Galleries, museums, councils, universities, heritage bodies, funders
Immersive portraits that bring people in, and keep them there.
You’re being asked to do a lot at once.
What you’re being asked to do
Bring in people who don’t usually visit. Take on identity, heritage or loss without flattening them. Show your funders it worked. Keep the trust of the people whose stories are on your walls.
That’s the work I do.
I make portrait-led exhibitions and public programmes with the people they’re about, so visitors recognise someone first and understand more the longer they stay.
Every piece works in full if nobody scans a thing. For those who do, the photograph becomes a doorway into the sitter’s own voice.
Some recent major work
All the workAR portraitIt comes alive when a phone is held up to it. Open a project to see its portraits move and hear the people in them.
AR portraitFerens Art Gallery, 2025
HAIR: Identity in the Afroworld
The gallery and its community curators commissioned ten portraits of people from Hull’s Black and mixed heritage communities. Hold up a phone and each sitter tells their own hair story.
37,798 visitors
- BBC Radio Humberside
- BBC Look North
- Hull Daily Mail
AR portraitPrinces Quay, 2024
The Post-Pandemic Exhibition
Five business owners and community leaders on what the pandemic took and what they built. I put it in a shopping centre, where people walked in with their shopping and heard someone from their own city tell them how they got through.
Open the project
2026
From Still to Seen
A photobook of fourteen creatives, and an R&D project backed by Innovate UK and DCMS to prototype storytelling tools with photography, sound and augmented reality.
Open the project
I’ve worked alongside charities, community groups and local businesses, which is how the work reaches people who’d never look up a gallery’s opening times. I’m based in Hull and go wherever the project is.
The work has been supported by Innovate UK, DCMS, Creative Growth and Arts Council England.
Four ways to work together
A pilot is small and quick, built to show what works before you commit to more: a concept, a shoot or workshop, a public prototype, and a short impact summary for your next funder.
An exhibition can be in your building, online or both. It’s portrait-led, with AR only where it earns its place, a clear route round the room, and notes your front-of-house team can use on day one.
A public programme brings workshops, community portrait sessions and partner events together towards a showcase. The people taking part help make it, so it’s still theirs when it’s finished.
A loan. Past exhibitions can travel. Borrow or lease HAIR, FSTS or PPE for your space, with every voice still inside the frames.
What you can count on
Every commission starts with scoping: your audience, your theme, your space and your constraints. You get a clear plan and timeline, the artwork, visitor guidance, and the photographs, film and write-ups you need for press, stakeholders and reporting. If it helps, I’ll introduce you to community partners too.
Everyone taking part gets plain-language permissions, clear boundaries and a look at their story before the public sees it. Data is handled in line with UK GDPR. Every portrait has words beside it for anyone who’d rather read than scan. Where early concepts or toolkit testing are involved, we can agree confidentiality.
Project enquiry
Tell me about your audience, your space and your timescale, and we’ll find a time to talk.