Portfolio
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IMMERSIVE Cocooning : in progress 2025
Cocoon for sensory immersion, the beginnings of making cocoons to escape into.
I’m drawn to cocoons to give me what I don’t have: Safety, embrace, rest from external stimuli - sensory rest, comfort and separation.
Padded with recycled materials from recipe boxes, and a quilt.
When I sit cross legged inside it, it gives me what I need, much like being underwater does.. dulled sound, rest, breathing reminders, squishy textures..
The idea for this Immersive Cocooning project is to first give me what I need, then develop it outwards to be a public installation.
Making a mountain from a molehillL : in progress 2025
Developing the idea of Molehills which I installed in 2023. I created maquettes for a larger installation proposal to create a huge mountain, but actually rather love the miniature version.
In 2023 with a bursary from Cotswold Sculpture Assocation I installed a series of concrete ‘Molehills’ inspired by seeing molehills on a wealthy estate, where I was due to exhibit. I loved their disruption in a well-kept lawn, and wanted to do some disrupting too. I then noticed I've always been treated as a ‘sensitive’ creature - told I’m ‘too emotional’ and ‘making a mountain from a molehill’.
So as a defiant act, I’ve been creating literal mountains from jesmonite.
DREAMSCAPES : in progress 2025
Development for an installation proposal, creating Dreamscapes for the walls of a hospital.
Facists Need Therapy : 2024
Response to this chapel upon hearing its Catholic history, and its current associations with Nazism and Fascism. These disrupt the walls with red for Palestine and Sudan, pink for part of the trans flag, gold for illumination and green for peace.
Site-specific installation for Sensus Materia at The Chapel, Beeches Green, Stroud. September-October 2024.
Creating Spaces - June+July 2023
Exploring neurodivergence, domestic abuse and human rights.
Some series which developed in 2023 are :
BECAUSE I CAN
Large pieces made from expanding foam, concrete, acrylic and found objects. Taking up space, and doing it all for no other reason than because I can.
MOLEHILLS
Small pieces which look rather like cakes, but really they were inspired by seeing the molehills at Miserden House. I loved their disruption in a well-kept lawn, and wanted to do some disrupting too.
WTFIT
Small pieces made from jesmonite and expanding foam, purely for the love of it.
My Body In My Hands : 2023
My Body in My Hands is a physical exhibition following artist Sam Lucas's call out on Instagram @theweightofbeing to make a piece of work in any medium to describe how it feels to be in your body and post a photo of the work in the hand. Exhibition 2023 at SVA and now part of an Artist Catalogue.
The exhaustion that comes with a disordered brain, plus caring for another disordered being, results in a mess of everything mangled together.
Trying to cover with colour, to smother the darkness. Constantly dysregulated, overloaded with sensory input, overwhelmed with tasks and being alive. But if it's all eventually bright and shiny, there's a momentary release.
Breathing in the moon is necessary sometimes : 2021
Studio 18 July 2021
"Breathing in the moon is necessary sometimes" is a piece made with yearning for air and space. Sometimes when things are hard and there's a lot to process, we need something simple and quiet, like swinging in a jar of lichen and writing haikus.
Quicksand, static here
Breathe the moon, said quietly,
Surrender she said.
Shifts overhead but
Static inside, over there
Waits for her to come.
Seemingly free but
Rarely felt, the moon appears
To say "go, dear one".
Listen in that space
It will come quietly and
Then show itself bright.
Break those patterns free
Hear the air, lean heavily
The breeze will hold you.
I’m going to tell you a little story
Exhibited at SVA Summer Show 2019
The very beginnings of starting to express vulnerability by using abstract storytelling, with no explanation because I was too scared.
