Gently militant feminism; family mundanity; death and loss; our relationships with the animals with whom we share our living spaces - all this is examined through the prism of the everyday. How we encounter, experience and incorporate our daily existence informs my work, emerging through a variety of media, actions and interactions. My personal practice is currently enriched by collaboratory and participatory
Gently militant feminism; family mundanity; death and loss; our relationships with the animals with whom we share our living spaces - all this is examined through the prism of the everyday. How we encounter, experience and incorporate our daily existence informs my work, emerging through a variety of media, actions and interactions. My personal practice is currently enriched by collaboratory and participatory making. In bringing inconsequential occurrences, domestic ritual, and ordinariness to notice, I explore and reveal their worth.
Solo exhibitions : 2012 - The blue jumper - an ongoing participatory knitting project (currently totalling over 700 knitters ... ), Bargate Monument Gallery, Aspacearts, Southampton
Group exhibitions: 2013 - 'Playback' southampton solent fine art tutors, Peacock Project, London; E photobook show, John Hansard Central Gallery, Southampton 2012 - The Zeitgeist Open 2012, Zeitgeist Arts Project, London 2010 - 'Unravel' included in the festival de cine internacional de barcelona, an international film festival, part of the annual 'without frontiers' series, Barcelona, Spain
Intervention: 2012 - 'Ribbon people' non-destructive, participatory, community engaging, guerrilla art intervention, building site hoardings around Southampton's new arts complex, Southampton
Residencies: 2011 - Residency including a video commission, responding to my involvement in a 5-day residential pal lab concerned with movement and meaning. Other particpants included dance practitioners and choreographers, a philosopher, neuro-scientists, visual artists, musicians and other practitioners working with the body, all of whom were interested in exploring the meaning of movement, and notions surrounding embodied knowledge, pal (pallabs.org.uk), Lower Hewood Farm, Dorset
Private commissions 2012 - Video commissioned for interdisciplinary project, 'art to dance', Southampton City Art Gallery, Art Asia, Southampton
