Artist Statement

Under fluctuating health, my process bends and adapts, making the dualities of vulnerability and defence, the mental and the physical, become structural to my work. I draw, write, and monoprint memories and experiences as a woman with chronic illness and trauma. These cathartic processes evolve to compositional printmaking and installations that aim to capture the amalgamation of feelings and complexities of feminine discomfort and resilience.

As an Aberdonian haunted by seagulls and pigeons, birds have always been anchors in my work. Their looming, ever-present nature and symbolic associations with freedom and survival are a key component in my visual language.

My compositional works typically form through monoprint and are recently being explored through dry-point etching. My installation works unfurl from studio process, scraps of inked tarlatan from my printmaking stitched together to form a trap, or towering scrolls of paper overwhelmed with writing and drawing paired with archives of sketches, notes and lists that ruminate on the psychological and physical experience.