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A project-based life.
I’ve never followed a conventional path. Instead, I pursue curiosity, commit fully to what’s in front of me, and move on when the chapter is done.
The first chapter was sport. I played rugby for England U16s, U18s, and U19s, scoring in the U18 European Championship final and competing in the U19 Junior World Cup. At 18, I signed a professional contract with Sale Sharksand also played Championship rugby for Manchester and Sedgley Park, all while completing a degree in music production. Injury ended my professional career at 24.
Two years later, I became head coach of National League side Preston Grasshoppers, a role I held for three years while beginning to build a creative career. In 2014, I quit my job at a sportswear company and started freelancing as a video producer. That became GD Video Ltd — a lean, one-person operation delivering films for global brands including Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, Speedo, Quorn, Arla, Autodesk, and Lytham Festival. For over a decade, I’ve kept the business deliberately small, with low overhead, a tight freelance network, and a focus on premium storytelling.
Alongside commercial work, I’ve built a body of personal creative projects. Between 2018 and 2023, I produced short documentaries following men pursuing transformation — films screened on BBC Look North, the Kendal Mountain Player, and in schools across the UK. Under the imprint G-ART-H, I publish photography books and prints, drawing from a decade of street and observational photography in Preston and across Europe. In 2025, I released my debut album, And Then, It Flowed — recorded with a single synth and two FX pedals, entirely improvised, exploring freedom within constraint.
In 2024, I ran a 50-mile ultra-marathon, raising £5,000 for the Orange Foundation, a cancer support charity, training for just three months with no prior experience.
My project-based approach to life is shaped by Nassim Taleb’s concept of antifragility: keep a stable core, experiment at the edges, and let positive randomness create new opportunities. I discovered this philosophy through practice before I had a name for it
I'm based in Preston, England.