I moved around a lot growing up. I lived all over the place. The one constant was television. It felt like I was raised and educated by my portable analogue TV. Not everything connected, but certain things really did. Classic films, kitchen sink dramas, quirky comedies, art house cinema, film noir and French avant-garde.

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Moving around the country exposed me to different circumstances and perspectives, shaping how I see things and relate to people. The disruption to my education meant I left home and school at fifteen with no qualifications but I later found my way into art school, graduating in Fine Art, Film and Animation.

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Alongside film, music ran in parallel. I produced tracks, promoted club nights and spent a lot of time in spaces where sound and rhythm were the main event. One of my first jobs out of university was working as a live vision mixer in a large club, creating visuals for moving screens.

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I mixed live camera feeds from around the club, archive footage and graphics in real time. I had to time edits to the music, read the crowd and work the room. It was a fast, practical education in pace, timing and knowing when to push something forward or let it breathe.

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Music became a serious pursuit. I started making records, signed to an indie label and spent several years trying to make it work. Letting that go wasn’t easy, but it sharpened my sense of what I cared about and where my focus really lay.
 

Around that time, I came across an advert for a trainee creative role at the BBC. Getting the job felt like a rare moment of alignment. My time there was formative. I was making trails across BBC channels and UKTV, moving quickly between genres, audiences and tones. By the time I left, BBC Broadcast had become Red Bee Media. I walked out with a handful of awards and straight into Channel 5.

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​​​At Channel 5, I helped build and shape an in-house commercial department, writing and directing campaigns, sponsorships and idents. It was innovative, fast-paced and hands-on. We made high-end work on tight budgets, while helping the sales team sell multi-channel airtime packages that came with heavily reduced, and sometimes free, commercial production.

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From there I moved between senior creative roles across broadcasters, a global travel platform and a small creative and production company. The work ranged from commissioning and setting up production studios to hands-on writing, directing, producing and editing, bringing everything I’d learned together in one place.

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Whether I’m writing, directing, producing or editing, those experiences are there in the work. From television and music to the people I’ve met, it all feeds into how I approach what I do.