‘The Dazzling Far-Near’ at 36 Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (2025)
Education
2024 – 2028 : Doctoral Trainee at Open Lab, School of Computing
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
2018 – 2020 : MA in Creative Arts Practice
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
2013 – 2017 : BA in Fine Art
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
w/ Erasmus exchange programme, Det Jyske Kunstakademi, Aarhus, DK
2012 – 2013 : Foundation in Art and Design
Chesterfield College, Chesterfield
Discography
Me Lost Me
On and Off · Single · Industrial Coast
Cassette tape, digital (2023)
RPG · Album · Upset The Rhythm
Vinyl, CD, digital (2023)
Seedlings/Daydreaming · Single · Butterfly Effect
7” vinyl, digital (2022)
The Circle Dance · EP · Self Release
Cassette Tape, Digital (2021)
The Good Noise · Album · Tallbird Records
Vinyl, CD, Digital (2020)
The Lay of the Land · EP · Self Release
Digital (2019)
Arcana · Album · Self Release
Vinyl, CD, Digital (2018)
Demo/n · EP · Self Release
CD, Digital (2017)
Bitchfinder General
No Thoughts, Just Vibes · EP · Self Release
Cassette tape, CD, digital (2024)
Compilations
Future Folk · The Slow Music Movement
Digital (2021)
Remembrance Species · Compiled by Bell Lungs and Laura Luna Castillo
Digital (2020)
Oh, Community! · Divine Schism
Digital (2020)
Fossilised Air Bubbles, Popped · CAMP Editions
Digital (2019)
No Synth Noise · Histamine Tapes
Digital (2018)
Featured Artist/Co-Writer/Collaborator
Buffet Lunch · For Display Purposes Only
”Worth (TBC)”, “Carcassonne”, “Worth (Confirmed)”, “The Barnacle Grows”
Self Release · Digital (2024)
Rubber Oh · Soil
”A Morning After”
Mr Medicine Records · Vinyl, Digital (2024)
Anarchist Reading Group · Bread for All
Turquoise Coconut · CD, Digital (2023)
Anarchist Reading Group · Anarchist Reading Group
Turquoise Coconut · Cassette Tape, Digital (2022)
Buffet Lunch · Cheeks/Mild Weather
"Mild Weather"
Upset the Rhythm · 7" Single (2021)
Buffet Lunch · Power of Rocks
"Ten Times", "Ashley's New Haircut" , "Power of Rocks"
Upset the Rhythm · Vinyl, Digital (2021)
Maddie Baird · Holobiont
"Movement 2 ~ feel", "Movement 3 ~ listen"
Self Release · Digital (2020)
Remixes
Jodie Nicolson · Embers (A Cappella Remix)
Ceitidh Mac · Seedlings
Pinnel · Animal Wife (Shipwreck Wedding Remix)
Ruth Lyon · Somebody Else
Deep Cabaret · Wedding Wish
Faithful Johannes · Dust
Burd Ellen · Morning Come, Maria’s Gone
Grey Tapes · Shiny
Selected Composition + Sound Design Commissions
Stepney Western · Film · Harry Lawson (2025)
Original theme song composition with live performance at premiere screening. Exhibited at Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne and Berwick Film Festival.
Abundance · Dance · Lizzie Klotz (2024)
Live original music composition for voice and electronics alongside intergenerational dance performance, developed through R&D stage and performed at Dunelm House for Durham Fringe Festival.
Three Acts of Love · Theatre · Jack McNamara and Bex Bowsher (2023)
Live performance of original music compositions & sound design for three experimental plays written by Laura Lindow, Naomi Obeng and Vici Wreford-Sinnott. Full run at Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Father Unknown · Theatre · Dr Michael Richardson and Jonah York (2023)
Electronic composition and sound design for play developed and written with North East Young Dads and Lads with Newcastle University. Performed at Northern Stage, Newcastle and Gala Theatre, Durham.
Skybound · Theatre · Timbadash (2023)
Electronic composition for multi-channel sound installation, designed for performances of immersive theatre in SEND schools, developed in partnership with Hadrian School, Newcastle.
Joe Quinn’s Poltergeist · Theatre · Jack McNamara (2022)
Semi-improvised live electronic performance alongside theatrical reading of book by David Almond, Performed at Live Theatre, Newcastle, with accompanying sound installation in theatre entrance.
New Model Island · Theatre · Jack McNamara (2022)
Semi-improvised live electronic performance alongside theatrical reading of excerpts from book by Alex Niven, performed as part of the Make Hope Possible Festival at Live Theatre, Newcastle.
Grubbins Wood · Theatre · Timbadash (2021)
Electronic composition and sound design for immersive theatre in SEND primary schools, developed in partnership with Hadrian School, Newcastle.
Connections · Local History Archive · VODA (2021)
Song composition in response to items found at local heritage site, released on project archive website with video, as part of the North Shields Heritage Action Zone Project.
New Narratives for the North East · Podcast · New Writing North (2020)
Composition of ident, introduction and incidental music & sound design for podcast series, Sonderbug Productions.
Bio
I am an interdisciplinary artist, composer and researcher based at Open Lab in Newcastle University’s School of Computing. Working primarily with interactive / immersive audio-visual installations and live electronic / vocal performances, I approach creative practice as an ongoing experiment in storytelling. I am interested in exploring the intersection of folk tradition, belief systems and developing technology, the motifs that reoccur and the themes that bind us together, how they are shaped by history and how they may change in future.
Under the name ‘Me Lost Me’ I have released three albums and toured the UK DIY scene since 2017 with my live ‘future-folk’ music, with notable performances including at the BBC Proms alongside the Voices of the River’s Edge Choir, at Sage Gateshead for BBC Radio 3’s After Dark Festival and opening for Richard Dawson at a sold-out Barbican Centre, London. In 2021 I received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Award for Composers, and my latest album ‘RPG’ released on Upset the Rhythm was named 4th best folk album of the year.
Often collaborating with colleagues across disciplines, I have made work in a variety of contexts, in music venues and galleries, in digital and public space. In addition to my self-directed practice, I’ve worked in composition and sound design for contemporary dance performance, theatre and radio/podcasts, and produced pieces of public art/composition commissions for heritage and arts organisations across the North East.
As a facilitator and workshop leader, I teach skills in song writing, experimental composition, electronic music, e-textiles, field recording and music production techniques. Having worked with a variety of community groups and organisations to produce original collaborative pieces of public AV work, I try to present creative practice as an accessible and achievable thing for all, emphasising play and curiosity both in my work alone and with others.
Awards, Funding + Grants
North East Artist Fund 2024 · Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers 2021 · Help Musicians UK: Do it Differently Fund 2021 · Arts Council England: Developing Your Creative Practice Fund 2021 · Help Musicians UK: Transmission Fund 2019
Bitchfinder General Live at Cluny 2, Newcastle upon Tyne (2023) photograph by Nostalgia Kid
Residencies
Borneo Bengkel Creative Exchange Programme 2021 · Sage Gateshead Artist in Residence, Gateshead 2020-2021 · AIR for European Capital of Culture programme, Godsbanen, Aarhus, DK 2017 · Galleri Andromeda, Gellerup, DK 2017 · AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp, BE 2016
Selected Solo + Group Exhibitions
The Dazzling Far-Near · 36 Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (2025)
Solo Exhibition of Interactive AV Design Work and Textiles
The Organ · Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough (2024)
Interactive AV Installation and accompanying public ‘Encounters’ performances and community arts e-textile design workshops programme
Commissioned by Middlesbrough Sonic Arts Week
Fast Forward/Re-Wild · City Centre, Middlesbrough (2022)
Interactive AV Installation/Sound Walk
Commissioned by Middlesbrough Sonic Arts Week
The Walled Garden · Online (2020)
Interactive web-based AV work
Developed and presented as part of the CAP MA Degree Show
The Waves, Like Braids, Unravelling · The Market Vaults, Scarborough (2020)
Audio + Light Installation, with accompanying live performance
Presented at Shifting Sands Festival
What These Lungs Are For · Ground Gallery, Hull (2018)
Solo print exhibition with accompanying live electronic performance and curated workshop series
Mayday! · Lokale, Copenhagen, DK (2018)
Voice & electronics performance
Commissioned for EC1 24H Exhibition Series
How Porous The Stone, How Tuned The Ear · Ceresbyen 1A, Aarhus, DK (2017)
Vocal performance and Sound Walk
Urban Substitution group residency show for the European Capital of Culture celebrations
and so also but if still yet · Galleri Andromeda, Gellerup, DK (2017)
Audio and print installation
Children of Tomorrow group residency show
A hand in wet concrete, a foot in the sea, and all things between are between you and me · AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp, BE (2016)
Solo exhibition of mixed media AV and sculptural work
Artist residency presentation