I'm delighted to share that I'll be an artist in residence at Artica Svalbard this summer, in residence from July to August 2026.
Artica Svalbard is the leading non-profit art and cultural organisation in Svalbard, running an interdisciplinary residency programme for artists, writers and researchers exploring the Arctic through creative and critical work. Based in Longyearbyen, it gives residents time and space to engage deeply with Svalbard and the wider region, while opening up conversations around climate change, culture and our changing planet — questions that sit at the heart of my own practice.
During the residency I'll develop a new body of cameraless photographic work that responds directly to the Arctic environment as both subject and material collaborator. The project will focus on retreating glaciers, meltwater pathways, exposed geology, and the fragile threshold between ice, sea and human infrastructure. Working slowly and site-responsively, I'll experiment with field-based processes such as cyanotypes and lumen exposures, using sunlight, locally gathered water like snowmelt and seawater, and traces of place such as mineral sediment, salt residues and plant impressions — printing where possible on reused and expired paper to keep the material footprint low.
Alongside the image-making, I'll keep a visual field diary linking each print to the conditions that produced it, exploring how the chemistry, weather and shifting environment of Svalbard can visibly "author" the work — making environmental change present as stain, crystallisation, fading and imprint, rather than representation alone.
You can read more about the residency at Artica's website here.