Projects
- Ghost on the Wire“ Cannot all you lecturers see, it is we that are dying, and that down here all that really lives is the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and wills, and now it compels us to worship it. “ E.M. Forster – The Machine Stops This series of photographs examine confused and strained conversations which take place in a future world; those had with others, ourselves, and with objects. Limited by the very thing created to enhance them, social interactions cease to exist on a physical level, which creates a solitude that redefines the human species.
- A Portrait of Me With My Mother'A Portrait of Me With My Mother' is a series of self portraits posing with various mothers. I began the project just before the 10 year anniversary of the passing of my own mother. This project is an attempt to explore my grief, and fantasies about a relationship which never never fully developed. Some of the mothers I had met before, others were strangers to me, regardless each image was produced with identical instructions. I started by asking each mother to pose with me as if I were their own daughter. However comfortable I was with the person, my presence became quite cold and clinical through the process of taking the photos. This imbues the portraits with a disturbing and almost surreal impression, which echoes my unwillingness to be parented by anyone after my mothers death. During the project I watched a lot of home videos. Now as an adult they appear to eerily capture idyllic moments of my childhood juxtaposed with the darkness of my mothers illness. The smiles now look forced and constructed happiness seems so clear, but at the time it was the only reality I knew. I am interested in the events going on behind these images, the words exchanged before and after the shutter closes. The falsehood of the moment captured, the distortion of memory. As a child I grieved for a mother, but as I grow older I feel that grief shifting into longing for a relationship that went beyond carer, provider, mother. Missing someone I hope would have become a friend. In this way the project began as an attempt to explore a mother-daughter relationship, but has become an exploration into human relationships more broadly - prompting me to examine the lasting effect loosing her has had.
Work history
Photographer
Commercially I specialise in dance, performance and portrait photography, and my personal work relates to these fields as well.
Portrait Photographer
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Portrait photographer for the Migration Museum's Keepsakes project - on at the royal Festival Hall until September 2015
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Skills
- Retouching
- Fine Art
- Photoshop
- Portrait Photography
- Performance Photography
Education
Photography Portfolio Development Postgraduate Diploma
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PG Diploma
BA(Hons) Fine Art
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BA (Hons) Fine Art, 2D
Awards
IdeasTap Edinburgh Award
Won a brief set by IdeasTap to photograph chosen companies at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2012
ING Discerning Eye
Invited by Ossian Ward to exhibit in the 2011 ING Discerning Eye show
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