My work visualises heritage stories and explores our connection to place using salvaged and upcycled materials. I’m a mixed media artist who uses freehand machine embroidery, collage, paint and tufting processes.
Recent work has focused on exploring change in the urban landscape. I see the beauty in the shapes of brutalist structures and graffiti. I explore decline and evolution in human spaces. I chart time through peeling away layers of billboard, pavement, history. I play with layers, form, stitch and colour to reflect the complex narrative of story, community and environment. I use materials that have lived, weathered and become waste in the cityscape and transform them into visual interpretations of those spaces, complete with rust and print transfer that tells the story of their lived lives.
I have recently been awarded Arts Council funding in the UK. My piece ‘Torn through time’ (a re-imagining of The Stoppage at the Bank) was selected to be featured for a Royal Visit at Bristol Museums in 2024 and was shortlisted for the Peoples Choice Award at The Broderers’ exhibition on the Southbank, London in Feb 2025. In 2024 I created ‘Aunties of Easton’, a public art installation in Bristol, UK. I am currently collaborating with poet, Leeza Awojobi, on her residency ‘Common Threads’ in Bedminster Green.
My work spans across applications and scale through exhibiting in galleries to interactive and outside spaces. My works sells internationally and resides in many personal collections.
