Having spent the first decade of my working life in the world of the theatre, I then spent many years as a visual artist specialising in portraiture, and also as a blues musician, before returning to education as a mature student. In 2005 I graduated from Keele University with a first class honours degree in Music and Music Technology which was followed in 2006 with an MRes in Humanities, during which I specialised in audiovisual composition. I am currently undertaking a PhD in composition, again at Keele, for which I am funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

 

Working primarily with video, combining three-dimensional, electroacoustic soundtracks with cinematic narratives, I think of my works very much as moving paintings. I like to deconstruct the world around me and then using imagery, both sonic and visual, I reassemble it in a way that pleases me creatively. In a way, I suppose the process is similar to that of a poet or a writer of short stories.

 

My subject matter frequently reflects the changing face of my surroundings. In fact someone recently suggested that my work is actually about being middle aged and I suppose in many ways they are right. However, as I am middle aged, and I view the world through middle aged eyes that see things very differently than they did when I was younger, I reserve the right to an often cynical view of a world that changes constantly, whether I like it or not.