Work

Making

My technical work began with curiosity about what happens when you connect electronics to living things. Looper grew out of that — a VST and plant biosensor built around a 555 timer circuit and an Arduino, which converts a plant's bioelectrical signals into MIDI music in real time. The original build used an Arduino R3 but I upgraded to an R4 using the LED matrix for the menu.

From there came Gobbledeegook, an interactive gallery installation using a LiDAR sensor to let visitors navigate a video sequence with their body — the closer you stand, the deeper into the sequence you go.

Ghost Invaders is a different kind of project: a Python arcade game that combines Space Invaders with Pac-Man, built with Pygame.

Please Hold is a vintage GPO 746 telephone retrofitted for the gallery, ringing to attract visitors and playing audio pieces by fellow Emerge members when the handset is lifted. More detail on all of these is in the Portfolio section.

Artwork

I've illustrated two books. The Carpenter and The Goat Herder is a novella I also wrote, published in 2023. ADHD: A Modern Lexicon is a reference book by Merlin Goldman PhD, for which I provided a series of illustrations. My Amazon author page is here.

Porthleven Prize

In 2025 I was awarded the Porthleven Prize, given to a group of Bath Spa University students from across disciplines by the Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust. The prize included two retreats and two exhibitions — one in Porthleven, one at the University. My work centred on sound. Waverider uses environmental data from a smart buoy floating outside Porthleven Harbour to shape a live sound piece — sea temperature, wave period and other readings control the effects applied to loops of field recordings taken around the harbour. Hearing the Invisible is a sound walk around the harbour, inviting listeners to hear what would normally be missed. The field recordings also became a standalone piece, To the Sea and Back, which imagines a walk from the Harbourmaster's office to the end of the pier and back. More detail on all three is on the Porthleven Prize page.

Film

I've worked on around a dozen films, mostly shorts — writing, directing and filming several of them. As part of the collective DIY Films, we made four films together: One-Life Stand, Edmonds, Sotto Voce and Maybe. Count to Three, first shown in 2018, tells the story of two men in a room — with guns — and won awards at the Frome 5-Minute Festival, the Penny Cup and the Teign Cup. Marigolds was awarded four stars by BIAFF; Damaged won BIAFF's 2022 Denham Gold Cup. My most recent short, Tarn, was shot on an iPhone 12 over a few days and shown at Homegrown Shorts. As part of the Porthleven Prize residency I also made two rapid shorts: Stars, a music video cut together in a day, and Cold Scalp, a 30-second film edited by Emma Davies. More on the Film page.

Music

I make electronic music under the moniker fotol (pronounced phō-toll) — mostly Detroit techno-inspired, though I've been dipping into drum and bass, trap and techno too. My music is available on most digital platforms and on BandLab. Losing U is a recent track. I'm currently working on finishing an album.