Art Practice
 

My artistic practice explores transformation through natural materials and embodied processes. I work with foraged fibres, plant-based substances, clay, fabric, hair, and handmade techniques, creating sculptural artefacts that often reference the body without being designed for wear. These forms are shaped through cordage, basketry, textile manipulation, and ceramics. The processes I use are slow and labour-intensive, allowing space for reflection, resistance, and ritual.

Much of my work centres on tension: softness rendered rigid, garments emptied of the body, containment without closure. I am drawn to materials and techniques that carry historical, symbolic, or mythic significance, particularly those associated with traditional craft, domestic labour, or overlooked women's work. I explore how process becomes narrative, and how degradation, repetition, or holding can mirror emotional states such as grief, longing, and resilience.

My practice is research-led but sensory, emerging from material trial, written reflection, and connection to place. I value slowness and impermanence, favouring what can be grown, gathered, or made rather than what is manufactured. Though not intended for performance or worn display, each piece remains relational. It becomes a container of memory, absence, or emotional charge, held in tension between intimacy and distance.