I am a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and educator. I work thematically on individual projects with a focus on producing narratives around people or places, a dominant theme is voices that have been lost or silenced. I work with a variety of materials; paper, fabric or found objects and processes; collage, sculpture, and textiles.

I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Suffolk in the Fine Art Department. The focus of my practice led research is the life and work of seventeenth-century artist Mary Beale.  I intend to translate the work of this Suffolk born artist, writer, educator, collaborator, and businesswoman into multidisciplinary artworks, seeking parallels within my own life and practice. A broad research methodology underpins my practice informing a creative response to the subject. Framing the research as a collaborative inquiry I will be examining the impact of this approach will have on my own practice.

A wide research methodology underpins all my work.  I work with museums, their collections, archives, and art galleries. I walk, write, and gather physical evidence to investigate place.  I read texts on social history, material culture, and the history of textiles and fashion to provide an immersive knowledge from which I extract ideas for the artwork. This dynamic and often disquieting approach allows me to create narratives that throw a new and, sometimes disrupting light on cultural and historical assumptions.

• I studied Textile Design at West Surrey College of Art

• I studied Fine Art at University College Suffolk

• I have an MA in Literature and Creative Writing from The University of Essex.  

• I am the founder and Artistic Director of Lockarts, an arts in mental health charity.

• I am the artist in residence at The Writers Company.

• I am a trustee for Greenacres Small Holding CIC

• I exhibit, lecture and teach throughout the UK. 

• I accept commissions and welcome enquiries about collaborations.