I am a creative researcher and facilitator who considers healing and wellbeing,
both personal and choral, in resonance with matter,
more-than-human life, and the cosmos.
I use drawing as a core method of digestion and translation of the world around me.
From these blueprints emerge text, sculpture, textile, and collage to create assemblies;
found and made objects simultaneously vibrate together and queer each other
to interrogate the complex negotiations involved in living and being on the planet.
The work is transdisciplinary with a strong theoretical component,
interweaving practices of making with research undertaken in ecocriticism
and speculative feminism.
Currently, I am experimenting with non-linearity and salvaging in relation
to the ritual of making. Older works are being reused to make anew, creating
cyclical and re-emergent threads of labour within my practice. I am interested in
how this labour is made known to an audience through the layers of time and
space that are held in-tact by found, salvaged, and reused materials.
Contemplating discarded matter as a resource for making has been a vital element
to my creative research practice, becoming a core approach to how I
establish methods and patterns of workflow that are conducive
to my, and more-than-human, wellbeing.
I am founder and co-editor of a fledgling online archive called
MUCK (Must Use Critical Knowledge),
which exists to support and platform critical art writing.
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CV
born 1992
London
Education
2020-22 Educational Studies for Adult, Youth and Community Contexts (Msc),
University of Glasgow
2017-18 Masters of Research in Creative Practices, Glasgow School of Art
2015-16 The Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School
2012-15 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths University
2010-12 Foundation Diploma, Sussex Coast College
Writing and Publications
DAISYWORLD, Issue 2, 2021
texture mag Issue 3: Art & Sustainability: perishable conglomerates, 2021
Call + Response 2: Leaking: The Worksite-as-Flesh, 2020
Whorling: FUEL, 2020
Best Practice Zine Issue #4, 2020
Arts Territory Exchange blog, 2020
Best Practice Zine Issue #3, 2019
Penny Thoughts Issue #21, 2019
Cultural Memory & U, 2018
Brenda Magazine, issue 1, 2018
FOULmouth zine, 2017
Residencies
Arts in Care, Luminate Scotland and Erskine Homes, 2022-23
fracture of one: a collaborative residency, Salt Space Cooperative, 2021
THOSE WHO POSSESS DIRT, New Glasgow Society 2021
Salt Space Coop Digital Resident, 2020
Screenings
o.proj Network, 2019
Grants
Visual Arts Scotland Micro Grant, 2022
Hope Scott Trust, 2021
Visual Arts Scotland Micro Grant, 2020
Curator Space Artist Bursary #6, 2020
The Sydney Perry Foundation bursary, 2018
The Sydney Perry Foundation bursary, 2016
Exhibitions
2021
fracture of one, Salt Space Cooperative, Glasgow
THOSE WHO POSSESS DIRT, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
2020
The Pieces are in Flux, Salt Space Cooperative Gallery, Glasgow
Growing Under Glass, Welcome Home, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
2019
Reading Room x Anti-University Now, Reading Room, London
2018
Masters of Research in Creative Practices Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art
after-taste, The Flying Duck, Glasgow
Last Futures, Tramway, Glasgow
No Safe Haven, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow
Rooted, Where People Sleep Gallery, Glasgow
2016
Best of the Drawing Year, Christies London
The Drawing Year Final Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London
Open Studios, Drawing School Central, London
2015
Blue Tide, Electric Studios, St Leonards on Sea
BA Degree Show, Goldsmiths University
2014
Blue Tide, DIG, Lewisham
2013
They Do It With Ease, Underground Space, Hastings
2 Girlz 1 Pub, The Union Pub, London
MACHINE, Brick Lane Gallery, London
