Howl/Triptych

I am a visual artist and an academic who uses use mixed media on a range of surfaces to establish the subtle and tenuous traces of lineage and values slow attention to bring into focus the unconsciously gaps in narrative. I am inspired by curiosity, and by being surprised by what emerges from the alchemy of intention, attention, desire and limits of my energy and skills, and the physical properties of the materials.

I am most compelled by nature, and humans as nature. I am influenced by a broad and eclectic range of thinkers and artists. Inter-relationships, co-creativity and mutual reciprocity, those borders between people and/or places, between human and microbiome, tree and mycelium and the psychoanalytic spaces of intersubjectivity fascinate me. I suspect these liminal spaces are somehow maternal in nature and have a kind of transformative energetics that we have only begun to name and see. These are what I want to find when I make art, but they are perhaps not always what I find.

I feel art has an urgent role to play in bringing the over-looked emotional labour of cradling and care into the consciousness of a culture that has privileged individualism and illusory independence to the point of climate crisis and global social injustice. I am motivated by exploring inter-generational trauma, loss, division, environmental inter-connectedness alongside the ability to self-heal, journey to some integration/wholeness by trusting in the wildish nature of the earth/body and making visible the maternal structures of ecosystems.