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Various texts around and about my ongoing practice
Artists Statement - Autumn Equinox 2023
My main concerns as an artist are intrinsically bound to questions around consensus reality, constructed hierachies in relation to the other than human and emancipatory concerns through a feminist lens.
I enact rites, actions and pilgrimages which then feed back into an exhibited practice, choosing to engage in an art making which is often cyclical, mystical or site specific, hoping to manifest a form of social ecological reclamation, utilising magick as a technology of selfhood.
Taking my own neurodiverse phenomenology as a starting point, that of an othered female goverened by intuition, allowing for entangled patterns of being to exist which are combined with materials both transient and permanent, often site/time dependent such as earth/clay, ash, human hair and plant matter. I am interested in how weaving these elements together can lead through to an othered way of understanding and communing with the more than human world. My art making is often collaborative, whether with other biological kin or humans, both living and deceased.
I propose these tactics, of intentional scripting, alongside subverting capitalist trajectories by incorporating esoteric methodologies, as one way in which we can create and shape our own future mythologies and attempt to re-gain some form of agency rather than be the harbringers of doom in the face of ecological harm.
In assuming a quietly disruptive role, can art be a form of consequential conduit for re-aquaintance between this world and the ‘other’ ... embodying the possibility to move beyond the current impasse?
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My present concurrent bodies of work, working with wild clay sourced from specific sites, are bourne from earlier research which has re-emerged whilst 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 ongoing bodies of 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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