Artist Statement

I have lived closer to activism than to art.

For years, I gathered fragments of survival — scratch cards, beer cans, cigarette ends — from the streets. Not to display them, but to witness them. I destroyed my early attempts to ‘make art’; I could not yet trust myself not to collapse into what these objects carried. 

I am an emerging interdisciplinary artist, writer, and sculptural poet. My practice reclaims overlooked materials and moments from everyday life, drawing on found objects, poetic fragments, and conversational encounters to construct spaces that invite sitting-with, confession, reflection, and collective exchange.

Chairs, handwritten notes, and voice recordings become provisional sites where public and private life meet and evolve.

Shaped by a benefit-class childhood and informed by my training and work in social and critical psychoanalysis, my practice explores waste, value, and the politics of recognition — tracing how bodies, voices, and emotions are marginalised or erased.  My work resists the closure of the finished object, insisting instead on relational, living, and messy processes.

Based in Truro, Cornwall, I am currently expanding my early-career practice through local exhibitions and collaborations. My evolving body of work weaves lived experience, critical attention, and sensory presence into intimate, politically charged encounters.