Playground

Personal essays in newsletter form for people who dare to live creative lives. We talk about the nature of being creative and living through trauma, and share cool stuff I find on the web.

Edited and translated an interview between Nicoletta De Santoli & Domenico De Leo

A micro invitation to lose yourself in the unspoken.

Fleeting, often contradictory thoughts about domestic space captured through photos, text, sound and interactive elements.

An online exhibition and accompanying catalogue focusing on the ways in which emerging artists and curators have been affected by the increasingly dystopian internet culture of the last decade.

A ZIP-compressed exhibition exploring fears, desires, and obstacles artists face in times of crisis and isolation. Featured works cross-referenced mythology, pop culture, the supernatural, and digital selfhood. Curated by Magda Żołędź (of ONE Project) and I, the exhibition opened with an online event featuring artwork walk-throughs, studio visits, and Q&As. Featuring works by Paweł Franciszek Jaskuła, Klara Wozniak, Simone D'Angelo, Fiorella Angelini, Maria Sabrina Scassa, Aitan Ebrahimoff, Sandra Araújo, João, Bragança Gil, Paulina Jolda, Ruofan Chen, Othon G.H., Rikardo Druškić and Gil Mac.

Exhibition essay that accompanied the exhibition 'Feed Your Demons and Meet the Ally' where I reflect on how the time gifted us by the pandemic forced us to look for answers where none seem to exist.

Can re-framing social media content as a stream of consciousness tell the story of how it came to be? Three Years contains all my tweets from April 2016 to February 2019 – more than a thousand entries.

Co-curated with David Waterworth, this exhibition showcased the work of four University of Greenwich graduates: John Joseph Watters, Grace Diggens, Marilia Lezou and Rhiannon Ashley. Each of them working in an interdisciplinary field, doing their bit to make a positive impact on our environment and our community.

A semi-autonomous program that generated and tweeted 500+ exhibition titles for fictional art exhibitions, from the hilarious to the grotesque. It tweeted daily for two years between 2018 - 2021.

Interactive web-work based on a story by Clemens Meyer. The site guides you through narrative extracts, accompanied by corrupted sketches, a forklift spun in space, and a soundtrack I composed.

Captured shots of concerts in Liverpool and the Merseyside area. My gig photography portfolio includes Nas, Idles, Real Estates, Tom Grennan, Nathan Fake, and Stealing Sheep.

Made, released and performed music under my own name and the aliases Mountain King and Young Offices. Played in cover bands, dj'd and performed my own music at informal gigs in Italy and England.

Read.cv was a portfolio and social networking platform for creatives. My projects got featured in their 'Features' section several times.

Feature on 'How to Feel More at Home' by Banyi Huang on Issue 25 of Show and Tell.

Image 'Untitled(2)' was published in Issue 04: 'Self' of Harbor Review, an independent online space and publication for poetry and art.