My practice is highly exploratory and allows me to record, analyse, and interpret my observations of the natural world. I’m curious about states of emergence and regeneration, the intricacies and detail that exist in stillness, and the recurrence of forms, themes and patterns across organic systems. Much of my work attempts to create snapshots of these organic intelligences; when life dawns, unfurls, revives, or assumes a new identity or purpose, a movement momentarily held in static form.

Against a contemporary landscape shaped by instability, division and ecological uncertainty, I choose to investigate curiosities and innate natural beauty that invite presence. Alongside this organic language is an unapologetic attraction to opulence, elegance, charm and flamboyance.

Curiosity is fundamental to my method. Rather than confining my work to a singular mode of making, I move between form, function, image, surface and scale, one investigation inspiring the next. Exploration is not peripheral to my practice, it is part of my methodology. This breadth allows me to examine recurring ideas from different perspectives. Across all bodies of my work, a connective language emerges through an attention to and awe of inherent beauty, the quiet intelligence of organic systems, and the capacity of life to exist, adapt, reinvent and endure. 

Clay is both my medium and collaborator. I work intuitively, with intention establishing the trajectory of a piece while remaining responsive to the material and the story it tells as it evolves. Forms emerge, bloom, balance, speak and become, holding an observation and transformation momentarily in stasis. Working with clay provides the perfect metaphor to mirror moments between fragility and resilience, genesis and decay, destruction and opportunity.

Within my functional collections, I am interested in blurring the boundary between art object and domestic object. Individually designed and crafted objects bring sculptural presence into the rituals of everyday life; pieces intended not simply to be observed, but handled, poured from, gathered around, and lived with. Function does not diminish their sculptural identity, it gives beauty a place within ordinary experience.

At its core, my practice is grounded in attention and presence, and embedded with a sense of hope. Not hope as passive optimism, but as an active orientation towards possibility. In a period defined by uncertainty, I am interested in what we choose to cultivate.

The work is my contribution to that choice.

Artist Statement