b.Northfield, Birmingham
I am an interdisciplinary artist, primarily focusing on live practice/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.
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, participants and bystanders.
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.