The Freedom of Art in Prison | A Photographic Workshop

The Freedom of Art in a Prison “Have a good weekend miss” he said as we left on that second Friday afternoon of our photography workshop, “you too” I replied. It then hit me, that these common exchanges of pleasantries I have with folk I meet most Fridays in my day-to-day world, are now hanging with new meaning and a new perspective. Because his weekend ahead looks very different to…

RPS Women in Photography magazine feature

Nothing compounds the importance of keeping a space for the unexpected in my work than this - a simple hand towel. Used to wrap a precious ornament from my late-grandmother’s house after she had passed away. It was this towel that still held the scent of her perfume when it arrived into my home. I tried to preserve the scent in a bag, held in a box and put into a drawer. A year later I…

Discarded With Honour | The Artists Collaboration

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken." Orson Scott Card Discarded With Honour is a photographic project which began for me at the start of 2021. I'd spent the best part of the year before, looking around our house at the hoards of stuff we had collected over the decades. I found myself thinking about the significance and meaning of these objects that…

Discarded With Honour | Exploring Gender

Exploring Gender It was only at the beginning of this year that Leo began to acknowledge that the gender they were assigned at birth didn't feel right. So when Leo offered me the gift to help them creatively explore a part of their non-binary journey, I knew it might be one of the most precious gifts I’d ever received. It became an open and sensitive dialogue between us, where there was no…

Coast-to-Coast Project May 2021 | from the west to the east

Hastings Pier has always been my grounding point. Over the 20 years we've been visiting our family in the east, the Pier is a place I've gravitated to. And this trip to Hastings to visit family, who we hadn't since since last summer, saw me back there once more. Quietly observing what has changed and what has stood still during this time away. It is the halfway point of everywhere…

Families Resetting

"My great grandmother left her abuser one night. She was told to go back home and make it work… after all she was a married woman with a husband and children. I’m so thankful things are changing for my generation. For me and my own children." I have always been drawn to people’s relationships, between each other, and with the spaces that they feel connected to and inspired within.…

Home in Maindee – a photographic project

I won't deny my heart was racing a bit, but I recognised that this was also mixed with the tingle of excitement, the unknown of where this project might now go... It's been an incredible journey. One which I want to share some of my own self-discovery as an artist, along with sharing some of the stories of those whose front doors I've knocked on. Armed only with camera-in-hand, a friendly…

Finding a Home in Maindee – Jhons and Francy

Empanadas, a Monkey-face orchid and our exotic childhoods were just three of the many topics I got to talk about with Jhons and his wife, Francy on my second visit to their home in Maindee. This is a personal project, a documentary photographic project funded through the Maindee New Paths initiative. It's a journey I'm on to find out why some people have chosen to make their home there. "This…

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