GULP emerged from my field-based research with a group of seven cormorants on Hilbre Island. As an artist-researcher working on Hilbre, I’m currently studying movement and avian ecologies through works on paper, installations, and live drawing performances.

Through close observation, I developed bespoke drawing tools shaped by cormorant wing forms, allowing movement itself to become a drawing method. These tools operate both as sculptural objects and as participatory instruments, activated within learning, workshop, and exhibition contexts. My core research is rooted in Hilbre’s bird movement ecologies and the ways drawing can become a field method for noticing, recording, and sharing knowledge across fragile island environments. Through sustained research on Hilbre, I have developed a practice that connects ecological observation with notation, performance, and participatory forms of drawing as care. 

In summer, I was interviewed for Channel 4’s Tiny Islands, speaking about how close observation can cultivate attitudes of intimacy and care toward Hilbre’s non-human inhabitants and the wider life of small islands.