About

I am interested in the idea of power as a performance, a process and not an object that can be contained or possessed (Foucault). In my early work, I explored geo- and biopolitics, through open-ended, process-led exploration of materials.

I’ve worked with objects, selecting some because of their cultural or political significance or simply for their contrasting formal or material nature and intuitively, under pressure of time, I created an improvised body of work from drawings, sculpture to film and multimedia installations. 

Carving time out of my busy life as a parent among other roles to devote time in the studio is a metaphorical action in assuming my power and agency as a person by addressing my queries and conflicts on mind and body, work and play, art and life in the best way I know; a ritual of self-empowerment and a commitment to making my art.  

 My process allows me to silence the thinking for a while and surrender power to the body in making and the works absorb the subconscious and the context for a more self-conscious and experiential study of power. A paradoxical action of taking power in the mindful decision to make, only to then lay it down to the body, spirit and the materials in search of new perspectives.

The recent mystical development in my practice was born out of my rediscovery of the Catholic faith some years ago, where I began to reconcile all parts of me as a person in the presence of the divine, relenting from separating my spirituality from my art and becoming more of a prayerful practice, influenced by the practice of iconography.