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I am a visual artist, researcher and producer with a mixed practice spanning sculpture, crafting processes, painting, writing and performance. I work with living, abandoned, foraged and repurposed materials to respond to living in a dynamic river environment amidst eco-political complexities.

STUDIO

THREADS

LIVING IN THE RUINS

Studio, 2024 ongoing

Mending, memory, care. I have been spinning (badly) and starting to weave, navigating loss. Repairing a stack of broken trolleys as an act of remembrance and care, folding and threading things into renewed forms.

DIRK

THE RIVER DROWNED

Eastside Projects, 2024

With clay foraged from Purton Ships Graveyard and scrap boat steel.

DECOY

THE RIVER DROWNED

Spike Island Open Studios, 2024

Projection, plastic ducks, stacked trolleys, detritus, estuarine foliage

FIRE

LIFE WITHOUT AIR

Bank of Bristol Avon (boat moorings), 2023, 2024

Raku-like firing in a kiln made from salvaged materials - barrel and our old narrowboat chimney.

ORGAN | BREATHING MACHINE

LIFE WITHOUT AIR

Commissioning Bay, Spike Island, 2022

A slowly pulsating machine made from end-of-life equipment and materials

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

LIFE WITHOUT AIR

Bristol Avon, 2022. A collaboration with Dr Chris Neal, Wolfson.

Art-science project with support from The Brigstow Institute and the Wolfson Bioimaging Facility, University of Bristol, and the West of England Visual Arts Alliance (WEVAA).

PRODUCTION

THE CORRIDOR SALON

STUDIOS PROJECT

The Corridor, Spike Island, 2024

An all-studios collaboration

ECO|CON 2

LIFE WITHOUT AIR

The Corridor, Spike Island, 2023

Game of ecological consequences

ECO|CON 1

LIFE WITHOUT AIR

The Garage, Bristol, 2023

Game of ecological consequences with artists Helen Acklam, Katy Connor, Matt Davies, Laura Philips, Vicky Smith, Jack Young.

Isn't Bite also Touch

RESEARCH & COLLABORATION

Spike Island Cafe, 2023

Co-led event with writer, artist and producer Jack Young (WEVAA Curatorial fellow, 2022) at the invitation of Spike Island Bristol. Part of the WEVAA programme.