Perch
A self-build hempcrete and timber studio designed to celebrate the natural space it shares and provide a light-filled space for creativity to thrive. Currently underway with plans to complete by summer 2025.
A long-term project begins with the discovery of my grandfather’s unpublished manuscript recounting his efforts in the 1955 rescue of an injured mountaineer on Denali, North America’s highest peak.
A long-term collaborative project with artist Maja Daniels that explores my experience with a breast cancer gene mutation through photography, writing and mixed media work.
Redacted embroidered text on a hospital gown evokes the private experience of a cancer patient’s partner and highlights cancer’s wider impact.
Lumen prints made on photographic paper with plants & flowers collected in Hackney Marshes capture moments of beauty and respite during London’s Covid lockdown in 2020.
Hand-stitching on cyanotype fabric of the night sky becomes a ritual to track, come to terms with and honour the dead in the first 100 days of COVID-19 deaths in the UK.
An installation building on autobiographical work about the breast cancer gene mutation provides a glimpse into the patient’s inner world through peepholes and lenses.
Stitched words in a Victorian garment capture the feelings of a mother affected by her son’s epilepsy and is my contribution to Out of the Blue, an installation by Susan Aldworth.
Screenprints use language to prompt visual thinking about the overlaps between the body and cosmos, created to punctuate a hospital-based group exhibition.
My MA Art & Science dissertation explores how the viewers’ engagement with art is itself a creative process that helps them make sense of their own experiences.
Negatives from outdated star-mapping equipment and images of microslides of my body tissue link medical and astronomical explorations through printmaking and cyanotype on fabric.
Perspex and glass paint show us common patterns of the increasing and decreasing sensation we often feel related to five distinct emotional states: happiness, love, disgust, anxiety, and depression.
A pillowcase embroidered with my father’s likeness as he lay ill in hospital joins hundreds of other embroideries in a large-scale installation about sleep and dreaming by artist Susan Aldworth.
A kinetic sculpture created in collaboration with artist Julie Light evokes ideas around mutation and nods to Crick and Watson’s 1953 model for the double helix structure of DNA.