Hello.

Born in the northeast of England during the last summer of the 1960s, I suffered from chronic tonsillitis and enjoyed concrete play parks.

A childhood truant, I spent time at home writing girlcentric ghost stories, or at the library looking for books on how to divine the past lives of the members of Depeche Mode. I discovered I wanted to be an artist when I photographed my cat wearing a knitted bonnet at a makeshift tea party.

Sometimes I call myself a multidisciplinary artist, which is a flouncy way of saying that I do lots of different things in lots of different media. I mostly use paper, cameras, scissors, and glue. I also write poetry and tiny bits of prose.

In previous incarnations I’ve been a drummer in a Riot Grrrl band, worked for a pretty fashion magazine, directed pop videos (children dressed as ghosts, moody boys in horror lighting), curated a demented biennale on a Greek island, created successful but stressful events (film, food, bands, art), and countless other things because I’ve been around a long time.

These days I also work as a creative director, which in a nutshell means that I make things look and feel cooler, more gorgeous, and nicer to visit. I’m currently working on a town centre design scheme I created for Darlington Council called Project Darling.

I like to tell stories, of places, people, and things, reimagining the real into enigmatic and extraordinary tableaux. I currently live in Teesside with a begonia and the ghost of two cats.