Born near Birmingham, UK, I grew up with a twin interest in the visual arts and music, learned to play trumpet and guitar as a congenitally one-handed musician, and studied sculpture at Northumbria University and Coventry University. During my Masters degree, I met composer and interactive media pioneer Rolf Gehlhaar and through technology (particularly physical computing technologies such as sensors, actuators, and the Arduino microcontrollers), found a way to draw together my prior skills and experiences. I subsequently completed a PhD that concerned the creation of unstable, David Tudor-inspired (digital) audiovisual instruments for both novice and experienced players. Outside of this, I became increasingly interested in the intersections of accessibility (something I see as an extension of disabled rights) and creative technology, seeing audiovisual systems (not just instruments, but also interfaces, installations, etc.) as a fertile source of interesting and important tensions and contradictions that warrant further exploration. I have often worked collaboratively with specialists from disciplines as diverse as HCI, Musical Theatre, and Agricultural Science, and my work has been exhibited in the UK, Greece (Beton7 Gallery, Athens), the US (Headlands Art Centre), and New Zealand (Canaan Downs), as well as presented at conferences and festivals, in workshops for public and education participants, and in academic books and journals.