statement

statement

Within my work I like to mix around with different mediums, including drawing, oil paintings, pottery and textiles within the realm of sculpture and 3D work. I also have an interest in text – I have a journal which sparks interests and themes within my practice, I will often jot ideas and sketches down which helps me understand the continuums of my own practice.

Art therapy is something that fascinates me: the idea that art can be used to help people process emotions. In lots of ways my art has been used to help me process events that have happened to me, so in turn I hope my art resonates with and helps people understand and process their own trauma. This is one reason I enjoy using textiles, oil paints and other traditional methods of working – there are notions of care within these laborious methods of work that come with spending lots of time creating.

Other influences outside the art world include my own lived experiences, my job as a home carer for vulnerable people, and others on social media. I have been influenced by artists such as Rachel Whiteread who can somehow make a moment seem frozen in time with her work, as well as Sarah Lucas who creates incredible imagery using just ordinary objects in the home.

I also like the fact my work is very personal, as my practice has previously focused on other people and general themes. Whereas recently this has been brought in to reflect on me.

As an artist from Maidenhead, Berkshire, now living and working in Bath, I want to present this contrast within my work, and how these identities constitute me as a person. I like to think of my work as an autobiography - everything I create is influenced by my day to day life, as an art student, my part-time job as a carer, and my place in the community of Bath. My practice is an outlet I can use to explore my own identity and how I fit into the changing world around me, and I hope others can relate to the motifs running through it. Due to this, themes I have touched on include care, loss and identity, which I try to deal with in an intimate and personal way.

My work puts emphasis on the mundanity of everyday life - something everyone can relate to and put themselves into. By drawing snapshots like a daily journal, others can see my drawings and relate to them, especially due to the vague nature and lack of detail they possess.

Within my work I like to experiment a lot with different mediums including pottery, paintings, textiles, photography and text. Aside from my day to day life, Tracey Emin whose work focusses a lot on themes of care using highly emotive imagery, to John Cage’s simplistic drawings which mean so much despite their lack of clarity – have both influenced my work along with artists such as Louise Bourgeois, and Richard Billingham. My spontaneous thoughts whilst making tend to further inform my work and I write a lot whilst out and about, when my ideas come to me. This helps me realise the continuums of my own practice.