Having recently graduated in fine art drawing, I am doing two totally unrelated jobs; enjoying my new found freedom and gaining that thing that they call life experience.

Family is everything, I'm a real home body

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've spent too long with my head in books. I need to breathe some fresh air

Interests

• animals
• dogs
• music
• swimming
• films
• food
• nature
• family
• deep conversations
• the outdoors
• long walks
• craft
• keeping fit
• getting to know new people
• swimming in the sea

Music, Movies, and Books

-Christine and the Queens
-Florence and the machine
-James Bay
-Tom Odell
-Natalie Merchant
-10 thousand maniacs
-coldplay
-snowpatrol
-Hozier
-Jess Glynn
-Sinaed O'Connor
-Rebecca Ferguson
-Fleetwoodmac
-Neil Young
-Kings of Leon
-Newton Faulkner
-Sam Smith
-Khalid
-Le Roux
-U2
-Oasis
-REM
-The Verve
-The White Stripes
-Johny Cash
-Michael Jackson
-Sam Cooke
-David Gray
-The lighthouse family

-The Blindside
-20th Century Women
-Juno
-Bridesmaids
-Pan's Labyrinth
-Hidden Figures
-About a Boy
-About time
-Mother
-Miss Congeniality
-Over your cities grass will grow

 -Berger, J. and Levi Strauss, D. (2003) Between the Eyes, Essays on Photography and Politics. London: Aperture Foundation
 -Beshty, W. ed (2015) ETHICS Documents of Contemporary Art. London: MIT Press
- Didi-Huberman, G. and Pollock, G. and Ranciere, J (2004) Alfredo Jaar: The Politics of Images. Lausanne: JRP Ringier
 -Eccher,D. and Fabbri, P. and Boltanski, C. and Soutif, D (1997) Christian Boltanski. Italy: Charta
-Gardner, S. and Luis Bermúdez, J. eds (2003) Art and Morality. Oxford: Routledge
 -Grynsztejn, M. and Rodrigues Wildholm, J. eds (2015) Doris Salcedo. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 
 -Gumpert, L (1994) Christian Boltanski. Paris: Flammarion
 -Hiller, S (1995) After The Freud Museum. London: Book Works
-Jaar, A (1998) Let There Be Light. Barcelona: Actar
 -Jaar, A (2008) It Is Difficult Ten Years. Barcelona: Actar
-Singer, P (1994) Rethinking Life & Death. Oxford: Oxford University Press
 -Sontag, S (2003) Regarding the pain of others. London: The Penguin Group
 -Stewart, S (1993) On Longing. London: Duke University Press
 -Szekacs-Weisz, J (2005) Lost Childhood and the Language of Exile. Hungary: IMAGO MLPC and The Freud Museum
-Barthes, R (1980) Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
-Benjamin, W (1931) A short history of photography
-Bowlby, J (1958) A SECURE BASE Parent-Child attachment and Healthy Human Development
-Dant, T. and Gilloch, G (2002) Pictures of the Past: Benjamin and Barthes on photography and history
-Hirschhorn, T (2008) Doing Art Politically: What Does This Mean? In Critical Laboratory: The Writings of Thomas Hirschhorn
-Lanham, K Studied Sentiment: A look at Jennifer Doyle’s Hold it Against me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art in Haunt Journal of Art
-Said, E (2000) Reflections on Exile

What I Can Share with Hosts

-Conversation
-Humour
-Company