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Artist, writer, curator and researcher.
Creating new stories from old, my work aims to make visible feelings about loss and survival. My practice concerns the different ways in which histories and memories are embedded in liminal spaces or collections of objects and I am interested in the tales and fragmented memories passed down by different generations in families. These sometimes take the form of drawings of places visited as a child (the rocks and cliffs of northern Cornwall or mountains of Snowdonia) and photographs and videos of familial objects. My particular interest is in the complex relationships between women; mothers, daughters and sisters. I have worked with photography, video, painting and drawing, sound and text, exploring my own fractured identity.
Recently I have begun to work on more collaborative projects, including work in a Dermatology Centre in Salford. The consideration of feelings evoked by objects (often contained within personal collections) is put centre stage. Researching the tension that arises when personal images are displayed in a public place also informs my practice as I have spent many years working within art galleries, museums and archives. I have exhibited and published in the UK and Europe, including at Cornerhouse, Manchester, Kultur Bunker, Cologne and The Pankhurst Centre, UK.
Creating new stories from old, my work aims to make visible feelings about loss and survival. My practice concerns the different ways in which histories and memories are embedded in liminal spaces or collections of objects and I am interested in the tales and fragmented memories passed down by different generations in families. These sometimes take the form of drawings of places visited as a child (the rocks and cliffs of northern Cornwall or mountains of Snowdonia) and photographs and videos of familial objects. My particular interest is in the complex relationships between women; mothers, daughters and sisters. I have worked with photography, video, painting and drawing, sound and text, exploring my own fractured identity.
Recently I have begun to work on more collaborative projects, including work in a Dermatology Centre in Salford. The consideration of feelings evoked by objects (often contained within personal collections) is put centre stage. Researching the tension that arises when personal images are displayed in a public place also informs my practice as I have spent many years working within art galleries, museums and archives. I have exhibited and published in the UK and Europe, including at Cornerhouse, Manchester, Kultur Bunker, Cologne and The Pankhurst Centre, UK.