I am a storyteller of found objects. Making with my left-handed hands, feeling materials, smelling them, and listening as they become re-purposed, re-born, sculptural forms. Using materials that bubble with layered, readymade narrative, allows me a safe place to explore personal trauma. Faced with cancer twice and the loss of my boobs twice (believe me it is possible) my practice was and still is, my happy place. Working with bricolage, foraged plastics and fabrics, I explore pain and grief.
A mother and grandmother, being a woman and more importantly, feeling it, centres me. Currently, my thoughts and hands are pondering my experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, early menopause due to my cancer at 37 and reflecting on my body image.
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