. A Project exploring Best Practices in Live Group Work for Virtual Reality .
. THE PRACTICE .
. 'sound clash' . Frieze x V&A East . 2024 .
. 'sound clash' . Frieze x V&A East . 2024 .
. '1in32' . Equality Trust x Trust for London . 2025 .
. 'reckoning' . independent . 2026 .
. 'DIY' . British Library x Roundhouse . 2024 .
. 'Roots Talking' . independent . 2025 .
As a visual storyteller with a discipline straddling film, photography and digital arts, my work uses embodiment, oral histories and DIY techniques to explore human relations to the land we live and move upon.
At its heart, the work moves to empower the communities at the centre of its stories, and particularly where those communities are threatened, their histories disbelieved, their existence denied or co-opted.
. THE PROJECT .
'Territory' (early demo), 2025
An interactive VR game where realities of forced migration meet folkloric landscapes.
Over the past 18 months, I've begun moving informally and organically toward co-/hosting workshops, creating projects through participatory and community-led storytelling, and expanding my practice into Virtual Reality spaces.
This includes ~ a British Underground and B3 Media residency at SXSW, Texas 2025, where I informally carried a VR demo around in my backpack and invited people to experience it ~ Co-hosting the VR experience 'NAZVR' by Lara Kobeissi at Shubbak Festival 2025 ~ a VR Creative Catalyst at B3 Media ~ a VR writing commission for Birmingham Open Media ~ a DYCP award to learn VR world-building softwares ~ co-hosting workshops with a community reporting group in Brent ~ co-hosting and documenting workshops with artist Eugene Ankomah ~ and a Derek Hill Foundation residency award to visit and engage with local communities in Donegal, Ireland in 2026.
This project is to develop, experiment with and formalise these evolving avenues in my practice, undergoing consultation, mentorship and collaboration with creative partners.
. THE CREATIVE PARTNERS .
'NAZVR' by Lara Kobeissi (2025)
Lara Kobeissi is a Creative Technologist incorporating VR into multi-sensory live performance. Her work explores living archives, diaspora and memory through the body. She's exhibited at Shubbak Festival, Beirut Art Centre and Embodied Realms Festival amongst others.
Paul Daly is a BFI-longlisted documentary filmmaker who has documented social history throughout England during a decade of great divide and unrest, encompassing the breadth of this country's society and diverse culture. He uses the fragility and impermanence of 16mm film.
'Mirrors' has screened at Sheffield DocFest, Aesthetica, FlatPack and more. Further works explore mortality and ritual, referencing and dissecting his upbringing.
'Mirrors' by Paul Daly (2022)
Phosphoros Theatre are a theatre company making socially-engaged performances with, by and for refugees and asylum seekers. Since 2015 they've performed over 200 times with 7 touring shows. In 2020 they became a Charity, and now run community drama projects all year round alongside their nationally touring productions. These projects include Phosphoros Young Company where they work with newly arrived young people, Phosphoros Rainbow Haven for their LGBTQIA+ siblings, Phosphoros Sisters for girls and young women, and their Artist Development and Leadership Training Programmes which nurture new talent.
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*footnote - Visual Storytelling Reel, 2026 features ~
1. A photography and moving image series using traditions of Jamaican Dub culture to capture feelings of belonging and transformation in the migrant communities of the East London Docklands, commissioned by FRIEZE and V&A East, 2025
2. A movement-documentary hybrid drawing parallels between the Jamaican folklore demon Jab Molassie, and right to peaceful protest in the UK, independent, 2026
3. A community-led film exploring regeneration and social cleansing with a community reporting group in the London Borough of Brent, commissioned by Equality Trust and Trust for London, 2025
4. A dual-screen 45-minute moving image film for sound artist Gary Stewart's solo exhibition at Orleans House Gallery, exploring multitudinous identities and hidden histories over time and within time. commissioned by Gary Stewart, 2024
5. An experimental documentary short captured over one night of Black Queer spacemaking in the Tate Modern Tanks in October 2024, and speculating in the brilliant gaps of archival practices, commissioned by TATE, 2025