On the 28 May 2024 the first ever Women Alternative Photography Group Seminar took place in person at the Brewery Tap Gallery UCA Project Space in Folkestone. It was my absolute pleasure to host photographic artists Melanie King and Ky Lewis who shared their art practice and research with us in a series of artist talks. I also shared my research on homesickness followed by a private view of the Homesick exhibition. 

On the 28 May 2024 Homesick opened at the Brewery Tap Gallery UCA Project Space in Folkestone. This solo exhibition showcases the series Homesick where I use the film soup process and hand written letters to investigate homesickness. I worked with ten migrant women from all over the world who selected a liquid that reminded them of a place they have called home. I then took a roll of 35mm colour film and soaked the film in the selected liquid for one hour for every day that it had been since they had returned to their home. This project was created during the COVID-19 pandemic when borders were closed and travel was at a standstill. For many this was the first time they had not be able to travel back home to visit friends and family exacerbating feelings of homesickness.

The exhibition closes tomorrow 1 June 2024. 

On the 20 March 2024 I joined researchers Eiji Yasuhara (University of Kent), Sarah Moody (UCA), and Louise Wigglesworth (University of Kent) on the Place and Space Panel as part of the Post Graduate Humanities Research Salon hosted by the University of Kent. I shared my paper titled Place Attachment and Soil Chromatography which investigated the use of the soil chromatography process in my own artistic practice to visualise the lived experience of place attachment.