I am a photographic artist and performer working at creating portrayals on both sides of the camera. Photographically, my particular area of interest is the transaction of the portrait between photographer and sitter, and viewer and portrayed - and the representation of age and 'femininity'. Having worked in the creative industries as an actress and singer, I bring a 'theatrical' sensibility to my portraits, creating a moment of heightened appearance and evoking a sense of the unseen psychic lives and character of my sitters. I was awarded a PhD by practice in 2018 for my exploration of the forces constraining the appearance of older women: Hagging the Image was a series of experimental films 'in the round'.