Exhibitions

"Third Sex"
Prelude Exhibition
Redcar Palace
March 8th - March 22nd 2025

"Duo"
Prelude Exhibition
Northern School of Art
November 4th- November 18th

"Borders"
Resilience Exhibition
Hartlepool Art Gallery
May 2nd - July 4th

about me

I am an artist working within the expanded field, exploring the boundary between sculpture and painting as a way of reflecting the instability of identity and the lived experience of existing beyond fixed definition. My practice resists categorisation, mirroring the ways in which identity—particularly gender—can shift, collapse, and refuse containment. Rather than presenting identity as something stable or resolved, my work positions it as fluid, constructed, and constantly in negotiation with the environments and materials that surround it.My practice begins with fabric as one of the earliest and most intimate ways the body is mediated: to cover, protect, conceal, and present. In this act of covering, fabric becomes a primary site where identity is first read, assigned, and aestheticised, revealing a quiet complexity in how bodies are shaped and understood through surface. I am interested in how something as everyday as cloth carries social meaning, and how it can both enforce and disrupt ideas of the body it surrounds.Using materials such as wood, liquid satin, and heat, I drape, stretch, and seal fabric around structured frames. These frames function as surrogate bodies—rigid, imposed structures that are softened, disrupted, and redefined through surface intervention. In this process, the surface becomes both skin and canvas: stretched, wrapped, cut, and marked. This blurring of support and subject allows the work to sit between painting and sculpture, where material is no longer confined to one category or function.Fabric itself operates as a kind of gestural paintbrush, responding to light, gravity, tension, and environment. Rather than remaining static, it shifts depending on how it is installed, viewed, and interacted with. This responsiveness is central to my practice, as it allows each work to remain open and unstable, echoing the fluidity of the identities I am exploring.Through these material processes, I examine non-conforming presentations of identity in opposition to societal expectations, producing spaces where identity can exist ambiguously, vulnerably, and without resolution. The act of revealing and concealing through fabric becomes a way of negotiating visibility—what is shown, what is withheld, and how meaning is constructed through partial exposure.Fabric also functions as an accessible and historically loaded material, foregrounding the histories of marginalised bodies and domestic or textile-based practices that have often been excluded from institutional art contexts. By centring softness, tactility, and transformation, my work reclaims these associations and repositions them within a contemporary sculptural language.Ultimately, my practice asserts fabric as a site of resistance—one that holds space for complex and shifting identities while offering alternative ways of seeing, touching, and understanding the body beyond fixed or prescribed limits.