Wellcome Collection Stories:

Produced for the Wellcome Collection Stories, this series reflects the balancing act between embracing life and living with a chronic disease felt in Daisy Watson Shaw’s article Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes, and my own experience of living with type 1 diabetes; and the tension between the hope for a cure, and the desire to experience life fully now.

My is interested in making the invisible visible – the idea that the body is no longer able to manage itself; the technology of ‘the cyborg’ (the ‘diaborg’); and medical waste as both an intrinsic part of treatment and an environmental issue at the same time. The images consider the issues that Daisy raises of confusion, the shame and potential that living outside-in with your body all entail.

My work questions notions of bodily autonomy and identity that are raised in becoming a person (/patient) living with diabetes, and the ways in which art and graphic medicine can provide a pathway for better patient interaction.

Map landscapes for tea-towels to represent qualitative data from couriers - giving a courier-eye view of the cities.

Comic Style Illustrations and Graphic Design for a card game educating about Carbon Dioxide for primary schools.

LAIB experience advice leaflet. Using testimony from patients to create an advice leaflet about taking a new drug

Visualising new spaces in towns and cities: Courier Life Manchester 2050; Hydrock: Repurposing the High Street, and Re-imagining the Retail Park.

Maps for Magic Torch Comics: A SciFi visualisation of a alien world, A Folklore landscape of Greenock, and a map of Callender exploring the place names and local myths.

Logo R&D & Logo Illustrations

Card and Architecture Illustrations for ‘Carbon City Zero’ and ‘Carbon City World Edition’, a deck building card game in collaboration with the charity Possible to promote carbon neutrality.

Landscapes cartooned and stylised (originally commissioned as part of a kick-starter campaign for Carbon City Zero.

Interior hand painted murals - with design images, and installation pictures.

Visual communication, Scribing and Sketch Notes for Fractals, Hydrock Engineering, The NIHR, Leeds Medical School, and Theatre of Debate.

Comics designed for internal comms to promote and inform about products, strategies and initiatives.

Vivid illustrations of bacteria & viruses utilising perspective and focus.

Cartoons created to celebrate work experiences and colleagues careers.

Icons for a website timeline to represent the history of pandemics through history. Theatre of Debate, Leeds Medical School & NIHR.

Cover and Editorial work: illustrating a online identity for ‘Looking For My Sister’ Podcast, a cover image and lettering for ‘Cell Metabolism’, Social media thumbnails and banners for ‘Down to a Sunless Sea’ podcast, the cover image for the first edition of ‘Consilience’, and a social media thumbnail for ‘The Family Tree’ podcast.

Medical Communication: Cartoons to explore the idea of “Patient Heal Thyself” and how that might be differently interpreted by patient and healthcare professional; images to explore germ transmission, and mental health.

Explorations of cities through sketching, colour and cartooning: Manchester, Newcastle and Brighton.

Illustrations to accompany a collection of poems that explore terra-forming as a way to positively envision environmental protections, and understand climate change.