( Artist Statement )

As a research-led artist, I delve deep into the realms of hybridity, rhythms, and psycho-geography in response to cultural and social migration, with a deep commitment to unravelling personal and collective histories. My practice exists at the intersections of sound, sculpture, installation and moving-image.

My current focus lies in sound, installation and collage as part of an expanded practice, utilising layered sound and imagery to delve into concepts of nationality, distribution, and ultimately, a sense of belonging. This exploration has led me to engage with topics such as philately, cultural heritage, and adapted audio-visual essays as means to transcend borders. I reflect on personal and collective histories that also enable me to pivot around my own origins of Welsh and Algerian descent; considering how positionality is in constant affect to how we relate to the past, see ourselves in the now and move forward from here. At present, my thoughts are influenced by the works of writers Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, and Assia Djebar. In the past, I have embarked on projects that involve retracing free speech movements, exploring survival tactics and rituals, as well as examining ways to navigate and occupy public spaces as strategies for subverting economic and environmental precarity.

Sonically, beginnings often emerge through techniques such as sampling, electronics, musique concrète, and analogue recordings. I employ layers of audio materials to create alternate possibilities, reclaim parallel histories, and reimagine the connections between. These processes are inspired by pioneering figures such as Nicolas Collins, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and Éliane Radigue.

Notable sonic presentations have taken place at events such a Caerleon Amphitheater with Artes Mundi, SAVVY Contemporary with Archives sites in Berlin; New Radicalisms, (A)WAKE in Rotterdam, Counterflows, Glasgow, Tate Lates at Tate Modern, Cafe OTO, REWIRE Festival, and the Glasgow Film Festival at Tramway for 'This is Now: Film and Video after Punk'. Additionally, I engage in an ongoing and ever-evolving collaborative work 'Re-Imagining In Conversation', alongside artist Shamica Ruddock, together we have undertaken a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Digital Solitude x Liquid Architecture working towards 'Re-Imagining In Conversation: A New Poetics', contributed texts towards Un-Projects, titled "Speculation is the Vehicle" and are residents from 2024 - 2026 at Wysing Art Center, Cambridge. We continue evolve through text, live performance and recorded mediums.

I am an autodidactic sound practitioner and hold a BA (Hons) in Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art and was a 2020-21 Artist Associate at Open School East.

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