Marking the end of my residency, this exhibition addresses the complicated political history of Bulgaria, notions of social displacement and the social disintegration caused by a number of significant political events of the last century. Using family history as a starting point, I explore issues that concern present-day society in Bulgaria. In response to the decrepit state of the school 'St Kliment Ohridski' in Bulgaria, which provokes a notion of an impoverished, post-communist country, this residency has allowed me to integrate sculptural clay work in my photographic practice.

My upcoming show, 'Work in Progress', part of my residency at Ashford School, is open to the public 2 - 4 December 2016.
The exhibition will include work produced by my students, as well as featuring my own work in progress. My students have produced work for this exhibition centred on the question 'what can we really learn from what we see in an image?'; using organic, everyday materials to highlight what the image reveals yet simultaneously conceals. It has been influenced by the natural optical phenomenon, 'camera obscura', which challenges the way we look at the world and perceive images.
The focus of my work revolves around the notions of education during the communist regime in Bulgaria, how it has deteriorated since the fall of communism, and drawing parallels to my work as an artist in residence. This has been achieved through the presentation of archives of educational material found at a now-abandoned school in Bulgaria close to me, as it was the school my parents attended in their youth.