My practice explores pattern, repetition and ornament, often the context of the home, drawing on sources from textile and wallpaper craft processes and design since the 18th century, Gothic and Decadent literature, and psychedelia.
I enjoy the experience of visual excess in colour, repetition, and ornament, and recent work uses an expanded definition of printmaking, drawn and painted figure and line, and appropriated domestic objects and patterns.
I was an invited artist for the Bummock: New Artistic Responses to Unseen Parts of the Archive research project, exploring the Nottingham Lace archive with exhibitions, talks and publication.
The work contains frequent references to Modernism, Pop, the Pattern & Decoration movement of the 70s and 80’s, recent and historic feminist practices in relation to ideas of home and the use of domestic motifs and materials, and I take an improvised or provisional approach to staging the work, often working collaboratively with other artists on exhibitions in situ.
In pursuit of this method, I am currently working with Sue Withers and Ali Darke on a forthcoming exhibition at APT Gallery in London (November 2022) which will be re-hung or otherwise altered by an invited artist-curator halfway through the show’s duration.
I studied at St Martins School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and completed a Doctorate in Fine Art at University of East London in 2019. Currently based in London, I have a fractional role as Associate Professor and School Director of Learning & Teaching for the School of Arts at Kingston University