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Poster to celebrate International Women’s Day for the National Maritime Museum.

Collaborative collage mosaic made with young people from John Chilton SEND school

From January to March 2020 I was as an artist in residence at John Chilton, an SEND school in Ealing, commissioned by the House of Illustration. I worked with students across the school from reception to sixth form, in the pathway with the most complex needs. During this residency I developed a range of accessible sensory workshops, adaptable to different age groups and abilities. We explored texture, line, colour and movement through sensory play, large scale drawing, plasticine modelling, collage, kinetic sculptures and lots of dancing. I put this work together, including a soundtrack composed especially by the students, into an animated portrait of the school

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In collaboration with Project Indigo we created "If it's not a hell yes, it's a conversation" a film about consent for and by LGBTQ+ youth. Galop funded us to make this project, as many of the resources currently available centre heterosexual relationships and don’t acknowledge genders outside of the binary. Alongside the group's youth worker, I facilitated a series of workshops for the young people to research, storyboard, design and shoot this short stop motion animation.

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Charcoal animation of foetus developing, for a comission that never happened

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Out against abuse was a short charcoal animation comission for Galop about domestic abuse in LGBTQ+ relationships.

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Trailer for my graduation film Eyes. This short animation explores the experience of moving through the world as a gender non-conforming person: particularly the tension between our fierce desire to be seen for who we really are, and an equally strong need for safety. Both are crucial to our survival as trans people, and yet they are often at odds: forcing us to choose. I wanted ‘Eyes’ to show how trans people are looked at but not seen, simultaneously hyper-visible and invisible; and to reflect the viewers’ gaze back on themselves and the violence of the rigidly gendered world they inhabit.‍

The film has been shown at festivals around the world including Scotland Queer Animation Festival, Leeds Queer Festival, Fringe! Queer Arts and Film Festival London, Bristol Palace Festival, San Francisco Frameline Festival, Paris International Animation Festival, Trans Pride Brighton Film Festival.

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