British-born, I am a contemporary artist working across adornment design, avatar installation, and drawing — an inquiry into the relationship between design, the body, and the environment, and how these play out with technology. Cloth is how I explore the permeable and impermeable nature of identity — skin as a layer separating us from emotion and perception, avatar as a form that holds ideas for contemplation.

An assemblage starts as a shape repeated and built larger, or an idea I construct with material to reshape, shift — plot, snip, tear, hack, refine, tailor. The work moves between hand stitching and machine sewing, fragile and industrial materials brought together to provoke a new relationship, a realization that this is life, held together somehow. Making, for me, is a state of being and doing, a way of life, a way to step into something I don't know about, to test and learn, to record my own or a presence into avatar shape and my inquiry into human and nonhuman connections. Life is an experiment, and I use the same practice with materials as I do with living.I see human and nonhuman at edges and membranes — dissolving into each other and, at the same time, charged, alive with their own energy. I don't want to dictate that experience; I want the audience to arrive at their own feelings, their own wonderment. This is close to what draws me to the romantic sublime, the self dissolving before something vaster than itself and to Dada, the Surrealists, Fluxus: art testing the edge of its own potential. This lineage gives my anti-disciplinary process a language.

Across projects I explore clothing as shelter, grieving, a vehicle to the immaterial, and a communal vessel for the intimate and poetic — reimagining identity between human, animal, and environment, where machine-made and handmade flourish together. My work has traveled nationally and internationally to art fairs, film festivals, biennials, and in solo and group exhibitions. I am also an art educator living in Montpelier, VT.