
Chemistry with Images - Lomography
Podcast with Phlogger - Manifestos and Migraines
quotes on my work from Instagram
Sort of gross but I can't stop lookin' - Oneinstaxaday
That's a mad one - cheezygrinon
I've never seen anything like this - rhphotosanctuary
I really like this but I don't know why - johnbehets
Juicy - suzannesteelart
Could you explain it please? - spikeymousephotography
And there's someone who buys these? - FranticFrancesco
I am an experimental photographer working with both analogue and digital mediums. Through my work I’m looking to find a balance between chance and control, and between; construction and destruction, signal and noise and ultimately, life and death. I embrace the accidents and errors as they not only remind us how vulnerable and delicate we are, they can often show us something new. It is at the point of breakdown that the medium begins to reveal itself. Through glitches and mistakes we get to see the base elements, the very construction of the material that creates those illusions of reality, the apparatus of photography itself.
For me, the click of the camera marks the beginning of the process. Often that initial image is just an inkling of an idea, a feeling that it may be interesting. This then needs further work to tease out, to chip away at, until I can get to the essence of what it is. This process is a time of experimentation and of trying to find the correct expression of that initial idea. I may have many versions, before choosing the image that best satisfies this.
As a child, much to the annoyance of my family, I was always taking things like record players and radios apart to see how they work. More often than not I would get an electric shock and often things wouldn't go back together quite right. However, this habit of pulling things apart has continued into my photography. Never happy with the preferred way of making images, I enjoy tinkering below the surface to see what lies beneath.
Punk was a big influence on me. Not just the music but the attitude, the DIY approach of just getting on with it, expressing yourself. I loved the stripped-down music, the freedom in just three chords. I find myself taking this approach to my images - stripping away the unnecessary, reaching out for a visceral response. I'm looking for the visual equivalent of that 2 minutes and 12 seconds of honed perfection that is the Ramones blasting out Blitzkreig Bop.
More recently, I have been attempting to find meaning and connection/reconnection with the natural world by returning to Suffolk, the place of my birth and making new work in the coastal areas. Rather than battling against my neurological condition, I’ve come to allow this to be a part of my work. My brain has difficulty processing proprioceptive information, so I cannot tell where my body is in space. My life is, quite literally, out of balance, which I think connects with a broader sense that we are living in a time when we are disconnected from nature.
Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation Award 2024
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial 2023
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary 2021
Muse Gallery Residency 2017
National Disability Arts Collection & Archive Research & Development Award 2017
Film
Reclaim the Streets - Super 8 film
Screened at: Portobello Film Festival 2019/
Talks
Mark Tamer in Conversation with IMA:
Are there too many images in the world? 2019
exhibitions
Solo Exhibition
2019
This Is It - Muse Gallery, Portobello Road, London, UK
Recent Exhibitions
2025
Breath + Blaze - Candid Arts, London
2024
Muse Gallery 20th Anniversary, Portobello Road
, London
2023
Memories & Mementos II, WWW Gallery, London
2022
TASC at Hand 2022, Muse Gallery, Portobello Road , London
Everybody’s Happy Nowadays, online
Shape Arts Annual Open, online
Qube Open Art Competition, Qube, Oswestry
2021
Hot Sheet, The Department Store, Brixton
No Frost at Night, Babylon Gallery, Ely
2020
Cluster Photography & Print, Ugly Duck’s warehouse, London Bridge
2019
Shape Arts Annual Open, Bow Arts, London
2018
London Ultra, Oxo Tower Barge House, London
The Other Art Fair, London
Muse Gallery Artist in Residence show - Portobello Road, London
Fringe Arts Bath Festival - live
2017
MA Photography Degree Show - LCC, Elephant and Castle , London
Making It Real, - Ugly Duck, London
AIR Competition Finalist - Muse Gallery, Portobello Road , London
Revolv Collective: Archives as Medium, live creation of zine, Four Corners Gallery, London
Interim Show, LCC, Elephant and Castle , London
CTRL, Spitalfields Studios, Whitechapel, London
2018
Six month residency at The Muse Gallery, London, UK
2017
Artist in residence working with Shape Arts at the Liberty Festival, London, UK
Hestercombe House, artist residential
2015
Three day residency at the Shape Gallery, Westfield, Stratford
2014/2015/2016
Artist in Residence, Malorees Infant School - Arts Week
residencies
education
London College of Communication, MA Photography, 2016 – 2017
London College of Printing. BA (HONS) Film and Video: 2:1, 1990 – 1993
BTEC Design Communications: Distinction , 1987 – 1989
Lowestoft College, Graphics, photography, video, sound recording and theory.