About

Image by Laura Martinez

I'm a London-based artist working with clay and drawing to explore how materials hold the shape of what's absent, and how touch can make that visible.

I studied sculpture (BA Fine Art) then spent a decade working with performance artists, through whom I learnt that objects are the residue of an encounter, what remains after something has happened. A further decade in bronze patination taught me that materials hold memory (through fire, chemistry, and touch). A film of my hands working features in On the Sly by Justinien Tribillon currently showing as a film installation at V&A East.

I make touch drawings with eyes closed, my left hand explores an object while my right draws what it feels. From those drawings I spin, extrude and cast into 3D forms, memorial vessels spun and slip cast from 3D printed outlines, extrusion dies made from the facial profiles of my matrilineal line, clay Earth Mirrors burnished until the surface turns reflective and you can see yourself in the dirt.

I work with foraged London clay, graphite, charcoal I make myself from local grass seeds, brass and porcelain. I'm exploring forms cast in graphite and clay, the material of pencil lead, so the object itself can leave a trace through touch.

Based in Walthamstow at Cultivate Artists Studios.