About

Statement

While my work pushes the boundaries of traditional forms of narrative practice, it is communicative in the narrative sense in that it expresses a process of moving through a landscape. The thinking is on the landscape as ‘confrontational’, a term that seeks a definition. For me there is a dissonance in this phrase that I am exploring. Confrontational landscapes are denoted to be contested spaces, however, the term ‘confrontational’ can be used to describe the action of speaking as an equal. My practice aims to redeem this attribute as a way to acknowledge materiality and presence, and more generally, those that inhabit the landscape, including those that were present in the past. While I work within the traditions and parameters of experimental, documentary and structural film, and the three landscape genres, my practice can be thought of as a process of radical documentary. My videos communicate the linear progression of a walk for example, as it is in actuality, a non-linear experience, to describe our material world through a presentation of ‘confrontational’ landscape(s) using image, text and sound, to acknowledge the multiplicitous and open-ended nature of our blended world(s).

Bio

Currently I move between the forest of Ontario, and London, England. Exhibitions in 2025 include the ‘Making Space’ event for Osman Yousefzada’s exhibition at Cooke Latham Gallery, which screened my video installation ‘green as grass’ (2025); ’Lingering’ a closing event for ‘She Paints Still’ at Tiderip Gallery screened my installation ‘stick’ (2025); RCA Research Biennale 2025 included my video installation,’the sky is taught by falling’ (2024). Two b-w 35mm photographs from this series ‘the sky is taught by falling’ are included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2026. An earlier video installation work from this series was shown at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, in 2023. These works describe our confrontational landscape(s) through a critical engagement with communication in the public space.

Other exhibitions in London in 2025 include: a co-edited artists book with The Wild Parlour, at GLUE publishers fair at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, and as a contributor to Bleet! zine; (also at ICA); ‘Noctilucent’ at Espacio Gallery, and ’Nostalgia and Selfhood Becoming’ at Fitzrovia Gallery, sponsored and supported by London Art Collective, two invitational exhibitions that showcased my large-scale medium format photographs from ‘the sky is taught by falling’ series of video and b-w still photographic works.

In 2025 I successfully completed a practice-based PhD in the School of Art and Humanities, Royal College of Art, with a thesis progressing from my analysis of Joyce Wieland, Robert Smithson, and Sophie Calle’s experimental practices. I have enjoyed bringing ideas from my research to the material, urban landscape of London and elsewhere. As an example, in March 2026 I led a discussion for the RCA research group, ‘Walkative Project’, from Canada Water to Bermondsey Beach, drawing on Robert Smithson’s writing on the picturesque landscape, a notion in philosophy, and considering the role of imperfection in the survival of first growth trees in the Canadian forests. In May I co-lead a workshop at the Florence Trust Writers’ Room on ‘Scripting the Image’ to facilitate a discussion in my network, and challenge my practice.

In 2024 I guest-curated and co-edited a call for The Society for Animation Studies blog, Animation2.0 which promotes academic writing in the field. The theme for this call, Implying the Surface in Animation, presents the spatial environment as grounded, without representing it as ‘the ground’. This was instigated by the discussion during the animation conference at Ars Electronica, in 2023, where an earlier version of my installation, ‘the sky is taught by falling’ was shown. Also in 2024 a collaborative video, ‘silent disco’, was screened during ‘Exhibition in the Forest’, in Epping Forest, and my work was included in ‘mutterings, mutterings, mutterings’ an artist book launched at Pekham 24.

As a founding editor, and issue editor from 2020 to 2024, of itinerant-space.co.uk, an academic journal for PhD research at RCA, I worked towards developing a platform supportive of art and design practice. itinerant space journal publishes research in the form of moving and still images, sound works and writing and, to this end, screens my videos ‘vault’ (2019) in issue 1, and ‘home is where the heart is’ (2024) in issue 2.

In my earlier education, I graduated from Ontario College of Art (OCADU) in 1983 and participated in the Florence programme, studying in Italy 1983-84. I was awarded a Higher Diploma from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1988. On graduation I started as a gallery artist at Creaser Gallery on Portobello Road, exhibiting my work in London and elsewhere. My work was later held at at the Mercury Gallery and at the Eagle Gallery, Emma Hill Fine Art, London for many years and is in collections including PriceWaterhouseCooper, the Strang Collection at UCL, and the British Museum.

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

PhD thesis:

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.

2025 UKCGE Conference at RCA

itinerant space research journal

itinerant space: Issue 2
Launched at Royal College of Art in July 2024

Below from the School of Communication newsletter at RCA:

The editorial team of “itinerant space” facilitated a workshop as part of UKCGE 9th International Conference on Professional & Practice Based Doctorates, held at the RCA on 7/8 April 2025. The workshop explored ways in which conventional approaches to academic research publishing might be modified and made more inclusive through communication practices. Keywords became catalysts for establishing connections and conversations between researchers from a wide range of disciplinary practices. Together, participants constructed a three-dimensional research network model.

Workshop: Reimagining practice-led publishing in a protected space

The interactive workshop built upon the learning experiences of doctoral students and staff in the School of Communication, RCA, who in 2021 launched itinerant space : an online journal of art, design and communication research practices. Now in its third iteration, the journal continues to move toward a collective understanding of the multiple ways in which doctoral level ‘research-in-progress’ might be critically explored, tested, and disseminated in a way that is new.

Editorial Team: Nick Bell, KM Bosy, Kam Rehal, Teal Triggs.

Founding editors: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kirsty Smith.

Editor in Chief: Professor Teal Triggs
Issue editors:
Issue 1: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy
Issue 2: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kam Rehal.

Issue 3 is available now. https://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.

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

Find out more ➡️ itinerant-space.co.uk

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.