I am an artist and occasional activist, veggie, lefty, gender-queer, tofu eater based in Brighton UK. I work mainly with photography and words – occasionally with casting. My focus is people set in the context of body and personal freedom, nakedness and taboos. I aim to challenge stereotypes, barriers to expression and support movements like free the nipple and Black Lives Matter. Not all of it is serious and not all of it has meaning.
Please do not use or share my work without my permission – thanks!
Ages explores age as a social construction and is a challenge to what and who we are expected to be at any particular age.
Human Nests – Human Nests a photo project started in 2014 – I explore how we are as naked humans in our environment – urban and rural.
Nipplestars – Nipplestars is a casting, photo and diary project about nipples – why they are great, what they mean to the people involved in the project and why those on some people’s bodies are blocked by social media sites.
Skin, Capture, Exposure – A photo project from focussing on two humans – so far.
Skin other photos, mainly of bodies and skin.
Cellar – images taken in my Cellar.
Studio works
Studies – Jan
Mucin Garden – a study in snails and humans
Pages to follow
Instagram and most other social media makes life difficult for artists who want to show humans as we are, or in different ways. It blocks our posts and continually threatens to close our accounts. Instagram is currently the main way that people have to promote their work – it only accepts censored/damaged images or blandness. And, more recently, its not even been great at that.
To counter that, I have added a list of links to some othert artists websites. If others do the same, perhaps it’ll become easier to discover artists without going via Instagram.
Deactivation Day – not active – deactivationday encouraged everyone (all of you) to deactivate Facebook and Instagram for 24 hours once a month. It was a small, people powered protest about their control of so much of how we are able to communicate and the agenda they impose over that communication – that being sexist controls over our bodies and not doing enough to challenge racism. Sadly it didn’t really ever get going – not enough people were into it.
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