My research explores the intersections between Surrealism, therapy, and creative practice. It develops from my doctoral work at the University of Salford and continues through projects that test how Surrealist methods can act as catalysts for renewal, collectivity, and imaginative experiment.

PhD Project — Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake
This research examined mimicry as a subversive creative strategy in the work of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington, exploring how Surrealist technique generates its own forms of therapeutic energy. [Read more →]

Alsdorf Project — The Everyday Marvellous
A collaborative project re-imagining Salford as its dream-other through collective Surrealist practice. Workshops with a mental-health charity evolved into a communal process of automatic writing, character creation and dream-mapping. [Read more →]

Surrealist Practice & Therapy
Ongoing research into the therapeutic dimensions of Surrealist practice and its resonance in contemporary art and writing. This strand underpins my developing book Torpedo the Mind: Surrealism, Therapy & Altered States. [Read more →]