I have recently been working as a freelance video producer in Madrid, whilst writing theory and fiction alongside. I am now working as a copywriter and translator and preparing to embark on a PhD in Gender Studies. I studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, completing my BA in Art History and MA in Art and Politics at Goldsmiths University. After university, I worked in the art world in London for a number of years, working and writing for both the Wilkinson Gallery and Lever Gallery. I also ran the 71a Gallery in Shoreditch, where I organised exhibitions, as well as events associated with the magazines, Little White Lies and Huck. In this role I would write all press releases for upcoming exhibitions and events. I then moved to Madrid where I continued to write, as well as embarking on a career in video production, and learnt Spanish along the way. I have recently published three short stories in Hercules Casa Magazine, and I am embedded in the visual and literary cultures of London, Madrid and Barcelona, keeping inspired through immersing myself in different industries and cultures, whilst continuously writing and recording.
Work history
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ProducerTwentyFour 7
- Madrid, SpainFull Time
After completing an internship with TwentyFour 7 previously, I returned in 2019 as a full time in-house producer. Working on a variety of pitches and budgets, as well as producing a number of high profile shoots, such as a 3 day Amazon shoot in Barcelona.
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ProducerO Creative Studio
- Barcelona, SpainFull Time
At O Creative Studio I worked as an in-house producer on a variety of projects: music videos, adverts and fashion films. I oversaw each of the projects that passed through the company during this period, from the pitching stage, to putting together budgets, meetings with clients, working closely with the director during prep and shoot, putting a crew together, and over-seeing the project through post-production and delivery. I would also regularly proof read and translate treatments, interviews and articles for our directors.
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Skills
- Gallery Management
- Event Organisation
- Art Fairs
- Copwriting
- Sales
- Press Copywriting
Education
MAGoldsmiths, University of London
- London, United Kingdom
As well as leading me towards theory and literature, my time at Goldsmiths culminated in the essay, “Historical Woman to Virtual Girl: A tracing of the taxonomy of the female body and its utilisation as an instrument of power throughout the development of biopower and the re-structuring of the political, public sphere.” In this essay I explore the ways in which the female body has been disciplined in regard to its sexuality, and thus inscribed with the structures of power relations and regulatory regimes. Firstly, looking at the hysteric body of the 19th century and their role within early capitalism in the disciplining of female sexuality to the teenage girl and her role within late capitalism and the re-thinking of the concept of the political, public sphere, with the development of the internet and social networking. During my MA, I also developed an interest in creative writing, from which I gain much satisfaction.
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BACourtauld Institute of Art
- London, United Kingdom
I completed my BA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Throughout my BA I developed an interest in visual culture and its relation to social, economic and gender politics. I became interested in the way our visual mainstream culture, in particular photography, cinema and contemporary art, as well as the internet and advertising, has been influenced and dictated to, by prescribed notions of the public sphere, gender and social economic stereotypes. Throughout my BA, I wrote essays on the depiction of hysterics in 19th century society, and my final thesis explored the politics behind the ‘snapshot’ photography of major fashion photographer, Terry Richardson. Examining the explicit sexualisation of his photographs, in line with the dominant visual codes of inciting desire and satisfying the erotic gaze, as also exists within advertising. I concluded that within late capitalism, even subversion to the norms has become implicit within the commercial realm of image making.