I used to paint, now I also do this.

recently I was asked to identify 50 things that inspired me. What initially seemed like a simple exercise became a turning point in my artistic practice.

Looking back over my choices, I began to recognise connections between interests that I had previously considered unrelated. Sound, science, technology, light, reflections, echoes and memory and appeared repeatedly. It made me question not only what I was interested in, but how I wanted to communicate those interests through my work.

Until that point, painting had been my primary means of expression. But reflecting on those 50 things encouraged me to look beyond the canvas and explore new ways of making art.

I began experimenting with obsolete technologies, dismantling and repurposing their components into sculptural forms. At the same time, I started developing my own software, translating scientific data and invisible natural phenomena into interactive audiovisual experiences.

These experiments have evolved into what I think of as impossible machines: sculptural installations that combine dying technologies with contemporary digital processes, bringing together the physical and the virtual.

My work now sits somewhere between sculpture, scientific experiment and audiovisual installation. It explores the relationship between memory, presence, materiality and transmission, often using light, sound and data to make the unseen visible.

Painting hasn't disappeared from my practice. Instead, my understanding of what constitutes a canvas, and what I can do with it, has changed.

What began as an exercise in identifying inspiration became an opportunity to reconsider how I see the world and, more importantly, how I might share that curiosity with others.

Impossible Machines

Impossible Machine 1

Temporal Flux (2026)

Audio-Visual Installation | Real-Time Data | Light & Sculpture

Temporal Flux explores the relationship between light, time and unseen natural forces, translating live solar activity data into an evolving audio-visual installation.

Drawing on real-time space weather data, the work transforms invisible solar events into shifting patterns of light, projected onto a sculptural form. The installation reveals processes occurring far beyond our immediate perception, connecting the viewer to cosmic events through a physical experience of light and sound.

Underpinning the work is an interest in the persistence of physical matter and the traces left by interactions. By combining digital data with analogue sculptural elements, Temporal Flux considers the relationship between the transient nature of digital information and the enduring physical presence of energy and matter.

The work invites reflection on our relationship with the wider universe, making distant, invisible phenomena momentarily visible within the exhibition space.

Exhibited:

Canned, Analogue Soup, Northern Monk Refectory, Manchester, April 2026.

All Saints Park, Manchester, October 2026.

Temporal Flux (All saints Park Manchester 2026)

Temporal Flux (All saints Park Manchester 2026)

Community Projects

Tulips of Ashton (2026)

Tulips of Ashton is a public art initiative developed in partnership with Tameside Council, bringing together artists, educational institutions and local communities to create a vibrant sculpture trail throughout Ashton-under-Lyne.

As part of the project, I designed and delivered creative workshops with young people aged 16–19 from the Aspirations SEND programme at Tameside College. Exploring colour, geometry and artistic expression, participants created mosaic designs inspired by artists including Nnena Kalu and Antoni Gaudí, contributing to the Unity Tulip, installed outside Clarendon College.

The project celebrated inclusion, collaboration and community engagement, giving young people the opportunity to contribute to a public artwork while bringing creativity into everyday spaces. The cohort's wider achievements were subsequently recognised with a Greater Manchester Skills Award.

Unity (Clarendon College Ashton Under Lyne 2026)

Made You Look (2024)

Made You Look was a community arts project at Chadwick Dam, bringing together young people, artists and the local community to explore creativity, collaboration and the transformation of public spaces.

As part of the project, I designed and delivered a series of creative workshops with young people from the Aspirations SEND programme at Tameside College. Through photography, drawing, collage, mosaic and LEGO, participants explored different approaches to artistic expression, developing ideas that contributed to a large-scale mural on a shipping container at Chadwick Dam.

The project celebrated inclusion, creativity and community ownership, providing young people with the opportunity to develop new skills and contribute to a lasting public artwork, transforming an everyday space into a place of shared creativity.

Made You Look (Chadwick Dam Ashton - Under - Lyne 2024)

I used to paint, now I also do this.

What began as an exercise in identifying inspiration became an opportunity to reconsider how I see the world and, more importantly, how I might share that curiosity with others.