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I have always had a natural inclination towards collage and assemblage, which began in my childhood when I used to make decorative items and gifts from discarded household objects. Over the years of forming my artistic vocabulary, I collected a variety of materials from plastic, paper and glass to metal and fabric having been drawn to these objects through subconscious attraction prompted by colour, texture, pattern and form.

Through working with my hands, I seek to reclaim and recontextualise found materials and objects without stripping them of their past history.  In addition to this way of engaging them with the duality of the past and their ‘new’ present, I also uncover other interesting contrasts in their interplay such as hard and soft; plain and patterned; smooth and textured; shiny and dull; and discarded and useful.

As a redemptive process, my artmaking gives new life and purpose to discarded or broken objects – a process which draws many parallels to human experiences of feeling stained, hurt or discarded.  Paired with childhood memories of events and domestic spaces, my motifs range from silhouetted bodies and body parts to abstract shapes and textures, which invite the viewer to interpret their emotions or experiences into new thoughts and meanings.