Achievement Awards in 4 categories: Debut Film-maker, Films on Disability, Short Films, Women’s Films, for Manual for Nomads. April 2020

Arts Council England | Developing Your Creative Practice Award – £10k, July 2019

Access Space Residency | shortlisted 300 > 8, 2019

Jerwood Arts Bursaries 2019 | shortlisted

A-N Bursaries | Recipient of the Artists’ Development Awards (£1500), 2019

Exeter University | Arts & Culture Commissions | shortlisted 100 > 3, 2019

Gala (Global Academy of Liberal Arts): University of Udine, Italy April 2017 | Eco- Sustainable Narratives and Environmental Concerns

Creative Commissions: Mobility Variations, Centre for GeoHumanities, Royal Holloway University and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility with the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padova. Shortlisted (with Beth Cullen, University of Westminster), May 2019

Gala (Global Academy of Liberal Arts) | selected participant for summer school at the University of Utrecht with Rosi Braidotti: Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene August 2017

Gala (Global Academy of Liberal Arts) | Fleuve collaborating with Eric Powell of Concordia University Montreal, on a project which explores the social and environmental ecologies of the St. Lawrence River(CA) and the River Severn (UK) Our first site visit was July 2018, the second was February 2019

Srishti Institute, Bangalore | selected for fully funded Interim residency, 2018

Visual Arts Plymouth | Local Participation Commission £3k for Hydrosapien, 2018

Arts Council England | £10k project funding for Hydrosapien, 2018

Bath Spa Environmental Humanities Research Grant | towards Rhyne & Huish walkshops, 2018

Porthleven Prize | one of 14 artists selected for fully funded residency, 2018

Harbutt Fund | for development of sound work for Rhyne & Huish, 2017

Selected Participant in the CREST Summer School | Wellcome Institute, London (Leadership and Research Collaboration) September 2017

KTH Seedbox Linkoping University | for attendance at International workshop on Writing the Environmental Humanities (Undisciplined Discipline), 2017

Bath Spa University | inaugural recipient of the PhD Studentship in Environmental Humanities (Fee Waiver), 2016

Residencies

Plymouth City Council | 50% funding for Benthic Caress, 2017

Nov 2019 | Art-Science hothouse residency: hosted by art.earth, CCANW and Science Walden

Nov 2018 | Srishti School of Art & Design, Bangalore

Jul 2018 | Concordia University, Montreal. Funded by GALA network

Jun 2018 | Global Nomadic Art Project at Schumacher College, UK. ‘The Ephemeral River’

Mar 2018 | Porthleven Prize, residency with BSAD

Qualifications

Practice-led PhD in Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University 2022. My practice-led PhD presented three major bodies of work in response to Neimanis’s seminal essay Hydrofeminism (2012) demonstrating how Hydrofeminism can be extended beyond its textual reference. The work mobilised the concept of the ecotone to bring difference and connectivity into creative works which proposed a watery relationality. By harnessing the communicative capacity of British Sign Language I rendered silence as a text that could be read, and demonstrated that the ecotone can convey multiple meanings and offer new insights into embodiment and affect. Within this research I also positioned the body as a location, mobilising watery exchanges as inscriptions of both difference and connectivity

PGDip: Teaching/Learning in HE, University of Plymouth 2000

MA Social History of Art, University of Leeds 1990

BA (hons) Fine Art 2:1, Manchester Metropolitan University 1989