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Various texts around and about my ongoing practice
Artists Statement - revised Imbolc 2026.
My enduring concerns as an artist are intrinsically bound to notions around consensus reality, constructed hierachies in our relations human and more than human beings (seen and unseen) and our shared ecologies. These come into being through a practice of world building, through a experiential lens of embodied and animistic practices.
I enact rites, folk customs and pilgrimages which then feed back into an exhibited practice where the narrative created, artefact and objects may serve as an opaque signifier, totem or portal.
By choosing to engage in an art making which is often cyclical, mystical or site specific I utilise magick and folk customs as a mode of self authorship and diy community connectivity. Opting to work with historical and anaolgue technologies, as devices with which to deconstruct and rebuild rejected histories, especially of those outcast and othered due to harmful systemic frameworks.
Taking my own neurodiverse phenomenology as a starting point, that of an othered female goverened by intuition, I begin my work instinctively, allowing for entangled patterns of being to exist.
The materials I work with are both transient and permanent, often site/time dependent such as earth/clay, ash, human hair and plant matter. Working with matter directly sourced from site, foraged or grown, including ash from ritual fires initiates an artmaking embedded with traces of the event, place or intention.
I am interested in how weaving these elements together can re-cognise and actively re-enchant an othered way of understanding and communing with the more than human world. My artmaking is often collaborative, whether with our biological kin or humans, both living and deceased.
I propose that, tactics of authoring an-other world, alongside subverting capitalist trajectories in incorporating mystical and folk practices within academic fine art are activations of contemporary sedition. Framing the othered, the peripheral and mystical as relevant agents for resistance and preservation. A form of radical care and love with an intention to heal.
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Ongoing practice
I’m currently working on two durational bodies of work, both sourcing wild clay from specific sites, both bourne from earlier research which has re-emerged in a really determined way whilst on the part time MFA at Goldsmiths.
On considering how social/gender inequalities and capitalism were enabled by land enclosure and the witchtrials, and by bringing the politics of ecological severance. othering and ancient common land into the contemporary discourse, these unravelled stories contribute to the much larger intersectional reclaimation of womens authority over their own bodies alongside of a desperate need for mutual aid in symbiosis with other indigenous rights and the more than human world.
More about the work can be found here
Earth Bound Spells of Reclamation
Digging holes on common land - a relic for the harvest in the shadow of Arcadia (Common Pilgrimages)
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