My practice explores historical and contemporary contradictions between health, ritual, religious fervour and guilt, divine and political power, and the impact of these discrepancies on the human condition. I explore the boundaries and materiality of two-dimensional works, layering mediums and extending them into three- and four-dimensional forms, often reversing the process again. My process isn’t linear but rather cyclical, my drawings, texts and sculptures having multiple lives and uses, becoming costume, character, prop or backdrop, within videos and installations. Drawings have acted as skins, veils, anatomical and neurological maps, which through their installation become sculptural resembling ‘unswept floors’, figures or as costumes, worn and performed by dancers.

The direction of my work is shaped by periods of research undertaken as part of residencies and networks with academics and professionals from historians to neurologists. My research into and lived experience of chronic illness, health, disability and disease inform my practice as an artist and engages with the conflict between mind/body and past/present. Work is formed through extensive research into places, psychology, miracles and myths that are simultaneously eroded, created and embellished throughout time. I have always been interested in the way rituals present a desire to protect from the potency of disorder. Humans move through a series of gestures and decisions that are choreographed by our nature and society. Stepping out of these poses a risk. My practice investigates the brain and body’s transitional states, unconscious decisions and impulses. I activate psychological drawn and printed landscapes through means of physical ones, using both performers and myself within videos and installations as narrators or vessels.