Artist Statement

I am an artist working across painting, drawing and sculpture. Working primarily with oil paint and graphite, my practice also extends into sculpture, with works made in marble, wood and cast metals. Across these processes, I explore themes of entanglement and interconnection. 

My practice considers how observing the natural world can challenge and expand, interpret and question our understanding of being human. I am using the natural world as a lens through which to explore ideas of gender, sexuality and relationship to land, questioning social structures and colonial ideas of separation from the natural world. 

Drawing on biological structures and natural forms such as bodies, bones and exoskeletons, my work explores states of hybridity and fluidity. I combine research into the natural world with personal memory and archival imagery to consider how we relate to ourselves, each other and our environments. 

In painting I use layered colour and gesture to create spaces in which relationships between bodies and environments remain fluid. Entangled forms reflect the idea that we are not separate from the environments we inhabit, but deeply interconnected with them and with one another. This sense of entanglement extends into sculptural forms, where I create hybrid works that blur the distinctions between species. 

Born in London in 1992, I continue to live and work in London. I completed an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2023 and have a studio at Bomb Factory Art Foundation. 
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Selected Exhibitions
APT Gallery - The Sun reflected on a Pond at Night - March 2025
Alice Black - Fuego de Tierra - April - May 2024
Bomb Factory, Group show - December 2023
Studio West, Now Introducing - Nov - December 2023
Royal College of Art, Prussia Cove Exhibition - Septemeber 2023
Beijing Fashion week - September 2023
Annely Juda, Gather to Loose - July - August 2023
Royal College of Art, MA Degree show - July 2023
Two Day show, The White Space - April 2023
2030 Collective, Royal College of Art - December 2022
Mal:Mal X Danuser & Ramirez, What the Future Holds  - September 2023
Coningsby Gallery - April 2022 
Gallery 46 - April 2022 
SET Studios - February 2022


Workshops
Battersea public art installation and workshop - Battersea park, London - June 2023
Bomb Factory lino printing public workshop - Holbon - September 2023
Life drawing class - Croatia - September 2025


Lectures
University of the Underground - December 2022
Nottingham Trent University - March 2023
Esher College - May 2023 
Nottingham Trent University - March 202


Residencies
RCA residency at Prussia Cove - September 2023