Projects
Scroll down for a list of completed and ongoing projects. Links to further information are provided where relevant.
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Convalescent Snakes & Ladders (aka Snakey)
Educational Artefact
Convalescent Snakes & Ladders is an educational artefact exploring the uncertainty of recovery following serious illness. Drawing on lived experience and medical humanities research, it uses the familiar structure of Snakes & Ladders to surface the practical, emotional, and epistemic challenges of early convalescence. The project is designed to support reflection and discussion about patient experience, communication, and recovery in healthcare education.
The Staph Aureus Experience™
(☆☆☆☆☆ Do not recommend)
Collage Series
Presented as simulated Polaroids, the work collates snapshots of hospital life - humour, danger, dis-ease, and the strange everydayness of serious illness.
The project emerged from a desire to preserve the textures of the experience - the good and bad - before they became subordinate to a clean narrative of "I was sick".
Illness can be dehumanising, so the images intentionally keep handmade imperfections, which, along with the redaction of real names, aims to keep personhood, of patient and carers, central to the viewer experience.
Menopause is Bullshit!
Research Archive
Work in Progress
Menopause Is Bullshit! is an ongoing qualitative research archive documenting the lived experience of menopause through anonymous testimony, community conversations, and public submissions.
Materiality & Temporality
Interview-based Research Project
Work in Progress
Materiality and Temporality is an interview-based research project exploring how graphic medicine creators transform lived experience into artefacts. Through conversations with memoirists, artists, and makers, the project examines how experiences are shaped by medium, materiality, narrative, and time.
At its heart is a simple question: what happens to an experience once it has been made into an object? The project explores how creators revisit their work, how meaning shifts through publication and interpretation, and how artefacts continue to shape relationships with the experiences from which they emerged.
Combinatorial Alice
Exploratory Identity Artefact
Combinatorial Alice is a project exploring identity through combination rather than sequence. The output is the Random Alice Generator. Each figure is divided into interchangeable sections — head, torso, legs and feet — which can be rearranged to produce different versions of Alice. Drawing on clothes, objects, gestures and details from lived experience, the work treats identity as a field of possibilities: multiple, contradictory and continually recombinable.