During my years at Staffordshire university I slowly found who I am as an artist. Starting like many with little editing skills and a simple love for the medium, I continually pushed myself with new ideas and skills.
In my second year I created my first large composite images, and pushed my photoshop knowledge as much as I could.
As my final year came around, I had to think about who I wanted to be after leaving education. Although I don't consider myself a conservationist, I think it's important that we are held accountable to how we treat our planet.
My current project 'Extraction' looks at a multitude of man-made landscapes that all in some way take away from the land. Whether it's massive quarries or surface mines, to treatment plants and power plants. There are so many industrial areas that are simply not discussed, or questioned. As a country the U.K has always had a massive mining industry, but so much of it is purposely hidden from public view. Simply hiding sites like this doesn't change the effects they have on their local environment. With the increasing amounts of c02 targets our governments make, it's sites like these that we need to be looking at. With technology giving us new, cleaner, more efficient options in many areas of society, it feels like nothing is changing in others.
Accolades
BA (Hons) Photography - First Class with Honours
AOP student awards finalist 2024
GradEx silver award in visual arts