Artist Statement

My practice is rooted in making and in a close collaboration with materials. Through an intuitive and iterative process, I work with materials rather than imposing predetermined outcomes upon them, allowing their inherent qualities, behaviours and contradictions to shape the work. The resulting sculptures emerge through a delicate negotiation between control and chance, revealing physical ambiguities and aesthetic tensions.

I am interested in challenging the commercially driven logic of industrial materials and instead foregrounding their capacity for transformation, surprise and expression. Drawing on visual languages associated with pop culture, ornament and kitsch, the work often presents a seductive surface. Beneath this apparent lightness, however, lies a labour-intensive process of experimentation, repetition and hands-on craft. Over time, I have developed a personal vocabulary of surface treatments that explore the sensory and emotional potential of materials.

Research and material sourcing form a significant part of my practice. I am drawn to wilful and difficult-to-control materials such as balloons, fast-cast resins and expanding foams, whose unpredictable behaviours generate new possibilities in the studio. By stripping materials from their familiar contexts and functions, I create sculptural objects that resist fixed interpretation. Through careful handling, materials are softened, transformed and allowed to exist on their own terms, inviting viewers to engage with texture, surface and form, and to reflect on the processes that bring these objects into being.