My work explores autobiographical influences from childhood, the complexities of familial relationships, and how we account for memories and stories. By playing with nostalgia, I explore the emotional significance of materials and objects; such as using school name labels as a narrative tool and giving paper fortune tellers a sculptural format by bending them out of steel.
I love the confessional period of poetry, such as Audre Lorde and Anne Sexton but I also find a lot of inspiration in music and songwriting such as Adrienne Lenker, who beautifully observes the subtle intricacies of relationships.
In this way, a lot of my work has a significant relationship with words and writing, narratives appear in fragments of text woven into fabric and scratched into the surface of metal. I am interested in the ways that language can reveal and liberate, but also how it can betray you. Words can be slippery and untrustworthy, they can honour a narrative or discredit it.
