Education

DeMontfort University Leicester. 2010 – 2011. MA Photographic History and Practice.

The Glasgow School Of Art. 2004 – 2007. BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography.

Other

Chair of Archives & Records Eastern Region Group, 2025 –

Relevant Employment

The Electric Palace, King’s Quay Street, Harwich, Essex, C012 3ER. 05/2024 – Ongoing. Archivist. Creating an archive for the oldest, least altered cinema in the country. Role includes recruiting and training volunteers. Sourcing and implementing cataloguing + database software. Cataloguing entire holdings. Sourcing and implementing appropriate archival materials. Creating relevant forms and policies for an archive. Scanning and photographing of relevant items, etc.

Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum, Tide Mill Way, Woodbridge Suffolk, IP12 1BY. 08/2023 – 02/2024. Archivist. Sorting and ordering the archive prior to partial deposit. Working with volunteers to sort and catalogue to ISAD(G) Standards.

The Hold – Suffolk Archives, 131 Fore Street, Ipswich, IP4 1LN. 05/2022 – Ongoing. Archive Volunteer. Accessioning collections and cataloguing to ISAD(G) standards using CALM. Working with a team of volunteers and staff on a collections audit using CALM.

Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Queens Rd, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PX. 04/2021 – 01/2022. Archive and Research Volunteer. Archive and Research Volunteer to Catalogue RWA paper records and Exhibition Catalogues.

Glenside Hospital Museum, Glenside Campus The Chapel, Blackberry Hill, Stapleton, BS16 1DD. 03/2021 – 01/2022. Archive and Research Volunteer. Voluntary position to catalogue historic records and holdings of the Glenside Hospital.

The Reece Winstone Archive, 6 Preywater Rd, Wookey, Wells BA5 1LE. 10/2018 – 02/2019 Consultation to conduct a scoping report for submission for funding for historic photographic archive. Creating a website.

Special Collections, University of Bristol Library, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TJ. 10/2018 – 01/2019. Volunteer project to rationalise series of calendars and published minutes/ reports of the University of Bristol 1913 – 2009

Christies Images Ltd, Jubilee House, 213 Oxford Street, London, UK, W1D

2LG. 02/2012 – 09/2013

Image-archivist for international auction-house.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL. 07/2011 –

12/2012. Researcher and cataloguer for the project ‘Staying Power: Black British

Photography; 1950-1999’.

Here Gallery, 108 b Stokes Croft, St Paul’s, Bristol BS1 3RU. 01/2009 – 01/2010

Curator of art gallery dealing in Illustration, Graphic Design and Photography.

Cube Microplex, Dove Street South, Bristol, BS2 8JD. 2009 – 2017. Events manager for busy independent venue and art space.

Talks and Conferences

Volunteering at The Electric Palace Archive, National Archives Impact Seminar, Online, 4th August 2025.

The Electric Palace Archive, Community Archives & Heritage Group Conference, University of Huddersfield, 19th June 2025.

Legacy & Memory in The Electric Palace Archive, History and Archives in Practice: Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance. Conference hosted by the National Archives, Bloomsbury Square, London, 5th March 2025.

The Spite Photograph and its Affective Materiality, Love and Material Culture in the Arts & Humanities, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, 3rd February 2024.

Immateriality in the Archive: Things We Lost in the Fire, The Tangible Archive Symposium, London Metropolitan University, 7th December 2023.

Things we Lost in the Fire: Images from the Bamboo Club, 1966 – 1977. Conference: ‘Encounters: Handling, Placing and Looking at Photographs in Relation to Migration’, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 12-13 October 2017.

Psychic Vandalism, Spite Photographs & the Abused Tintype. Kunsthøjskolen Holbæk, Denmark, May 2016

The use of new technologies for photography within the fourth archival paradigm. Conference: Archives 2.0, National Media Museum Bradford, November 2014

Vernacular photography and stereotyped images of the Italian Mother. La Mamma Italiana seminar, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, 17th May 2014

Gender and Clothing in the Barnardo’s Children Photographs. Glasgow University, 24th November 2013

Sentiment & Science: The Before and After Child in Barnardo’s Publicity Photographs. Conference: ‘Devils and Dolls: Dichotomous Depictions of the Child’, Bristol University, 27th – 28th March 2013

Down at the Bamboo Club. Victoria and Albert Museum, 14th July 2012

Articles & Publications

’Psychic Vandalism & the Abused Tintype’, Ernest Journal; issue 4, November 2015

‘Eugene Atget: The First Street Photographer’, Vignette Magazine, November 2011