My art practice is process-led, foregrounding experimentation with materiality to explore the intersection between religion and spirituality, the sacred and profane, the conscious and unconscious and how these processes relate to the contemporary political climate. I am interested in working with waste materials, those that are discarded or remnants from past events. This includes turning foraged materials into paints, inks, and dyes; aligning the medicinal or spiritual properties of them with the conceptual themes of the work. The process of transformation that these materials undergo echoes the idea of internal journeying and identity crafting that my work explores as I pull together meaning from disparate events and objects to create the sense of something sacred. Using both methods of construction and deconstruction, I question how objects can become imbued with power – does it stem from religious authority, physicality or individual pattern spotting? How can art mediate these experiences and represent these points of inquiry?
Bio
Unveiling
Unveiling, graduate show installation, 2026
This body of work explores themes of transformation, superstition, and spiritual practices through constructing and deconstructing ritual objects. It draws on histories of women's devotional labour, the medieval sheela-na-gig, and the process of dreaming to create a space for contemplation which highlights the transient nature of internal belief systems. The materiality of these sculptures is central to their meaning and is outlined below.
Seeping Through: reclaimed crochet doilies, recycled bed sheet, wooden pellet, deconstructed church pew, recycled metal piping, ceramic, red wine, embroidered cotton muslin dyed with rust and combined with bio-leather made from tea waste and herbs to promote good sleep and dreams (chamomile, lavender, verbena, valerian root and mugwort).
Stitched Up: reclaimed pew ends, pew bench pieces, locks of hair, sewing needles and silver jewellery wire.
Unbound: 59 wooden beads and 6 pieces of silver jewellery wire.
Dream Board: reclaimed oak church hymn board, paper made from paper waste, wood pulp, and herbs to promote good sleep and dreams (chamomile, lavender, verbena, valerian root and mugwort), with ink made from crushed birch wood charcoal and gum arabic as a binder.
