I am an artist based in South East London, working in a range of media including photography, collage, painting and stitch. I am particularly interested in combining materials and processes to create new textures and associations, and the way in which surfaces become a repository for memory and experience. In June 2020 I gained my MA in Fine Art (distinction) from Central St Martins. I believe that a strong arts community is of benefit to all and have recently become a trustee of the Deptford X festival.
I have a longstanding interest in issues raised by feminist artists and writers from the 1970s onwards. In some series I combine my body, simple objects, stitches and text to produce shapes and forms that are ambiguous and often absurd. These images convey the performative nature of our encounters and the impossibilities of straightforward communication. Using timers and remote controls to take these images results in more or less disguised explorations of the self-portrait.
Recent work has explored the body as a location and skin as a surface that conceals and reveals. Photographs are cropped and enlarged to emphasise abstraction, geometry and texture, whilst maintaining the close, at times intimate, relationship to the body with its marks and scars.
Writing and the possibilities of language are also central to my practice, taking the form of texts ranging from full-length articles to short phrases appearing within the art itself. My article ‘Locations’, about Agnes Varda, our memories of place and the creative process, was published in Jaws Journal Volume 6 Number 1 in 2021.