Artist Profile

I’m an academic and practice-based researcher/practitioner. My serial zine Future Fantasteek! (ISSN 2399-3022) visually explores anxiety through satirical social commentary. I created the University’s Zineopolis art-zine collection and have transitioned from illustrator to academic practitioner-researcher via a practice-based PhD. I have sought to extend the academic rigour in the illustration field by showing how this practice can have its own agency. My research methods include drawing and creating visual narratives to engage in social issues. My art practice includes printmaking, collages, drawings, animation, and interactive ‘deep drawings’. I was awarded a ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ Arts Council Grant called ‘Future Fantasteek in Motion’. This was to explore the space between animation/illustration, challenging the passivity of the still image through motion, and Augmented Reality. Most recently (2022) I delivered a keynote talk ‘Click-Other’ about Arts Practice Research for ASWARA, Malaysia and in Paris at La Sorbonne (2023). A set of my collages that explore the cruelty of language and its effects on mental health are currently in a touring exhibition of London Libraries until 2025 as part of How Are You (Really?)

My main research method is through peer-reviewed exhibitions with Future Fantasteek! exhibited internationally regularly since 2005 e.g. recently curated shows: Museum A.M.Gorky, Russia; Paul Robeson Galleries, USA; Shchedrin Museum, Russia; The Rise, Vietnam,and my practice-research film was screened at ‘BABE International’ Book event. My illustration practice has been recognised internationally; I was invited to show at the Royal Academy to promote artists’ books and selected (1 of 6 UK artists) by the V&A to promote bookarts. My work is actively collected by over eighty public museums, including the Yale Collection of British Art, USA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA; Tate Britain, UK; Institute of International Visual Arts, UK; Joan Flasch Collection, USA; Bedeteca de Lisboa, Portugal,and the Sheridan Zine Library, Canada. My research blog is now archived by the British Library, ‘UK Web Archive’ as a resource that offers “value to researchers now and in the future”.

Selected Exhibitions

2026 Thinking Through Making: Problem finding, The Reflectory, University of Portsmouth Gallery.
2025 Future Fantasteek! No.23 You Love Libraries / When All the Books Are Gone
Tutt Library, Colorado College, USA. July – December 2025
Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol, UK. November – January 2025
2025 World Book Night, Hosted by the Center of Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK
2025 Fanziniest Vienna, Austria, 16-18 May, zine exhibition
2023 – 2025 How Are You (Really?), one of three artists commissioned by Creative Spaces Hounslow
Cranford Library, London, April 2023 – Dec 2023
Hanworth Library, London, Jan 2024 – April 2024
Feltham Library, London, April 2024 – Sep 2024
Heston Library, London, Oct 2025 – June 2025
2024 Cut Me Up Magazine, Published New York, USA, issue 13, selected ‘Extinction’.
2024 Sketchbook/Notebook Invited artists 9-10 March, Edgleland Modern, Newhaven, UK
2024 Pressing Matters Magazine of Printmaking, Pink & Black challenge – selected entry.
2023 Cut Me Up Magazine group exhibition at Albany Airport, New York, USA
Exhibiting ‘Remnants of Elsewhere’
2023 Back of an Envelope, Group Exhibition, Edgeland Modern at the Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant, UK
2022 Back of an Envelope, Group Exhibition, Edgeland Modern, Newhaven UK
2021 Arts Council Award for Future Fantasteek in Motion, Issue No.21 Future Fantasteek! permanently located in over 80 special collections and AR animations from this zine selected for screening at Pinewood Studios, London and Clapperboard Festival in Brazil.
2021 We Shine Portsmouth as part of ‘In Motion Portsmouth’. My selected animation ‘The Connected Collective’ was projected on a 200ft building over three nights
2021 Left Overs group exhibition, Edgeland Modern, Brighton UK
2021 BABE2021 My artist’s book ‘Piano Lessons’, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
Film screening of ‘Piano Lessons’ from concept to production
2021 Decay, group exhibition, The Rise Collective Hanoi, Blue Dragon, Hanoi, Vietnam
2020 Love and Music a celebration of artists’ books group exhibition, ‘Piano Lessons’
was exhibited, House-Museum M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina, Kurov, Russia
2019 R(UK)ssian Artists’ Books Collective Exhibition in A.M Gorky Museum, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
2019 VAST/O-or a disease of body language, group exhibition, Bournemouth University, UK Bookworks exploring visualisations of mental health. ‘Marshland’ was shown
2019 Feast and Famine, Paul Robeson Galleries, Express Newark Rutgers University, Newark, USA.
My artist’s book ‘Battered’ was on loan from the Newark Public Library, USA