Alga (Rogue Boulder 2), 2025-2026
The ‘Rogue Boulders’ are part of a wider research project with Red Bank on Morecambe Bay, where a seaweed colony has established itself after erosion of salt marsh, and mudflats revealed a rocky shore between 2021 and 2024.
‘Rogue boulders’ were moved into the intertidal zone to learn how species inhabit this new ecosystem. I photographed Alga on numerous visits over the course of a year.
I will continue to visit and document Alga’s experiences of change on Morecambe Bay.
Dear Kathleen, 2025
I wrote a letter to Kathleen Bell, after discovering her Study of the Seashore of Walney Island, dated 1929, in Barrow Archives. I was completely captivated by Kathleen’s careful, detailed study and the seaweed samples within it. I made several visits to Walney Island to reactivate or re-perform Kathleen’s study of the seashore. On my final visit, I read my letter to Kathleen to the sea. It was a powerful and emotional experience.
This audio/video experiment sources recordings from that day on Walney Island, and photographs of Kathleen Bell’s study of Walney shore.
Sediment, 2023 – 2024
‘Sediment’ is a ‘thinking on the ground’ about sediment transportation on Morecambe Bay. The video emerged at a time of rapid salt marsh and mudflat erosion near the River Keer estuary. It is open ended and unresolved, much like the environment itself. ‘Sediment’ is part of a wider practice that considers how the more-than-human Morecambe Bay can meaningfully inform human ways of being and doing in response to climate change.
Tiny Cliffs, 2022
A short experimental iPhone video that plays with scale on eroding mudflats.
Crossings, 2021
‘Crossings’ is a video about walking with the tides, marshes, and mudflats near my home on Morecambe Bay during the Covid-19 pandemic. The work considers aspects of time in relation to place, my relationship with the environment through walking, and mobile technology.
I shot the film on my iPhone because its portability allowed me to respond intuitively to events taking place in the moment. Recording on such a small mobile device felt quite intimate and, at times, the work started to shift tentatively towards performance.