About 

My practice is interested in the psychic memory of spaces.

Following the birth of my three children, this developed into an autobiographical investigation into the interior environment of home. Like all new parents, I became totally immersed in caring for my children and doing mundane, everyday tasks. I began to make still life paintings and sculptures as the quotidian items I was handling day-in-day-out, took on a new significance.

These works are produced in series and endeavour to describe the stillness of looking at rare moments of pause in the business of family life. I have attempted to describe an intensity of looking, and an intimacy and curiosity with these spaces and objects. Since becoming a mother, I have found new powers and readings emerge from the still life genre; the paradox within the very name for this kind of work resonates deeply with my practice. Life is rarely truly still, and the tension between the ‘still’ and the ‘life’ is a place I continue to be fascinated by.

As my children have grown beyond the infant stage, so has my practice. New bodies of work begin to explore under-documented exterior community spaces. I am currently working on a series that explores playground landscapes. My work as an educator of art to children at schools, feeds directly into my practice and the process of looking, direct experience and play are paramount to my work.