I’ve always been interested in expressing complicated ideas in the clearest way.
I started out in magazine journalism in 2005, while working towards my critical theory MPhil at Cambridge. By 2006, I was Deputy Editor of a national property magazine. The following year I was approached by a publisher, and went on to do three humour books.
I started podcasting as a hobby in 2008, and have never really stopped (more on all that here.) For a few years I worked as a copywriter for digital agencies in London. I became increasingly interested in finding original ways to communicate ideas, and began creating subversive and experimental events in my spare time.
My artistic breakthrough came in 2012 when I won a creative technology contract, and left agency life behind to become an artist. For the next few years, residencies and workshops took me all over the UK, and sometimes abroad. A highlight was being selected as Rambert‘s first digital artist in residence, and later exhibiting at The Lowry. Some of the testimonials on here say nice things about my creativity.
But there were still more things to try and more working lives to live. I left the arts to pursue my corporate dream, and now I work on projects relating to money, tech and energy for a range of media, academic and corporate clients. I also write regular longform features on all sorts of things for Mensa’s membership magazine, ‘IQ’. You can find samples of everything here.
I’m really interested in economics and all kinds of global systems, and I volunteer for two different financial history organisations: Edinburgh’s wonderful finance library, the Library of Mistakes, and the lovely Adam Smith Heritage Centre at Smith’s birthplace in Kirkcaldy.
I also enjoy drawing, doing chess puzzles, learning about virtually anything, and attempting to stave off unfitness.