My work explores how installation and everyday materials can be utilised to embody indescribable and profound feelings of loss and abandonment. My inability to verbalise these visceral sensations has governed a compulsion to use my art practice as a conduit for expression and catharsis. Physical gestures and handmade processes are vital in the production of my work. I directly engage with everyday familial materials, engulfing lengths of shredded fabric in black viscous paint, transforming them into an entangled pile of blackened matter that resembles how I visualise a dark abyss of despair. I aim to devise a ‘psychological’ space that embodies traumatic feelings of loss and abandonment. Utilising installation, the work seeks to actively occupy the locale in order to overwhelm and trigger uncomfortable sensations. The work is impenetrable from the exterior and inescapable from the interior. The entangled black mass threatens to snare the melancholic and exclude the onlooker.

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Untitled, 2021  

fabric and acrylic paint

dimensions variable

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