My artistic practice focusses on depictions of the cartoon body, the relationship between cuteness, violence and abjection and the material quality of flatness. I explore these ideas through making sculptures which sometimes manifest as drawings, writing or prints. 

Wider areas of interest: contemporary art; art history and theory; histories and practices of sculpture and installation; the art object; the readymade & appropriation; ritual objects; theories of objecthood; art writing; the experimental essay; text-based art practices; queer theory; feminisms; girlhood; embodiment; the abject; the body in art; histories and practices of non-conformist bodies in art; pop and sub cultures; punk; theories of taste; theories of desire

Specialisms: sculptural making practices and techniques; soft sculpture; histories, theories and politics of ‘the cute’; histories, theories and politics of the cartoon in art; adolescent methodologies in art practice

I am an artist and researcher working in sculpture, print, writing, and installation. I studied BA Hons Sculpture at Camberwell College of the Arts (UAL), followed by an (unaccredited) MA in fine art at the School of the Damned, which I founded along with the rest of my 2014 cohort. I then went on to the Royal Academy Schools where I received a postgraduate diploma in fine art. 

My teaching career began in 2019 and since then I have taught sculpture, fine art, critical and contextual studies (art and photography) and visual cultures at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Brighton, Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea College of Arts, Wimbledon College of Art, London Metropolitan University and the University of West England, as well as working as a visiting lecturer at Middlesex University and on the Spike Island Associates Programme.  

I have exhibited throughout the UK and internationally at galleries and institutions including; Somerset House (London), The Horse Hospital (London), Scai the Bathhouse (Tokyo), The Royal Standard (Liverpool), Supercollider (Blackpool), and Strange Cargo (Folkestone). I am the recipient of various awards and residencies amongst them are; the CuratorSpace bursary (2024), Praksis Oslo Residency (2024) Eaton Fund (2023) Geidai Tokyo Exchange (2017) the Mara Lopf print prize (2017) and Geidai Residency, Tokyo University of the Arts (2017). From 2011-2013 I ran SAUNA, a project space for emerging artists to stage exhibitions which were experimental and anarchic in nature. 

My own artistic practice deploys languages associated with youth culture to create artworks with a skewed-cartoonesque-cuteness. I make installation, sculpture, print and audio work that blends the raw aesthetics of girlhood with the polished veneer of animation and focusses on the tension between cuteness and violence as a way to probe the contradictions in contemporary culture. Underpinning my practice is an investigation of the boundary between flatness and depth. I see everything do as sculpture but often what I make is flat. I use various processes including latex construction, digital printing, drawing and sewing that share this material quality of flatness in order to express a kind of tragic desire of the minor to become more monumental. 

My practice also includes writing which takes both academic and artistic form. I have contributed written work to Garageland Magazine, Crypsis Pairing at Art Lacuna, Monstrous Flesh Journal, Bass Superstructure: Extended Dance Mix at BN9 Studio, Marine Workshops, Newhaven and Serpent and Shadow at the Royal Academy of Art.