Using observed human incidents as the foundation of my work, I blend real events and experiences into fictional narratives across video, installation, performance, and writing. Through imagined scenarios, often incorporating elements of the absurd, I explore social structures and the political subtext of the everyday, focusing on affect, emotions, labour, and the body.
My work is shaped by the environments in which they are created, interrogating how social experience is presented, transformed, and consumed. Cultural, socio-political, and geographical contexts inform my practice, offering a framework to explore psychosocial phenomena such as group formation and dissolution, the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, and the intersections of agency, freedom, labour, and leisure.
At the core of my practice is an exploration of the complexities of contemporary culture and the human condition, drawn to eccentric characters, places, and stories, and reinterpreting them through inventive and tangential perspectives. Through framing, staging, scripting and performance, I aim to expose invisible power structures, shifting identities, and the nuances of human behaviour. Speculative narratives, combined with diverse media and techniques, allow me to create otherworldly scenarios grounded in reality, often developed in collaboration with both actors and non-actors, to blur the boundaries between the real and the imagined.
Employing a loaded visual language influenced by popular culture and shaped by my working-class background, I examine how we navigate our place within society and how we construct our understanding of ourselves and others. Through this lens, I explore tensions tied to power dynamics, anxieties, desires, and fantasies. The result is a subjective, associative investigation of themes such as performance and agency, social class and collectivity, language and emotion, overlooked histories and media, and everyday forms of resistance.