Art Practice

My practice is interdisciplinary and grounded in material process. I work with natural and foraged materials, including plant fibres, clay, fabric, hair, and handmade cordage. These materials often carry their own histories, associations, and symbolic meanings, particularly within folklore, craft traditions, and relationships to the natural world. Much of the work begins with the physical act of making, allowing the qualities of the material to guide the direction of the piece.
 

I produce sculptural objects, textile forms, wearable pieces, and photographic work. Some works reference the body directly, either through scale, structure, or the suggestion of a garment. Others exist as independent artefacts. Across these forms, I am interested in how materials can hold emotional weight, and how processes of making can become a way of exploring memory, attachment, and vulnerability.
 

Themes of ritual, transformation, and containment recur throughout the work. I return frequently to acts of binding, weaving, enclosing, dissolving, or erosion. These gestures allow the work to sit between tenderness and restraint, intimacy and distance. Folklore and plant symbolism often inform both the choice of materials and the structures that emerge from them.
 

The practice is slow and reflective, shaped through experimentation, sketching, writing, and sustained engagement with materials. I am particularly interested in what can be grown, gathered, reclaimed, or made by hand. Through this process, the work becomes a space where emotional experience, natural symbolism, and material transformation can meet.