Current
PhD Candidate
Amgueddfa Cymru / University of South Wales (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, ongoing)
My practice-based PhD explores how the museum’s prehistoric archaeology collection, particularly artefacts connected to water, ritual and offering, can be re-activated or re-imagined through participatory and performative means. It considers how these “watery” objects might speak to our present ecological moment, inviting the museum to be understood as a site of contemporary ritual and ecological reflection.
Serpentine (a weaving) (to be released later in 2025)
Commissioned text for beside, gerllaw — a series of texts specially produced for Artes Mundi 11, edited by Dylan Huw with Testun Testun, a new independent platform fostering expanded art/writing practices in Wales.
Recent Projects & Research
Springtides Archipelago (ongoing / dormant fictional research project)
An imagined time-travelling network of islands investigating tidal intelligence, watery temporality and speculative heritage.
Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands (ongoing / dormant fictional research institute)
A speculative Institute founded in 2010 mapping unseen territories of memory and myth, proposing alternative temporalities of knowing and care.
Constellation - Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 2023
Installation within gludafael / holdfast, drawing on the astrological figure of Aquarius to explore collective transformation in mythic and climate-shifting times. The work included two custom vibration essences—Age of Aquarius and Bearing Witness. Part of the Future Wales Fellowship programme.
CADW Residency – Pembrokeshire Standing Stones (2023)
Explored the ritual and temporal significance of prehistoric stone monuments through performative and site-responsive practice in West Wales.
Future Wales Fellowship (Arts Council Wales & Natural Resources Wales, 2022 – 2023)
Research project addressing climate change, ecological imagination and collective futures, a focus on hope.
SURGE – Call the Waves – Chapter Arts Centre (2022)
A participatory installation and sound work mapping “waters of consent, unrest, desire and undoing” through dowsing inspired participatory sculpturet Chapter Arts Centre as part of Call the Waves group exhibition. Curated by SWAY X Qanat Collective.
Spirit Mirror – Glynn Vivian Art Gallery (2022)
Solo commission at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery responding to the life of philanthropist and spiritualist medium Winifred Coombe‑Tennant. The installation combined archival objects and rarely exhibited prints (including works by William Blake and Victor Hugo) with new sculptural forms, including a beeswax “spirit mirror” and an owl-like totem, to explore thresholds between material heritage and spiritual resonance. Accompanied by a commissioned text by Dr Amy Hale.
Sometimes Shadows Disappear (2022)
Sound Commission for Lumin Press for Solstice Radio / Made in Roath. A poetic sound work exploring solstice, watery futures and the voice, featuring harp by Rhodri Davies.
YNYS (Ancient Connections Residency, Pembrokeshire and Wexford, 2020 – 2022)
Created soundscapes responding to coastal change and cross-channel mythologies linking Wales and Ireland.
MILK (2020)
Sound Commission, as part of a 24-hour solstice audio broadcast produced with Freya Dooley and Sam Hasler, featuring soundscapes and readings streamed during lockdown.
for a spell (2020)
A participatory project with children and their friends, re-imagining Welsh place-based traditions of protest and transformation through the making of spells, ritual and collective action.
The Hidden Noise: Tinnitus and Art (AHRC commission, OVADA Gallery, Oxford, 2021)
Collaborative project with Dr Patrick Farmer and Dr Marie Thompson, exploring listening, absence and auditory perception.
Freelands Artist Programme Fellowship (g39 Cardiff & Freelands Foundation, 2019 – 2021)
Two-year programme supporting sustained artistic development and critical dialogue in Wales.
Jerwood Bursary (2019)
Supported research into magic, healing and folklore in relation to the Pitt Rivers Museum collections, integrating motherhood, ritual and ecological care.
a-n Artist Bursary (2020)
Enabled experimental work connecting social sculpture and spiritual ecology.
The Green Room – Trust New Art Commission (Tyntesfield, National Trust, 2014)
Commissioned by Trust New Art for the Paradise exhibition, curated by Ruth Gooding. Created with Owen Griffiths, the project transformed a historic yew hedge into an outdoor pedagogical platform for workshops and ecological exploration.
Audiograft Festival of Contemporary Sound and Experimental Music (Oxford Brookes University, 2011)
Participated with performative sound work engaging with social sculpture and listening as ecological encounter.
Springtides Archipelago and Institute for Imagined Futures & Unknown Lands are ongoing mytho-fictional research frameworks embedded in my practice, functioning as speculative sites of enquiry and imaginative activism.
Selected Writing & Critical Engagement
Walking with Light: the long-term thinking of the films of Peter Finnemore — Celf ar y Cyd / Amgueddfa Cymru (2023).
Serpentine (a weaving) — Artes Mundi Journal, edited by Dylan Huw (coming 2025).
Awards
Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award (2023)
Nominated recipient, recognised for work connecting sculpture, ecology and ritual.
Jerwood Bursary (2019)
Funded research into magic, healing and folklore within Pitt Rivers Museum collections.
Creative Wales Award (2014)
Supported research into image, ritual and facilitation within Social Sculpture.
Interdisciplinary Arts Award for Social Sculpture Practices (2013)
Awarded by Oxford Brookes University for practice connecting participatory art and ecology.
AHRC Award (2011 – 2012)
Postgraduate research funding in art and ecology.
Mostyn Open Winner (2011)
Selected by Richard Wentworth and curators Karen MacKinnon & Anders Pleass.
Residencies
Ancient Connections, Pembrokeshire County Council (2020 – 2022)
Glamorgan Archives with Artshell (2018 – 2019)
St Fagans Archives & Collections (Supporting artist Nils Norman, 2016)
Bridging the Gaps, Swansea University (2012 – 2013)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre (2009)
Qualifications
PhD Candidate (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership), Amgueddfa Cymru / University of South Wales – ongoing
MA Social Sculpture, Oxford Brookes University (2010 – 2013)
MA Fine Art, Swansea Metropolitan University (2007 – 2009)
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University (2002 – 2005)