I graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2024 with a degree in Painting and Printmaking. Painting, for me, serves as a visual analogy, where memory is deconstructed and reassembled to respond to my internal dialogue. My practice is a personal archive; an excavation of my past to explore collective understandings of togetherness and intimacy, centring on the reciprocal nature of care.
My painting involves manipulation to the surface, layering and drawing back, mimicking a conversation with time. I paint in layers of palimpsest, a gradual build-up representing moments past, therapised by the action of making. I retrace and remake the same subjects, drawing them repetitively, nurturing them as an immediate visual language. Through ceramics, I embody care as a transformative act, using meticulous, process-driven methods that create a dialogue between material, memory, and self.
The application of paint echoes the intricacies of quilt making, where the image is built up delicately through the value of each component. The broad realms in which I create can be observed as deconstructed parts, mimicking one another to create narratives from fragments.
