My collage practice plays upon our memories real and fictional, individual and
collective and the place where these memories overlap but also diverge. In
life and as an artist I am fascinated by serendipity and nostalgia in terms of
what we decide to preserve and in what we abandon.
My subject matter and the materials I use are often rooted in the feminine.
The lives lived by women past and present; the roles women have occupied
within society, domesticity and female sexuality are often reference points.
There is often a surface gloss to my work that belies a more complex and
nuanced narrative.
Within my work I often use vintage magazines, old newspapers, abandoned
knitting patterns, lurid-coloured cookery books, home-making manuals as well
as decades old sewing patterns. As a creative ‘hunter-gatherer’ I am always
on the lookout for collage materials and the places I visit and the people I
meet often whilst searching for materials become part of the process too.
Colour is an important unifier within my practice to corral together what often
appears fractured, fragmented, chaotic, disparate and uncertain.
The notion of
the ‘echo’ is important to me – my work it echoic – there is a repetition of
subject matter, references and themes. I say very little about individual works
and invite the viewer to make sense of what they see.
