House of Ruin (2026)

House of Ruin explores Nottingham Castle as a site where history, memory, and representation intersect. The project considers how places are encountered not as fixed realities but as evolving perceptions shaped by time, repetition, and mediation.

Photographs of the building were made using a toy camera, whose optical limitations introduce shifts in clarity and perception, allowing the architecture to appear closer to recollection than documentation. Images of mannequins, garments, and museum displays extend this exploration of surrogate presence, where bodies are implied rather than shown and meaning emerges through association and projection.

The project is now being developed further through printmaking. The images are translated into photopolymer etching, silkscreen, and cyanotype, where material processes of exposure, inking, and transfer introduce new shifts in tone, texture, and scale. In moving from photograph to print, the work continues its enquiry into mediation and transformation, allowing each iteration to subtly reshape how the image is seen and understood.