About

5’9 / B Rh+ / I like sambal, 90s supermodels and Mitch Hedberg.

Artist-writer. I have an interdisciplinary practice across text, moving image and sound, often using wilfully inappropriate theoretical frameworks—archive cinema, pop music, esoteric philosophy—to playfully explore cosmic and expansive concepts which are probably a bit too cosmic and expansive to wisely explore, but doing it anyway. My work has been exhibited at FACT, Wysing Arts Centre, Somerset House, Liverpool Biennial, The Tetley, SPACE and more. Let’s face it, I’m the only person to have ever screened Wayne’s World at Flat Time House. I was in residence at Wysing Arts Centre in 2018 and Jerwood Arts x FACT Digital Fellow in 2021. You can see details of those projects here and some newer video and text work here.

I co-edited Excavate: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall which was published by Faber in 2021. It was named as a music book of the year by Rough Trade, The Times, Mojo, Uncut, Louder than War, and The Herald. Louder Than War said it was like “A Mark E Smith version of The Arcades Project” and Bookforum said my essay was their favourite. Other writing about arts and culture appears in various publications including The Wire, Corridor 8, Tribune, Burlington Contemporary.

Right now I am working on a series of short archive-based films; a second music book which I’ll tell you about in time, but you will not believe it, it’s a good one; and an experimental comic novel about New Labour-era architecture.

Can I commission you?

Yes. Please note that unless you’re the ghost of Walter Becker come to lob household objects at Donald Fagen while he sleeps, I probably do not want to review your band’s album. Don’t make me tap the sign.

I’m @veryspecificvideotapes on Instagram. I sort of hate it though.

Bored? Here’s a playlist.