Selected Projects (2009-)
Olivia N'Gowfri - Of One Woman or So (2009-2014)
A five year experiment in literary recycling, this project culminated in a 8m x 1m manuscript composed of every word of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own spatially resituated and historically reimagined.
Further details can be found here.
The Dreadlock Hoax (2014)
A performance piece that addressed the Dreadnought Hoax of 1910. Staged in 43 Gordon Square, London as part of Birkbeck Arts Week. A transcript of this performance was published in Volume 6, issue 1 of Birkbeck’s Studies in the Maternal, further details here.
Untitled - experimental archival project on football terrace culture (2015)
Framed within a semi-fictionalised literary experiment this project investigated a high profile incident of terrace hate speech and the subsequent media response. Growing out of MPhil research at the University of Cambridge it was presented at Iniva in 2015 to the Stuart Hall Library's Research Network. An audio recording is available here.
Frankenspine (2015)
Photo Mosaic
A full single page of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is assembled from title words, numbers and punctuation of different book spines found in a single library - The University of Cambridge deposit library.
This work is available as a poster print - please use the contact page to enquire.
The White Negress - Redux (2019)
Photographic Portrait
(collaboration with Remi Oriogun-Williams)
A response to Constantin Brancusi's 1923 sculpture White Negress. This work was first presented at the 2019 Recycling Woolf conference at the University of Lorraine, Nancy, and is reproduced and discussed in Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature (Routledge, 2021).
On Being Still (2020)
A diaristic response to painting during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic against the backdrop of the BLM protests whilst attempting to engage with figures of a national literary and artistic past. Published in The Modernist Review's Black Lives Matter issue, this work can be viewed here.
Skin Tone (2021)
Infographic timeline
A satirical multimedia work focusing on a set of 'skin tone' pencils and notions of racial classification in portraiture. Shortlisted for the Colour Group's Outstanding Communication on Colour 2021. This work can be viewed here.
Reading the Past and the Present, Painting the Sea and the Sky (2021)
An artist's response to changing perspectives and subject matter wrought by shifts in history. Published in Wasafiri issue 107: Crisis/Recovery (autumn 2021).
The Shelf (Kay Dick) (2022)
A bookcase assembled from recycled materials, built to house the literary collection of author Kay Dick (1915-2001), centred around a signed copy her 1984 novel The Shelf.
work cut out (2022)
A performance piece for the Royal Society of Literature, hosted by The British Library. This work can be viewed here. A version of this poem following a different schema will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.
Looking for Virginia: An Artist’s Journey through 100 Archives (2023)
A multi-media archival presentation commissioned by the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex as part of the CMS’s inaugural artist residency. This work can be viewed here.