Institution
Belfast School of Art, Ulster University
Medium
Sculpture
Graduation Year
Class of 2026
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I am a Belfast-based multidisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and ceramics. Informed by feminist thought, my practice explores themes of memory, loss, resilience, and the ways in which women's experiences are recorded, remembered, or erased. Through clay, I investigate the body as a vessel for both personal and collective narratives, creating works that sit between the intimate and the political. Much of my work responds to violence against women and girls, examining how absence, grief, and survival can be given physical form. Through processes of construction, rupture, fire, and transformation, I explore the tension between vulnerability and resistance, and the ways in which material can hold memory. Recent works include Twenty-Two., a sculptural memorial to the women and girls lost to femicide in Northern Ireland between 2021 and 2024, and What Quiet Things Become, a contemporary ceramic portrait informed by Celtic mythology, particularly the Morrígan as a symbol of protection, transformation, and female strength. Smoke-fired and accompanied by an original poem, the work considers the historical silencing of women while reflecting on the ways women continue to protect, carry, and sustain one another. The sculpture's hollowed throat and crow motif speak to both the loss of voice and its persistence, while the poem extends these themes through ideas of witness, memory, and collective resilience. Through sculpture and text, I seek to create spaces for reflection, remembrance, and dialogue, using material processes to explore how stories endure, even when those who carry them have been silenced.
