My interdisciplinary practice is largely concerned with gesture, making explicit the moment when the donor of the gesture and the gaze of the viewer collide. I am fascinated by how we perform ourselves continuously, role-playing our identities responding to the ongoing performance of others. In doing so I search for communal meanings defined and given shape through the presence of a figure - this is mostly my own - and make long-term work about how this writes itself upon the body. The purpose of thread, mark-making and stitch are central, physically piercing and extending the image-object beyond a single time and space.
I did an MA at the University of Westminster in Photographic Studies in 2008-10 and was a photography lecturer in both higher and further education. Before that I was a journalist, although I started out many years ago trying to be an actress - thankfully this didn’t work out….All of these experiences underpin my work now, fascinated as I am by how to inhabit and convey personal feelings to an unknown audience, and how shared understanding makes an emotional life.
