About me
I’m an accomplished editor and project manager who’s been the driving force behind culturally significant projects, including 'The Climate Book' by Greta Thunberg, 'What is Black Art?, 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth' with the Serpentine Galleries, and 'Poor Artists' by The White Pube. Formerly an Assistant Editor at Penguin Random House, my expertise spans publishing, copy editing, video editing, project management, and identifying up and coming voices in the creative industry.
I have extensive experience working with artists and curators and I maintain a research-based art practice. Some achievements I’m proud of include being shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize (2020), being commissioned to write for Bad Form (2022) and most recently being invited to DePaul University in Chicago to present my research to students of the Department of International Studies (2024).
Projects
- Against a State of Forgetting - Guest Speaker at DePaul UniversityAs part of the Department of International Studies’ syllabus titled ‘Identities and Boundaries’, I presented a John Berger-esque reading of When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka. Using Otsuka’s novel and scholarly research on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2, I connected the politics of discourse and manipulation of language with collective memory loss.
- Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference (Exhibition)Working closely with the exhibition curator, I was invited to film and edit a video synopsis of the International Curators Forum’s first iteration of the Shifting the Centre project, entitled Grenada as Reference. The exhibition was held at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton in 2023.
Work history
Special LecturerUniversity of The Arts London (UAL)
- United KingdomFreelance
Convened art theory seminars discussing how images, archival material, text and the imagination can come together to create a method for distilling scholarly research in unconventional forms, through work exploring memory, race and radical histories.
Ran group crits for second year students presenting their final studio-based project.
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Guest LecturerDePaul University
- Chicago, United StatesFreelance
Presented research on the politics of discourse and memory in relation to the Japanese internment camps in the US during World War 2 and Julie Otsuka’s novel 'When the Emperor was Divine' as part of the syllabus ‘Boundaries and Identities told through Novels’.
Convened workshops with students working towards their final project under the same syllabus.
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Skills
- Project Management
- Videography
- Book Editing
- Interpersonal Skills
- Team Collaboration
- Team Coordination
- Administrative Support
- Project Conception
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Art Writing
Education
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BA (Hons) Fine ArtKyoto Seika University
- Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Distinction equivalent.
Exchange semester specialising in oil painting, washi (paper) making and traditional Japanese painting.
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BA (Hons) Fine ArtUniversity of Arts London
- London, United Kingdom
First Class Degree.
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Awards
Aesthetica Art Prize 2020 - shortlistAesthetica Magazine
The Aesthetica Art Prize celebrates contemporary art across a range of media, exhibiting and championing some of the world’s most significant talent and contributing towards a global dialogue around today’s creative practices.
My moving image piece 'Inherited Landscapes' was shortlisted.