I am interested in the agency of materials and the reciprocity that can occur between the artist and materials. As a female artist I am interested in how experiences of shame and subjugation have shaped my lived experience, and how I might seek to sublimate these lived sensations into art. Working across painting, sculpture and installation, my work is an exploration of the material encounter. Conceptually I am interested in the ideas of new materialism and post-humanism, and where they intersect with feminism. The human/nature binary has similarities with the object/subject binary – as one is usually dominated and subjugated by the other. The ideas of post-humanism suggest multiple ways of flattening these binaries, not only in an artistic sense but also in the social, political, etc. sense. Moving to an approach of exchange and reciprocity can have interesting and liberating effects on the material, the artist and the audience. By bringing together the mediums of painting and sculpture I want to create a highly tactile encounter for the viewer that reflects these potentialities.

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Detail (installation view), 2021

oil paint on tracing paper

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I Saw it Morph Behind My Eyes (installation view), 2021

limestone, oil on tracing paper, wax, plywood, clay, plaster, wire mesh

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Untitled (moss), 2021  
encaustic on plywood

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Untitled (carbon black), 2021  
encaustic on plywood

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Untitled (white forms), 2021  
encaustic on plywood

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