About
I make socially engaged, place-responsive art with moving image, projection and performance. I take cinema out of the black box and onto streets, walls, trees and pavements, and I make it with communities, never for them.
I grew up in post-Thatcher Britain watching my father perform in Welfare State productions and street theatre. That was my first lesson in working-class solidarity, and in storytelling as an act of resilience. I moved to Australia in 2011 and have worked as an artist and filmmaker here and in the UK for more than 15 years.
I’m an old-school cineaste, a devoted bookworm and lead artist at Little Projector Company, and I believe, stubbornly, that story is a campfire we can all gather around.
Never work with children or Lanimals!
How I work
With, never for
Co-design from the first conversation. Communities hold the pen, the edit and the right to withdraw.
Story as solidarity
Stories public space rarely holds, told at scale where people live. When people see themselves projected, something civic and tender happens.
The more-than-human
I let fungi, birds and rivers do some of the talking, and I’d like wealth to be measured in ecological complexity.
Slow and place-responsive
Yarning circles, deep listening and a lot of site testing in the cold. The place tells its story before I tell one of mine.
The street is the gallery
Guerrilla advocacy projection that meets people on their way home, including people who never walk into a gallery.
Culture stays with its custodians
With First Nations communities I work under cultural protocols. Community decides how, and whether, knowledge is shared.
Holobiont systems thinker. Follower of Lynn Margulis. Dream of a time when wealth is measured by the complexity of ecological connections. Bookworm hole adventurer. Born of a time and place where worker solidarity still held strong. Sustained by faith in the living world. Suspicious of Hope. Looking for the best in people. Observer of stories storying the land and waters. Radical change demands radical action. A failure of imagination imagines imagining as over, yet imagination is us, just as we are life.
Recognition of Advantage
As a white male settler living in Australia, my journey began in the United Kingdom, where I was born and raised. In 2011, I emigrated to Australia, drawn by its ecology and vibrant culture. Through this transition, I have come to understand and acknowledge the privileges I enjoy—privileges rooted in the historical context of colonisation and the ongoing influence of patriarchal systems. It is essential for me to reflect on how these repressive structures have benefited me as a privileged person and continue to do so. This is a lifelong process that requires transparency and truth-telling.
In practice, this means I work with First Nations communities only under cultural protocols, with community keeping authority over how, and whether, stories are shared.
Little Projector Company
Who? Mobile projection specialists
What? Ceremony, festival, and celebration
How? Storytelling about place
We are mobile projection specialists. As an artist led creative organisation we create and facilitate the development and exhibition of site-responsive installations, performances, and tours that combine projection, film, storytelling, sound design, and more.
Born from a desire to take storytelling through film out of the cinema and into the street, we have collaborated with hundreds of artists and communities, presented work at Australia’s biggest light festivals, and pioneered mobile projection arts practice.
Little Projector Company Reel 2024
Production House
Formerly Lightworks Studios, now the film and video arm of Little Projector Company.
We create films to heal the land, share culture, and foster unity.
Our team produces documentaries, commercials, projections, and online media
Our recent work includes a short documentary telling the story of the worlds first climate emergency declaration by a local council, and a Bicycle Network Ride 2 School campaign advocating for young people to be empowered to ride to school by their parents. Recent clients include the Australian Art Orchestra, the Sunbury Cultural Commission, and RMIT university.
Highlights include the selection of our short documentary Darebin's Natural Heritage for the 2018 Environmental Film Festival Australia, and The Blockumentary ; a documentary about the changing community of Laverton from the viewpoint of locals and the characters that make up this unique suburb in the heart of Melbourne's West.
Lightworks Studios Reel 2024
Selected works
Projection art
2026 – Pastoral Phantasmagoria, Dear Agnes, Hobsons Bay
2025 – Confluence, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong
2025 – Debutante Ball for Animals, with Deborah Halpern, Lorne
2024 – Creative Advocacy Projection Program, 260 Sydney Road
2024 – Water and Light, Knox IMMERSE
2024 – Bioluminescence, Festival of Fungi, Euroa
2022 – Waterfall, Art Attack, Yarra Ranges
2018 – The Man Who Cannot Sleep, White Night Melbourne
2015 – Light Portraits, Vivid Sydney
Multi-projection tours and performance
2026 – The Earth is in (Y)our Hands, The Bowery Theatre
2019 – Reconnect With the Living World, Trail of Lights, Truganina
2019 – Williamstown Centenary Projection Tour
2017 – Mapping the Moving Image, Mapping Melbourne
2017 – The Wheel of Fate, Gertrude Street Projection Festival
2015 – The Crossing, Art in Public Places, Hobsons Bay
Ongoing partners
Barengi Gadjin Land Council · Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation · Blak Dot Gallery · Yarra Youth Services · Arts Access Victoria · cohealth · Save the Children · Greenpeace · Euroa Landcare
Current Slate
Grasslands, Feature documentary, In development
The story of Australia's vibrant and resilient native grasslands and the future of food, farming, climate and culture
Teaser trailer, Grasslands
