ABOUT

I am a Glasgow-based artist working primarily through Butoh dance, music, ritual performance, film, and writing. My work explores personal and collective transformation, ecological selfhood, embodied/spiritual expansion, and resistance to the Grey World (capitalism). Recurring themes include love, rebellion, neglect of the body, environmental destruction and atrophy of the soul in consumerist society. My North Star is the faculty of Imagination — the capacity to sense, invent, and reconfigure worlds — that resides within and around us.

My artistic approach grows out of punk rock roots, Butoh as a life path, and experimental music, writing, and film as containers for my dreams and visions. Over the past decade I have presented work internationally across Europe, the UK, Japan, and North America, including festivals, galleries, theatres, and experimental spaces. Alongside performance, I regularly teach workshops and intensives, working with dancers, artists, and people from diverse backgrounds — including those who feel alienated from conventional training structures.

I hold a PhD in practice-based research, completed at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / University of St Andrews. My doctoral work examined Butoh dance as an embodied method for experiencing and expressing ecological selfhoods, and continues to inform both my artistic and teaching work. This research emerged from several decades of training and performance in Butoh around the world.

I am also the founder and artistic director of UNFIX, an international performance platform and festival responding to ecological and societal crisis through experimental live art.

I’m interested in collaborations, performances, music projects, films, teaching invitations, and conversations that treat embodiment as more than a purely material issue — as something porous, unstable, mysterious, and deeply entangled with the world.