I live in South Molton, North Devon and work as an academic, playwright, and artist.

I began my working life as a circus fire-eater and then spent the next decade working in the Australian Film Industry. I graduated from NIDA in 1986 and worked as a playwright in Australia until emigrating to the UK in 2002. I gained my BA Hons (Open University, 2006) and PhD (University of Bristol, 2014) in medieval art history and currently teach part-time for the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. 

I returned to playwriting in 2024 when my play ‘Glass Shadows’ was longlisted for the Victoria Wood Playwrighting Prize for Comedy. In 2025 I produced a documentary film on bell ringing with two other colleagues for the Devon Association of Ringers Centenary. In September 2026 I gained my MA in Fine Art Online from Falmouth University, initially focusing on portrait painting as a way of understanding the medieval artists I was studying but now also including botanical art.