I am a visual artist with a studio at Spike Island, Bristol.
My practice fuses sculpture, ceramics, painting, performance and sound, and has recently expanded to include spinning and weaving. Materials-led and site-responsive, I work with foraged, discarded, wasted and gifted materials.
My work draws on personal narratives of loss and fragility as they resonate through post-natural environments. Central to my practice is an understanding of breakdown and care — of matter, objects and more-than-human ecologies — as a necessary precursor to ongoing processes of repair, re-formation and life-making.
I have a solo show 'Fairy Toot' at D-Unit, Bristol in May, 2026. An installation of my work was included in the exhibition Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City, curated by Lubaina Himid, Royal West of England Academy (2023) and a group show at Eastside projects (2024). I curated the group show ‘ECO|CON’ (The Launderette and a second iteration at Spike Island, 2023); and co-produced ‘Isn’t Bite Also Touch?’ an event on contagion and desire with artist-writer Jack Young (Spike Island, 2022).
Support (2022/4) includes Arts Council DYCP, Spike Studios bursary, Ideas Exchange funding from The Brigstow Institute, University of Bristol and a West of England Visual Arts Alliance R&D bursary.
I was awarded an art-practice-based PhD in cultural geography from University of Exeter (funded by the AHRC, 2016) and an MA Fine Art (Falmouth 2010) for which I received the Sandra Blow Prize for Excellence. I have held lecturing positions at both universities (2011 - 17). I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Photo credit Lisa Whiting