Artist Statement

I am excited by the tension my sculptures hold between beauty and repulsion. They offer a fragmented view into my identity, reflecting the impermanence of both life and material. My practice invites engagement with these dialogues, seeking to connect with what is lost and cannot be fully understood.

Rooted in lived experience, my work navigates psychological vulnerability and the human desire for stability. I am interested in the complexities of containment: the longing to be held, the instinct to protect, and the emotional residues internalised by objects and spaces. These concerns are informed by research, collaboration, travel and a commitment to recovering female narratives. Through intuitive, materially led processes, making and curating become acts of embodied reflection where grief and memory surface through touch. It is both method and meditation: a continual negotiation between control and surrender, presence and absence.

I work with materials such as latex, silicone and paper pulp, shaping and casting them by hand. These are often paired with found or industrial forms to create friction between the personal and the manufactured. Material combinations reflect my ongoing search for balance between inner spirituality and external, objective reality.

The resulting sculptures suggest internal cavities, ambiguous vessels or abstracted bodies. They gesture toward the feminine; exposed, suspended and in flux. Ultimately, I aim to create objects that are both tender and grotesque: imperfect propositions that attempt to map what it means to feel, remember and endure.

See reference written by Marcus Cornish, Sculptor and Faculty Member at the Royal Drawing School