earth on heaven
Earth on Heaven: Thinking with Your Eyes is a talk covering my thoughts on illusions (optical and otherwise), meaning making, love and the courage of being alive. It’s always some version of the same argument, that perception is an inherently creative act, and you are always, in some sense, co-creating your own world.
It is the evolution of my main artists talk developed & delivered in different formats at places like Royal College of Art, the London Interdisciplinary School, the National Gallery, and hARTslane gallery.
uncertainty economics
In June 2025, we delivered a workshop on uncertainty & climate change at Cambridge University to a group of artists and economists. The brain simultaneously loves and hates uncertainty; it's built to seek it out and resolve it, which is exactly what makes ambiguity compelling in art. Most science-art collaborations end up illustrating structured ideas in visual form, but leaning into art can generate productive uncertainty. This was organised by ICENS lab and LEAP lab, with support from CRASSH at University of Cambridge.
your brain on luca
On the final day of the exhibition Last Universal Common Ancestor at The Gallery at LIS, I hosted a series of looking meditations with one of the artworks. Viewers wore a portable EEG headset that captured their brainwave data and informed our digital creature how to evolve in response.
LUCA changed colour and shape depending on viewers’ levels of meditative brainwaves, creating a positive neural feedback loop and helping them find relaxation as they saw LUCA move and shape in real-time.
drawings as entities
Time in 2D and Drawings as Entities were workshops I delivered the Prints & Drawings Room at the British Museum exploring how time can show up as a medium in a drawing. Participants drew from works by Michelangelo, Watteau, Flaxman and others on tracing paper, then layered their sheets to see what happened. The goal was to shift how people look at drawings: to stop reading an image for what it depicts, but look instead at its construction (the pentimenti, the marks made at different moments, the past visible through the surface of the present). With generous support of the Bridget Riley Art Foundation.