I am a multi-disciplinary artist based in the South-East of the United Kingdom.​

My practice explores how heritage survives, changes and acquires new meaning through

the act of remembering and reinterpreting it.
 

I deconstruct tartan patterns and reconstruct them in new and exciting ways by using methods

of painting, printing, ceramics and sculpture​​​​​ to produce work with a contemporary lens.

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I untangle the threads of tartans’s history through optically stimulating visual art and stories,

whereas tartan weavers are weaving the story of tartan into fabric.

 

Tartans reflect passages of time and can be used as a way of transforming, or even transporting

memories that reside within us.

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​My aim is to connect people to a way of understanding the importance of heritage more

broadly, whilst creating a dialogue that reflects the context of Tartan through periods of history.
 

The grid and pattern are a universal language that everyone can resonate with as it can

reflect the confines of life.

 

The series ‘​Where Songlines and Kinship Meet’ was inspired by my travels in Australia and

coming across the Aboriginal dot paintings and Dreamtime mythology.

The artwork in this series follows a spiritual journey through spot and sett, the path

followed during the Dreamtime, and the colours belonging to land and kinship.

In an attempt to form cross-cultural ideas of place and belonging. They remind us of the

historic and heroic fight by indigenous people to stand by their cultures and traditions.