2008-2011 Ruskin Hall, Birmingham City University
BA (Hons) Art and Design
2006-2008 Ruskin Hall, Bournville School of Fine Arts
Foundation Art & Design
2005-2005 Solihull College
Introduction to Photography
My interest in art started from an early age within drawing and sketches, ‘’for me school education was a pain and difficult to grasp’’ therefore I found my strengths in producing art. leaving school, I discovered an interest to travel how to capture cityscapes and architecture in Florence, therefore I enrolled on an Introduction course into photography a three week course, with a new passion for photography, and a thirst for knowledge I attended higher education to study visual arts that shaped my understanding and concepts of capturing society’’ within their environments of everyday lives, storytelling’’ through documentary and street photography though painting that gave me a way to communicate visually,
A few to mention Influences of my work in documentary photography
Martin Parr,
Chris Coekin,
worked within the genre of documentary. personal and subjective it was very much in a traditional photojournalistic subject recording the superficialities of the working men’s club – bingo, drinking. an alternative way to use a visual language.
Liz Hingley,
her a unique perspective on the city’s diversity Hingley is an independent photographer working on long-term projects that explore sensitive social issues such as migration, home and contemporary urban ritual, through the depiction of everyday lives.
Body of work'' a series of Documentaries of street photography
On The 11c Bus Route, 2010
A six-month documentary on the longest bus route in Birmingham, taking A full circuit that can take up to three hours to complete, with the service carrying 50,000 passengers each day, the idea of bringing better links to the suburbs of Birmingham, for me growing up in Brum and a familiar setting of traveling around on the number 11 bus over the years; as an adult I wanted to capture an environment in use of everyday lives.
Broad street, 2010
Show’s a peek insight of an environment’’
most visited that celebrates a variety of arts, music and community events, a growing popular destination for all classes cultural age and gender a melting pot for diversity’’ by capturing this area of my hometown of Birmingham is to show a ray of communities coming together to destress and have fun’’ an environment to dance and be entertained an area built for all diversities.
Title: The Bullring Market Birmingham, 2010
One of my childhood memories of growing up in Birmingham in the 70s was visiting the bullring markets, without fail my mother and siblings would go on a Saturday for meat veg or fish, to have a look around the clothes and shoes stalls, ‘’then before leaving we'd stop for a cup of tea in the café before heading home.
Having spent hours in one environment with so much to choose from and the generation of stall owners to stop and talk to, you could end up spending a whole day there,
though the exterior of the markets has changed over the centuries and has grown, keeping up with popular demand of produce The bullring Market has a long-standing community with revisiting customers and stall owners, and so I wanted to capture an environment of everyday lives, new and an old generation running the stalls and visitors to the market, and a environment that’s been going since the year 1154.
Title: Herne Bay in Kent, 2011 / 14
Finishing my university studies in 2011, I moved to Herne Bay in Kent, documenting and photographing my surroundings’’ that captured a way of life of the people who lived and worked there, in a seaside town the quiet life of a community without tourists the none busy shops still open for business waiting on customers to arrive through the long winters.
Different series from a body of work based around flowers grown from my garden
Title: Rebuild of a Garden, 2014 / 20
Settling back in my hometown of Birmingham in 2014 ‘’a new project would steer me from street photography’’ as an occupant to a garden, my attempts to transform this wasteland back into a garden space, ‘’nature had inspired me to create a peaceful space, in a urban environment inside the hustle and bustle of a busy city, to document nature and the change of seasons, how a setting can change the mindset to a place of relaxed feelings and a sense of wellbeing.
Title: Self Portraits, 2020 /21
On reflection and adapting to change, circumstances through life have created new subjects to explore. Previously capturing seaside towns, cities and villages across the Uk ‘I choses to self-project’’ to capture my own life, how I coped in isolation through a pandemic, exploring self-portraits at a time of uncertainty in a studio setting.
Painting series 2021 / 26
Cornwall on Canvas, 2021 / 25
For a quiet and slower pace of life’’ I moved to Cornwall escaping the hustle and bustle of my hometown of Birmingham, inspired by the naturel wonders of the Cornish coastlines its historic architecture, using paints and brushes to depict images onto canvases. Through life situations ‘’creativity and a connection with nature are essential’’ a place to go for that sense of wellbeing and clarity of one's mind.