Open Theme nominee

In the aftermath of growth and decay, every plant bears the trace of human touch — skin cells left in soil, fragments of DNA linger in the roots and leaves. These remnants are more than biological residue; they are evidence of presence, of care, of the unseen relationship between the body and the earth.

Through this series, I explore how the plants we nurture hold echoes of our identity even after we are gone or have moved elsewhere. Their gradual decomposition becomes an act of remembering a slow unravelling of both plant and person, each returning to the land in a shared language of transformation.

The work sits between science and sentiment, exploring displacement not only as a physical separation but as a kind of biological distance — an erosion of lineage, memory, and place. What remains is neither wholly human nor wholly natural: a hybrid archive of belonging, one that persists beneath the surface, quietly alive.

My mother died four years ago, after her death I collected specimens from her garden, I have been documenting their decay all of this time, this work is me trying to unravel relationships between nature and humans and my relationship[ with my mother.

I have completed a BA in fine art and achieved a first class honours degree at The University of Gloucestershire as well as studying photography which was mainly wet room photography. I have had several exhibitions of photography and art and I have recently been selected for for The Glasgow Gallery of Photography in Scotland for two exhibition in April and June 2024 and February 2025 ,some of my work has also been published in The Guardian Newspaper and Frames Fine Art Photography Magazine as well as being recently being selected for 101 Contemporary Artists publication by Collect Art, I have been shortlisted for the Guardian Travel photography awards as well as Pink Lady Food Awards.
I exhibited at the Museum in the Park Stroud Gloucestershire and twice at and Lansdown Hall and Gallery Stroud, also Lanacre gallery on Exmoor .
A few years ago The Director of the Tate Modern GB picked a photograph that I had taken to be published in the Observer Newspaper.
I have also won the PJ Crook Arts Award for Outstanding Work for my final degree show-2017
I am now Ambassador and Workshop Lead at Hundred Heroines Photography Museum in Nailsworth Gloucestershire .