Artist Statement
Through sculpture and installation, I explore the entanglements between humans and other species, with an eye for the unexpected or less visible ways that non-human agency can arise through these connections.
I am interested in anthropocentrism and the structures, systems and ways of thinking that separate humans off from other species. My work seeks to destabilise these ideas by finding other perspectives. What do bacteria think of human exceptionalism? What do zoonotic diseases say about the perceived borders between the human and non-human? If the ability of people to digest lactose arose as a genetic mutation in early farming communities, have we been genetically modified by cows?
Diverse materiality is the core of my practice; solidified cows’ milk, beef tallow, sheep’s fleece and recycled hi-visibility workwear are used to make partially abstracted, creaturely forms. I process milk to use as a sculptural material, playing with ideas of ‘purity’ and contamination, and attempting to re-enliven the animality of this ubiquitous substance. I am drawn to the duality of milk, which can be both sensual and sour, nourishing or nauseating.
In her book’ Lovebug’, which examines intimacy and cross species contamination, Daisy Lafarge comments that ‘no species is an island’. My current work explores these interconnections and their potentialities – both benign and threatening. From co-evolution between humans and cows, to zoonotic diseases that complicate the perceived edges between humans and animals. Animal agency, microbiology and sympathetic magic are all brought into conversation through the rich materiality of animal products.
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Education
MASS Sculpture Programme, London, 2023-25
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. USA. MFA in Studio Arts, Sculpture and Installation. 2015- 2017
University of Brighton. BA Fine Art Sculpture. 2008 – 2011
Selected Exhibitions
Upcoming:
Food Art Fair, Ladbroke Hall, Notting Hill.
All Over the Place, Two Plus Two, Stockwell.
2026
Resonance, Fabrica, Brighton.
With no more sound than the mice make, Safehouse 1, Peckham. Unprimed Collective Guest Artist
Implausible Forms, Finch Gallery, London Fields.
2025
CHIMERA, Thames Side Gallery, Woolwich
SNAG Safehouse 2, Peckham
HACK 8558, Soho Connections Bow Arts, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue
The Menu, London Art Services, Deptford.
Growing Season Part 2, Lewisham Arthouse
2024
Waterloo Kiln Commission, Swinton, Yorkshire.
Material Matters, Safehouse 1 & 2. Peckham.
Seedbomb, Newhaven Open Call. Newhaven, East Sussex.
Growing Season (Part 1) with Coven Collective. Lewisham.
Landslide, MASS Sculpture show, Thames Side Gallery, Woolwich.
Here be Giants, The Sun Inn, Saffron Walden.
GOGMAGOG, Cambridge Artworks. Solo
2022
Memory Into Landscape, Elysium Gallery, Swansea.
Rooted, Sussex Prairie Gardens.
Outrageous Cretaceous, Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery. Solo
Limen, No Format Gallery, Deptford. Solo
2021
The Plymouth Contemporary, Karst Gallery & Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth.
Soft Snacks, Block Gallery, Raleigh and Meredith College. NC USA. International collaboration
Luck & Limen, Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent. Solo
Force, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Vermont USA.
2019
Thicket, Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge School, Kent UK. Solo
Confluence, St Mary’s Church Burham, Kent UK. Collaborative site-specific installation
2017
2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.
Fossilling The Tideline, GPS Space, Greensboro, NC. Solo
North Carolina Artists Exhibition. Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Raleigh, NC.
Residencies
Artist in Residence. Cambridge Artworks. June – July 2023
Artist in Residence. The Island, Bristol. January 2021
Artist in Residence. Tonbridge School, Kent. 2019-2020
Artist in Residence. Discover Roman Otford Project, Kent. 2019-2020
Artist in Residence. Jiwar, Barcelona, Spain. August 2018
Artist in Residence. Vermont Studio Center, VT. May 2018
Winter Artist in Residence. Salem Art Works, NY September 2014- March 2015
Visiting Artist. Minoterie 21, Brittany, France. August 2013
Intern Artist. Salem Art Works, NY May-August 2013
Intern Artist. Franconia Sculpture Park, MN August-November 2011.
Public Artworks
Waterloo Kiln Commission, Swinton, Yorkshire. Commissioned by Rotherham Museums Arts and Heritage 2024
‘Triassic Slices’ Curve Theatre, Leicester. Commissioned by Vehicle Arts 2022
‘Xenia I & II’ Tonbridge School, commissioned 2020
‘Feast’ Salem Art Works Sculpture Park, New York. Installed 2015. Permanent
Awards
Helen A Thrush Scholarship 2016-2017
Adelaide Holderness Graduate Fellow, 2015-2016