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statement –

An engagement with materials and with the body, is at the heart of my practice. My work is usually three-dimensional, and research driven, using techniques and related objects to extend the narrative of the work.

Making is an intrinsic part of who I am. I blend a mixture of familiar and unfamiliar processes, to cultivate an experimental approach to my work. My main passion is stitched textiles, constructing shape and form using pattern cutting techniques and manipulating surfaces. Enjoying the repetitious element of processes such as Canadian smocking and origami techniques.

I am also drawn to details and edges, such a buttonholes, seams, collars and cuffs. For me, the edges mark the point between the inside and the outside and the public and private.

As well as textiles processes, I regularly explore sculptural materials, such as ceramics and metal. I like to contrast soft things against hard objects and seduce the viewer with materials and processes.

Coming from a background in fine art with experience in dress making and pattern cutting, I am interested in making work that relates to the body. Inspired by the fabric sculptures of Louise Bourgeois, who uses soft and perishable textiles to evoke the bodies vulnerability and worn clothing for its memorialising capacities, I use a range of new and old textiles to allude to the body. Fabric, is a material we all have a physical relationship with, it activates a haptic sensation and tactile association, that goes beyond a visual encounter. Alongside this, my use of ceramic vessels, act as a metaphor for the body, a container, with an inside, an outside and an ability to spill. For the artist, everything in the world is a material.

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