The Ghost of Christmas Future, Part of Colchester City Christmas Trail, funded by Essex Arts & Culture fund 2022.
Part of LEAF opening exhibition 2022
Dolphin Derby 2025.
My practice is rooted in connecting people with the realities of climate change through creative engagement with our shared environments. Oceans, rivers, wetlands and the fragile ecologies that surround them. For over three decades, my work has combined environmental education, community participation and a quietly persistent form of activism.
I began organising beach clean-up/art events in 1994 while living in Hong Kong, and that early experience of collective action continues to shape my approach today. Whether working with coastal communities, young people or public audiences, I use my practice as a way to make environmental issues tangible, emotionally resonant and locally relevant.
My recent research into sustainable materials forms part of a wider commitment to reducing environmental harm within my own practice and modelling positive change for others. This sits alongside my broader focus on climate impacts, from pollution and biodiversity loss to extreme weather, coastal erosion and the social inequalities that environmental degradation exposes.
Despite the urgency of the themes I explore, my work remains grounded in hope. I am interested in how creativity can help people imagine better futures, strengthen their connection to place and feel empowered to act, even when the subject matter is dark. Through storytelling, participatory projects and visual experimentation, I aim to create work that is both honest about the challenges we face and optimistic about our collective capacity to respond.
2026
WASTE. Jaywick Martello Tower. A series of work exploring consumerism and waste, made from beach found materials and other waste
Second Hand. The Nose Artspace, Walton-on-the-Naze. Group exhibition exploring repurposing used materials to create work with a new life.
2025
Dolphin Derby. A take on the original donkey derby, but with costumes of sea creatures made from recycled materials. Held at the end of the summer in Walton on the Naze.
Eco Youth Exhibition. At Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre, Jaywick Martello Tower and The Nose Artspace, multiple site exhibition funded by Essex County Councils Arts and Culture Fund
Eco Youth Station Art. Permanent and semi-permanent displays of work from the Eco Youth project displayed at railway stations across North Essex including Harwich, Dovercourt, Manningtree and Wivenhoe.
Sculpture and street art Mapping. Walks and workshops funded by Colchester City Council
2024
Birdwords. Solo exhibition, Level Best gallery. June 2024.
Whalewords. Solo exhibition, Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre. June/July 2024
Eco Youth Project. A wellbeing and environment project for young people living in an area of financial deprivation and those with learning disabilities. Exploring eco entrepreneurship and employability. Funded by Essex County Councils arts and Culture Fund July 2024 - April 2025
Mapping the Colne walks. Funded by Colchester City Councils Culture and Creative Events Fund
2023
Essex Birds. Jaywick Martello Tower. Organising and curating an exhibition with female Essex artists representations of Essex birdlife.
Our Colchester. A series of art workshops held at Futures in Mind with exhibition at the Minories Artspace Colchester, funded by Colchester City Council’s Cultural and Events Fund.
Marine Residency. Gozo, Malta. Exploring coastal erosion and seagrass regeneration in the mediterranean.
Connecting Shoals. Art Exchange, University of Essex. Colchester. Group exhibition connecting the marine environment and coastal communities.
Seaside Blues. The Nose, Walton-on-the-Naze. Exhibition and residency as part of a programme of films, Talks and readings
2022
LEAF. Group exhibition in Colchester City Centre to celebrate the opening of the centre
The Christmas Carol Experience. Colchester City Centre Christmas trail. Part of a group exhibition window trail based on the Christmas Carol story by Dickens
FLOOD. Clacton-on-Sea. A series of workshops working with vulnerable adults in Clacton, exploring coastal erosion, flooding and climate change through art, craft and performance.
COAST. Old Grocery, Wivenhoe. Solo exhibition, Exploring our relationship with the oceans and our coast
Dear 2050: Oceans on the rise. Kammgarn Zurich. Part of a group exhibition. Recipient of Climate award for lifetime achievement in environmentalism.
2021
Dear 2050: Oceans on the Rise. Kunsthaus, Zurich. Part of a group guest exhibition . ‘Dead Seas Scroll - How long is long enough’ First Prize winner.
Fishwife. Project exploring working women in the historic fishing industry of the East Coast of England funded by Firstsite Collectors group.
Velorose Gallery. Charterhouse Square. London. Group exhibition
Mapping the Coast.Solo exhibition at Jaywick Martello Tower
Mapping the Coast. Hay Gallery, Colchester
2020
Artist in Residence. Brightlingsea Museum.
2019
Microplastics.Gallery 142, Felixstowe. Group exhibition. Film showing of ‘Jeff the Whale - He died for our sins’.
Beyond Plastics. The Minories, Colchester. Part of a group exhibition exploring marine plastic waste.
2018
Plastic Oceans. Christine Storey Gallery, Brightlingsea. Solo exhibition including ‘Jeff the Whale’.