Forty Year Project

My work is an ongoing exploration of self-image which considers how connecting strands through identity and displacement, reveal themselves.Using the absent body, dresses and portraiture as ciphers, the work explores uncertainties and existential fears of who we are and where we are placed in this world.
Memory and narrative are erased and reworked in the print process which is temperamentally suited to this kind of engagement. This development of ideas can lead through terrains where the idea of completion is not necessarily an expectation and where ideas are constantly revisited and revised – allowing for the work to be in a state of ongoing investigation and growth.

I am working on a series of projects around the dress shape and an ongoing pandemic project with a provisional title Hold in Your Hands. During lockdown, I documented daily for a year, images specifically of flowers, hair and soil. The flowers, hair and soil all hold folds of meaning which shift and reshape and lead back to body spaces as a locus of the limitations of my understanding during this time of uncertainty and altered reality.