I work mainly through writing and performance. What I'm doing always sits in the in-between, as an embodied investigation of the limits of categorisation and mediated experience; knowing and not knowing. 

My work is process-based and usually shared in hyperlocal contexts, including home, social settings and 'at work', where I create spaces for listening, play and reflection. I am drawn to exploring the individual and the collective, paradox, uncertainty and art as a way of being.

You might encounter a mound of kitchen flour; sit around a table with material play, feeling into physical changes of state; hear a polyphonic script performed, or see and handle a collection of symbolic ('prophetic') objects alongside drawings, photographs and writing. Or texts disrupted as partial calligraphy tests. Or an embodied violin performance recalling learning methods, exercises and etudes. 

 

Through ad hoc and improvised methods that centre un-making and un-doing, I am revisiting sites of knowledge production and allowing ways of sitting-with. 

Since 2018, I have worked at In-Situ, where my role is Internal Development and Reflective Practice. What I bring to this work is shaped by my practice and vice versa.

Here, alongside the administrative load of co-running an organisation, this practice finds its expression around exploring the organisation's Fluid Structure, creating space to co-learn, dis-entangle, sit with the tangle and contemplate, as (self-)reflective practice. 

      <What is the shape of a shared space of possibility

      where we can (safely) be many things at once?

      And what is the movement needed to co-exist

      equitably in these spaces?>

My practice is self-taught and initially developed out of motherhood as a creative context. My work is anchored by autistic experience and working through religious trauma, navigated through the post-industrial landscapes of the east coast where I grew up and the steep-sided valley where I currently live.