National Portrait Gallery
Photo Portrait Now is a National Portrait Gallery partnership project with six universities from across England and Wales exploring contemporary portrait photography over the 2024-2025 academic year.
As part of the Photo Portrait Now programme with the National Portrait Gallery, I had the opportunity to exhibit my documentary-style portrait work, including my series exploring drag queens, called Queens. This project brought together students from universities across England and Wales to respond to contemporary portrait photography over the 2024–2025 academic year.
Through workshops, talks, and access to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, I developed my work in response to the themes of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize of 2024. The exhibition marked the first time my images were displayed within this context, allowing me to share my personal approach to portraiture and storytelling, particularly through my focus on identity, performance, and community.
Work in Progress Exhibition
During my third year, I exhibited my work in a work-in-progress show at Fotonow in Plymouth, presenting a series of images that I had developed so far.
Presenting a series of images that I had developed so far for my project Portraits of Belonging. The exhibition allowed me to share my developing project and gain valuable feedback from viewers across several days.
The Lions Den
End of year show for second year of university.
I displayed my images from a Collaboration module. I collaborated with a Bio-Medical student to show the similarities between textures found on the South West Coastal Path and various bacteria and diseases.
This was displayed at The Lion’s Den with other second and first year students.
The Lions Den
End of year show for first year of university.
I displayed images of my project called Jaroslav and Lidmila from our storytelling module in first year of university.
Focusing on my grandparents from the Czech Republic, I documented their lives and relationship with each other within their domestic space, for two weeks from a documentary portraiture perspective, using 35mm film.
