ARTIST BIO

Socially engaged art is my main interest. Capturing the everyday.

Past project I was embedded within a group in Kilburn, NW London. They help and support benefit claimants who are facing increasing sanctions and cuts due to the imposed rules relating to benefits and claims for those that are unwaged or sick and disabled.

Whilst regeneration is happening around London, many others are brushed aside in the rush for property developers and the upwardly mobile continue to make money. Being unemployed appears to be a crime if we are to believe some of the mainstream media and the producers of tv series. Much is a frontal attack on those that have worked and need help in the UK.

My interest really is with the hidden, or those that others wish were hidden from society. Even as we go about our daily lives, we see those that we will often wish we could turn a blind eye to.

By capturing the movement, moment, interaction and the feeling that KUWG encounter weekly at meetings and outside jobcentres and social housing offices, my methods allow me to get a sidewards glimpse into their life and for many that method is prefered for anonymity.

My aim is to use the camera unconventionally, I also use a GoPro and an iPhone to record films and take pictures. Nothing is choreographed, everything is what is happeninng around me in relation to my film or photography work.

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My installations, sculptures and paintings have developed out of subjects that have had an emotional, political or social impact on me or those around me over a number of years.