b. Northfield, Birmingham
I am an interdisciplinary artist, primarily focusing on live practice, movement and action. My practice is informed by intuitive responses to both sourced and found material and environments.
Materials provide access to other worlds, where the internal meets external. The activation of it allows me to tap into these spaces where the body in action and movement engages with the remnants of personal, cultural, and historical contexts and memories.
My work explores historical sites—paintings, landscapes, and biographical—through the activation of materials, some reoccurring, some new. These actions challenge and negotiate broad-ranging topics such as feminism, class, humour, alienation, resistance, and joy. I am interested in a liminal space, visually—cross-hatching between personal, cultural, and historical. Where these points meet, cross and depart, dissolve, reform.
Live art holds possibilities in the vulnerability of such acts that cannot be ‘corrected’, and these possibilities offer openings for new discoveries—for both the viewer and myself. The error—or inability to correct in real time—makes it a live, active space for agents to interact, collide, emerge. It exposes cracks in normative structures and generates new or unfolding language, where meaning is constantly latent, in drift. The slippage from an already made structure provides a space for new life, new ways of thinking—the inability to rehearse an already made structure becomes a refusal, a site of emergence. Instead, it is where life slips in—chaotic, uncontained, full of potential—and emergence comes into being.
Non-rehearsal allows for this space because it resists containment and prediction. It refuses the safety of repetition and instead invites rupture, presence, and attunement. Without rehearsal, the body is not performing a script—it is responding, metabolising, becoming. This refusal of prefiguration opens a terrain where meaning is not delivered but discovered, where relational dynamics unfold in real time, and where the work remains porous to interruption, contradiction, and transformation.
Through live art, these material and immaterial traces are brought into new life through present, unpredictable circumstances and non-premeditated movement. Often referencing historical notions in subjective and seemingly non-logical manners. Instead opting for a ‘meeting place’ that deeply and poetically fosters conversations between the personal (my body and memory), both internal and external; materials (both personal and collective) and historical (a place between reality and myth). In hope of bringing the viewer out of passivity. To shake things loose by creating new memories and associations—for myself and those present as co-creators. Their presence, responses, and interruptions are not peripheral but integral to the work’s unfolding. Together, we generate a live terrain where meaning is not delivered but discovered, where emergence is shared, and where refusal becomes relational.
I studied at University of Worcester where I earned my BA in Fine Art and was awarded a scholarship to Central Saint Martins where I studied MA Fine Art. I have exhibited in various locations in China, Brussels, London, and other parts of the UK.
(Last updated December 2024).