Capability Brown at Alnwick

This tells the story behind Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown's ambitious and dramatic transformation of the Alnwick Castle landscape in the late 1700s. This film was commissioned by the Duke of Northumberland’s Archive and Collections team for the national celebration of 300 years since Brown's birth, and exhibited in the castle's state rooms overlooking that same landscape.

Constable's Tower - If Only These Walls Could Speak!

Constable’s Tower at Alnwick Castle has become like a mini Pitt Rivers museum, housing some very rare artefacts now beautifully displayed in a new exhibition. The film celebrates 700 years of life at Alnwick Castle by way of these objects, the tower’s architectural features, and archival material.

I found a narrative to weave together this diverse and complicated history, and told the tower’s story with the help of several experts who kindly shared their brilliant knowledge.

The Story of the Percy Tenantry Volunteers

Occasionally dubbed the ‘Napoleonic Dad’s Army’, the Percy Tenantry Volunteers were local heroes nationally celebrated, who rose against the odds and stood up in defence of their families and their country. Their story marks an important chapter in Alnwick’s history.

This work—projected in large scale—forms the central exhibit in the PTV exhibition at Alnwick castle.

Stacey Dooley takes five teens for work experience, and life lessons too.

Multiple award-winning documentary from Drummer TV, about Syrian refugees fleeing war and living in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.

Series following lives of young superstars in the competitive skating world.

Five women who’ve never met show each other their very different lives.

BBC branding rolled out cross-platform for various marketing activities.

Hawaiian Honeycreepers

This film forms part of a larger exhibit about endangered Honeycreeper birds in Hawaii, and is part of the full evolution display at the museum. Presented on a small screen, it sits alongside specimens from Charles Darwin’s Beagle Voyage, all within the whole, world-renowned scientific collection of several million specimens.

Many thanks to Angela Wade for her beautiful illustrations.

Seasons on Wicken Fen

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One day from each season on Wicken Fen, shown in time lapse, with narrative vignettes introducing wildlife that may be found, and why it is there on the Fen.

This piece runs at 24’ and plays quietly on large scale in the visitor centre at the Museum – a chance for visitors to sit and rest, and contemplate hundreds of millions of years of natural history on display.

This is an excerpt from the welcome film I made for Killhope – a multi-award winning, 19th century lead mining museum in the centre of the North Pennines AONB. Visitors watch this on arrival before touring the working exhibits and venturing underground down the mine shaft.

A great challenge with this was balancing compelling storytelling with accurate geological processes, so in writing my script I had generous support from the experts to get it spot on. Translating scientific reports to a really effective and engaging visual learning aid felt like a real accomplishment. Some of the words and terminology were an absolute pleasure to design with too – a gift for those who love expressive typography!

This short story introduces 19thC polymath and social reformist Thomas Sopwith, and accompanies a rare, complete set of his exquisite wooden geological models – small sculptures made to teach miners about geology. It was important to relay the facts in this film perfectly without audio, so on a day’s site visit, I worked with an expert geologist to get the script and captioning just right.

Still photographs provided some beautiful material to work with too, which I made by creating a tiny pop up studio in a corner of the museum. They suited our available space, time and budget perfectly.

A short reflection on finding your way out of darkness.

This personal project was filmed in Leigh Woods just outside Bristol.

For anyone braving new adventures, without a guarantee.

This was an experimental film for Sparkol, makers of Videoscribe animation software, who commissioned me to throw them some new inspiration and also see how far their kit could be pushed.

The Sparkol team followed up by filming me delivering a trio of tutorials at my previous studio in Spike Island, to share with their sizeable international audience.

Between the calm greens of Central Park and the noisy grime of the subway and back again – a short personal portrait of a few days on the go in the Big Apple. 

In this TEDx talk, I share lessons I learned in turning away from unhelpful digital noise to find my own powerful and meaningful 'words to live by', with a story about how they might have become so painfully absent in the first place.

Exploring the value in making our human marks to express beliefs, I explain how I created manifestos with these words, and the profound impact this exercise has had on my life. I also look at why and how, in a difficult and uncertain political landscape, we might want to create our own beautiful, personal manifestos to inspire action and engagement.

This talk was part of TEDxTotnes 2017, held at beautiful Dartington Hall. It was a real delight to take my place on that red carpet alongside such a great line up of activists and thinkers.

A public art commission during redevelopment of Bristol’s Cabot Circus. The project involved creating concepts, shooting models in a central Bristol studio across the road from the site, then preparing illustrations and artwork. It was then translated into large-scale industrial standard mosaic by water-jet cutting approximately 60sq m of tiles, then applied by a local tiler who didn’t mind my sitting alongside in the flowerbed to watch as he applied the first sheets.

The biggest physical project I have ever worked on, and certainly the most publicly visible too.