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Letters to the Landscape, Script as Score – A Tale of Two Films
Upcoming Performance Lecture, Space@Design Gallery, Friday August 21st midday. This performance lecture unfolds as a sound-only verbal cinema where three voices reconstruct and reimagine a visual object withheld from view. One performer reads from a 1920 s shooting script, it s DAY numbers, SHOT labels and camera directions forming a ghostly architecture of a film that has Continue reading Letters…
Letters to the Landscape Exhibition
Letters to the Landscape investigates the entangled relations between Brontë Country and the imaginative terrain of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), situating the moorland as a site where cultural memory, literary inheritance, and embodied fieldwork converge. Operating at the intersection of autobiography, polyphony, and archival drift, the project examines how landscapes function as…
Extract from Film Intro – Letters to the Landscape
Episode 4: A Lovers Spat
Silent gravel in the driveway, deafening clock in the hall, everything whispers anxiously. A back is turned to hide its increasing anxiety, compulsive shrugs walk away. Her shoulders wet with thunder settle like a paper cut on her soul. Confused by the bearing of the question successfully she feigns interest. Her nose wrinkles, he shifts Continue reading Episode 4: A Lovers Spat
Tacita Dean: Significant Form
Installation image of Significant Form, Tacita Dean at The Hepworth Wakefield. Photo: Nick Singleton Tacita Dean was introduced to the work of Barbara Hepworth and the St Ives School of artists while studying at Falmouth School of Art. She found a particular affinity with Hepworth’s interest in Cornish landscapes, the natural rock formations, the coastal paths and the ancient standing stones. Like…
Paper Abstract: Excavating the Ephemeral through Performative Archival Practice: Fact, Fiction and Fieldwork, AAH Symposium, Cambridge 2026
Film Still: Episode 1, Epistles, Letters to the Landscape 2025. Moving-image, approx. 32 minutes Contemporary artists are increasingly challenging the boundaries of the archive and authorship through fictional strategies and non-traditional materials. This paper offers a methodological reflection on the use of fictional personae as narrative interlocutors within my practice-led PhD research,…
AAH Annual Conference, University of Cambridge
I am pleased to announce I will be presenting at the above conference in April, responding to the panel Art History: Facts and Fiction? My paper is entitled: Excavating the Ephemeral through Performative Archival Practice: Fact, Fiction and Fieldwork. This panel explores a neglected tradition in art history: the strategic use of fictional elements in Continue reading AAH Annual Conference,…
Episode 3 The Reluctant Pilgrim
The ice on the path snapped, crackled and splintered underneath the soles of their walking boots. The ground was frozen solid. She felt as though she were walking with two blocks of ice strapped to her feet. She could feel the ground in her knees. The sound of her boots walking on frozen ground was Continue reading Episode 3 The Reluctant Pilgrim
Mapping Cultures
Mapping Cultures is a collection of essays exploring the diverse practices and cultures of mapping on the one hand, and the mapping of different forms of cultural practice on the other. The book draws on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual Continue reading Mapping Cultures