Artist Statement
My work extends from photography and photocollage, to printmaking, drawing, writing, embroidery, installation and participatory socially engaged practice. I am interested in the active role artists can play in societies, workplaces, organisations and communities, as well as art’s capacity to bond, connect and unite us across huge diversities and contrasts. In my socially engaged practice I like to take creativity into spaces where art isn’t expected, and use creativity as a tool to expand boundaries and possibilities whilst ensuring art remains a challenge but not a demand. Creativity for me is about working with and within the in-between, where becoming happens.
My work reflects my fascination for the natural world in forms such as trees, rivers, seeds and food as physical and aesthetic objects, as well as a direct and symbolic metaphor for our human connection to earth and each other.
This theme of connection is fundamental in my work - as a discipline and practice. In our wandering planet, it’s important for me to learn how to observe consciously, becoming aware of the dialogue between things and people.
I value time spent in nature, with plant life, water and other natural environments, as well as human social spaces. I grew up in a culture where food played a significant role in my family, and in community relationships, gatherings, celebrations and rituals. In this context, nature and food take on a social and spiritual dimension. I strongly believe nature has the capacity to teach and nourish us. As a result, my work looks to explore at the intersection of the natural, the cultural, the social and the spiritual.
CV
Select exhibitions
2024 Oct - I am Proud to tell you… / participatory artwork / UK
2024 Jun - Love . Transformation . Hope / participatory artwork / UK
2023 Nov - A Note of Kindness to Myself / participatory artwork / UK & Ireland
2023 June - Pride & Protest / participatory artwork/ Global
2023 Mar - Raising My Hand / participatory artwork / London, Weybridge and Stoke
2021 Nov - Unique / collective / Seeeds Gallery / Paris
2021 Nov - Unanimous / collective / Brixton, Downstairs / London
2021 Nov - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair / selected by the Thames-side Print Studio / London
2020 Nov - Ecole Ducasse / collective / Paris
2020 April - Seeeds Gallery / collective / Paris
2019 Sep - Skin Collection / solo exhibition / Wyken Vineyards / Bury Saint Edmunds
2018 June - Food Photo Festival / collective / Denmark
Education
2017 - Present Self-taught
2020 - 2021 Contemporary practice: Personal project course, City Lit
2018 - 2020 Higher National Diploma in Photography, British Academy of Photography
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Based in London
