A traumatic birth experience in 2016 renewed my interest in drawing. I drew the birth of my story to help process the events and someone suggested exhibiting the work.

When our son was 3 months old I put on an event called Birth Days at the Klondyke Club in Levenshulme; a live show and exhibition of the work, headlined by Norwegian singer-songwriter Ragnhild Ziegler of The Bee's Niece. The daytime show was packed with families, which sparked the idea for the Baby Rock Sampler project.

I kept drawing mum life whilst the baby slept and drew a following on Instagram. I produced a 2018 printed calendar, which sold out, and was asked to do a solo exhibition of work called Found Frames at the Inspire Centre in Levenshulme as part of Levy Fringe in 2019.

I also got paired with an poet to do an accompanying illustration for a publication edited by Holly McNish by Mum Poet Press in 2021.

I've been dabbling in digital illustration since then between other projects, and am showing a large print of Sofa Goblin digital illustration at the Manchester Open at HOME from June to September 2026.

Site specific work

I like making playful work the public can interact with. A couple of examples below:

Sofa Goblin

Made from objects around the house, this comical figure became the centre of attention at a club night in the futuristic playground of SUPERMASSIVE - a temporary exhibition of interactive works in Mayfield Depot, Manchester in 2025.

M19's RAREE SHOW

I was part of a collective called M19 and we did a couple of group exhibitions in Bankley Studios and Victoria Baths in Manchester called RAREE SHOW.

One of the earliest forms of visual media is the 'peepshow' or 'raree box'. Viewers would be invited to look within a small hole to view an image or display. These would often be backlit and employ perspective and other visual tricks in order to delight and amaze the viewer.

Each M19 artist took the box idea as a starting point. I built two large crate-sized boxes to house taxidermy like humanoid figures in natural history museum-like dioramas. The figures were posed like animals inside the boxes and strangely lit to be macabre. A lot of my older work was based on mortality and the natural world, partly inspired by experience of Irish wakes.