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The way in which the body is positioned in the landscape is affective and of the moment and my video practice documents presence in the open-ended landscape to establish a location. While, my practice can be thought of as a process of radical documentary, in that it doesn’t usually include any narrative, my images are investigative of the traditions of landscape works in order to re-imagine the ‘establishing shot’. I draw on structural film and materialism in film to acknowledge the sense of instability I find in the material landscape and to open a space between the images and the viewer. While this may seem abstract, it is a way of working that affords the viewer their subjective position and this is supportive of being mindful that our choices are impactful. I feel this is very relevant to local and international communities, in this time of climate anxiety, and in view of the new experimental advances in technology.

Currently I move between northern Ontario, Canada, and London, England. My formative years were spent studying science and then painting in Toronto and London and my artistic project has naturally inclined to materiality and presence and the function of artworks in the online space. I recently completed a PhD in the School for Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art, with a thesis progressing from my analysis of Joyce Wieland, Robert Smithson, and Sophie Calle’s experimental film practices. My installation, ‘the sky is taught by falling’, was screened during the RCA Research Biennale, Hangar Space, Battersea Campus in 2025. As a founding editor and issue editor of itinerant-space.co.uk, at RCA from 2020 and issue editor (2021-2024) I worked towards developing a platform supportive of practice-based research. itinerant space is a journal publishing PhD research in the form of moving and still images, sound works and writing. 

Exhibitions in 2025 also included: ‘Making Space’ event for Osman Yousefzada’s exhibition at Cooke Latham Gallery in May, screened my video installation ‘green as grass’ (2025) and Lingering a closing event for ‘She Paints Still’ at Tiderip Gallery in October, screened my installation ‘stick’ (2025). My still photographs were included in invitational exhibitions at Fitzrovia Gallery, curated and supported by the London Art Collective in October, and then at Espacio Gallery in November. My creative writing was included in Bleet! zine and an artist book by Wild Parlour which was instigated by a discussion on moving image practice. Both were at GLUE, Publishers Fair at ICA in Sept 2025. 

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PhD, School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art.

PhD thesis titled Inside here: dispersal as a strategy in landscape-based critical-documentarist art practice

I would like to express my appreciation to my supervisory team: Nicky Hamlyn and Jonathan Miles, and I’m extremely grateful to Dr.Teal Triggs for her support with this research and with the development of itinerant space journal. I am also indebted to Dr. Johnny Golding, Dr. Rachel Garfield, and Dr. Hala Mansour for their time and attention during the final stages of this research and to examiners: Dr. Esther Leslie and Dr. Simon Payne for their knowledge and expertise. And finally, special thanks to all those at RCA and elsewhere, who generously supported my research journey with their patience and feedback.

University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

I emailed a letter to Margaret Atwood’s office this summer and I was thrilled to receive their response. My letter will be included in the archive of Margaret Atwood Papers at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, this way linking my research to the archive on her work

itinerant space research journal

In order to disseminate my practice-based research in the context of academic publishing, research, and the online dimension, in harmony with my research at RCA, I worked towards developing an online academic journal supportive of research practice. I am a founding editor on a team that is continuing to develop an online academic research journal, itinerant space. Issue 2: iterations was published in July 2024. For me this journal both exemplifies and publishes practice-based research.

Find out more ➡️ itinerant-space.co.uk

We welcome expressions of interest from research students, from all the Schools at RCA, who are interested in helping with peer review. Contact the editors

itinerant space: a journal of art, design and communication research practices is an experimental online platform for doctoral researchers. Issue 2 builds on the learning of the pilot issue to iteratively develop an expanded network of the RCA’s wider doctoral research community, and to stretch beyond the academy. As an experimental platfom, the journal offers a unique opportunity to inform interdisciplinary conversations and modes of research dissemination. Issue 3 was published in summer 2025 and can be found at ininerant-space.co.uk.

Founding editors: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kirsty Smith. Editors, Issue 2: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kam Rehal

Find out more ➡️ itinerant-space.co.uk

itinerant space, Issue 2, was published July 2024, during RCA’s DTP week.

The co-editors of itinerant space launched an Open Call for Issue 2, during the RCA PhD Research Biennale 2023 at The Copeland Gallery in June. The call was open to PhD students in all the school at RCA, at all stages of the PhD journey. As a founding editor of this journal, I am looking forward to the new ideas each iteration will bring.

Click this link to view itinerant space, Issue 1: pilot. Our guide to submitting can be found here. Open Call for submissions can be found here.