About

I’m a multi-form artist, award-winning filmmaker who grew up in the ex-coalmining community of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.

My work is rooted in the landscape and lived experience of the people and place I come from. Poetic, polemic and evocative, my work challenges notions of working-class life, identity, hopes and dreams. 

My first documentary, THIS CHARMING MAN (BFI / Channel 4) is about my ex-coalmining father turned inventor of the horse jacuzzi. Moving into drama, I have made short films for BFI, Film4, Creative England, Channel 4, Screen Yorkshire and the Arts Council of England. Premiering and winning awards at International Film Festivals around the world, Toronto, Busan, Berlin, London, Aesthetica and Hamburg. Winning Grand Prize at the Oscar Qualifying Rhodes Island amongst others.

An allumni of I-Shorts and I-Features (Creative England, BFI and BBC Films), Guiding Lights mentoring scheme and Birds Eye View / BFI / Screenskills Filmonomics Programme. 

My work has been commissioned by the Arts Council of England, the National Review of Live Art and the National Coal Mining Museum for England. Exhibiting nationally at the New Walsall Art Gallery, Nottingham Gallery, Site Gallery & CCA Glasgow.

I received an Hi3 Innovation Award to research & develop an immersive experience with emerging technologies and working on a slate of projects across dance theatre, site-specific installation, documentary, film and TV.