Work

Ongoing

Familiar Frictions

Photographs of routine situations that feel both familiar and foreign, and an enquiry into why they register (started 2026).

Visualisation for Adaptive Planning

Interactive visual analysis of temporal models of supply, demand, and deficit (started 2026).

Information Structure for Dynamic Workflows

Visual representations of complex processes, including loops, to support users’ mental model (started 2025).

2026

Collected Works

Private and institutional collections show collecting as a valuable cultural practice, and as a lens on the habits that drive consumer culture and environmental degradation.

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2025

Sediments

At a 150-year-old Cumbrian brickworks, brickmaking’s durable, recyclable product, its labour and its heritage are weighed against the coal burnt in the kiln and the land quarried for shale.

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2024

Intervention and Renewal

On an organic dairy farm in Cumbria, three generations show that farming can pay and still sustain biodiversity, through hedgerows, habitat creation, and pesticide-free stewardship of the waterways.

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2023

Work from Home

The rooms where screens and cables compete with domestic life show people adapting to working at home. Many find it liberating, but the casual surroundings also hint at how precarious employment has become.

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Dealing with the Damage

A research scientist and a bank employee who fled the Syrian Civil War now tend an organic garden behind their council house in Britain.

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Living with the Knowledge

A couple face early-onset Parkinson’s disease and a benefits system they find antagonistic, held together by the knowledge that the condition will worsen, and by mutual devotion.

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2022

Portrait of a Pigeon Racer

A racing pigeon released hundreds of kilometres from its loft flies straight back. For its Lancashire keeper, that improbable return reaffirms home as the place where aspiration is nurtured.

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Below Grit Fell

Scenes from farms below a lonely Lancashire fell illustrate the many ways people relate to the place that shapes their lives.

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2021

Boundary Condition

Fragments of life, marked by boundaries, show the private and the public crossing into each other.

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2020

Out of Place

These pictures were made on night runs, with no time to compose, through the aftermath of the Brexit referendum. They catch an unstable Britain, and the small freedom of running, which politics cannot take away.

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  • publicationOut of Place, Self-published, edition of 60, 2020

2017

Common Ground

People at a community centre with an uncertain future are set beside the defaced no-trespassing notices of newly fenced scrubland. Together they ask who has a claim on shared space, and who decides.

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Visualisation of Cell Behaviour

Cell lineages are studied to understand how cells differentiate and how anticancer drugs act, but they are too intricate to read. Summarising many at once, with their variation from the average, makes them readable. A Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Leeds supported the work, done with biologists at Cardiff University School of Medicine.

2016

Unhome

Being an immigrant shapes how experience is perceived, so that situations often feel both familiar and foreign.

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  • publicationUnhome, Fast Foot Press, Lancaster, 2016

2015

Visualisation of Parameter Space

What an image analysis algorithm finds depends on its settings, and showing how the output responds to them lets an expert choose the settings with understanding. The research was done at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

2014

Visualisation of Multivariate Networks

Most graph visualisation shows only how things connect, but clustering nodes and edges by the data they carry lets an analyst see which node attributes switch on which kinds of connection. The approach is an offshoot of doctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology.

2009

Visualisation of Transition Systems

Clustering a system’s states by their attributes gives insight into its behaviour, even when the graph of states and transitions exceeds 50,000 nodes, as it does for an industrial wafer stepper. It was the focus of doctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology.

2005

Visualisation of Ontologies

An ontology base, a set of binary fact types, is too large to read as text, but ordering and clustering it in a visual overview reveals structure that the text hides. It came out of MSc research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.