ARTIST STATEMENT

​​My practice moves between sculpture, drawing, installation and social practice processes that can evolve organically over time. Grounded in corporeal awareness and central to my practice is a deep engagement with the body’s ability to regenerate, rupture, and adapt in response to internal and external forces. Rooted in a sculptural language inspired by biological systems from cellular life to reproductive organs, illness, and decay. I translate these internal worlds into soft, tactile forms that blur the line between the familiar and the uncanny.

I work primarily with textiles, found objects and mixed media which I manipulate through bodily gestures such as stitching, stuffing, binding, knotting, and stretching. These acts of making evoke care, trauma, and repair, allowing the work to carry the trace of the hand and the emotional weight of the body. Rooted in the domestic and the invisible labour of women. I’m drawn to the tactility of fabric, the language of softness, and the subversive potential of materials coded as feminine.

My recent body of work, Artefacts of Her Body – Tracing Femina, extends these concerns through an investigation of the body as a living archive. This work explores the feminine form as both witness and record, tracing the lived experiences of womanhood, embodiment, and menopause. Rather than positioning menopause as a fixed biological event, I approach it as an ongoing act of inscription, rewriting identity through texture, surface, and form. In this work softness, texture, and layered materials become critical modes of knowledge making.

Textile based forms operate as both metaphor and document, preserving personal histories in their folds and surfaces while resisting erasure. By layering unravelling and reconstructing materials, I reclaim the body as an evolving presence one that holds the imprints of change, embracing transformation as a form of resilience and power.

In my hands these materials become a way to articulate what is often left unspoken. Each piece is stitched from found and discarded textiles and objects forming bodies that are not traditionally figurative but evoke the swollen, sagging, fragmented, and healing forms of the menopausal body. They are tender, raw and unapologetic and speak of restlessness, wisdom, ritual, and reclamation. Ultimately, my work aims to shift the gaze; to move from pathology to poetics, from silence to stitching, from erasure to embodiment. I want these pieces to be felt not just viewed as quiet declarations that menopause is not a vanishing, but a becoming.

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