My interdisciplinary practice explores transformation and transformative processes, often inspired by materiality and chance, preferring natural materials or adaptive reuse through found objects. My mission is to revive our relationship with Life and a sense of aliveness. Initially, I researched transformation through movement, growth and the effects of the elements and time, particularly inspired to consider the different speeds and timescales on which other elements of the living world operate.

Later, I began to challenge myself to turn inward: I continued to investigate transformation and transitional states, however, the search was lensed within to understand what mechanisms of growth, healing or even harm occur via the beliefs we take on through our experiences. Old occurrences, many times revised in our mental memories, are often stored in our bodies too, at a muscular and cellular level. By giving them expression in physical form through my work, I perform a catharsis of those body-stored beliefs that have been outgrown: a shedding like crabs and cicadas in ‘ecdysis’. The works thus produced via sense memory, bodily intelligence and the intuitive field have connections to other histories such as Surrealist tradition and a lineage of feminist art; my own experience has been indelibly impacted by gendered expectations and living in a cis-female body.

I feel a strong connection to the living planet as body, a vastly powerful creative presence sensed in the landscape and waterways, connected via the winds, currents and the air we breathe. My work moving forward is exploring two interweaving frameworks: supporting ourselves as healthy, thriving personal ecosystems and supporting healthy thriving in the ecosystems making up our living world. Where previous work explored transformation as the subject, what it is about, I hope that future work conveys the action or experience of transformation, as what it does.