Working primarily in multimedia sculptural installation, my practice is self-reflective and explores themes such as social constructs, the body, identity and invariability. My work primarily represents my lived experiences, observations of living within social structures and exploration of identity. I investigate personal and societal weaknesses, typically gravitating towards uncomfortable, paradoxical, or convoluted topics. Increasingly I am intrigued by records of habitual acts and mundane activities, and often find myself tracking day-to-day happenings, and recording events such as physical processes related to reproduction and growth.  My intention is to encourage new ways of thinking and feeling by facilitating difficult discourse. 

Diverse and accessible materials such as collected objects, construction materials, dryer lint, hair, and flower petals inspire me with their potential to engage viewers. Materials that carry signifying markers that point to masculinity/femininity and that elicit emotions such as those with confounding textures, colours and meanings are particularly important to my practice.  Bringing into play colour psychology, the use of white or the absence of colour, helps convey notions of sterility, institutionalisation, and invariability.  

By understanding contemporary art processes, and traditional craft such as embroidery, weaving, or woodworking I often combine processes and materials in unique ways. Regularly I make use of abstraction to engender new ways of exploring or understanding without the distraction of distinct representational patterns. Repetitive thoughts and actions executed during production serves as a means of catharsis and forms an essential element of my work.

50 words about my practice:

Abstraction, Alienation, Birth, Body, Constructs, Cathartic, Community, Desire, Documentation, Emotion, Experience, Femininity, Fertility, Gender, Genealogy, Habit, Hybridity, Hormones, Identity, Internalization, Juncture, Juxtaposition, Kitsch, Lineage, Link, Material, Menstruation, Nature, Need, Order, Ovulation, Pattern, Perception, Place, Quiet, Rejection, Rules, Shedding, Space, Subjugation, Time, Touch, Transition, Uncomfortable, Uterine, Visions, Weakness, Womb, Yearly, Zona.