About me
I describe myself as a multi-disciplinary applied artist. Since graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Textile Art in 2018, I have exhibited my work throughout the UK and Ireland.
Driven by the process of fragmentation, I approach my practice as a modern day archaeologist.
In tandem with my creative practice, I also juggle part -time work as a Gallery Assistant, Art Technician, and Costume Embroiderer for TV & Film.
Process
A naturally curious collector with an urge to record and preserve the forgotten.
Fascinated by adhesives and their ability to secure and fasten materials together, I focus on the binding capabilities of thread, using fibres to conceal and repair. I aim to preserve an objects history, acknowledging the past while recognising the potential to be something other than the original purpose.
I collect discarded objects, mending and combining materials to assemble small sculptures, juxtaposing the unlikely to create a tangible record of the environment and people.
I curate objects of curiosity in 'families' based on an instinctive response or relationship between materials.
Current Focus
I am working a new body of experimental work, ‘Properties of Preservation’, which investigates the properties of materials new to me, analysing their potential to preserve the texture and form of found objects.
This material research project evolved from a desire to replicate objects and test different ways in which I can represent them in my compositions without physically including them. To explore this, I have undergone training in mould making and casting in a range of mediums and testing ways in which I can apply this new knowledge to my practice.
Thank you to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for funding this project.