Artist Statement
4th August 2025
“Exploring emotional movement through sensory impulses, auditory and non-intellectual stimuli. Abstracting the human experience, through gestural mark making and colour.”
My work explores the human experience and its multi-layered complexities and contradictions. My background in dance informs both my visual and emotional observations of the human form, and indeed movement plays a large part of my process and in the resulting pieces.
My processes, being based in play and driven by impulse, I feel are always changing, but rooted in a sense of duality and responsiveness with my tools and materials. Whatever the initial trigger or idea, my selection of tools is always determined from a sensory perspective: I look to focus on the physical processing of stimuli and eliminating conscious thought, to tap into my emotional being. My goal is to honour the impulse without intellectualising it.
Playing with fluid materials allows me to have ‘conversations’ with my work, responding to them as much as to my own urges and ideas. My preference for working in large scale stems from my need to remain instinctive, experimental, and introspective with my work. Larger canvases provide me with the space I need to connect on a physical and kinaesthetic level with my medium. That being said, my smaller works, and works on paper are crucial to my exploration of new directions.
My aim with all my paintings is to trigger questions for my viewers and to offer windows of introspection into their own lives.
Exhibitions
The Audacity, Box Park Shoreditch, Group Show, July 2025
Tom Cox Gallery, London, Crystal Palace, Group Show, June 2025
Woolwich Print Festival, Anise Gallery, June 2025
War Child presents Secret 7”: For the Love of Vinyl, NOW Gallery, May 2025
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, Punchbowl Gallery, May 2025
Havelock Walk Winter Open Studios, Dulwich festival, December 2024
Manchester Art Fair, Punchbowl Gallery, November 2024
Interrupted Art at Fitzrovia Gallery, group exhibition, November 2024
The Other Art Fair London, presented by Saatchi Art, October 2024
“Hold Your Own” group exhibition, Tom Cox Gallery, September 2024
Havelock Walk Open Studios, Dulwich Festival Artists’ Open Houses, 11-19th May 2024.
The Other Art Fair London, presented by Saatchi Art, March 2024
Four for Four Winter Exhibition, Brunswick Art Gallery, London Nov-Dec 2023
The Other Art Fair London, presented by Saatchi Art, October 2023
Otter Gallery Wimborne, group show, July 2023
UNMUTE: Artists’ Stories Heard, Somerset House, presented by Interrupted Art, June 2023.
SHIFT, Solo Show, Canvas and Cream Art Space, presented by The Meridian Arts Club, May-June 2023
The Other Art Fair London, presented by Saatchi Art, March 2023
The Other Art Fair London, presented by Saatchi Art, March 2022
Havelock Walk Open Studios, December 2021.
LightFires Gallery, November- December 2021 - Solo exhibition. Giclée prints from three collections.
Brick Lane Gallery, September – October 2021 - Works on Paper Group exhibition, limited and open edition prints from two collections.
Havelock Walk Open Studios, September 2021.
Awards
Winner - Visual Artists Association International Exhibition and Scholarship Prize 2023
Achievements
2025 Judge for “Dancers’ Short Film Festival”
2012 -2021 Dancer - Royal opera house
Auditioned for different dance roles, apearing in five productions, including Turandot as a highly featured dancer. Appointed Dance captain for new production of Jenufa.
2017 - 2021 Video Editor - Turning Worlds Dance company
Editing promo videos for touring productions
2006 - 2020 Dancer - Turning Worlds Dance Company
Company dancer for touring productions, dance films and installation performances.
2008 - 2016 Dancer - Incandecesnce Circus company
Featured dancer in multiple productions performing worldwide including Dubai, Egypt and Greece.
2008 - 2016 Video Editor - Lady Greys Productions
Editing promotional Music Videos
2013- 2014 Dancer - Lady Greys Productions
Aerial silks act, dancer and choreographer for multiple event productions
2005-2007 Dancer - Gelede dance
Devising, creating and performance of "Snake in the Geisha Palm" production
Education
2004 Middlesex University, London, ENG
Bachelor of Arts - Dance Performance