I am an interdisciplinary artist using collage, film, photography, drawing and performance to explore sociocultural landscapes and our relationships to and within them. Influenced by my mixed heritage, my practice seeks to question narratives concerning identity and the tension between individual and collective experiences. I describe my practice as a mode of collecting, to investigate a desire to acquire and organise ‘things’ in order to better understand ourselves. These gathered items include sounds, archival video footage, found objects, drawn responses to environments, and stories I encounter along the way. Through a research-based methodology, my work seeks to create personal archives representative of my contemporary realities. My autobiographical approach to making weaves together objects, concepts and experiences in the form of a visual archive, with an aim to facilitate a dialogue between not only between myself and others, but also the past and the present. Video and photography act as a type of journal to chart my journeys, and see where they may or may not cross over with others, with collage functioning as the process by which I piece together the puzzle. Grounding these explorations around questions, as opposed to answers, research and practice occupy similar realms within my work. The idea of journeying is important to my current practice; journeys as past roads travelled, the roads yet to be embarked upon and the constant movement in between. My practice journeys through themes surrounding the complexities of selfhood,  interconnectedness, love and desire, discovery, learnt realities and ancestral remembrance.

belly dancer wearing a kilt
Miss Lyall (Strathspey) - Miss Lyall (Reel) - Andy Browns Reel, 2024, film
arabic plaster letters mounted behind lace curtain
close up of I Love You... Me Too..., 2024, words in plaster
belly dancer in kilt
still from Miss Lyall (Strathspey) - Miss Lyall (Reel) - Andy Browns Reel, 2024, film
plaster letters
I Love You... Me Too..., 2024, letters in plaster, found object
macramé rug with film playing
Wander/Wonder, 2024, macramé rug, film, audio, found object
pins on rug
close up of Wander/Wonder, 2024, macramé rug, film, audio, found object
macramé rug
Wander/Wonder, 2024, macramé rug, film, audio, found object
Digital collage depicting pink curtains and a living room setting
Dreaming/Welcome Home, 2024, digital collage
digital collage with gates and chair
Find your place!, 2024, digital collage
Venetian blind upon wallpaper
Esther, 2024, collage on Venetian blind
collage on venetian blind against wallpaper
David, 2024, collage on Venetian blind
still from film
neither me, nor mine, but me nonetheless, 2024, film still, personal footage and archival footage
found objects against white background
Things found here and there, 2024, found object
collage on metal
Mirror, Mirror, 2024, photographic collage on metal
collage with brooch resting on top
Collage, 2024
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