About Jude

I am a multi-disciplinary artist based in Walsall in the West Midlands, working across painting, analogue film, moving image, and sound to explore the unstable relationship between landscape, industry, extraction, and regeneration.

My practice is rooted in post-industrial environments, particularly the Black Country UNESCO Global Geopark, where deep geological time intersects with the legacy of extraction and labour. I am drawn to sites where industry has receded and something quieter begins to emerge—where water gathers, vegetation takes hold, and the land slowly reshapes itself. These are not passive landscapes but active, shifting systems.

Working with expired and found film, hand-processed, using plants found where I’m working to create a developer. I embrace unpredictability—light leaks, chemical marks, and surface disruptions become part of the image. Through digitisation, these analogue fragments are reworked into layered moving-image sequences that echo the stratified nature of the landscape itself.

My work has evolved from painting into a more immersive audio-visual practice, informed by earlier experience in theatre set design, where I used projection and atmosphere to construct environments. I am now wanting to extend this approach through sound, using field recordings, contact microphones, and hydrophones to capture hidden vibrations within rock, water, and underground spaces. These recordings are slowed, layered, and looped, creating compositions that sit between environment and memory.At the core of my practice is an interest in how landscapes hold experience—geological, industrial, and human—and how these layers continue to shape identity in the West Midlands, a region formed as much by migration and labour as by its physical ground.

I’m inspired by nature its complexity and ambiguity, the continual changes in the seasons, weather and light. How the oceans move like we breathe, the perpetual motion of our planet and the uniqueness of everything natural. I shun the mass produced uniformity of objects and take joy from the rawness and scars on the land and life.

My work resists fixed viewpoints, instead creating immersive, shifting environments that invite sustained attention. It asks how we listen to landscape, how we read its surfaces, and what emerges when we allow time, material, and process to lead.