I’m a North West-based artist, arts producer, curator and educator. My work focuses on the sensory – informed by my synaesthesia – creating a unique understanding of sound, shape, texture, colour, and mass.
My practice also navigates the politics of understanding: how communication happens outside of language and the importance of finding alternative routes to create, and share, knowledge. This can take the form of more traditionally recognisable art objects, such as sculpture, drawings, and exhibitions; or exist more fluidly as workshops, performances, and frameworks for experimentation and support.
Much of my work strives to demystify the processes of art-making, and the difficulty of navigating both art spaces and the sector as a whole. In the gallery, this might include collaborative, participatory or interactive artworks; or artworks that describe my processes of art-making and research. In my production practice, I create similar frameworks for artistic engagement and development, aiming to remove some of the barriers to making art, or working within the sector.
Currently, I am working with ceramics and sound production, to capture my synaesthetic experiences as physical gestures and fixed forms. My research connects non-verbal communication and object-making: particularly around neurodivergent sensory techniques like stimming and tactile-based learning. This making is embedded in research around twentieth century design principles, scientific research surrounding neurodivergence, and alternative pedagogical approaches.
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