My creative path and past story. As a child I believed I was going to work with animals no matter what. A vet. A zookeeper. Animals consistently do something to me. They truly make me smile. I get a buzz […]
Slippage through thin boundaries Bio feminism and colonialism Poverty and non-material wealth Living and dead Dream and reality Human and more-than-human
exploring the intersection of social/queer culture and human and more-than-human’s beneficial impact on conservation… which is to say, how queer-theory human relations and expression with/through nature, impacts on policy making regarding conservationism. NOTES Fairytales: Debts. Transformation. Chaos. Story. Spells. Alternate parallel […]
process and planning of collaborative illustrative and audio art exhibition, between myself and Ulrika-Igraine Muñoz-alarcón.
We kicked off the study period with a session looking into nature, paying attention to non-human relationships that could inspire new ways of thinking. The session involved: memory and location mapping exercise: connecting the body, memories, places and imagination, a […]
I’m collecting content about Neurodiversity for my research.
Reflecting on my recent 1-1 Jane, we spoke about how the breasts represent pebbles due to the size/roundness of them. I wanted to take this idea further with develop how water distorts whatever is in it. I photographed the breasts through water orb […]
In responding a Madge Gill commission proposal I became a little obsessed with making drawings of Madge.The more I did the more I enjoyed it and experimented.I have found that using ink and wash with soft oil pastel really lets […]
I winced at the thought about using fairy liquid as a medium to pour onto paper. I find it ironic as a material because it’s clean, in the sense that it’s free of bacteria, and its function is to clean […]
Art nouveau mirror frame, forged from mild steel. Sinuous filaments impressions of ribbons and vapour. 煙や落下するリボンのような鋼 Sold £200
What is the space within the den? Is it a negative or positive space? Without the chair is it negative with the chair does it become positive? This represented den space is created within another cubed space, the cubed space […]
In the tutorial, Mona said I could be playful with the work and add something unexpected in it and to incorporate the irrational and to think about the textures of the materials. I randomly had an image of my sculptural […]
What is a den? According to the Collins ENGLISH DICTIONARY (2016). den: n 1: home of a wild animal 2: small secluded room in a house 3: place where people indulge in a criminal or immoral activities Den a naming […]
Sol Lewitt Drawn to the 70s “I think I’m grappling with the tension between the rational and the irrational forms of making work.” Subconscious, spiritual – incorporate into work Jung’s Redbook Find a way to bring the two together in […]
Outside the days are short, dark and the earth is wet. Large Oak leaves are falling around my studio, and providing an incubation for rebirth. I am finishing a project I started on my Forest School practitioner course, four years […]
What do Tom Hackett and Beric Livingstone have in common? Tom Hackett is a sculptor who walks around town wheeling large yellow silicon dogs in a wheelbarrow as a pretext for holding conversations with members of the public. He tells […]
The rubbings from the wooden flooring is at the inside of this item, and the outside is constructed digitally using Illustrator. The wood grains looked like fingerprints, so I named it Fingerprint. Free association is a psychological technique used to mine […]
Constructivism, minimalism, surrealism and the unconscious. I’ve researched these topics and was more passionate in finding out more information about surrealism, dreams and unconscious, and would like to research this further than the first two listed. I have an interest […]
(This photograph was taken during my commission by Aidan Moesby for the Thresholds Online Exhibition at MIMA, but doesn’t form part of the final selection for my photographic series Safe as Houses.) How does it feel to be an […]
In August 2020 Aidan Moesby commissioned me to make work for the Thresholds Online Exhibition at MIMA as part of his DASH Curatorial Residency. I wrote this piece for Aidan to explain my work. I share it here as […]
