His works span across orchestral, chamber, vocal and experimental music and is heavily influenced by the Japanese shakuhachi and the honkyoku aesthetic.
Skipworth co-founded the new music ensemble Intercurrent in 2015, along with percussionist Louise Devenish, pianist Emily Green-Armytage and clarinettist Ashley William Smith.
Between 2010 and 2011, he spent two semesters in Germany undertaking a kontaktstudium at the Freiburg Hochschule fur Musik with composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann.
[6] After winning the Paul Lowin Prize for orchestral composition in 2016, Skipworth earned a string of major commissions and appointments.
[6] The winning work, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, earned the APRA Art Music Award for Performance of the Year,[7] and was chosen by ABC Classic FM to be presented at the 2016 International Rostrum of Composers in Poland.