Exhibiting at FotoFest Walsall 2026

Atrium – The Crossing at St Paul’s Walsall

5th May – 30th June 2026

Vibrations of Resilience

 I work with what remains.

In the Black Country, layers of rock, industry, and movement sit just beneath the surface. Quarries fill with water. Canals cut through ground shaped by labour. Vegetation returns, slowly undoing what was forced into place.

Using expired 16mm film, hand processed. I allow the image to break down—light leaks, chemical traces, stains, fragments that move and refuse to settle. These are not errors but evidence. The landscape behaves in the same way: unstable, shifting, unresolved.

Sound enters as vibration. Contact microphones pressed to stone. Hydrophones submerged in canal water. What is recorded is not always heard in the usual sense, but felt—resonance held within material.

The work moves between what is visible and what is sensed, between surface and depth. It resists fixed viewpoints, asking instead for time, for attention. Light and the natural circadian rhythm plays with the translucent surfaces.

This is not an empty landscape.

It holds voices from the shadows—histories of labour, migration, and lived experience that continue to shape the ground beneath our feet. They do not announce themselves directly, but remain present, embedded, carried.

I am interested in what emerges when we begin to look and listen.

Earth Dies Screaming

Resilliance Resounds

Extinction Chorus

New works created for FotoFest Walsall 2026, are based on the local landscape and how we are no longer in tune to the vibrations and murmurs of the land and nature around us. For the last nine months I have been creating organic films on expired 16mm film and sound scapes. Allowing the images to be created organically in a contained chaos, of their own worlds. I have created an installation from stills of the films transferred onto transparent acrylic panels suspended for us to walk through and engage with the start and end of life.

Glimpse of Life

Parched Whispers

Fragile Murmurs

This is part of a much larger investigation, working in the Black Country UNESCO Geopark and canalways. Further Exhibitions will be announced later this year. A big thank you to Arts Council England, who have supported me with DYCP funding that has given me the time and propelled me forward in my investigations.