Drawing on cognitive mapping, hauntology and the dérive, Ford's multidisciplinary practice is a mapping of the urban unconscious. She completed a PhD (Threshold Cartographies:The Poetics of Contested Spade) at the RCA 2021. In 2013-2014 she was Stanley Picker Fellow at Kingston University. She is author of Savage Messiah, (Verso 2011) and is currently working on a novel. Her writing has appeared in many journals and magazines including Frieze, The White Review, Afterall, Guardian, Dazed and Art Review.