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Artist statement -

My work is underpinned by a curiosity in materials, their characteristics, and applications. I am intrigued by how these are transformed by routine or unconventional use, across different disciplines. Paper, card, and textiles are ubiquitous in my previous career as a fashion designer. As in fashion, so it is the same in art and architecture; contemporary culture encourages the fetishizing of what are deemed desirable objects and experiences. My work attempts to add value or surprise to these banal materials to comment on aspiration and social mobility.  

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The use of abstract imagery intentionally references the language of urban architecture and of spaces identified as ‘non places’ by anthropologist Marc Auge in his essay of the same name. When younger I nursed ambitions of becoming an architect.  and am especially attracted by the visual language of the international, brutalist and super modern styles. Of primary interest are the radical teachings of the Bauhaus school in Weimar Germany which recognised that all materials have equal status in realising a creative vision. It was perhaps the first 'art school' to encourage the use of textiles in fine artworks rather than designating them as only suitable for the applied arts. 

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