I am an artist and Senior Lecturer on Contemporary Media Practice at the University of Westminster.

My 2005 Fellowship was a creative response to 19th-century child migration to Canada, undertaken during my artist's residency in the National Maritime Museum. I travelled on a container ship to Canada and filmed along the routes in eastern Canada taken by the 'home children'. This included key migration sites, Grosse Isle Quarantine Station, memorialising the Irish migrants who died fleeing the 1845-1849 famine, and Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia. This was the immigration station where my birth mother landed in 1952. The film was used in mixed media and glass installations exhibited in the National Maritime Museum in 2006. In 2016 the videos were shown at the V&A Museum of Childhood for On Their Own, Britain's Child Migrants. The final work, Mariners and Migrants in Search of Home, is a key part of my 2018 PhD by publication, Dis-locations and Broken Narratives. The Fellowship influenced later solo shows for Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Duff House, the National Gallery of Scotland, and site-specific work for Uppark House, National Trust, exploring liminal experiences of displacement and loss.