I am a printmaker and installation-based artist. My practice explores the body and the landscape as vessels, merging the land and the body into a receptacle for unspoken and undocumented familial and cultural histories. Within my work, the body becomes a site of tension and fragility. Like the landscape, the body is vulnerable to being shaped and restrained by extrinsic patriarchal and cultural power structures. I create soft sculptures that echo bodily forms, placing them in landscapes tied to familial memory. From the previously sealed archives of a family member’s mother and baby homes records. I try to recover unspoken narratives and reconnect gendered administrative histories through quilt making. Through quilt making, I reclaim a historically feminised art form, challenging the boundaries between art and labour. I explore the fluid, fragile connections between the body and nature through etching, photography, and screen printing. My process involves the continual layering and redaction of processes, mirroring the complexities of memory, feminist histories, and trauma.
