Portfolio

Making darkroom prints evolved into casting photo objects and pithy sculptures made from thread, repurposed and re-cast functional objects.

Ongoing Projects

My latest projects give visibility to the work of social reproduction – whether in the raising of children, in social care or in the nursing profession – as essential to human wellbeing.

Ghosts in the Machine

In the United Kingdom, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 made it unlawful for an individual to be discriminated against in the workplace in relation to their gender. This act clarifies the Equal Pay Act of 1970, which was ambiguous enough for employers to find loopholes to avoid paying women a fair wage for equal work. This image captures the Motherhood Penalty, a concept now enshrined in the 2023 Nobel-prize winning work for Economics of Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin.

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A mother’s right to work, est. 1975, 35mm black and white negative film

Mother and Child, 35mm black and white negative film

Mother Divine, 35mm black and white positive film

Feminist Aesthetics of the Everyday

Photograms

I hope to capture the trials and joys of the mundane. It takes some planning and eIort to attend to the inevitabilities of parenting, of life, whilst simultaneously speaking out against a system that is not structured to account for these small, significant acts of care.

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Nappy Change, Darkroom object from 35mm black and white film

The Future won’t Raise Itself, Darkroom object silk embroidery on wax paper with objects

Well-behaved women seldom make history, Darkroom object silk embroidery on wax paper with objects

Artefacts

Subversive and craft-y, their 'by hand' quality displaces them from the private space of the domestic into a space of alterity in the hopes of drawing the viewer's attention to the ways one can be influenced by habituated expectations of the objects featured here, and to the mechanics of such representation.

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Indefatigable, glove cast from plaster of Paris

Ovoids, Photo emulsion on eggshells, images from 35mm film

Devotional: Hag Bag, crochet form, linen warp

Superhero

Chromoskedasic painting is an alternative chemical darkroom process which isolates and boosts the silver halides in silver gelatin photographic paper, creating unique colour tones, patterns and swirls. Chromoskedasic prints, unlike paintings or colour photographs, do not exhibit the same colour pigments reflected (or absorbed) in the visible spectrum of light, only white paper and silver particles which will produce colour by scattering light across different wavelengths.

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Superhero, Dark room photography, Chromoskedasic painting from 35mm film

Protest posters are the product of ideas, of an etiquette that governs their formation, their materiality, the space they occupy and the functions they serve. As objects, they possess solidity. My concern became one of concretising these concerns, of setting down conversations that commemorate the universality of the human experience of struggle.

Signs of Protest

There is privilege in capturing people's private struggles and elation in witnessing that energy growing into collective outcries against the way the world is institutionalised. I realised that those struggles are embedded in the signs they carry, simple objects of words and symbols charged with hope, tenderness and defiance.

Something about the hand-crafted aesthetic of the signs – the probing nature of the text, the resigned humour – calls up feminist slogans from the previous generation and surprise us being in a world too stubborn to acknowledge the significance of creating and nurturing life. What is the worth of such labour?

Consider Titcaves:

Sympoiesis, crochet oviforms from banana fibres.

Titcaves. Sympoiesis is a name borrowed from Donna J Haraway’s term for ‘making with’, or creative creation - responsive, receptive, dynamic. The form is inspired by the Taíno pre-Columbian narrative of the origins of the world, a womb-like gourd that, on splitting, unleashes a living web of destruction and conception with feverish diluvial urgency. Titcaves also allude to a beehive, a centre of production and activity - not as a point of origin but as a localised continuation of the way we have always existed in the world: an inverted basket for storing, treasuring and mustering all that is needed to ensure our being-ness.