Description: Artist, evaluator, researcher and participatory artist working in the West Midlands and internationally
I’m a video artist, participatory & community arts worker, evaluator and artist-researcher. Ive been working with key West Midlands organisations on the evaluation of the impact of participatory arts – which was also the subject of my doctoral research. As a film maker I want to challenge the way we watch media and to question our relationship to the film’s subject and the role of the artist. As a community arts project manager and worker, I bring decades of reliability, experience and reflective practice t
My short film ‘Reading Agatha Christie’ was submitted to the Max Mara Prize for Women Artists 2008 by British artist Cornelia Parker and made it to the penultimate round! It was made with a group of Iraqi Kurds in Birmingham and records a struggle to control their readings of Christie’s ‘They Came to Baghdad’ in Arabic. The film won the Ikon Gallery Student Prize and has been shown in the US and Cairo; I was awarded the Birmingham City University ‘Overall Best Student’ in the Arts in 2008 & my MA Fine Arts
Feb 2023 – ‘ Many Had Lost Their Boots’ (quote from Dulce et Decorum Est , WWI poet Wilfred Owen) – experimenting with these words which represent for me the struggle for many of us now in the UK and elsewhere – refugees, those affected by recession and the deliberate destruction of our NHS – link to climate crisis represented by Carl Orff’s words ‘ Dentes fredentes video’ – the threat of the approaching gnashing teeth …[the first includes Whixall peat bog plants- a hopeful landscape for humanity, conserv