Artist statement

I am a queer Thai-British artist based in Perthshire, Scotland. I explore reclaiming histories and building alternative futures using visual art, poetry, film and sound. Passionate about climate justice and social justice, my work interrogates themes of movement, mapping, resistance, ecology and collective healing through a decolonial and interspecies lens. Interconnection and collaboration are core principles.

Decolonising The Outdoors is an ongoing project that combines interdisciplinary and socially engaged practices. It aims to dismantle narratives of dominating land and extracting nature, to rebuild relationships with the more-than-human world, and to empower communities by imagining anti-imperial anti-capitalist futures.

Recent projects

• Reclaiming The Outdoors pamphlet (2025) - Interactive print publication questioning our connections to the outdoors. Illustration, cyanotype, collage. Commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.

• What memories does this soil hold? (2025) - Poetry exploring movement, mapping and environmental relationships in the face of industrial and urban change. A 30 minute piece written and performed in collaboration with Zain Rishi. Commissioned by Hidden Door Festival.

• Decolonising The Outdoors zine (2025) - Print publication exploring food, farming and seed culture with communities in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Nonfiction writing, photography, poetry, cyanotype, illustration, collage, acrylic. Commissioned by Glasgow Zine Library.

• Safe space (2025) - Short film looking at finding care through the experience of a migrant in rural Scotland. Direction, writing and cinematography.

• Decolonising conservation in the UK (2024) - Podcast and article exploring white environmentalism and its influence on conservation. Commissioned by Shado magazine.

• Unfracturing (2024) - Photography series exploring healing and connection among queer communities of colour within a colonial landscape.

Awards

• Winner, Bold Types Scottish Women’s Creative Writing Competition for poetry (2024)

• Honourable mention, International Dark Poets Prize II (2024)

Group exhibitions and festivals — visual art and film

• Friends With Benefits at Sett Studios, Edinburgh Art Festival (2025)

• Rooted Beings: Earthly Creators, Brighton (2025)

• Queer As Muck: Thicket, Sett Studios, Edinburgh (2025)

• Monochrome, Glasgow Gallery of Photography (2025)

• Feminine Energy, Goddess Arts Magazine, online (2025)

• International Women’s Day, Mono Cafe, Glasgow (2025)

• Extra Rice Film Festival, London (2025)

• Snug, Arkade Gallery, Aberdeen (2024)

Group exhibitions and select performances — spoken word and poetry

• Liquid Identities Festival at Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh (2025)

• Echoes of Time at King’s Hall, Chinese Culture Week at Edinburgh Fringe (2025)

• Hidden Door Festival at The Paper Factory, Edinburgh (2025)

• Push The Boat Out Festival at Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh (2024)

• Bold Types Showcase, Glasgow Women’s Library (2024)

Work appearing in literary journals and books — poetry

• buteo buteo; Do you live within 400 metres of a body of water? - Causeway/Cabhsair, Aberdeen University Press (2025)

• What happens when you press tofu - Between Queer Teeth, t’ART Press (2025)

• Somatic - Covert Literary Magazine Issue 5, Writing Our Legacy (2025)

• Reclamation - Salon Traders pamphlet, Embassy Gallery (2025)

• Diversity and equality monitoring form - Issue 9, Queerlings (2025)

• Small talk - Spittle-tongue, Tangerine Press (2025)

• The British Garden - Dissonance, Madrigal Press (2025)

• Sonnet 18 - We Are All Palestinians, Culture Matters (2025)

• The memories that burden us; migrate/relocate - Things There Are No Words For, Speculative Books (2024)

• The monkey puzzle tree; A seat at the table - The SpecBook 2024, Speculative Books (2024)

Select work appearing in the media — nonfiction writing and photography

• Disrupting systems of power - Creative Dundee (2025)

• Finding peace on the slopes of Ben Lawers - National Trust for Scotland magazine (2025)

• ESEA women survivors excluded and unsupported in the UK - Migrant Women Press (2024)

• Loving Spam but not its legacy - Shado magazine (2024)

• Museums ignore recommendations on colonialism - Bella Caledonia (2024)

• Perth College cuts leaving students and staff in despair - The Courier (2024)

• Turning waste into beauty - Shado magazine (2024)

Recent workshops

• Woodland Queers - Queer By Nature x Decolonising The Outdoors, Fife (2026)

• Post-screening world café - Exhale x Take One Action Film Festivals, Glasgow (2025)

• Reconnect With Nature - Decolonising The Outdoors, Aviemore (2025)

• Diaspora / sunago - Decolonising The Outdoors x Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (2025)

• Nourish - Decolonising The Outdoors x Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (2025)

Residencies, programmes and training

• Bird Ringing & Art Residency Camp, Albanian Ornithological Society (2026)

• Our Time Is A Garden, Scottish BPOC Writers Network (2025)

• Nature & Poetry, Moniack Mhor (2024)

• Therapeutic Photography, Snug Aberdeen (2024)

• Opinion Writers Programme, Pass The Mic (2024)

• Trauma Reporting, Trauma Work (2024)

• Illustration, Edinburgh Drawing School (2023–24)

Creative networks and memberships

• Scottish Artists Union (2025–present)

• Writing Our Legacy (2025–present)

• The Society of Authors (2024–present)

• Creative Dundee Amps (2024–present)

• Scottish BPOC Writers Network (2023–present)

• The Association of Photographers (2024–2026)

• The National Union of Journalists (2024–2026)

Employment

• Founder and facilitator, Decolonising The Outdoors (2024–present)

• Writer, freelance (2023–present)

• Photographer, freelance (2023–present)

• Senior Policy Adviser, Which? (2020–21)

• Head of Policy, Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (2015–19)