I am an artist, creative director and fashion studies scholar - labels aren't always helpful, but these terms describe what I do most accurately. My work engages in a critical and playful exploration of the fashioned body using interdisciplinary methods. I draw, collage, photograph and film. I work with voices, I work with garments, mostly on bodies. Projects such as Fashioning the Voice and Embodied Memories have been collaborative and draw upon the expertise of others: designers, performers, makers, technicians, while works like Eroding the Otherness are created entirely alone, shaped by an intimate gaze. Both modes are integral to how I think, feel and make.

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I use my practice as a starting point to write about the fashioned body, working within a theoretical framework that considers both the ways that we read and experience styled bodies. Both the journal paper Eroding the Otherness and the research exposition Interrogating the notion of 'frock consciousness' through the practice of dressing and responding to dressed bodies explore approaches to writing that are performative and draw upon auto-ethnographic methodologies. A peer reviewer once called me a “punk researcher” a description I’ve come to appreciate for its accuracy in capturing my instinctive, interdisciplinary, connective way of working.

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I studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art (BA Hons) and Central Saint Martins (MA), and worked commercially as a fashion stylist for a number of well-known brands before moving into academia. I held a long and formative academic post at Solent University, where I led the development of multiple BA and MA programmes, becoming Associate Professor of the Art of Fashion and Head of Postgraduate Provision. I later joined Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, contributing to curriculum development within a Russell Group context.

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In 2024, I established the School of Arts, Media & Creative Industries Management at Arts University Bournemouth and now serve as its Dean. The School brings together creative direction, content creation, communication design, management, media, fashion, marketing and innovation education with a future-focused, industry-aligned and interdisciplinary ethos, reflecting my long-standing commitment to creativity as both critical practice and cultural engine.
I have given guest lectures and conference papers at Hong Kong Design Institute (where I was Visiting Fellow in 2012), London College of Contemporary Arts, London College of Fashion, Pearl Academy (Delhi & Mumbai), ISDI Mumbai, the India Design Summit, the University of Zurich, the University of Zagreb, and the China Academy of Arts.