I make graphite drawings which are usually figurative, detailed and specific. And I make textiles using felted wool fibre which are abstract, colourful and immersive.

My practice explores ways in which drawing and textiles can embody responses to place. My drawing process tends to the rational and thoughtful, noticing elements of the everyday and the beauty and wonder found there. My textile practice is more emotional and embodied, transforming individual wool fibres into a new material with its own character though constructing and reconstructing. 

The two practices create a dialogue that reflects my interest in the story of the self: how we construct our idea of who we are and the role of memory and of forgetting. In our narratives, we bring together thought and feeling, like the meshing of fibres and marks; and in the gaps created by forgetting we make room for re-interpretation and re-imagining.

I usually work in series which offer multiple versions or perspectives, reflecting my experiences as a twin, showing what we experience in common and what we hold that is our unique contribution to the world.

My practices are also linked by the theme of rediscovery, re-connecting me with my study of Classics and Greek Archaeology, a subject area defined by loss, recovery and re-discovery. Even as a child I was fascinated by the idea that you could reconstruct something from silent fragments, often of everyday items. 

I circle round these themes of constructing and re-constructing, forgetting and re-discovering,.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

from T S Eliot The Four Quartets

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