I graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2021 studying BA sculpture. I was awarded the Andrew Grant Travel and Equipment Bursary 2021 and I now live in London.
My practice aims to muddle and deconstruct dichotomies of tame and wild through the use of the domestic cat as a point of fixation and obsession.
‘Clowder’ is a painting that explores gatherings and groups of non-human animals, and their relationships with not only each other but the viewer. It depicts two cats lounging on a termite mound, alert and disturbed. I use the cat as a vessel to explore femininity, gaze, and to debase how non-human animals are presented in zoological illustrations.
‘Glaring’ is a sculpture that explores the point of breach in the construction of the cat as pet; when expressing undesirable animalistic traits and feeling unfamiliar as a pet, for example when they kill prey. Glaring is the collective noun for a group of cats, but is also used in reference to how the cat’s paws have burrowed into its owner’s eyes, reminiscent of accounts of cats eating their deceased owners after death. The face is felted from fur I have lovingly harvested from my cat using a brush that mimics his mother’s tongue.
