I approach movement from a feral perspective. I am interested in the untamed, unconditioned capacities of the moving body, those that sit beneath habit, training, and the human-centred organisation of perception. Through movement and sustained attention, I work to unravel learned patterns of separation, cultivating a more porous awareness of how bodies are always already in relation with their environments.
This work has developed through long-term return to place. For nine years, I have worked with Hackney Marshes in East London, not as a site to be interpreted, but as a more-than-human field of relation in which movement is continually shaped by seasonal change, instability, and non-human agency. This sustained practice has informed both my book How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body (Triarchy Press, 2024), which explores how movement might unsettle human-centred perception, and my collaborative four-screen installation We are grass, we are plants, we are Hackney Marshes, developed over six years of monthly visits with filmmaker Dominique Rivoal.
My work with moving image, installation, and technology extends this attentional practice rather than abstracting it. Screens, cameras, and editing become ways of tracking perception itself.
My recent work in gallery contexts extends this inquiry into institutional space. Here, I explore how perception operates as a relational field in which audiences are already participating. Whether in landscapes or galleries, the question remains the same: how do we become aware of the relations we are already inside?
