I have a process-oriented and primarily object-based practice that combines found objects, ceramics, video and metal. Using techniques such as metal smithing, woodworking, casting and assemblage I create individual objects that I intuitively assemble to create small and large installations.
Often sourcing my materials and skills from my father and grandfather, I repurpose discarded objects and memories to renew their value and significance. It is important to me to engage with and expand upon my family’s way of making, and to explore themes of memory, family, gender and materiality. When working, I act as a mediator between material and machine, striving to push the materials to the edge of their limits. For me, this process is a way of proving the resilience the materials and thus the memories and values they embody.
Often sourcing my materials and skills from my father and grandfather, I repurpose discarded objects and memories to renew their value and significance. It is important to me to engage with and expand upon my family’s way of making, and to explore themes of memory, family, gender and materiality. When working, I act as a mediator between material and machine, striving to push the materials to the edge of their limits. For me, this process is a way of proving the resilience the materials and thus the memories and values they embody.
