'Vital To Life: Drifters and Wanderers’ is a series of detailed and meticulously produced laser cuts and engravings that explore the hidden, mysterious and wondrous world of microorganisms (diatoms) in the world’s oceans and water bodies. The work makes the invisible visible, as we marvel at the exquisite beauty and vitality of their  siliceous structures, frustules (cell walls) and formations.

Human-induced environmental change threatens multi-species endurance and continuity.  We are all interconnected by shared ecologies. Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together in collaboration?  Working with environmental samples and living material from the North Sea and its tidal zones, as well as archival historical scientific material, this series explores and imagines an oceanic worldview of entangled histories, symbiotic relationships and contaminations.