Artist statement
My practice seeks to mine and unpack the pearls and discomforts of memory: triggers, interpretations and the ways these can be felt and depicted visually. Particularly important to me is the dissonance that occurs during the process of recall. Through introspection I am often influenced by nuances of memory and feeling: the engagement between the felt and the seen, that can then be released into my work. As a meditation on age, mortality and evolution, my work suggests an appreciation of how changes in time can be manifest in places and objects.
I love to use textiles, especially old ones with an embedded history, often as a starting point, and combine them with photography and/or painting to express the, often complex, layers and textures of their material structure, and how the story of their users can be sensed within the warp and weft of the fabric.
