In HOUSE (2021) I collaborated with two women artists (Sylvie Magnaval, Emily Snell) on a three-month residency in a large Victorian house in Clifton, Bristol. We explored themes of otherness, displacement and exile, as well as reflecting on the lives of those who had lived in the house over the past 150 years.

It was an exceptional opportunity to make and install large scale pieces and atmospheric backdrops as well as more intimate works and experiment with moving image and text. We invited a group of artists we previously collaborated with (via Spike Print) to join us for a talk-through on technical and curatorial issues part way through and opened HOUSE to the public in November 2021, in addition to an online presence on Instagram.

During the residency (having recently returned from an extended period in Grenada, West Indies) I developed a large-scale concept for a 10m tracing paper installation entitled “Atlantic Crossing” using printed Minton tiles (present in the elegant entrance halls of these Clifton houses) as a metaphor for the wealth of Bristol and its role in the Atlantic Slave Trade.