My career in the media began at BBC Radio Nottingham as a researcher, after winning a studentship place at university. I was soon offered broadcast journalist opportunities and later moved into television production. My television career includes working in regional news and current affairs. I produced a weekly consumer affairs segment.

 

After completing my degree, I moved first to Television Centre, and then to Birmingham, where I worked on BBC1 and BBC2 programmes.

 

In 2012 I set up Syncopate Media an independent production company and was later awarded funding for my films Many Rivers To Cross (2013) and Making Waves (2015). Both spoke of a Black experience in Britain. I have also been commissioned to produce films for BBC Inside Out, BBC Sunday Politics and for CBBC.

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My film The Art of Oppression (2021), won Best Film in the 2022 Windrush Caribbean Film Festival. The film features three female artists who were given three weeks to each create a work of art during lockdown.
The women are culturally diverse and use their art to speak of their experienes of marginalisation and of injustice.

 

My agitation with the enduring social, racial and gendered inequality informed my postgraduate research at Nottingham Trent University which aimed to articulate the silencing of women’s voices through a practice-based prism. My research focused on the voices of women engaged in dissenting activities. I have completed my PhD and continue to incorporate academic texts into my practice so offering an alternative reflection of our socio-political present, and deconstructing racist and sexist ideological narratives, in my effort to conceive of an alternative ‘language’ that constructs a social philosophy embracing difference and appreciating all.