Statement:
My work is led by chance encounters with the everyday, situating objects, material transformations and interventions in a place that merges art and reality. I respond intuitively to what I find around me, exploring the idiosyncrasies of daily life through processes of accumulation and the impulse towards order.
Through engaging with the animate and the inanimate I am interested in fore-grounding our co-existence and inter-connectedness with non-human entities.
I resist confinement to a single medium, preferring to move freely between sculpture, drawing, installation, performative actions and photography.
Often my works capture a brief specific moment dictated through a particular coming together of elements. Other times, projects unfold over a longer period, operating through activities of ritualistic gathering and systematic recording. I am interested in the anticipation created by potential and the interplay between chance and intention.
My work tends to be site-responsive, influenced or adapted to the specific conditions of internal and outdoor spaces. It exists where it wants to exist. I like to think of my works as subtle disrupters, placing things where they don’t belong. Playfully using colour or movement as tactics to give them agency and of drawing attention to themselves.
Through making work that is intentionally in a state of flux or out-of-place I seek to articulate a way of thinking that is attuned to a temporary, in-between state of being, reflecting the fleeting nature of our own existence.
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Bio:
Currently studying an MA at City & Guilds of London Art school, I work from my garden and studio in Kent.
In 2013 I graduated from the University of the Creative Arts (UCA) with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. I was one of seven artists selected for the Platform Graduate Showcase exhibition at Turner Contemporary. In 2019 I was one of three artists awarded The London Group’s President’s Prize of an exhibition.
I am a co-founder and member of Filaments Art Collective, a group of five artists based in Kent. We curate an annual light show in the historic St Mary’s church at Burhan (near Rochester) and have been awarded several commissions.