I draw, animate and research. For the last decade my work has moved between Manchester and Mexico, approaching Mexican and Mesoamerican visual culture as a living counterpart — something to think alongside, draw with, and answer to.
My PhD (Media, Manchester Metropolitan University, AHRC-funded) developed ritual return: a practice-based approach to the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca — the manuscript catalogued as the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer — that asks what return means when an object cannot yet come home. The project connected World Museum Liverpool, INAH Puebla and Indigenous communities in Mexico through facsimiles, workshops, exhibitions and a 3D model that lets the manuscript unfold anywhere in the world.
Before that: an MA in Visual Anthropology (Distinction, University of Manchester), where comics became my method — graphic ethnographies of Mexican family myths and intergenerational memory that have since been published, exhibited and taught on three continents.
I work as an editor at Otherwise Magazine, lecture on graphic anthropology, and am developing a research programme on digital and intellectual-property restitution for Mesoamerican manuscripts with partners at Warwick, Exeter and INAH.
I am currently Special Collections Teaching and Learning Coordinator at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, working with academics, curators and students to bring rare books, manuscripts and archives into teaching across disciplines. The work carries familiar concerns into the classroom: whose knowledge collections hold, how their histories shape what we see, and how students can develop their own questions through encounters with the material.
Bilingual English/Español. Working French.
