About

Currently pursuing a PhD at the Belfast School of Art within Ulster University. My practice as a photographer and researcher is participant-based and invested in exploring the dynamic between empathy and banality within queer male photography.

Based between Dundee and Belfast.

CV

Exhibition: Inter/pose, with University of St Andrew’s and Terrence Higgins Trust. St Andrew’s, Scotland, 2024.

Conference: Festival of PhD Research at Ulster University, Exhibition, Belfast, 2024.

Publication: Snowflake Magazine, Cruising for Another Picture, London, 2023.

Conference: The Fourteenth International Conference on The Image, Poster Presentation. Zaragoza, Spain, 2023.

Group Exhibition: Queer Joy, sponsored by Gay Times, Getty Images, Queer Britain, and Skittles, King’s Cross, London, 2023.

Publication: GayTimes Magazine, Queer Joy: a look inside Edinburgh’s Kafe Kweer. London, 2023.

Conference: Inaugural LGBTQ+ Research at Ulster, Speaker. Ulster University, Belfast, 2023.

Training: PhotoVoice Online Comprehensive Training. London, 2023

Commission/ Publication: Drug Discovery Unit Annual Report 2023, University of Dundee, UK, 2022.

Group Exhibition: Stoggafco: Queer Exhibition. London. 2022.

Conference: Photo Ireland Think Tank: Photography as an act of empathy, Speaker. Dublin, Ireland, 2022.

Group Exhibition: Scottish Portrait Awards; finalist in Fine Art exhibition. Edinburgh/Glasgow, 2021.

Publication: Pupil Sphere Graduate Showcase, From the Inside of the Edge. Leeds, UK, 2021.

Group Exhibition: Royal Photographic Society IPE 163, From the Inside of the Edge. Bristol, UK, 2021.

Group Exhibition: Belfast Exposed: A Lightness of Touch. Belfast, UK, 2021.

Group Exhibition: British Photography Awards; shortlisted in the Self Portrait category. London, UK, 2021.

Group Exhibition: Glasgow University’s Queer Arts Festival. Glasgow, UK, 2021.

Commission/ Publication/ Talk: Peat Caretakers for Natural England and the University of Newcastle. Reed MS, et al. (2020) Social barriers and opportunities to the implementation of the England Peat Strategy. Final Report to Natural England and Defra, Newcastle University, UK, 2020.

Group Exhibition: Lifespace Gallery: Transitions. Dundee, UK, 2020.

Award/ Group Exhibition:Scottish Portrait Awards, Commendation Award forLou Moon. Edinburgh/ Glasgow/ Kirkcudbright, UK, 2019.