I am undertaking an AHRC-funded, practice-based PhD at Newcastle University, supervised by Dr Fiona Anderson and Giles Bailey. My research explores the cultural and creative value of true crime, queer intergenerational mutual aid, and touch through moving image practice.
It centres on the unresolved 2016 fire at a gay sauna located in a working class area of Leeds, West Yorkshire. Using narrative strategies associated with omission, the project considers how absence, speculation, and erasure function within both true crime and queer histories.
As part of the PhD, I undertook a research residency at the British School at Rome and have presented work through an exhibition at York St John University and at PERCOL’s My Evidence: Creating LGBTQI+ Art and Archives conference in Amsterdam.
