My work embraces slowness through a process based practice, offering moments of quiet calm in a rushed and noisy world. Combining and contrasting digital and analogue, intimate and universal narratives, man made and natural rhythms, I explore themes of time and processes of change. All my work is about loss, stemming from my own lived experience, but framed within a wider exploration into the connection between personal, collective and environmental grief and transformation. 

Working with photographic, video, textiles, text and found object processes, I make work that is free from the limits of one particular medium, choosing the materials and processes according to how they connect to the ideas I am exploring, and questioning how I can push and combine them. From textile work reflecting on grief and resilience through the practice of unpicking cloth, to work that considers our relationship with nature through materials as diverse as cyanotype, eroded bricks, sand, video and text.

The medium I work in for each project is something I spend time and care on, and must be relevant to the ideas I am exploring. In this way, the work evolves through the relationship between idea and materials. A key example being my use of Cyanotype, an old photographic process that uses sunlight for exposure. In my ongoing body of work “Aqua, terra (f)lux” which explores the meeting point of land, sea and light, I use this process to think about climate change and deep time. This is inspired by the North Yorkshire coastline and the evolving threats of coastal erosion and rising sea levels which I have become increasingly concerned with since moving here a few years ago. Having previously always lived in a city, living in a more rural location more in tune with the rhythms of nature has had a huge impact on my practice. 

My environmental concerns impact my creative process too, as I work where possible with materials with a low carbon footprint, often recycling and repurposing, and questioning what I feel the need to produce and why. These ideas are embedded in my community art practice, where I develop projects that aim to generate discussion around nature connection and conservation.