Artist Statement
My work investigates the space between things, transitions in states of being and connections through responses to the passage of time. Thinking through making gives connections an attention and focus . Enquiry and process impacts within art making, connecting both the viewer and maker with a material culture that invites investigation of the archaeology of marks or objects. It grows a desire to draw closer, to connect in understanding, reflecting on influences from both science and the natural world.
Collaborating with artists and scientists has offered new and exciting ways of sharing thinking through making and working together. With approaches that are both sympathetic but also challenging to my work, this transdisciplinarity creates a wholeness by thinking across boundries. I am interested in exploring this space between ‘not knowing’ and then the ‘knowing’ . These states are where the making of art inhabits and also the study of the Universe.
Artist Bio
Art therapist, visual Artist and Researcher with a collaborative practice.
Interests : Process, Materiality, Time, Psychoterratic States and the language of Climate Change and Loss of Biodiversity
Graduate of St Martins, London
My practice is research-focussed with material culture, history and the narratives within. I look to make artworks that are process led and that values embodied and situated learning. Underpinning my practice is a belief in the need to explore old and new ways of seeing and being in the world at this time of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss
I have been involved in a range of inter-disciplinary research projects collaborating with art therapists, artists, astronomers, geneticists, and social scientists.
I work with a variety of materials and processes from my studio in moderately rural Fife.
I am a council member of the SSA and exhibit regularly.
