About

Image by Laura Martinez

I'm a London-based artist working with clay and drawing to explore how objects hold what's absent and how making itself can be a form of remembering.

I studied sculpture (BA Fine Art) and worked with performance and live artists for ten years before spending a decade in bronze patination. These years with live artists taught me that objects are the residue of an action or encounter, what remains after something has happened. My experience of patinating taught me the other half: that materials themselves reveal memory through fire and chemistry. Patination, like drawing, is contact and response. Both hands working, feeling for what the material is doing, in an intuitive responsive state. The whole practice is through touch.

Becoming a parent brought mortality and intergenerational patterns into sharp focus. I needed to make something that could hold a grief that had been handed down to me before I was born. Questions about grief, absence, and what we leave behind led me to complete a foundation course with End of Life Doula UK and co-host Death and Grief Cafés with Creating Conversations CIC. These parallel explorations have shaped the memorial work I make now, pieces made with and for people who are grieving.

Current projects include touch drawings of Roman face pots at Colchester Museum, tracing whether ancient touch can be communicated across two thousand years.

Based in Walthamstow at Cultivate Artists Studios. Commissions for memorial work welcome.