2025
ODAC, London
Three TVs, five speakers, chairs
5:43 min
This three-channel video, five-channel audio installation was created in response to Mark Wallinger’s Capital (1990) - a series of paintings depicting his friends, dressed as homeless people, standing outside financial institutions in the City of London. For this piece, I filmed a group of artists who had experienced homelessness, standing in the same locations as depicted in the original series. Using three cameras simultaneously, ranging from 4K to 240p resolution, I layered images and sounds from these once-monumental sites of finance, questioning British capitalism’s capacity to provide for the poorest and most vulnerable in society. The work also highlights the distance between the post-Cold War ‘end of history’ evoked by Wallinger’s 1990 paintings and the contemporary reality of post-financial-crash, post-austerity Britain. While the performative and clichéd imagery of Wallinger’s Capital captures the anxieties of a newly triumphant neoliberalism, After Capital presents the slow violence of life amid the collapse of that same economic system: repetitive, distorted and mirage-like, a landscape where homelessness is no longer easily legible and the financial institutions of the past now house bars, restaurants and tourist attractions, as power becomes increasingly abstract and diffuse.
Phone Piece
2025
The Courts, Bristol
Dancer, two musicians, four speakers, phone, microcomputer
90 min
Phone Piece is a live performance for a dancer and musicians, exploring how bodies and systems co-exist within the bureaucratic structure of welfare states. It translates the familiar experience of being “on hold” into a choreographic and musical language; a system of background-music, movement, and live ensemble- evoking the tension between waiting and moving, compliance and resistance, stasis and relief. At the centre of the piece is a solo movement performer, who is stuck within a neverending automated phone system. She chooses an option with the phone keypad, and then is put on hold. As music begins, she slowly starts to tense, move, dance- only to be interrupted by the phone ringing, and another automated menu asking her to make a choice. As the performer moves, a three-piece ensemble performs a live score that shifts between a diverse range of compositions, music devised with the musicians, improvisation, and extended stillness. The performance unfolds like a call in progress - one that never fully connects, but instead exposes the underlying rhythm and fragility of welfare systems, and by extension the decline of European social democracy.
Every Option
2026
States of Uncertainty group exhibiton
HARTslane Gallery, London
Digital image on paper, bulldog clips
Every Option maps a super-structure of every possible menu option on benefit-related phone lines run by the Department for Work and Pensions, as of 2025. Although these 70 options originate across multiple DWP helplines, the diagram connects them into a single, recursive administrative system- somewhere between a puzzle, choose-your-own-adventure story and corporate flowchart. The subject is presumed to move through every life stage within this system: from working-age benefits to maternity allowance, child benefits, pension credits and ultimately bereavement support. The result is a network that is at once paternal and alienating, trapping the subject within an apparatus that permits movement only through delay, repetition, and needless complexity.
Wedge
2024
Cinema Museum, London
Digital Video
2:07 min
A film of me holding myself off the ground, wedged in the alcove next to the chimney breast in the temporary accommodation I was then living in. The film shows me gradually slipping down the wall, and then lying on the bed, exhausted. The film is shot from the other side of the room, zoomed and cropped in post. The audio is recorded at a close proximity, with the microphone directly below me. The sound is not synchronised with the image. This film deals with the way performance and effort is mediated and constructed through film, and the tension between representing ‘social issues’ (homelessness), and the tools of representation itself.
Anatomies
2024
Late Junction, BBC radio 3
Audio composition
10:04 min
An audio composition exploring the relationship between performer and audience, Anatomies is inspired by the Paraorchestra project The Anatomy of the Orchestra, in which an 70-piece orchestra is placed throughout an entire concert venue, with the audience invited to wander between each musician, shaping the sound as they walk. For this composition, I interviewed orchestra musicians about their experience of performing in this unique way, mixing them with intricately edited binaural recordings of the orchestra playing.
Northumberland’s Electric Coast
2023
Slow Radio, BBC radio 3
Audio composition
28:30 min
Creekshow
2023
APT Gallery, London
Four-channel sound installation, four speakers, cardboard boxes
20:05 min
An audio installation created for a group exhibition about Deptford Creek. In the front of the gallery was a two channel sound installation- a soundscape of Deptford Creek, recorded while walking through the creek at low tide, with minimal editing and post-processing. In the back space of the gallery was a four channel sound installation; the speakers in the corners of the gallery, playing at low volumes within cardboard boxes, each with primitive speaker grilles across the top. The speakers played heavily edited, processed interviews I had conducted with people who had lived or worked on the creek. These were mixed with a single musical tone. The different tones from the four speakers form a chord. Because of the frequencies used, the low volume, and the resonance of the gallery itself, the chord is audible throughout the gallery, but the dialogue is only audible when a visitor places their ear on the speaker grille.
