"Freedom To The People" is a meditation on comfort, hostility, and the interplay between inward and outward identities; exploring the experiences of the queer community in the modern era, addressing themes of visibility, rejection, and societal marginalization.

Through a collection of intimate portraits of friends and acquaintances, the work seeks to capture the multifaceted nature of personal identity—how it is shaped both by internal understandings of self and by external forces that often dictate how we are seen and treated in society. Alongside these portraits, the project incorporates abstract representations of surveillance, a tool that both invades and reinforces the sense of being observed, judged, and policed. A sunken boat, barbed wire, police motion sensors - these landscapes highlight the tension between the desire for freedom and the overwhelming presence of societal control and rejection. 

In the images of various wildlife, each animal is engaged in the act of ‘noticing’, either looking to the left, right or directly at the viewer; perhaps they have spotted something dangerous which has invaded their habitat - their behaviours anthropomorphised in the photograph as a representation of our own. As a whole, the work aims to evoke the emotional and psychological experience of being part of a marginalized group—simultaneously seeking comfort in community and facing a world that often refuses to accept difference from a ‘preferred ideal’. It is a reflection on the resilience of the queer community and a call for greater visibility, understanding, and, ultimately, freedom from those in power who would prefer to see us expelled from public life.



Exhibitions

    Collectivism: Bristol, 395 Club, 15th May ‘25

    (UPCOMING) Bath Spa University, Locksbrooke Campus, Final Year Degree Show, 13th June ‘25
    (UPCOMING) Free Range, Truman Brewery, 11th - 13th July ‘25