I am a writer, photographer and cultural curator. I focus primarily on the relational nature of reality and how this influences our sense of meaning, identity and agency in the context of collapse (and regeneration). My research interests include islandness, cultural ecology, eros, geopoetics, paradox and metaphor. I write about these things (and more) in my Substack newsletter, METAXU.
I’m making a documentary called Islandness and have just completed an MA in Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College with a dissertation project titled ARCHIPELAGO: A Cartography of Relation. I’m currently hosting an online course, Contemporary Spirituality: Meaning and Mysticism in the Modern Age, for the transformative learning platform, advaya. In August 2024, I am co-convening the Creative Ecology sailing residency with Sail Britain and poet Anna Selby.
In 2023, I curated the course KINSHIP: World as Archipelago. This follows the first iteration in 2022, KINSHIP: An Exploration Into Being Together. I also co-curated the Ecology of Love course with biophilosopher Andreas Weber. In 2018 I founded the Experimental Thought Co, a network that convened events on culture change, during which time I curated the Human//Nature series, bringing together the worlds of mythology, ecology and psychology to inquire into the stories we live by. I have since consulted for Life Itself and Perspectiva, developing research on the impact of metaphor on consciousness and society for the latter.
My images have featured in the Guardian, Telegraph, Times, Bloomberg and Evening Standard, among others. My words have appeared in the Dark Mountain Project, Evolve, Centre for Humans and Nature and Emerge, also among others. You can read some old poems here.
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