ARTIST STATEMENT

I make sculptural assemblages from collections of things. Found and purchased objects that are sometimes absurd and often shiny, and things that turn, wobble or move. I’m drawn to domestic tat, particularly children’s toys and plastic objects that borrow imagery from the natural world and reproduce it in highly saturated, idealised form. Decorative motifs, improbable flowers and landscapes printed across household products. I’m interested in what we select from nature to preserve, reproduce and translate into plastic.

I keep coming back to the natural world as something fabricated, and the domestic garden as its stage. I wander around garden centres looking at the ways nature is packaged, perfected and reproduced in multiples. The perfectly pruned rose, the artificial lawn, the plastic hydrangea. There is an upside downness in the imitation becoming more perfect, more permanent and sometimes more desirable than the living thing. I’m interested in cultivation and bad cultivation, care and possession, preservation and control. Nature made decorative, consumable and contained.

I work from a tiny home studio on a farm in the South Downs, where the outside world is less contained. Crawling and flying insects and the occasional rodent coinhabit the house. The garden is filled with nettles and brambles and I recently found a snake in my bin. I live with three young children whose chaos and ability to bulldoze through convention feed into my work.

My processes are repetitive and domestic in scale, using readily available materials and working in snatches of time. The work often begins small before being enlarged beyond the scale of my studio. Objects are collected, repeated, replicated and recontextualised. Things move, often using simple mechanisms designed to wobble and strain.

Through these collections, imitations and slightly dysfunctional objects, I’m interested in the strange relationship we construct with the ‘natural’ world around us. A shimmering theatrical facade onto which we project ideas of perfection, care, ownership and control. Pull back the fairground curtain and there’s someone pedalling incredibly fast. I’m interested in what happens when the scenery starts to wobble.


August 2026