I use clay as an expressive material that has intrinsic therapeutic and life enhancing qualities and situate my practice in the field of Arts in Health, where the maker-artist inhabits a self-directed non-clinical space, and labels of illness, disability or proficiency are disregarded in favour of creative agency and choice. When we approach clay as an experiential material, we are free to define and conceptualize (or not at all) what we make.
My practice is thematic and responsive to site or problematics: aesthetically it ranges from joyful to somber. Working thematically and often collaboratively, provides opportunities for insights, connections and shared conversations. This approach often leads me not fire my work and re-cycle the clay into new making. This lessens consumption of energy and resources for both the maker and the environment and allows non-attachment to artefact.
During the Pandemic I participated to 2 projects: as a remote Artist in Residence with the Centre for the Study of Sub-structured Loss (Toronto), I began the thematic exploration of clay as a way to document and move through grief and loss and with Relational Space Gallery (New York), in a collaboration with medics and artists, I co-created "Long Covid We Are Here" a virtual reality installation to raise awareness of chronic post-viral illnesses.
I am part of the Bethlem Gallery Artist Community (London) and I facilitate community clay workshops both independently and under the Gallery umbrella.
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Education
BA Ceramic Design, Central Saint Martins UAL, London (2019-2023)
School of Life, Various Locations and Situations, Europe (1963-2024)
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Residencies
2023-24 Shape Arts, Emergent
2021-22 Bethlem Gallery, Beckenham, UK
2020 Centre for the Study of Substructured Loss, Toronto, Canada
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Collaborations
2024 Relational Space Gallery, New York and Brunel University, London "Transdisciplinary Bodies"
2023 Bethlem Artist Collective, Ortus Building, London, UK "How We Work"
2021 Relational Space Gallery, New York "Long Covid We Are Here" VR installation
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Exhibitions
2023 -2024 Plumstead Open Studios
2022 Brockley Open Studios 2022 - Lewisham, London, UK
2022 Lewisham Borough of Culture 2022 - "Places Faces Women's Art" Crofton Park Library, London, UK
2022 Lewisham Arthouse - "May We Know Them", London, UK
2021 Art in Clay - Windsor, UK
2014 Earthen Hands - Ortus Building, SLAM grant, London, UK
2009 -2016 Sydenham Arts Festival - Brockley Potters, London, UK
2009 Lewisham Arthouse "Open Art Surgery", London, UK
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Commissions
2022 Public Art: High Street Family Friendly Sculpture Trail for West Wickham and Beckenham
2022 Public Art: Mural Lewisham Hospital mental health unit garden. Co- designed and created with staff and patients. London
2020 Raw clay sculpture to promote Bethlem Gallery annual Art Fair, Beckenham
2020 Public Art: decorating Trig Pillar in Hilly Fields park, London
Socially Engaged
2022 "Clay Links" - public drop-in clay workshops in West Wickham and Beckenham, part of Bromley Arts Festival 2022, in collaboration with Bethlem Gallery
2022 "Clay Links" - public drop in clay workshops in Ladywell and Bellingham, part of Lewisham Borough of Culture 2022, in collaboration with Bethlem Gallery
2022 "Clay Links" - clay workshops for staff & patients at Lewisham Hospital, part of Lewisham Borough of Culture 2022, in collaboration with Bethlem Gallery
