ARTIST STATEMENT
My work uses sculpture and performance to pose the question of what if? What if the world could look different, be more playful, more daring? What if we took risks?
Using engineering and kineticism, I build functional objects that escape the white cube, connecting the everyday with the impossible. I work with scrap and salvaged materials, reflecting the environmental consciousness behind my work and an overarching ethos of accessibility. This material approach informs the industrial, DIY aesthetic that runs throughout my practice.
I build structures which blur the line between sculpture and functional vehicles. These haphazard machines are activated through absurd performances and guerrilla interventions, with their unplanned outcomes documented on video. Drawing on the visual language of transport (road signs, number plates, vehicle forms) I subvert the logic of mundane commutes through exaggerated and impractical alternatives.
My objects often have a zine or ‘manual’ supporting the making process, acting as a ‘how- to’ guide for viewers to replicate and adapt these functional objects. The problem solving that underpins my practice becomes a shared proposition: a push towards collective making, DIY approaches, improvisation, and trial and error.
I take inspiration from a range of references; from Carsten Höller’s ‘Test site’ to IKEA construction manuals. These influences inform a practice that sits between spectacle and utility, authorship and distribution. I am fascinated by the power of encountering something outside of the norm, it triggers work that interrupts routine and prompts reflection. I want people to encounter my objects; to duplicate them, mass produce them, I want a kind of democracy.
Humour and irony operate as critical tools within my practice, allowing me to approach systems of capitalism and individualism without didacticism. Performance becomes a point of entry: a way to engage audiences through familiarity, absurdity, and play. In this space, the everyday can be reimagined, where building something and riding it around becomes both an act of resistance and, for a moment, a shared joke.
ARTIST CV
QUALIFICATIONS
Bath Spa University 2023- 2026
Fine Art BA
City of Bristol College
Level 1 MIG Welding certificate - City and Guilds 3268-205
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Qualified MIG welder and joiner, some experience in TIG and arc. Experience making commissions to a brief, collaborative work, confidently using a variety of materials. Shop fitting skills including wallpapering, painting/ decorating, assembling units and shelving.
COMMISSIONS/ WORKS
Permanent Installation [Balloon sculpture]
My Small World Toy Store, Bath 08/2025- Present
Permanent Installation [Project Solis #2025]
Locksbrook Campus, Bath 05/2025- Present
Painting Commissions [Oil painting dog portraits]
Online Freelancing 2022- Present
WORK EXPERIENCE
FAB- Volunteer work 05/2024- 07/2024
I volunteered for the Bath Fringe [Fringe Arts Bath] by assisting at open exhibition evenings, helping with transport and manning the bars in the galleries at Newark Works.
Enchanting Glass Designs- Artist workshop support 04/2022- 05/2022
I volunteered for an independent glass artist, supporting her in operating and managing the kiln, producing works to be sold and general cleaning and maintenance of the shop and machinery.
EXHIBITIONS
Newbridge Arts Trail
My work featured as part of Newbridge Arts Trail
17/05/2025- 18/05/2025
EKLECTIVE
Collaborative show at Bath Artist Studios
05/05/2025- 07/05/2025
Metamorpho/ sisters
Collaborative show at the Bell Inn Bath 17/05/ 2024
REFERENCES
Available upon request