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Film poster artwork for “MOP!” - a Sunken Lane film

Graphite and biro on Fabriano 200 gsm paper (scanned, collaged and digitally manipulated), 59.4 x 42 cm

In this ongoing series, I transcribe music into drawings. Each drawing records impressions of live music made at gigs with a ball-point pen, which I later scan and invert on Photoshop. The descriptions record the musicians, venue and date.

I was inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ definition of aphorisms “(the ear tells the eye where to look)” to relate gesturally to sound, and note the collective attunement these musicians carve into space.

Jali Bakary Konte and Friends, Mü, 23/05/25

Josephine Foster + Louise Landes Levi, Café Oto, 05/06/25

Moor Mother x Shovel Dance Collective, Café Oto, 02/03/25

Nicko Mroczkowski (Contrafacts), Reference Point, 14/12/24

"Sometimes I pee in the garden when we've got guests," AMP Studios, 21/07/24

Loraine James (Glitch this Bitch), Café Oto, 28/02/24

Flanafi into Dean Blunt (not live), Home, 28/10/23

Aleksandir & Supu (ambient set), Iklectik, 25/10/23

Mad Professor (Giant Steps), Hackney Baths, 15/10/23

Salami Rose Joe Louis, The Victoria, 11/10/23

Xhosa Cole, Pat Thomas, Josh Vadiveloo, Gary Wilcox, Café Oto, 24/09/23

These drawings are made through an iterative process of casting charcoal dust onto a glued surface. I work from a combination of photographs and memory, moving through a cyclical process of blowing, erasing, sweeping and repeating to test the theory that every minor action has a major consequence. Each drawing is reminiscent of the larch forests in the French Alps where I grew up, titled after the songs which inspired them to evoke the sensation of being immersed in the landscape.

Clearing, charcoal on Fabriano 200gsm paper, 81 x 44 cm

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Greens, silver thread and pigment on Fabriano 200 gsm paper, 81 x 62 cm

It's Between (Me n U), mixed media (charcoal, silver powder and graphite powder) on Fabriano 200 gsm paper, 81 x 62 cm

Footprints, charcoal on Fabriano 200 gsm paper, 81 x 44 cm

Telallás, mixed media (charcoal, flour, graphite powder) on Fabriano 200 gsm paper, 113 x 76 cm

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Elaenia, mixed media (charcoal, flour, graphite powder) on Fabriano 200 gsm paper, 113 x 76 cm

 RESIDUE (2021) was an exhibition I created for Rodić Davidson Architects’ public window display. In it, I investigate how the surface textures of a building due for demolition might help us reconsider our relationship to legacy.

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In these graphite and colouring pencil drawings, establishment figures at leisure contemplate magnified images of the human genome under a microscope. The images are cut out and lifted from a black and white 1960s Paris Match magazine found on the street, collaged with a 2007 edition of Time Out.