Works on Paper
Current Works on Paper CHIMERA
“I make work that makes the invisible visible — the psychological architecture of being human: how we are formed through attachment, how we grieve what we can never fully separate from, and how we carry others within us. This extends beyond the human — to the earth as mother, to the other-than-human world from which we also emerge and to which we also belong.”
This body of work takes its title, Chimera, from an ancient Greek word denoting an impossible hybrid—a creature composed of incompatible parts, and by extension, an illusion or unattainable hope. This multiplicity of meaning mirrors the layered nature of the work itself: the biological reality of chimerism (the presence of genetically distinct cells within a single body), the psychological terrain of individuation, and the material synthesis of my creative process. Chimera names both our condition and our illusion: as composite beings we desire what we can never achieve—the unified self that was never whole, the separation that can never be complete.
This body of work emerged from a personal inquiry into psychological attachment, relationality and the permeable boundaries between self and other. The anchoring of this exploration is the symbol of the placenta: literally, the organ of radical dependency that sustains and mediates …the symbol of human interconnectedness, maternal origin, and the blurring of boundaries between self and other. Metaphorically, where connection and separation occur simultaneously, where the cut that individuates us is also what we grieve; and as personal archetype for understanding how we are made through relationship yet must become ourselves.
The placenta’s paradoxical nature structures both the conceptual framework and material logic of these works. I am not illustrating the placenta but allowing both its relational liminality and otherness to guide my process: the layering, the transitional spaces, the marks that both obscure and reveal.
Works on Paper 2024-2025
Self as Landscape: Collage works 2025
Eco-mythology serves as both metaphor and lived practice in my artistic work, guiding me to explore the reciprocal relationship between inner landscapes and the natural world. Just as ancient myths used nature to illuminate human experience, I draw on ecological narratives to understand personal transformation, resilience, and interconnection—recognising that the stories we tell about environmental regeneration or depletion often mirror our own internal cycles of growth and renewal.
My art-making process itself embodies this reciprocity: as I give attention and care to materials and imagery, they reveal unexpected meanings and possibilities in return, teaching me about patience, adaptation, and the collaborative nature of creation. This exchange relies deeply on intuition—trusting the non-verbal wisdom that emerges when I listen to both the materials and the natural world, allowing insights to surface that rational thought alone cannot access.
Through this practice, I seek to cultivate narratives that honour both the literal urgency of our ecological relationships and the metaphorical wisdom that nature offers for navigating personal and collective transformation, understanding that tending to one inevitably nourishes the other.
In Praise of Shadows: Japan 2024
Umbilical Flowers 2024
Elemental Series 2022-2023
Mapping A Narrative: Memories and Other Days, 2021
This body of work is a meditation in distillation; it doesn’t seek to document but rather to resonate with a phenomenological sense of being in the world; employing familiar aspects of landscapes that suggest and resonate.
Informed by shapes and motifs of the natural environment and shadows of experience, as well as patterns and cycles of decay and regrowth, these serene, intimate works draw the viewer into quiet contemplation and an unspoken dialogue with the details of the natural world as well as our own inward geography. These works were made during the 2021 Covid Lockdown and were a creative conversation with memories and longing.
