(2018 - 2020) Creative Arts Practice MA, Newcastle University, Newcastle (UK)

Areas of Focus: Live electronic performance, experimental music composition, digital art

(2013 - 2017) Fine Art BA Hons, Newcastle University, Newcastle (UK)

Erasmus exchange programme, Det Jyske Kunstakademi, Aarhus (DK)

Foundation in Art and Design, Chesterfield College, Chesterfield (UK)

Borneo Bengkel Creative Exchange Programme, Online (2021)

Sage Gateshead Artist in Residence, Gateshead (2020-2021)

AIR for European Capital of Culture programme, Godsbanen, Aarhus, DK (2017)

Galleri Andromeda, Gellerup, DK (2017)

AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp, BE (2016)

2023

Voice & electronics performance, Sonic Encounters, Sonic Arts Week, Middlesbrough

Solo tour support for Richard Dawson including sold out show at The Barbican, London*

Solo tour support for Pigsx7, UK*

Headline full band tour including sold out performance at Café Oto, London*

2022

Live performance & radio broadcast, Soloist (voice) with Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC Proms at Sage, Gateshead

Live solo performance & radio broadcast, BBC Radio 3 ‘New Music Show’, The Fire Station, Sunderland*

Live solo performance & radio broadcast, BBC Radio 3 ‘After Dark’ Festival, Sage, Gateshead*

2021

Interactive audio installation/sound walk, Sonic Arts Week, Various Locations, Middlesbrough

Audio piece recorded & broadcast, Walking Festival of Sound, Edinburgh, Krakow, Online

2020

Interactive web-based AV piece ‘The Walled Garden’, CAP MA Degree show, Online

Audio/light installation, Shifting Sands Festival, The Market Vaults, Scarborough

2019

Audio/light installation, The Late Shows, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle

Voice & electronics performance/video installation, Culture Lab Ballroom, Newcastle

2018

Voice & electronics performance, Performance Venture, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

Solo exhibition and workshop programme ‘What These Lungs are For’: print installation, live electronic performance, Ground Gallery, Hull

Voice & electronics performance, EC1 24H, Lokale, Copenhagen, DK

Audio installation, I Heard You Say - Listening Programme, Forderverein Aktuelle Kunst, Munster, DE

2017

Voice & electronics performance, Papaya Press publication launch, TESTT Space, Durham

Vocal performance & sound walk, Urban Substitution, Ceresbyen1a for European Capital of Culture 2017, Aarhus, DK

Audio & print installation, Children of Tomorrow, Galleri Andromeda, Gellerup, DK

2016

Solo exhibition ‘A hand in wet concrete, a foot in the sea, and all things between are between you and me’: AV & sculptural installation, AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp, BE

Vocal performance & print installation, Art Weekend Aarhus, Splab, Aarhus, DK

*as Me Lost Me: experimental songwriting/folk/electronic music project (2017-present)

Selected Sound Design, Soundtrack & Composition Commissions

2023

‘Three Acts of Love’: Live performance of original music composition & sound design for three experimental plays, Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne

‘On and Off’: Song composition based on local heritage research, No More Nowt & Auxiliary Gallery

‘Father Unknown’: Electronic composition & sound design for theatre performance at Northern Stage & Gala Theatre Durham, North East Young Dads & Lads with Newcastle University

‘Skybound’: Multi-channel sound installation for immersive theatre in SEND schools, Timbadash Theatre & Hadrian School

2022

‘Joe Quinn’s Poltergeist’: semi-improvised live electronic performance alongside theatrical reading, Live Theatre

‘New Model Island’: semi-improvised live electronic performance alongside theatrical reading, performed at Make Hope Possible Festival, Live Theatre

2021

‘Grubbins Wood’: Electronic composition & sound design for immersive theatre in SEND primary schools, Timbadash Theatre & Hadrian School

‘Connections’: Song composition based on local heritage site, VODA & North Shields Heritage Action Zone

‘Augmented Reality’: Electronic composition, Monkfish Productions

2020

‘People are Scared’: soundtrack composition for film by Rosa Postelthwaite, New Creatives & Tyneside Cinema

‘New Narratives for the North East’: ident, composition & sound design for podcast series, New Writing North & Sonderbug Productions

2019

‘The Waves like Braids, Unravelling’: Electronic composition based on archival research, Women Artists of the North East Library

• Newcastle University Associate Artist - Studio Practice II Module Tutor (Fine Art Undergraduate), Sound Art Specialist

• Introduction to Graphic Scores - North East Wellbeing & Live Tales

• Field Recording, vocal improvisation & graphic scores at 4Eden & Langwathby Primary School – Fell Foot Forward, Wild Museum & North Pennines AONB

• Field Recording, sampling & electronic composition: Making Tracks & Sage Gateshead

• Techniques for generating composition and lyric prompts – Sunderland Young Musicians Programme & We Make Culture

• Sound Design and Storytelling with The Loathsome Worm - Washington Arts Centre, Bright Lights Youth Arts Festival & Sunderland Culture

• Using creative arts to connecting researchers and cancer patients – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

• Music, Storytelling & Stop Motion Animation - Better Days & Creative Spaces CIC

• Experimental ambient composition and improvisation – Autism Able, Sound and Music & Sunderland Culture

• Interdisciplinary artist career talk and demonstration – Media Department, New College Durham

• Live electronic performance techniques – Ladies & Decks Social, Cobalt Studios CIC

• Visiting Artist Lecture & 1-to-1 tutorials – Fine Art Department, Newcastle University

• Experimental songwriting, idea generation workshops & 1-to-1 mentoring sessions – Turn Up The Quiet, Brighter Sound & Sage Gateshead

Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers 2021

Help Musicians UK: Do it Differently Fund 2021

Arts Council England: Developing Your Creative Practice Fund 2021

Help Musicians UK: Transmission Fund 2019

Recent Press:

• Praise for latest album, RPG (2023):

• “It is a celebration of the essentially human playfulness of gaming, storytelling and songs” - The Quietus

• "Folk culture loops forwards and backwards, scooping up technologies and stories along the way, like a tabletop game with no closure, an endless roll of the dice." - The Wire

• “Incomprehensible/irresistible” ☆☆☆☆ Folk album of the month & #4th Folk Album of the Year

Praise for music & sound design for ‘Three Acts of Love’ (2023):

• “An excellent live score” – The Guardian

• “Powerfully written stories… elegantly linked by a live score” – The Stage