I am a UK-based visual artist and writer, developing national and international site-specific and public realm projects. My artistic concerns are influenced by the scope and significance of common experiences. I am interested in the relationships between people and place and what is hidden, obscured or unspoken in various social situations. I use these elements as a means to try and substantiate myriad lived experiences.

During my Fellowship I researched social art and learning projects in the USA and the Netherlands focused on creativity and emotion. I wanted to document the commonalities of these projects to understand what made them exemplary. As a result, I am now a London Arts & Humanities Partnership funded PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, London, researching ways in which making can mitigate cognitive dissonance. I am looking closely at how materials and creative processes can generate alternative ways to describe emotions. I am hoping to develop a new material or method (or both) that can be used in behavioural science.

If it wasn't for my amazing Fellowship opportunity, I would not have had the confidence to do a PhD; the experiences during my trip formed my initial question.